Subaru -- the joys of all-wheel drive

[jhetley]

Can't tell you how much snow we got overnight -- too much wind and drifting for reliable measurement. Best guess would be somewhere 12-24 inches. And stuff is still coming down.

Ran snowblower for about an hour this morning, necessary prelude to putting out the trash and going for the newspaper. I anticipate further efforts later -- like there's this 5' drift blocking our back door, and that will be manual labor because I can't run the snowblower up the path. Meanwhile, Wife says that the garage door will do just fine until April or May....

Somewhere out there is a snowplow muttering "I'll be back" in a perfect Austrian accent.

Drove to get the newspaper this morning, hence the update title. The sidewalks are blocked, and if I'm going to share the road with cars, I prefer to be in one myself.

Skiing should be possible again.

Comments

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

We got your little present, but in the form of rain here in Halifax. That's what usually happens this time of year, actually -- rain, pent in by the enormous snowbanks along the sidewalks, so that one is wading hip-deep at times through ice water...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

After posting yesterday's warning to you, I checked the weather radar and guessed you'd get rain by the projected storm track. Looks like the low has stalled out right over Halifax, judging by recent updates. The outlier snow keeps swirling back to us.