Get Ready for a Blizzard - Page 3

Lady Frost, this is my front door view, see the wind blow! My mailbox is there ... somewhere! Our neighbors are already busy with their John Deer's. My DH wants to conserve energy... his... because the winds aren't done yet.

This Junco is like a living ornament, along with the sparrows and titmice and looking for a place to ride out the storm.
 
Mojo, staying warm just waiting for us to say "when", he's been outside already, and back a few times.

And thanks, we had a wonderful Christmas, I hope you and everyone here had a great holiday, too. 

wow I think this is the first time I seen your dog....Mojo...i like that.. where have you been when i was looking for a name for Bailey...she ended up being called after a bottle of liquor which she knocked over and licked..LOL..
Mojo is beautiful love that facial expression I bet he is a "talker" ......and thats a lot of snow... wow.. we are also getting strong wind...but it shouldn't last long...i saw weather for new year..we are expecting to hit high of 60 on Saturday!!!!!

Well, Here in Texas we Have NO SNOW<<<yet...

but eveything is frozen ...water buckets, pipes, hoses and me. Even as far down as Houston it was below 30 last night...the wind is calm and the sun is out...Me thinks it is gonna be a cold , cold winter.. I got a new electric blanket for christmas so hope the lights stay on...  reminds me to go get a new battery for the elect start generator..I wondered how people without lights up in the snow country make it...fireplaces and butane I guess...I have no fireplace but do have butane cook bbque pit that does have  a burner and I do bring it inside the sun room and I do know how to vent it....lol      Pretty pic Beetree...If it snows here like last year I will have some pics too...The dogs loved it..and It was the first 8 "snow I had ever been in..I felt like a kid again..Time for hot coco and check the water buckets again.........word to the wise..do not kick bucket with feet....hurts....I forgot..so now I  have one good foot...
 

YR Last year

Wow, YR! That is amazing! Here I have been begging my husband to move us to Texas to avoid the cold and snow! LOL....guess it might not be the escape I seek. However, I must admit that your picture has a peaceful quality to the scene. Renee

Yes Renee and that picture was small amount on ground...Here is another picture when it got 8" deep..and I am in East Texas  100 miles south of Dallas...

Well we only got about 8" of snow...but that WIND!!! OMG...I left work about 11:45pm, & there was maybe 2" where I work, so I thought, no problem.....& started my 1 hour commute north. Well, by the time I got back up into the hills near my place, I was driving in white out conditions. My old Jimmy was having no difficulty with the 1 to 2 ' drifts, 'cause the snow was very fluffy, but I could not see where the road was. Nearly hit a neighbor's barn, as I had wandered off the little state road we live along. Usually you can aim for the reflective plow markers, but I couldn't even see them. I just kept creeping along, finally made it home all in one piece....dogs LOVED it....& I felt like a rock star the next day, when I managed to back right back up my own tire tracks the next day, LMAO! I guess I'm easily impressed!jackie harris

Oh...& my step daughter in NJ got 29".... ! jackie harris


I imagine our out West friends who are getting 29 feet of snow AREN'T impressed! Good luck & God Bless those of you persevering under those kinds of conditions! jh

 Jackie......29 inches? Our town would die.  We get two inches and everyone freaks out. We don't have the equipment to handle something like 29 inches. I think we have two salt trucks for the entire county and only one works lol. We already got a good number of inches this year, but I'm a summer person and I'll be so glad when we get back to the warm months.  In middle TN there really aren't but about 2 and 1/2 somewhat "cold months" anyway.

I'm pretty sure we got somewhere up to 20". It is getting softer too, perfect for snowballs and fort building. The wind had sifted the snow so much earlier there were spots it held Mojo's weight, and then oomph! a paw would slip through so he'd be three paws on top of the snow and one paw sunk into the snow. 

LF and YR, thanks for your nice words about Mojo. Here he is "helping" with the dig out. My son read what you wrote and said, "She's right! He is a talker! How did she know!"  I know he understands every word we utter, too. 




The "Let Me in Look"

Mojo is a handsome devil Beetree.

Looks like you got more snow than we did, and they were predicting 1 to 2 feet here. Hard to tell how much we got, it blew around so much.