Starting Life at 30: Time Lapsed Photography (Blizzard 2013)

I owe you updates on our trip to Florida and our adventure in buying a new washing machine, but I'll give you the most timely update first.

We got a bit of snow.

Like a couple feet.

The official (according to the news) amount is over 24 inches for our town, but Dave thinks it was closer to 20 inches. Hard to tell since the wind during this storm was so fierce (and continued to be so after the storm), that the drifting was pretty bad.

The story goes that while the weather reports indicated early this week that we'd see snow this weekend, it wasn't until Wednesday that things started looking like this would be a storm, then something more than a storm. Luckily most people took the warnings seriously and on Friday we got down to business. Knowing the storm was expected to hit during the evening rush hour, most places indicated they'd close business at noon, and my work was no exception. I took the train into work, left at noon and Dave picked me up since he's be able to navigate the weather in his Jeep fairly well. Luckily it was just starting to snow heavily, but the roads were still traveled enough that it was just wet on the main highway, and only slight coating on the back roads. We got home, hunkered down and had lunch and at 1:30 pm on Friday, I sent out this picture:

2/8/13 1:30 pm

Then we watched it accumulate.

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At about 9:00 pm, Dave wanted to try to clear some of the snow to make it easier on himself for the final clean up. So he cleared about 8 inches of snow off the driveway, while it was still coming down hard and the wind was blowing at sustained speeds of over 30 mph.