A Right Walloping

When we our first big snow of the winter finally arrived, it was a really big snow. A doozie, as a matter of fact. A right walloping.

With a prediction of a 4 bag of chips & 15 hot cocoa storm, I had hoped that Shauna would not try to drive to work, but I knew she would.

We are in the pink: 4 chip bags and 15 cocoas.

Shauna, is the executive director of a retirement home and doesn't feel that she can expect her workers to go in if she doesn't. But she lives a half hour away — a rural highway half hour away, if you please.

So, she did try: shovelled her driveway, got onto the highway which is only a block away, drove a mile, turned around because she couldn't see the road.

It was so bad that they actually closed that highway about an hour later. You know that it was a serious storm because they don't close highways for a mild or even moderate storms around here. Or even normal heavy ones.

I had been disappointed when I got up at 6 because the snow didn't seem too thick then because I couldn't see any snow on the trees. Mind you, I also could see that the major road behind us was snow covered and not plowed.

An hour or so later, our window views were getting obscured by the heavy fall although the view had lifted just a little by the time I took these photos from the front and back windows.

Then I zoomed in on the cars out front.

A little later, neighbour was blowing the driveway. That is quite a blow!

The neighbour on the left, above and not the guy blowing. contacted us early on and told us that he would shovel the walk. We would have done it, but he  likes to help, and we like him to help. We call him our Snow Angel.

I opened the garage long enough to catch him in the act just before he finished.

Our contractors didn't get around with the tractor until late. There was little point starting their rounds until the street plows had made their first pass. After they were done, we went out to shovel the walkway again as well as the looser snow that the plow (actually big blower) hadn't picked up on the driveway. As you can tell by the blue tinge, evening was encroaching.

Sue gets rid of a shovel full.
Most of the snow had not been there previously.
Mind you, a lot it was thrown by the blower.
It didn't all fall in place yesterday. lol

The sidewalk is something closer to the actual accumulation, and you can see that it drift got deeper to the let of the shovel.

This may have been the biggest walloping since we've been here. At least, I don't think there has been a bigger, single storm. The chips and hot cocoa were good, though.