The Return of True Winter

Our unseasonably pleasant temperatures of the 40s and lower 50s have ended abruptly with a high of 9 degrees, three inches of snow overnight... and the drippings of the bathtub faucet creating a sheet of ice in my tub.

Viva, Wy-snow-ming!

God has a Snow Blower

How much snow do we get up here? Hard to practically measure depth in inches or feet. I have a large bare patch on my lawn with visible dirt, that measures about 5ft in diameter. On the edge of my rental property, There is a fence with snow piled up to about the same height.



They're kinda like the sand dunes of the tundra, really. But what I want to know is in spite of the bare spot on my lawn, the constant snow blowing overtop of the roads, why in the hell does the snow pile up in my driveway every friggin day'??

UPDATE 2/11/08: Now I have a picture of it. This was taken when things began to melt, so the patch is now 15 feet in diameter instead of 5 feet. The snow dune up against the fence looks about right, though.

Wy-snow-ming

Compare and Contrast!

two weeks ago:


and today:


Out here in cowboy country, the snow falls sideways!

Witch's Teat

This morning, it was -9 degrees. I was lucky my car started up without incident. Other coworkers were not so lucky.

Tomorrow, I hear it will warm up to 16.

Let me say that again:

warm up to sixteen degrees. Farenheit. Who can tell me what's wrong with THAT statement? Anyone?