Tuesday, January 27, 2015 -( -12°C / +10°F & Snowing @6:30 pm in Atlantic Canada )-
Um, This was @ about 5:30 pm here -Atlantic Time- After we tried to clear the end of the driveway and a path to the shed and the path to the deer feeding spot.
“Security Cam Shot” after we carved a path through the yard with a snow blower. The blown snow was over two feet deep, spots where the wind whipped around vehicles in the driveway were almost clear.
Slightly blurry, hand held, flash off = shot of the security cam monitor’s partial view / half of the eight panels – Deer Cam upper left, Basement ghost cam upper right, Office-Jim Cam lower left, Office Jim Cam-2 lower right.
— We thought it might be a good idea to clear away the end of the driveway and a path to and around the van, in case we ever wanted to get out of here again. We’re probably not even halfway through this storm and we had areas where the drifts were four feet deep, and spots where the wind had whipped around the van and other obstacles, down to bare driveway. Right at the door the wind had sculpted a nice 18 inch / 46 cm low spot. Two feet from the door the top of the snow dune was 22 inches / 56 cm above the deck. Off the edge of the deck the dune was over 3 feet high. We have a 27 inch wide – probably 24 inches high – snowblower. There were spots I could have attempted to tunnel through the drifts with that. We will, no doubt, need to go out and do that again, maybe more than once before the storm is over. I’m thinking last year’s April Fools Day blizzard hit us harder, but it might be too soon to tell.
“Flip Cam Shot of Security Monitor” Closer to 7 pm. The funny thing was, I went for the camera when the screen was a mess of shooting white lines, I came back with the camera on the tripod and we hit a lull. No activity at all. Another interesting thing. in some of these single frames there were odd bits of light, usually vertical streaks or horizontal areas lit up that vanished in the next frame. Hmmmmmm-
— Very fine snow. But it’s blowing in ‘white-out’ intensity. That, coupled with the wind catching what I was blowing with the snow blower – It’s hard to clear a driveway when you can’t see the front of the snow blower- My fingers felt like I hit each one with a hammer when I got back in after half an hour outside in the storm.
— I have some more shots coming, uploading from a flip cam onto the laptop, will then grab a couple ‘snapshots’ from the videos and copy them from laptop to here and get them up.
—Ack?–
— Oh goody… The plow just went up the street again. It’s 7:45 pm & parts of my fingers still sting from two hours ago.
— Um, I better quit before I want to look for a lawyer who might go along with the idea that if the city wants to plow three and four foot mountains between senior citizens and the real world, they should either come back and plow or shovel a path through their mountain or face charges of attempted murder. That should go over like the good old lead balloon.
~~~~~ Jim
