Wintery White

Six more weeks of winter and it hit with a vengence over the past couple of days. We have approximately 28 inches of snow on the ground. The neighbor's hedge is half as tall as it used to be - weight of snow has bent it over severely. I am not used to seeing the neighbor's garage. This is not the best way to prune the hedges, which needed to be done badly.

It did stop snowing and the sun came out just in time for sunset. I should have taken a picture because it was very pretty with the bright colors in the sky and the white of the snow. There is more snow on the way during the middle of next week. Don't know just how much more is going to be piled on, but whatever it is we will handle that as well.


Terry has been outside all afternoon cleaning things up. He is using the snow blower, but the snow is taller than the blades on the blower and it is wet enough that the discharge chute keeps clogging up. He will stick with it though. He will finish the drive way tonight and will find the vehicles tomorrow. At the moment they are just piles of snow in the drive.



Gizmo the cat was not interested in going any further than the step on the back porch. There was just too much of the white stuff for him to deal with and he turned tail and came right back into the house.




This is how much snow there was on the ground at the front door. We could not open it until Terry cleared the way. When Eddie went out the first time today he trekked through the backyard to the fence and back again. It was almost up to his waist most of the time. When he got back to the house he decided that he had enough and came in - shedding I don't know how many layers of clothes. I am sorry to say that I did not get a picture of Eddie making his trek. Must have been quite a sight.


Such is the life of a Marylander. Although I must say that it does not snow like this very often - thank goodness. During the time between the December snowfall and the storm today we have almost broken the record of annual snowfall. The record is 62.9 inches and it is already at 62 inches or so. With the advent of the coming storm the record will easily be broken. The average annual snowfall for the area is 18.9 inches.

I really don't know where all the melted snow is going to go because the reservoir has been at full capacity since the middle of fall. This just means that when all this water eventually gets to the Chesapeake Bay that the crabs are going to migrate further out to sea. Crabs need brackish water to survive in and the more fresh that mixes with salt the farther out they have to go. Hope that the crabbing season is not affected too much.