Dug out – twice

Yesterday afternoon Margaret & I spent about half an hour digging out – clearing the paths, removing all the snow from between the cars, and shovelling out all the “plow truck spillover” that blocked & filled the street in front of our driveway.
This morning, I had to do it all over again! Continuing wind yesterday filled in the paths and cars, and more truck plowing re-buried our driveway. Oh well, at least I didn’t run around with a snow blower waking the neighbours at 5:30am, like one of my neighbours did 😦

Anyway, GBMINI got out and made it to work with minimal issues this morning. Quite a lot of DSC flashing on my street, but the highways were perfectly clear – and we are trying out a new design of MINI fuel cap:

Overall, our snow impact yesterday was minimal (unlike some parts of the East Coast) – hope no-one else suffered too much …

Wind-sculpted snow

Todays “blizzard” is so far causing no issues – although I admit that if I had to drive somewhere today, I would not enjoy it at all! There is some snow around but it’s really hard to judge how much because of all the wind and its effects – while walking outside, I had snow above my knees, but in other places there is clear ground! One major effect of the wind though was to curtail my photo trip after only a minute or two (it’s FREEZING out there!)

Anyway, a few pics of GBMINI and the surrounding snow, and how it’s been sculpted by the wind:

 

Here comes winter!

We’ve had a very easy winter this year, with temperatures in the 50s a couple of weeks ago … but the temperatures have dropped significantly now, with this when I got in GBMINI yesterday morning:

And now, the Weather Channel says we could be hit with 12″ or more of snow overnight & into tomorrow …

So expect some white pictures tomorrow (unless we lose power!)