Showing posts with label Snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snow. Show all posts

Sunday, December 26, 2010

The weather outside is frightful...

The Hampton Roads/Tidewater area of Virginia (where I live) doesn't usually get that much snow BUT on occasion, if the circumstances are right, (like today) we can get a wallop of snow. Yesterday afternoon we saw some flurries and by 6a.m. this morning when I did my early morning walk we'd had about 3" on the ground. It's been snowing all day and the winter storm watch goes until 7p.m. tonight. When all is said and done we'll likely have about a foot of snow. VDOT has redirected some snow removal equipment from areas unaffected to those that are but they will likely focus on the interstate highways and other major roads. The local communities simply don't have that much snow removal equipment. My little joke is that the guy that drives the snowplow can only work so many hours a day that's why it takes day to get your street plowed...if you do. We generally work on the solar method of snow removal...wait a day or so and the sun will come out an melt it.

I must have the only bird feeders in the area:


I'm not looking forward to shoveling tomorrow, this stuff is going to be heavy not the fluffy snow of the west. Look how is just piles up on anything. Here's my mailboxes at the end of the street and the entry with the snow piled on the faux pine bough garland.



Until my next post,
Diane




Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Winter Wonderland











Like a great majority of the eastern seaboard of the USA my local area got some snow late Sunday and early Monday morning. Naturally the schools were closed as were many goverment offices. Since we rarely get snow my joke is that (one) snowplow driver must get very tired. It was a very wet snow and in my little world didn't really stick to the road or driveway. Now that's what I'm talking about. What if we could invent a way to have it just stick to the ground and roofs. It would be a beautiful winter wonderland. Folks wouldn't have to shovel, we wouldn't need snow plows or sand/salt and the snow would stay pretty. I went out early Monday morning to fill the bird feeders then came inside and snapped some photos.
Until my next post,
Diane