As you all probably know, we got pounded with snow earlier this week. The first storm came through late Monday, early Tuesday. Jason shoveled about 3 inches when he got home from work on Monday, I shoveled another inch when I got home from work and another 4 inches or so Tuesday morning. Tuesday afternoon the wind picked up ahead of the snowfall. The snow was originally predicted to start falling late afternoon/early evening, but held off much longer than anticipated. By the time Jason and I went to bed, the snow was flying and the "blizzard" was in full force. Jason and I got up early on Wednesday to check out the situation. I planned on working from home, Jason, however, had a decision to make. After watching the news for a few minutes - Jason decided to heed the warning that roads were impassable and to stay off the roads if at all possible. He went back to bed while I got to work. When it got lighter out, I decided to further investigate the situation outside. This is what I saw when I opened the front door.
A few hours later, I decided to go out and start shoveling. This is what I saw when I opened the garage. Thankfully, the snow decided to drift around my car, leaving it essentially untouched.
The snow was weird. It almost seemed like it had formed in layers. I got a little further into the drift and was able to dig out the bottom layer while the snow above it stayed intact.
I quickly became overwhelmed as this is what I was up against. The piles on the sides of our driveway were already pretty high from recent snowfalls making it even more difficult to dispose of the snow.
Our neighbor from across the street was nice enough to come over and offer us and our neighbor next to us the use of his snow blower. At this point, Jason came outside to pitch in. While Jason waited for our neighbor to finish using the snow blower, he shoveled a path down the center of the driveway, which thankfully wasn't too deep, and got to work on the huge pile that the snow plow had left at the end of our driveway, which was way too deep for the snow blower. While Jason was using the snow blower, I started digging through the drift between the driveway and our front door. Jason couldn't use the snow blower without knowing where the path was and the only way I could find it was to shovel a path for him to follow.
After finishing with shoveling the driveway, I decided to walk around the house and capture a few images.
We noticed while shoveling that there were a few drifts on our roof that were a little concerning. I knew our neighbor had a roof rake so we waited until she got home from work to borrow it. Jason tackled the drift on our roof. Again, due to the weirdness of the snow, it didn't come off as easily as we had hoped.
Jason did the best he could. Unfortunately, it left a huge pile of snow on the driveway that had to then be shoveled.
Option 1: throw it onto the already huge piles near the house. Option 2: Carry it further down the driveway and dump it where the piles are smaller. We did a little bit of both. Jason pushing a huge block of snow down the driveway.
A few pictures of the final damage.
I'm not looking forward to shoveling the next round of snow onto these piles. Unfortunately, that will likely be later today.
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