Blizzard

A couple of weeks ago we had a blizzard - the first since I have been here - most Winters we have several "Winter Storms" with 6-10 inches of snow at a time, but this was something else! We ended up with about 12 inches of snow (you can see the height of the new snow on top of the rubbish bin in the picture at the side) and with all the wind blowing it into snowdrifts, it was quite amazing. Downtown Jamie said the drifts and where they had snowplowed the roads clear were so high in the middle of the road you couldn't see cars passing going the other way. When we opened the back door between the house and the garage, it was so deep you couldn't go out. I had just got back from the hospital with Max and when I was up in the night feeding him, Mother and I were completely riveted to the upstairs window watching it all coming down along with the high winds. We've had several lovely warm days since, and the snow has almost completely melted and green grass is showing though on the front lawn, but...... tonight the forecast is for another Winter Storm with 6+ inches of snow! You would never guess with the sun shining outside so it will be interesting to see what happens!

One of our neighbours took this photo of our house during the blizzard.

Here is a video of the snowplow operators out and about the morning after....

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2011/02/video_bay_city_crews_tackle_he.html