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More Snow Than I’ve Seen At One Time

Snow shovel storm
NEMO Blizzard in Feb. 2013

The snowstorm we got on February 9th dropped about 30 inches of snow in my area of New Hampshire. That is a lot of snow.
It was hard to know where to begin with the shoveling. It was fluffy snow, so not hard to move, but there was just so much. The ground had been bare in places so this pile up was all at once.
Then my plow guy called and said that his truck had broken down. Things like that really seem so normal for my life that I wasn’t really surprised, and I found someone else to come plow. I had kept the name handy just in case, and I’m glad I did.
The next day my old plow guy came with a snowblower and cleaned out the mailbox and fire hydrant that is right in front of my house. There was no way I could have dug that stuff out. I am considering buying a snowblower for myself.

That was a few weeks ago and now it’s melted some. The good that came from it was that I had to put my new roof rake together and try it out. It worked great and I highly recommend using one for big storms.

snowstorm mailbox
Forget about mail delivery

They Say That Spring Is Here

Although the calendar says that Spring is here, there are no signs of it in this yard. These pictures were taken on March 31st, the day before a foot of snow was predicted to hit. About 8 inches fell on April first, but it melted away quickly. That doesn’t mean I didn’t have to shovel. And of course the snow slid right off the metal roof so I had to shovel twice.

snow in spring
Spring is here they say.

The deck still has so much snow piled up around it that I can’t just push the snow off either. And the snow that is here is as hard as cement from all the melting and then re-hardening.

March 31st snow left in yard
Taken March 31, 2011

Sometime a month or so ago, the metal roof dropped it’s load of snow during the night and the next morning my son and I shoveled what we could off the deck. It was the “up and over” kind of shoveling and the snow was very heavy so we didn’t get it all. This clump is what is left. It is an icy chunk that just sits there and annoys me.
Now I wait to see how long this snow will be in my yard. I get very little sun on my side of the duplex, so when everyone else is seeing bare ground, I am still walking on an icy (or muddy- all the melting seems to come over here too) driveway.

Frozen pile of snow on the deck
This little pile came from the roof

Signs of Spring
The red-wing blackbirds are in my yard scrounging for seed
The lake is partially melted and the water is low waiting to be filled by the snow’s melting runoff.
It was just Maple Syrup (Visit a Sugar Shack) weekend.

 

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This is A Lot Of Snow!

lots of snow
This was before the last foot of snow fell.

I took this picture looking out my front window toward the steps leading to the front door. That was a few days ago and we have since had another 8 or 9 inches fall and then a couple inches of slushy stuff today. Not to mention that the roof dumped it’s load just this afternoon. In fact I am heading outside with my son to shovel, even though I am not quite over the flu. This is the most snow I’ve seen here in a while.

The problem is that there is no easy way to shovel it when the mounds are as high as me. In fact I usually throw it and then watch it tumble back down into the path behind me. At this point I am just trying to keep the doorways clear and a path shoveled for the oil guy to make his delivery hook up at the side of the deck. I always find it difficult to show snowfall well in photos. It helps to have a person standing beside the piles I suppose, but there was no one to do so.

The new plow guy did do my mailbox this time, which was a very unexpected surprise. Digging out the mailbox is one of the most difficult jobs. In fact my son is annoying me so he will be shoveling alone while I make supper. That is an even better idea.