Lens On The World

Snowmageddon

After we got smacked in December with a large snow storm a week before Christmas, mother nature went quiet.  Apparently, she was saving up her wrath for this past weekend.  Dubbed “snowmageddon” by bloggers and the President, storm dumped massive amounts of snow in very short amount of time, at a rate of 2-3 inches per hour.

When I went to beg around 2 am on Friday night, there were barely a couple of inches of snow on the ground.  The refracted light from the snow made it look like it was almost twilight at 2 am, bathing the area in an eerie light.

When I work up around 11:30 Saturday morning it looked like a snow-bomb had been dumped on my neighborhood.  In less than 9 hours we had picked up at least 16 inches, perhaps more (depending on where you went out to measure).  Some of the drifts reached my knees.

The view from the ground level in back had snowed piled up against my sliding glass door to the point where the cat couldn’t see out.  The hanging baskets left over from last summer now sat on a fresh blanket of snow.  You can see by looking at the first photo that they cleared the ground with ample room the night before

While the snow was beautiful, there was way too much of it.  It was even piled up in the tree branches and on the wind chimes.

It’s hard to say how long it will take the snow piles in the parking lot to melt.  The little bobcat plows built snowpiles at least 5 feet high.  The branches on that tree start about 6-7 feet above the ground.

And that’s a bad thing as we’re due to get another 12+ inches starting Tuesday night.  I have no clue where they’re going to pile all the new snow.

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