Wednesday, February 18th - it's been quite a few days

Conditions at 5:20 am: -21 but feeling more like -28'
Expected later: a lovely -8' with a mix of sun and cloud



Yesterday was an absolutely gorgeous day, except for the 80 cms of snow they tell us fell over the past few days.
Out here it's always a little bit hard to tell because the wind whips it all over the place. You end up with big piles in some areas and very little in others. It would have been an ideal day for skiing, that is if we could have gotten out. It was late afternoon by the time the plow went down the road and cleared one lane wide. At least in an emergency you could have gotten out, but prayed you didn't meet another car coming the other way!

We went out in the morning to survey the situation.  There were large drifts in the upper part of the yard, near the house, and also at the end of the lane. A neighbour had gone down the road and blown out the snow the night before but it had filled in again in the morning. Lloyd went up over the snow bank at the end of the lane and onto the road, The snow in the lane was up to his chest.  No way that was getting shoveled by hand.

Part way through the morning our next door neighbour came by and blew the snow out of the lane and then came back again after the plow had been through. Needless to say, I didn't get to work yesterday, but Lloyd was able to go in last night, after missing Monday night.

They tell us that the airport has recorded 220 cms of snow has fallen since the 27th of January! And it's

Standing on the road at the end of the lane

still all here. Speaking of the airport, it was closed for part of the day on Monday because of the large amount of snow on the roof, they didn't feel it was safe so the terminal was shut down. Didn't much matter because on Monday no one was going anywhere. But they got people in to help clear it off and it was opened again later in the afternoon.

The bridge was closed to all traffic for over 24 hours, the longest I've ever seen since I've been here. It was quite the weekend but we all survived yet another Atlantic Canada Winter Storm. 

Rumour has it we might get more snow on Thursday.  

The lane had just been plowed. Now, we know there's a road under there somewhere!