Well the first storm of 2010 came with a vengeance. We ended at 28.9 inches officially, but with the drifts we have some areas with 4 feet of snow...as you'll see below. The fence around our backyard really makes for some nice drifts for the snow to settle in.
Once the snow stopped at about 3pm, Brian and I headed out to shovel. This is our first use of the incredible Yukon shovel that Jeremy and Amanda gave us for Christmas (and swear by). It's basically the size of 4 shovels and takes about 3/4 of the stress off your body as you push. Pretty amazing. We were the talk of the neighborhood with it.
Here's a good picture for perspective. That's Brian once he shoveled outside of our driveway gate, so we could attack the driveway. That's a 4 foot deep blanket of snow across the entire driveway.
Can you imagine how long that took us to clear? About 3 hours. The biggest problem was figuring out where the heck we were going to put all of the snow!
Looking up our street after we had been out there for 4 hours straight. A nice man on his bobcat came by and did one pass-through for the street.
All overnight the city crews were out plowing and then hauling the snow away. It's too much for them to leave on the street just by plowing, so they have to pick up the plowed snow in dump trucks and then dump it into the river.
The playing in the snow will be intense today!!! And we're slated for 10 more inches of snow from Tuesday to Wednesday!
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