Mother Nature totally kicked our ass today. And stupid me wouldn’t have known about it, except that yesterday I was actually listening to a radio station, instead of immediately plugging in my iPod. And when the emergency broadcast system cut in, I went ahead and listened, thinking it might be important, and not just a test. And… it was important. At that time the total accumulations were supposed to be 7 to 10 inches. I go to bed last night expecting 10 to 14 inches. Today I find, after wading through a thigh-high snow drift because Alyssa insisted on going outside to play (and then quickly insisted on coming back in, because the cold was hurting her face), that the new totals are 12 to 24 inches. Sheesh. Looks like Mother Nature was seriously PMSing… or she just wanted to make a statement. In either case, life and everything going on in this area has kind of ground to a halt.
I’m not sure how much snow is outside. It’s kind of hard to tell, given that the wind pushes so much snow away from certain areas that you can see the bare ground, and in other areas, things like tricycles and picnic tables (ours) are nearly covered. But there’s enough that the plow trucks can’t keep up, stores are all closing early, we didn’t even get our MAIL today, and there’s no way in hell I’m going anywhere.
It looks like we’ll be having a white Christmas — even if the white is more of a grungy gray due to it being week-old snow.
Check out the snow in action (yes, I’m a dork, but I’m a dork who’s totally loving her Kodak Zi8!):
I can’t believe you’ve taken all our snow.
I wish it would dump here.
Care to share some of that? I want snow so bad! All we have gotten is light snow that doesn’t even mount out to 1 inch. Pathetic really… LOL
I want some snow!! Feel free to send a little south!
We got a lot of snow too! It’s crazy! It’s still snowing here. I love all your snow photos!
OH wow! That is A LOT of snow Jenn! SO GLAD we don’t get as near as that much. Glad your kids enjoyed playing in it. v=)
wow your snow is better than my snow
we didn’t get that much 
The crazy thing about the amount of snow you got (besides it being up to your thigh – damn that’s a lot of snow), is that I live in Canada…you know the place where we ride polar bears and live in igloos? ;) Just kidding, but seriously, we haven’t had much more than a dusting of snow here and that was like a week ago. Of course the weather forecast is calling for a dumping on Christmas day, which totally sucks for me because that was supposed to be the day of the big announcement (me being pregnant) for my family who live 2 hours away.
The crazy thing about the amount of snow you got (besides it being up to your thigh – damn that’s a lot of snow), OH wow! That is A LOT of snow Jenn! SO GLAD we don’t get as near as that much. Glad your kids enjoyed playing in it. v=)