It’s Friday 4-17-09. The weather pros warned us the big spring snow storm was coming. I went to work this morning and stood in the chilly rain while I waited for the bus to pick me up to sweep me off to downtown to work. I watched the rain out my office window. The streets were wet as were the sidewalks most of the day.
Stan called to let me know the snow was building up in Lakewood. I walked 3 or so blocks through more cold rain to catch the bus home. The bus came right away at the stop thank goodness. As we drove west the rain turned to gentle snow.
Once home I watched snow tumble down for an hour or so. It seemed nice enough out there so I put on my boots, grabbed the snow shovel to shovel the front walkway. The pine trees boughs were heavy laden with snow. I pushed about twenty shovels full off the sidewalk close to the street. The snow was about 8 inches deep with a couple of inches of slushy wet snow on the bottom of the pile. This stuff is heavy and harder to shovel then expected.
Our snow blower would only pack up with slush if we tried it on this stuff.
So I just watched it fall through the living room window. Big FGs (Fat Globs) as we used to say when we went skiing and saw this kind of action. It has been snowing about 2 inches for the last 4 hours. There is about a foot on the lawn now. The grass should be really green in a couple of weeks.
I went out to take a few photos to capture the softness of the scene. The birds were chirping. A few cars were driving up the hill in front of the house. When I was out shoveling I noticed a car had ran off into the ditch up the street. It was finally pulled out by the tow truck. It took him about an hour to maneuver the vehicle out. Many cars were backed up behind this accident.
We will probably be holed up here are a couple of days until the sun comes out and melts the snow next week.