Snow Day!
Hey! It’s a snow day! The angle on this picture is a bit weird. The drift on the porch is actually up to the top of the railing.
Periodically trains have been crawling past us on the railroad tracks in the background.
Hopefully we’ll not be shoveling our roof
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Oh, and one more picture sitting at our front door. Here’s where you see the real hight of things (the top of the railing is about 4 feet high):

Noon Update: This is suposed to go on for another 12 hours potentially. The snow is now above the railing and way above the roof on the car. Updates coming shortly for pictures. The snow shows no signs of stopping…
9 p.m. Update: I think the snow has stopped. Regardless, I finished making a second pass through the driveway only to land at a three foot drift known as my street. Seriously, it’s pretty sad when you don’t know where your street is and the snow is too deep to feel the street. I had to dig into the snow to find the curb. The big variable will be how much they can get plowed by dawn as to whether things will open again tomorrow or not.
shoveling was not fun at all. I am really beat down. Hopefully it will end soon and I can get out in the morning.
I wrestled a snow blower and did quite a bit of shovelling too. So happy to see some real winter, ecologically it is very important. But I wish it had arrived in smaller pieces spread out over larger time.
Wonder if ISU will be open tomorrow? Winds still gusting to 45mph.
You know, I gotta wonder that too. Friends of mine who are students posted some picts of the quad today and it’s a bit of a snow drift.
If they’re open tomorrow, I think I’m leaving early to go to work.
–pete