I know I tend to complain about snow, but when I got up this morning I had to push my way out my door. When I finally got out and looked at my driveway the snow is up to the headlights on my car!!! Where the plow has gone by on the road it has left a 3 foot bank at the end of the driveway. No I seriously am not exaggerating, 3 feet!!! Mannie if I can get out and the airport can get planes off the ground I'm on my way, hope your offer to visit still stands.
Oh, Molls, I feel your pain!! I remember living in Syracuse and when the plows went by, we had more than 7 feet of snow piled up. (We all dug the mailbox door out, so there was this little black mailbox door in a bank of snow.) And it wasn't just snow, it was the icy, hard, heavy, impossible to get rid of with a snowblower stuff. That was the last winter I spent there. I had ENOUGH!
I don't know how cold it is at Mannie's house, but we broke records yesterday with temps in the mid-70s F (23 degrees C). It's a teeny bit cooler today, but that just means it's 50F (10C).
Hang in there! Only a few more weeks until February is gone and then it will practically be spring!
I can't believe how much we got all at once. It started about 4 pm yesterday and we got 12 hours of heavy non stop storms and they still have storm warnings out. We're used to alot of snow, it's just so much at once, like I said up to the headlights on the car.
The offer still stands. Yesterday it was in the 70's again but today it's colder (around the 50's). If you move here, you'll never have to worry about the snow plow. We don't have those fancy contraptions here. They'd go to waste on us. You might see about 2 inches of snow at the most this year. It hasn't snowed at all so far and doesn't look like it's going to. I'll be back, I'm going to find something to make Molls happy!
Well this time it even shocked me and I'm used to getting alot of snow. I wish I had a digital camera so I could post pics. Thanks Mannie, I knew I could count on you to take this winter weary old soul in.
Aug. 12 - Moved to our new home in Canada. I am so excited. It's so beautiful here. The mountains are so majestic. Can hardly wait to see them with snow covering them.
Oct. 14 - Canada--it is the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves have turned all colors and shades of red and orange. Went for a ride through the beautiful countryside and saw some deer. They are so graceful. Certainly they are the most wonderful animals on earth. This must be paradise. I love it here!
Nov. 11 - Remembrance Day. Deer season starts soon. I can't imagine anyone wanting to kill such a gorgeous creature. Hope it snows soon. I love it here!
Dec. 2 - It snowed last night. Woke up to find everything blanketed with white. It looks like a postcard. We went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight (I won). When the snow plough came by we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful place. I love Canada!
Dec. 12 - More snow last night. The snow plough did his trick again to the driveway. I love it here.
Dec. 19 - More snow last night. Couldn't get out of the driveway to get to work. It's beautiful here but I'm exhausted from shoveling. Frigging snow plough.
Dec. 22 - More of that white $hit fell last night. I've got blisters on my hands and a sore back from shoveling. I think the snow plough hides around the corner until I'm done shoveling the driveway. A$$hole.
Dec. 25 - Merry Frigging Christmas! More frigging snow. If I ever get my hands on the sonovab!tch who drives the snow plough, I swear I'll kill the ba$tard. Don't know why they don't use more salt on the roads to melt the frigging ice.
Dec. 27 - More white $hit last night. Been inside for three days now except for shoveling out the driveway after that snow plough goes through every time. Can't go anywhere, the car's stuck in a mountain of white $hit and it's so frigging cold. The weatherman says to expect another 10 inches of the $hit again tonight. Do you know how many shovels full of snow 10 inches is?
Dec. 28 - That frigging weatherman was wrong. We got 34 inches of the $hit this time. At this rate it won't melt before summer. The snow plough got stuck up in the road and that ba$tard came to my door and asked to borrow my shovel. After I told him that I had already broken six shovels shoveling out all the $hit he had pushed into my driveway, I damn near broke my last one over his frigging head.
Jan. 4 - Finally got out of the house today. Went to the store to get food and on my way back a damned deer ran in front of the car. Did about $3,000 damage to the car. Those frigging beasts should be killed. The ba$tards are everywhere. Wish the hunters had exterminated them all last November.
May 3 - Took the car to the garage in town. Would you believe the thing is rusted out from all that frigging salt they put all over the roads.
May 10 - Moved to Tennessee with Mannie. I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would ever want to live in such a God forsaken place as Canada!
Dec. 28 - That frigging weatherman was wrong. We got 34 inches of the $hit this time. At this rate it won't melt before summer. The snow plough got stuck up in the road and that ba$tard came to my door and asked to borrow my shovel. After I told him that I had already broken six shovels shoveling out all the $hit he had pushed into my driveway, I damn near broke my last one over his frigging head.
I love this one, it's how most of us feel. I need to buy a snowblower.
May 10 - Moved to Tennessee with Mannie. I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would ever want to live in such a God forsaken place as Canada! This is my favourite though!!!
The bank at the end of the driveway is taller than me, when I stand beside it. I'm soooooooo glad hubby hasn't left to go away for work yet. He's supposed to go to Alberta next week.
Molly - I've been there living in Minnesota and I feel your pain. I can't handle those winters any more. Believe it or not it goes back to global warming. I know that sounds odd, but the weather patterns it causes puts more moisture in the air - in the winter that is snow and lots of it.
I love that clip. Don't you hate it when your wipers freeze and turning them on breaks them? I hate that when that happens.
Yes Cindy, I have had that happen and you're bang on about the global warming causing all this snow. I actually do have calluses on my hands from shovelling. The neighbor who is a godsend just came over and did the end of the driveway where the snow plow had gone through. We kind of get a double whammy because the snowplow leaves it at the end and then the sidewalk guys goes through about 3 feet in and leaves another big trench. My problem being so short is that it has reached the point that I can't throw the snow over the bank anymore.
I have to ask where in Canada are you from? Because my mum goes through the same thing. Every time I talk to her she's saying how much more snow has fallen. Over the holidays the snowbanks were so high you could barely see over them, and they were definitely too high for me to shovel the snow over too. The thing I curse at the most is how the sidewalks and bus stops are the last things plowed where I am. Trying to climb over snowbanks to get anywhere is not fun. I love that commercial you posted!!!
I can't believe how much we got all at once. It started about 4 pm yesterday and we got 12 hours of heavy non stop storms and they still have storm warnings out. We're used to a lot of snow, it's just so much at once, like I said up to the headlights on the car.
I know. Seriously, it sucks! And then to hear people talk about, oh, don't you love when it snows...it drives me nuts! I know how you feel Molly--remember my snow banks that were over seven feet tall? Try shoveling snow onto that! That's a foot and a half taller than me. We actually couldn't open our front door anymore because we had almost four feet right there, so half the first level of our house (no, not on a hill) was snowed over. So, it was really dark in the house. And it was weird to look down from the second floor and the snow was right there! We had heavy nonstop snow for an entire weekend and accumulated two feet in two days. And we already had three feet on the ground! And the temps were in the 20sF, so it wasn't going anywhere! We gave up shoveling the driveway and just shoveled out two tracks for the car's wheels. And even that was ridiculously hard--my poor dad almost had a second coronary trying to do it in -15F windchill. The plows really were piling it up; we had a Stop sign on our corner and after the plows went through you couldn't even see the tips of the O and P anymore, and could barely see the top of the S and T. And on the news they kept telling people to dig out any fire hydrants on their properties because of all the electrical fires from the heavy snow (and roofs caving in). We tried, but we couldn't find it. We knew it was less than three feet away from the stop sign, and we could see the tip of the stop sign, but in all that snow it would've been easier to find a diamond ring in a bucket of marbles.
Man. The only good thing about snow is that it helps with the drought. Otherwise I'd be happy banning it forever!
BTW, don't bother with a snow blower. If your snow was anything like ours, the snow blower will be pretty useless, since it was made for light, fluffy, tiny granules of snow. Anything really wet, big, or even remotely icy (ie, good packing snow for snowballs) will clog the blower and kill it. Save your money and buy a riding lawnmower with a snowplow attachment! That pretty much saved us right there. Even those won't work when you get that glacier effect--you know, snow, then ice, then snow, then ice--because it'll be too hard to move and you'll have to chop it up with the shovel first. But although it's cold work sitting on the mower in the wind, it does the job!
Aww, Molly, that's awful. I loved your diary, though. I've lived in the South since I was 10, but I was born in Iowa and went back to visit every Christmas while I was growing up and I've seen my share of ugly winters. I'm just glad I could leave after two weeks!
When you move in with Mannie you'll only be one state away from me. I expect a visit.
I know how you feel Molly--remember my snow banks that were over seven feet tall? Try shoveling snow onto that! That's a foot and a half taller than me. We actually couldn't open our front door anymore because we had almost four feet right there, so half the first level of our house (no, not on a hill) was snowed over. So, it was really dark in the house. And it was weird to look down from the second floor and the snow was right there! We had heavy nonstop snow for an entire weekend and accumulated two feet in two days. And we already had three feet on the ground! And the temps were in the 20sF, so it wasn't going anywhere! We gave up shoveling the driveway and just shoveled out two tracks for the car's wheels. And even that was ridiculously hard--my poor dad almost had a second coronary trying to do it in -15F windchill. The plows really were piling it up; we had a Stop sign on our corner and after the plows went through you couldn't even see the tips of the O and P anymore, and could barely see the top of the S and T. And on the news they kept telling people to dig out any fire hydrants on their properties because of all the electrical fires from the heavy snow (and roofs caving in). We tried, but we couldn't find it. We knew it was less than three feet away from the stop sign, and we could see the tip of the stop sign, but in all that snow it would've been easier to find a diamond ring in a bucket of marbles.
