Monday, December 20, 2010

Do you like snow?

Well, I do.  I really don’t mind snow as long as I don’t need to go anywhere and it melts off in a reasonable amount of time.  The last 2 days have been steady rain and I was afraid of the flooding potential that brings.  The lake out in the meadow has grown quite large and now most of the huge meadow is under water.  Since the colder air moved in it has all turned to snow and it is piling up quickly with the huge flakes coming down.  I measured 5½ inches when I shoveled it off the deck a little while ago and now there is another 2-3 inches and there are some huge flakes.

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You can see one of them in that picture on the top left side.  Yesterday I was out in a pouring rain trying to unplug the culvert going under our driveway.  It had gotten clogged and the overflow had started running down the driveway into our garden area and then into our first pond.  You can see what it looks like today, a major change.  Heavy wet snow like this causes power outages and so far the power has only gone out for a couple of minutes once but we have the generator handy if we need it.  Ya just gotta love living in the mountains!