snOMG #2

It's Snowmageddon II, also known as snOMG 2 or Snowpocalypse Part Deux. Again. It's our very own real life version of Groundhog Day. "Well, it's [a Snow] Day... again..."

As I did the past few days, I dutifully headed outside this morning with the shovel to try to get ahead of the accumulation. A noisy but welcome snow plow had been working in the neighborhood between 12 and 12:30 a.m. and I was also curious to see what havoc had been wreaked upon our previous shoveling jobs.

 

That there is our street with no new havoc. The plow peeps actually managed to widen the street! Yee haw! There are humongous banks of snow at every corner which will make visibility a wee bit challenging but, hey, it's almost a 2-lane street again. Almost. Mr. Snow Plow also did a fantastic job of not blocking the driveway too much:

 

Those two tracks are my morning shoveling. Not that we're going anywhere in this blizzard, mind you -- no, no, no! -- it's just nice to be a little ahead of the game. We will need to work the shovel muscles again tomorrow and widen the driveway access and locate sidewalks again, but those are only minor inconveniences, not havoc, from Mr. Plow.

But the funniest part of the morning excursion was to my right at the end of the driveway: 

 

See it? See that funny thing that looks like a candy cane in the middle of the picture? Guess what it is? Hmm. You've seen pictures of it before. Give up? Drum roll, please... That's our MAILBOX! :-) Poor Mr. Mailbox!

All told, we are expecting another 10" of snow today, Wednesday. School is canceled until next week and we are hunkered down for yet another day of cooking, reading, playing on the computer, talking with friends, possibly doing a little cleaning, intermittent shoveling and yet more shoveling and digging out tomorrow. It is so totally Groundhog Day.

"I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life." Roger that, Phil.