hey, it's snowing!
Feb. 5th, 2014 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlk(also, as DB points out: snow is cold, water is wet, new socks on hardwood floors are slippy.)
I wonder how much flak the school is going to take for having a normal school day today? Last week, they were taking some for cancelling at 0530 ('too late!' people said). Never mind that at 5am the snow seemed to have been just about done at 2-2.5" of new stuff, with a slowing snowfall rate. About 0630 it started snowing harder and a wind came up, but by that time most of the buses were already on the road. Currently (1045), there's at least 5" of new snow (still falling) and it's drifting.
The trail out to the birdfeeders is completely buried again, and I stepped completely off it and went in to my knees a couple of times this morning. The snowpack in the backyard ranges from 18"-30" deep, depending on the drift -- the snow is level with the birdbath (on a 30" pedestal), and the tops of the hanging feeders are at mid-chest, which makes them really easy to fill. (The hooks they're hanging from are on a 6' upright....) I had to actually shovel the side porch -- the snow piles around it are too deep to just shove it off.
I wonder how much flak the school is going to take for having a normal school day today? Last week, they were taking some for cancelling at 0530 ('too late!' people said). Never mind that at 5am the snow seemed to have been just about done at 2-2.5" of new stuff, with a slowing snowfall rate. About 0630 it started snowing harder and a wind came up, but by that time most of the buses were already on the road. Currently (1045), there's at least 5" of new snow (still falling) and it's drifting.
The trail out to the birdfeeders is completely buried again, and I stepped completely off it and went in to my knees a couple of times this morning. The snowpack in the backyard ranges from 18"-30" deep, depending on the drift -- the snow is level with the birdbath (on a 30" pedestal), and the tops of the hanging feeders are at mid-chest, which makes them really easy to fill. (The hooks they're hanging from are on a 6' upright....) I had to actually shovel the side porch -- the snow piles around it are too deep to just shove it off.
