Blizzard 2010

The blizzard of 2010. I was scheduled to go to Frann's sometime after Christmas and decided to beat the storm by getting to her place before it hit. Norwalk's official snowfall was 6.5 inches. Here is a picture of an evergreen just a few hours into the storm. We still had the whole night ahead of us. Notice the streaks of snow coming down in the beam of the floodlight. (You can click on each picture to make it larger. Make sure you hit your browser's back button to get back here) :

After the storm, we had to shovel out "Red Truck" and "Smokey" and Lane's Explorer, too.

Frann and I built a fire to keep warm outside, then went in the house and made hot chocolate to warm up inside:

Then ... I went home and the fun began. I couldn't even get in the front door:

The snow was two feet deep in my driveway, at least three feet deep at the edge of the road, and NOTHING -- absolutely NOTHING -- in my side and back yards. I have a Toro power shovel that was useless in this stuff. It was powdery, not snowman making snow, but heavy anyway. And they plowed right up onto my front lawn. WHY? Well, I was to find out soon enough.

I started what I thought was going to be an impossible task. What the hell; I had all week.

And then my savior showed up. My knight in shining armor. It was Jeff, the guy who plows for the mobile park I live in. He said that he felt bad for me because he plowed me in. I offered him $20, telling him that I could never do this on my own, but he wouldn't take it. What a sweetheart! THANK YOU, JEFF!

And here is my front yard after all the work was done: