Snowmageddon 2015

To say we got murderized with an epic, record setting blizzard would be an understatement.  I have never, ever, EVER in my life seen that much snow.  I don't even remember the Blizzard of 78 being this bad.  Or the one we had in 2013 where we lost power for 4 days, or even all the storms we had last winter.  Fortunately our power stayed on except for a couple of flickers.  

The day it was to start, Monday the 26th, I had to bring Sagan to the vet and take a couple things to my mom.  I had urged the hubs to get home....or at least get back to MA to hunker down in a service plaza...as early as possible.  He crushed it to get home by 6:30.  I was burning nervous energy all day so I baked cookies, egg/veggie/cheese muffins, made kale soup in the crock pot and also some quinoa cheesy bread.  I vacuumed the whole house and prepared as best I could.  

The snow started falling lightly around 1 pm. I had intended to take pics of it as we went through the day but I was too keyed up.  The later it got, the harder it started to fall.  I kept my car cleaned off as best I could and was able to pick him up when he got in.  I was sooooo relieved that he was home with me and only then did I start to relax.

I finally shot a few pictures close to 9:00 pm on the 26th as the wind began to pick up.

It raged all night long.  He slept really well but I was constantly being awakened by the wind, stuff scraping against the windows and the plows going by.  At 1:30 I had to get up and shovel my way out the front door so that I could take Pepper out.  It's a good thing that I kept on top of that because when I finally threw in the towel and got up at 5:45, at least a foot more had fallen since 1:30.  It did look cool against the windows though.

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My poor car.

I had to shovel a path from the house to the shed in case we needed to access the generator.  I can understand why people have heart attacks after shoveling snow.  Luckily this was lighter and not heavy and wet.  Taken about 6:00 am on the 27th.

7:30 AM on the 27th the windows are coated with ice.

At 8:15, I had to shovel out of the house again to get both dogs out, which is challenging to say the least. I had to redo the path to the shed, and that is the only narrow strip that the dogs can use to potty in.  All I can do is wait for them to finish, then shovel the poop out of the way so that we don't step in it if we need to get to the shed.

Look at that drift!

I sure miss covered parking......Poor car!

Kitchen window from the outside.

My sad little path to the shed and dog potty area.  They have to be taken out one at a time and fortunately they seem to grasp the urgency and gravity of the situation, so they do their business quickly instead of the sniffing around to find the perfect spot.  

By 2:00 pm the wind died down quite a bit but it was still snowing heavily.  I was finally able to shoot some pics out of the front window.

All night the plows kept waking me up but today?  Not a one.  That black blob is my tipped over trash can.  lol

My car is even more buried than earlier.  I dreaded digging this out.  I don't even know where to put the damn snow.

The drift on the deck is piling up.  Can't even see the gazing ball in the corner.  I put the shovel there for scale.

At 6:15 pm, we heard someone outside so I went out to see who was there.  Two nice young men were outside with shovels, asking if there was anything they could do for us.  Like angels sent from heaven!  I said YES!  PLEASE do my car!!!!!  They did a great job and boy were we grateful.  It took them 20 minutes to do what would've taken us at least an hour, plus causing us to be out of breath and god forbid, chest pains.

They even realized that we needed that path to the shed kept clear.  Didn't even have to tell them.

That is A LOT of snow.  But finally it was falling much slower.

That drift on the deck got comically huge.  All I can do is laugh when I look at it.

It was a crazy 30 hours, but we got through it with power, cable and internet.  We were warm and safe, hubby was home with me which was my greatest wish of all.