Snow blanket, literally...

We got absolutely pounded overnight by the Northeast Blizzard.

Drifts are over three feet, and I was shoveling out of at least thirty inches in most spots. We're talking three shovel fulls easy to go the width and breadth of one!

We snapped some photos for posterity, and decided to call the attached one "Hope"! :-D

 

Still at 100+ deg.f, here and as humid as the Tropics. I hate Perth summers!. I have all air-cons maxed out. Blew one, already, heh!, heh!:eek
Still, heavy snowfalls are way worse. Can't do much outside with those storms around.

 

BRRRR. I don't like these cold mornings. 49F. I've got to get up, turn up the heater. Get back in bed under the nice comforter. :-D

 

Not really.

I'll have to post pics of the tube trail when it's completed. Probably finish the "luge" today. It's A LOT of work, but worth it...

 

Thank goodness it hasn't been bad here! The furnace went out last night, and it was 49F in my house before the gas company guy got here to fix it. Turns out all we needed was a new thermocoupler, but I don't mess with things that involve natural gas. It's been about two hours since he left, and we're all the way up to a balmy 61F in here.

 

That is both really cool and really disturbing.

 

Dang global cooling/warming/man made climate change. :-D

Lows in the 40°, highs in the 70°. Winter is rough here in the south. :cool

Glad to see you are OK, just have to dig out of that white stuff. Stay warm!

 

Who would have thunk it? Cold weather... in winter. :confused

Dang global cooling ah global warming ahh man made climate crisis. :-D

 

The headline on this made me laugh so hard I snorted. And then I laughed some more. And then I had tears running down my face. And every time I see it, I still go into uncontrollable giggles. roflmao

Midwest Smacked By Historic Snowfall, Basically Shrugs It Off

 

Thundersnow is actually a thing! All y'all are only hearing it now because it never happens across the pond. It's not common by any means, but I love when it happens since I'm a HUGE fan of thunderstorms. It's one of the only saving graces to winter. It's a thunderstorm in winter, thus it's snowing instead of raining, thus "thundersnow". Oh, and that baby storm that shut down the east coast last week? Snow hurricane. It even had a name! :-D LOL

Musksnipe, "official" snow totals are measured typically at airports, or at accredited weather stations elsewhere. And as you know from living here, total snow on the ground can change even as close as next door. I was at my niece's house from Friday through Monday, which is almost directly east across the river from me maybe a mile as the crow flies, and the snow at her house wasn't nearly as deep as it was at mine. Our snow on the ground is currently about 9 inches, but the drift that always happens between my house and garage is about mid-thigh to me, so without actually measuring I'd say 30 or so inches.

I am jealous, by the way, that where you live they keep the roads well-plowed and salted! Here, we're lucky to see a plow the day after a heavy snowfall, and then only one pass in each direction. In this last one, the service plowed my driveway four times, and just a few minutes ago I saw the second snowplow pass.

 

Winter in Boston, Lewis Black

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s8afso/comedy-central-presents-february-in-boston