Snow Blind

Some people prepare for record-breaking snow storms by stocking up on flashlights, batteries, non-perishable food, bottled water, snow shovels, snow blowers, and other de-icing mechanisms.  What did we purchase? 

Yes, that's right.  A new TV for our bedroom, lots of beer (you can only see Corona here.  We also have Abita- go Saints!- and Rising Moon chilling in the fridge), and a handful of food.  To be fair, the Corona was supposed to be used at a Super Bowl party on Sunday, although we weren't able to go so now we just have an extra case of beer to consume this week. 

We ended up with roughly 25" of snow in the front yard.  To be fair, we still had about 2" from the weekend before on the ground. 

I ran down to the basement on Friday about 2 hours after the snow started falling to get garden shovels so I could help with the digging out and noticed that apparently our resident backyard bunny had been checking out the yard. Some of my evidence:

For those of you who have never had a bunny as a pet, those are the tracks of the bunny's back feet and that third one in the front is where the front feet were together.  I have yet to actually see this bunny with my own eyes, but L has seen him several times. 

Next up: a scary pic of the powerlines that run down our street.  It's sort of hard to see the scary ones, but they are the 4 getting pulled down by the trees across the street.  This is why so many hundreds of thousands of people lost power (luckily we didn't).

Once again, thank goodness for that little sewing jaunt I went on a couple of years ago, because once again, a regular ol' ruler just wouldn't cut it.  L shoveled his little heart out for 2 1/2 hours on Saturday afternoon to clear just the front walk.  This pic was taken before he started doing any shoveling:

It's Monday afternoon and we still haven't seen any signs of a snow plow yet, so we are still stuck in our house and have yet to even begin shoveling our cars out.  Totally dreading that.  It may look like all we have to do is dust the snow off the tops of our cars and out of the back of L's truck, but see how deep the snow is along the sidewalk?  That's how deep it is in the street.  Suckfest.  Note for all of you: enjoy your covered parking and your garages (if you have them).  Relish them.  Hug them the next time you pull into your spot.  This is what our house looks like right now (Monday afternoon):

So at least the snow is melting a little bit (note the extra-clear part of the walkway that's not covered by a shadow).  Meltage is going to be crucial today and tomorrow because we're supposed to get more snow tomorrow and even more on Wednesday.  Try not to be jealous.  Seriously. 

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