Tikkabik

So I spent a few hours getting snow out of the way today, a day after our blizzard. All told, well more than two feet of snow dumped down in our area. Basically the first hour was spent clearing snow off the porch and away from the kitchen door, then digging a path down from the driveway to the front walkway. Then I cleared the walkway and the front steps, and eventually dug a path to the van. At that point my new neighbor, who just laid his hands on a heavy-duty snowblower last week for a song, was kind enough to dig us out to the street. I reckon he easily saved me an hour of digging through slushy crap.

The worst part of a blizzard is that the snow drifts so dramatically. In some spots, especially the leeward ones or where the wind was occluded somehow, such as the corner of the house, the drifts ran easily four feet tall. In other spots, such as near the front steps, where the wind had a pretty clear path across the yard, it was markedly less -- closer to two feet. The snow was light, for the most part, so I didn't cripple myself as badly as I did almost a month ago during our foot-high snowfall after Christmas.

Still, it's annoying, slow work I don't want to be bothered with.

The weathermen are saying we're going to get another four inches or so on Wednesday. This is just bullshit.