snow banks

Spring!

The snowbanks are shrinking!    It’s still a little depressing in the back yard, but it’s getting better.    I can actually see bare ground back there now.     Heck, if you look really, really carefully below, you can see the composter sticking out of the large front snow bank.   (You can totally

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Snow February 2015

Snowmageddeon continues

So, let’s add to the last entry: 2015-02-12: 1.32015-02-14: 1.92015-02-15: 0.42015-02-18: 0.42015-02-19: 5.82015-02-21: 1.42015-02-22: 0.1 (data ends here for now) It’s stopped being funny.    Granted, last Sunday was supposed to be a blizzard, and wasn’t.   (Hilariously, York County got 18 inches and we got about five – my kind of cutoff line), but

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Snow February 2015

Snowmageddon

Let’s recap, shall we? Snowfall totals at the Portland International Jetport: 1/27/15 22.21/28/15 1.61/30/15 4.31/31/15 1.32/2/15 9.92/5/15 2.52/8/15 2.92/9/15 4.12/10/15 1.7 The official data leaves off here, but we got a little more on 2/12.    Oh, and we’ve got another 14 to 20 bearing down on us tonight.    So, that’s 50.5 inches and

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Nor'easter aftermath

It’s a White Thanksgiving!

So we had a nor’easter Wednesday night into very early Thursday morning.     Really heavy, wet stuff.      So pretty much anything that still had leaves was broken, or flattened.   (Like our neighbor’s front yard hedges.    I’ve never seen anything like that over there before.) So I am thankful that we had power for this year’s low

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