1-31-08 - More S-n-o-o-o-w - Farewell January - revised

(new photos added - of later in the day - see "The Rest of the Story" at the end of this blog)

We got more snow yesterday, but made it into town for groceries, water, and a mouse trap. Seems the snow drove a little varmint in out of the cold. When he was operating incognito in the darkness of night, I respected his cleverness, but when he came scooting out in plain site while we were still watching TV..... that was the last straw.

So last night we set two traps. He tripped one and escaped, but was captured by the second. Well he's back out in the snow now....... suffering no pain. We are back to a 2 person household once more. And glad of it!

(turns out he had a buddy.... who is out in the snow also)

At this point - 9:20am - we are being snowed upon by beautiful large white flakes. We had 4 inches when we awoke and it looks like we are up to about 10" right now. That means lots of load on the phone and power lines. Not seeing any sign of slowing down.

Whoops!
We just had a power flicker.... keep your fingers crossed.


Well, the humming birds are having a difficult time too. This was yesterday.....










and today.....









Jason will have to get out the ol' snow plow if we want to get out today....

The 4-Runner is now a rectangular snow ball!

P.S.: The lights just flickered again. We can only hold our breath and hope.

/joB


"The Rest of the Story"

There was only one more flicker and the generator was pressed into service.

............................. and Here are photos of the rest of the day

Note snow on top of the power pole behind the work shed. That's what leads to a power outage.... and all that weight on tree limbs and branches.

The power outage we're experiencing today was due to a hot line falling across power transformer buildings, which blew them up. (that's the story being passed around anyway)

Guess that's why it took so long to get us back up and going.


We are fascinated by the snow piling up on the 4-Runner. Note the back window - almost solid.



This was mid afternoon.






The snow kept coming.

Isn't this a perfect fairyland of snow covered branches? We are all trying to NOT think about the melting of all this snow. Our measurement was 16" at day's end.


Shirley Fisher tells us, looking back at her diaries, the last snow we had of this magnitude was 24 years ago. Then came the devastating '64 flood.


No snow plowing today. Jason and the troops were up helping clear Hwy 96 of a fallen tree.... and getting people unstuck who ventured out in their 4-wheel drives.

With the help of our propane oven, we are staying warm. We can watch TV (when the snow is not on the dish) and are able to do internet (but not both at the same time).

And George has a path to the table outside, so we still enjoy steaks BBQ'd off the grill.

Power still out at bedtime! Definitely a snuggle night.

/joB (addendum 2/2/08)