Snow day, part 2

To answer Savta's question, a snow day means that not only is it snowing, but that it's snowing too hard to do anything. Jonathan is working at home because twenty minutes north of us, in the county where he works, there is a "level three snow emergency" and any vehicle not authorized to be driving is being ticketed by police. There's about six inches on the ground right now, and the roads are pretty much big sheets of ice. HUC was closed yesterday and today "due to weather and road conditions."

Tara, per request, here are some pictures:

This is taken from Jonathan's office window upstairs. We knew we needed to shovel the driveway yesterday, so that it wouldn't be absolutely horrible to shovel today when more snow came in. My lovely husband volunteered to do it, but I said I wanted to do it instead (to tell the truth, I was very much tired of childcare and being outdoors seemed stimulating).

This shoveling thing is harder than it looks! The snow was quite heavy because of the freezing rain that had come down on top of it. Halfway through the driveway Dave across the street came out with his own shovel to help. "You have too big a driveway and walk to do all by yourself!" he said. I felt like a pansy for accepting his help, but it really did take a while, even doing it together.

Kids across the street sledding down what used to be their front lawn. The two horizontal lines you see between the car on the left and the two cars on the right? Those are tire tracks on the road. This is after the roads were plowed a few hours before.

The side of our neighbor's house. Pretty icicles!

No wonder people are without power across the Midwest.

Osher looking out the window. At one point he meowed to go out, but then when Jonathan opened the door he took three steps and darted right back in.