|  I know I owe a post on the PA CD-12 special election, and more info on John Murtha, but it's really snowing hard. A bunch of us have moved cars, moved snow, taken good care of the guys with the bobcats and checked on all the elderly in the neighborhood. (We don't trust them when we call, all they ever say is "we're fine" so we actually go over and check for heat, food, and to make sure no one who has had a heart attack previously is outside shoveling.)
Thanks to some evaporation and melting, we were down to about 18 inches in many uncleared areas when this snow started. We have 10 new inches on the ground, and are expecting another foot before it stops around midnight. Unlike the snow a few days ago, which was really powder, this is heavy and mixed with freezing rain. The photo is off my back deck. If you see the little gray thing towards the left near the trees, that's a stone and brick thing that has something to do with drainage. It's about 5 feet tall, and only about 2 feet are sticking up from what used to be a ponding area. Wind, which we've had a lot of, tends to send snow to that area. We don't usually have weather like this. Which is to say, according to the local news, we are 1 inch from the most snow on the ground at one time in recorded history. So anyway - I'll hopefully be back to posting tomorrow, and hoping all day that my roof holds....The picture on the right was taken on a patch of grass two days ago at the local park. I miss no opportunity to show off Olivia! |
