55 inches all winter, so far...

  We have about five official weeks of winter left. There is an historic drought in California and we here in New York are at about 55 inches of snow, just short of the most ever recorded, in 1994-5.

  I remember 1994-5 only because the News predicted we would get three feet of snow. We lived in Nyack, on a small lot. I went out to Locks Hardware in Valley Cottage, just off the corner of Kings Highway and Lake Rd. there is a small shopping mall there now and bought a snow blower at the inflated price of $1,300.00 I justified it by the three feet of snow we were going to get and we did get it, big time. The drifts were up to the porch in the front of the house. This brand new horse of a snow blower made short work of the drifts, the driveway and sidewalk. Then I went around doing a number of neighbors sidewalks. That is where the expression came from, 'are you out blowing the neighborhood again?' .After all of that I walked the snow blower down the street to Catherine St. and Teri's parents house doing the sidewalk as I went. The Snow blower is still the one I have twenty years later.
 

The latest storm was predicted before we had the one that was coming in a day or two. On Saturday or Sunday February 8th or 9th the weather forecasters were talking about a storm that eventually fizzled out to nothing and they said there were several storms behind it. This was the first behind that storm. School was cancelled early on Wednesday for Thursday. Friday school was cancelled early on Thursday, giving the girls off for midwinter recess eleven days. 

They will make it up during Easter week. The snow storm started in the middle of the night. I got up around 2am and there was just a dusting on the roads and it looked like this one was going to fizzle too. It picked up in intensity mid-morning and kept going, changing over to rain mid-afternoon then it stopped long enough to clear the driveway, then it started back up dropping a few more inches on top of what was there. The fun of this storm was the ice that was under the snow. It made it impossible to clear larger areas then before the storm. As You can see from the pictures and the video the girls were lots of help clearing the driveway and clearing the snow off cars.

  My Birthday was about two and a half weeks ago. My daughters got me a card with their mother's blessing. I love it.