Big snow last night. I’m glad it’s Sunday, so we can all dig out without worrying about the work week. I only saw the mound of snow up near the back door that the dog had to wallow through to go do her business this morning, but it looks to be 10 inches to a foot, I’d guess. Our good friends in the neighborhood who hail from Minnesota will be sneering at the “dusting,” I’m sure. But for an Indiana-boy such as myself, it’s respectable.
Fortunately, the boy is an excellent shoveler:
(From last February.)
Update Fortunately Mom was there to take pictures:
Hard at work.
Fortunately, I had help.
Hard work comes with rewards. In this case, some yummy hot chocolate.
Having lived in St. Paul from ’87 to ’92, and having just come in from clearing our Fort Wayne drive way and sidewalks I can say there is a big difference between Indiana’s “wet snow” and the usual Minnesota “powder”. Three inches here seems equal to about eight inches there in water content.
The stuff was sticking to my shovel. About every three scoops, I had to give it a whack to dislodge the snow pack.
This is the worst day of the week for me. Attendance was way down at our first service. Give me a Monday snow any day!
Also our organist didn’t make it in yet from Chesterton. Hopefully she gets here by the late service, as we have our childrens’ Christmas program today.
Paul, I lived in St. Paul from ’92-’96 and worked on the work crew for our apartment complex. Yes, the snow was sooooo much lighter up there!
Rev. AJB, and those Minnesota “springs” and “falls”. If you blinked you missed them. We sometimes seemed to make the winter/summer transition in about 48 hours. All told though I’d take a Minnesota winter over an Indiana winter, there seemed to be more sunny days even if it was colder. And “dry cold” is a little like “dry heat” in the sense that it doesn’t drain heat from the body like damp weather.
Yeah.. 10-12 inches here. Glad that I’m Catholic and could make the mass last night. I am on my third shift of shoveling.. and I know I’m gonna feel it tomorrow.
BTW, that was exactly it.. scoop, scoop, scoop.. whack!!
Paul-
Sure it was -20 outside, but at least it was sunny! I can’t stand the dampness when it is cold here.
Looks as if y’all had more snow in Lafayette than we had in Richmond. We had some freezing rain and snow, however. (Pics are cute, as always.)
Paul and Rev. AJB: Snow here does tend to be of the heavy, sticky variety. :(
Pila-What I remember most from growing up in Richmond was the ice storms. Don’t miss those in Northwest Indiana.
Yeah, Richmond winters had that annoying habit of hovering right around that magical 32 degree mark where you never quite knew what water was going to do when it fell.