Sorry but I do not have as many pictures of the blizzard as I would like. Basically, it was too cold to have my hand out of the gloves (Yes, I had two pair on at the same time.)
Here are Jeff, Mallory and Ashton as we left the house on Tuesday about noon. It was still in the 20's with small winds (20mph) and regular snow showers. (not blizzard conditions yet)
This is Mallory, Val, and Ashton. The snow hurt as it was pelting our faces. It felt like daggers going into our eyes. Behind us is Main St./Highgrove which is a 5 lane road on normal days.
Val, Mallory, Ashton, and Jeff....with everyone trying to shield their faces from the wind.
Snow and wind picking up as we photograph.
The snow was getting heavier. 
By afternoon, we could not see beyond our property lines. It was as if we were the only house in the neighborhood.
All said and done we got 14.5 inches in 24 hours. The temperature dropped to -8 and when Ashton went to work on Thursday AM the wind chill was -25degrees. Our sustained winds were 30mph with gusts of 40mph. Not like Chicago had, but cold for this southern family!!
By Wednesday mid-morning, it was beautiful sunny. (But frigid!) Jeff began the task of clearing the snow from the front door, porch, steps, then driveway. We have tried to take some photos to show the depth and volume of snow, but as with photographing the Grand Canyon, it is impossible to capture true depth perception on my camera.
Piles of dug out snow everywhere.
Piles of snow everywhere.
The corner of our yard where our two streets come together.
The left side of our driveway out near the street. The pile 'groweth'. Just wait until the plow comes to our street and adds to it.
Same pile, more inclusive angle. You can see that it is really a row-pile, not just a single pile at the end.
Mailman tracks where the postman steps off our porch and heads over to the neighbors house. Tuesday they had to halt delivery in the mid afternoon, so we did not get mail. Wednesday the post office was closed so he didn't get 'fresh' mail but finished delivering to the houses he couldn't get to on Tuesday. By Thursday, delivery had resumed but occurs much later in the day. It just takes the postman a lot longer to walk his route in the deep snow.
Honestly, this picture isn't that impressive, but this is a lot of deep snow!
Love,Kristian
4 comments:
How come Jeff is the only one who shovels??? I never want to be that cold again, that's why I live in the sunny south !!!! Gloom and Doom here today......Love you all stay warm !!!
He's not. Ashton and I also had a turn at the fun. Mallory only shovels other people's driveways for a little spending money!
Kristian
I knew that Kristian and Ashton "got to be part of the shoveling fun", I just didn't know about Mallory's "part time job" shoveling other people's driveways.
It's really pretty, but since Missouri is so very flat, it's not the kind of snow (the skiing kind) that I like.\
Guess you decided not to stand on top of the parking lot mound that you told me about.
Love you all.
So, this global warming thing is all your alls fault---out there shoveling snow and creating all that heat from the exercise!
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