What a day! 8 inches of snow and counting. The wind is supposed to pick up tonight, along with more snow. Estimates say an additional 4-9 inches may fall before morning. Afternoon kindergarten was cancelled, as was Shorty’s after school program. I entertained myself with snow, laundry, and bullshit Facebook games today…and didn’t quite get the driveway shoveled. I’m sure I’ll regret that tomorrow.
Anyway.
The post below this one shows you the first two pictures of the day. I have more.
This picture shows you what I’ve done about every half hour. I opened the door. If I don’t, I won’t be able to. Think of it like a windshield wiper. This was about 9am or so…with roughly 4 inches.
This was also around 9 am, and shows you my pitiful Kia being wrapped in a blanket of snow. If there wasn’t snow, you would be able to see the steps leading down from where I am to where the car is. They have been obliterated by the snow, however.
This is not haze. It is not fog. It is snow. It is also the view out the front door. Yes, that was a basketball court yesterday. Please note how the snow is really starting to pile up on the railing, whereas it was considerably less two hours earlier.
This is the little woodsy patch across the street the other way (we live on a corner). Again, what you think is haze is snow. The little blurry streaks? Snow.
So after Shorty comes home from school, I’m alerted by Boo that someone has gotten stuck in the snow. Again. this is around 4pm.
Snow plows haven’t found either of these two streets yet, but most people have not had too many issues navigating. Only one other guy got stuck and he was in an S10 and drove off the road and got stuck. I was laughing too hard to get pictures.
Anyway, I posted yesterday morning about bad drivers.
This is PROOF that people are idiots when it comes to snow.
4:00pm
4:10pm. He got 10 feet before his front end started fishtailing and he had to stop again. I’m trying to figure out why the guy in the red 4×4 didn’t pull him out.
At this point I wandered off to check on dinner. When I returned at 4:25 I saw this:
Yes, we have people who don’t know how to drive in snow.
Last but not least, I know it has snowed a lot when my dog will not frolic and play in it. I took him out and he would only walk and pee and do his other business where I had already walked. He hates snow. In some places, it is higher than his back. Others, it’s about even. This is also the first picture I’ve managed to take of him in more than a year where he wasn’t scared of the camera and looked really pathetic.
I think in this pic, he’s actually kinda cute.
I’m quitting smoking.
