This is a video that a former student of mine made yesterday. He's in Maryland, so at a slightly higher altitude, but we got comparable amounts of snow. I really wish I'd been playing like this instead of just shoveling yesterday . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVD5FyXt_yE
Enjoy!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Stupid Groundhog.
February 5, 2010-- 4:30 AM. The phone rings. School (and therefore seminary) has been canceled. There's no snow yet, but it's supposed to hit. And it when it hits, it's gonna be BAD.
4:45 AM. I happily go back to bed after making phone calls to seminary students, anticipating lots of snow when I wake up in a couple of hours.
6:30 AM. I wake up disappointed. I go running.
10 AM. It starts rain/slushing. I hurry to finish errands before the storm hits.
4 PM. Still raining, although apparently it's snowing in parts of town.
Bedtime. It's finally snowing! Yay!
I wake up the next morning, February 6th, to this:
This is the view from my west-facing front window. Isn't it pretty? I have a driveway somewhere down in that mess, though, so I decide to shovel it out.
February snow is HEAVY!! At least I have power and heat, unlike some Morgantown residents. Note to self: be grateful for trees planted far from power lines. Here's the half-way point in the morning shoveling, about 45 minutes into the job:
Better, but I knew there'd be more shoveling later. Those are my footprints back from the street to my garage to put the shovel away and go in the house.
I feel very grateful. The snow is beautiful, and I had the strength to shovel it out of the way. I don't have to drive anywhere until Monday (church has already been canceled). I have heat and power, and I have ice cream to eat while looking out the window at the snow. I have an awesome sledding hill in my backyard. (No sled, though. Gotta work on that.)
4:45 AM. I happily go back to bed after making phone calls to seminary students, anticipating lots of snow when I wake up in a couple of hours.
6:30 AM. I wake up disappointed. I go running.
10 AM. It starts rain/slushing. I hurry to finish errands before the storm hits.
4 PM. Still raining, although apparently it's snowing in parts of town.
Bedtime. It's finally snowing! Yay!
I wake up the next morning, February 6th, to this:
This is the view from my west-facing front window. Isn't it pretty? I have a driveway somewhere down in that mess, though, so I decide to shovel it out.February snow is HEAVY!! At least I have power and heat, unlike some Morgantown residents. Note to self: be grateful for trees planted far from power lines. Here's the half-way point in the morning shoveling, about 45 minutes into the job:
Let me just point out here that while my driveway LOOKS flat, it isn't at the bottom near the street. Let me also point out that the neighbor had plowed the street. I'm grateful for that, but he created a berm of that nasty, heavy, bouldery kind of snow that I had to clear away. After an hour and a half (note that the snow is still falling this whole time), my driveway looked like this:
Better, but I knew there'd be more shoveling later. Those are my footprints back from the street to my garage to put the shovel away and go in the house.
But at least the snow is pretty! I tried to clear some snow off some weighed-down branches (didn't work so well), and in the process I found that tree branches had created a little snow fort. I tried to get a picture, but it didn't work out so well. Here's a picture off my back deck instead:
I feel very grateful. The snow is beautiful, and I had the strength to shovel it out of the way. I don't have to drive anywhere until Monday (church has already been canceled). I have heat and power, and I have ice cream to eat while looking out the window at the snow. I have an awesome sledding hill in my backyard. (No sled, though. Gotta work on that.)
Now can I start hibernating?
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