Mike and friends came to visit last night to sled down our hill but the snow was too deep. He said our road was pretty bad, which is usually the case right after a storm. They left here looking for greater adventures, which his tweets indicate they found.
We think we ended up with 27 – 28 inches – it’s hard to tell for sure because of the wind. The official total for areas close by were about 27 inches. It’s interesting how fast the snow compacts in the sunlight. Snow depth at mid-day is already down to 21 – 22 inches. Nonetheless, this snow will be with us for a long time.
Thankfully, our power never went out – all the storms we had this Summer and Fall must have cleared the trees waiting to come down on our feed lines. I’m still glad we installed the emergency generator. BGE reported that nearly 8,000 homes lost power in Baltimore County – been there and done that but no more.
Our good neighbor cleaned our driveway with his tractor and front end loader. The piles at the edge are more than 5 feet high! At 6AM this morning, and again around 9AM, the County was cleaning the roads with backhoe/loader equipment. First time we’ve seen them do that but it worked pretty good – they even cleaned the snow over the ends of the driveway.
I refilled the bird feeders this morning as they were emptied during the storm. I had to dig out under the feeders so the squirrels can’t jump from the top of the snow when it hardens – they’re not out running around yet but it won’t be long.
Apparently, the accumulated snowfall so far this Winter is about 1 inch from the record for this area, and we’ve still go more than 5 weeks until Spring. We’ve already exceeded 5 feet of snow The storm forecast for Tuesday is for 6 inches, which would shatter the old record. Six feet of snow is easily within reach.
Oh, well, we have keep thinking that Spring is fast approaching and the water from the snow melt will fill the swimming pool.