The Day After

The snow around our building was nearly waist deep in spaces today. This is what my library looked like this morning:

Front of building. (Shoveled out by Deb--another staffperson--and me.)

Looking up the front walk.

Looking out the front door.


Looking up the back walk. (Shoveled out by Sean and Michele, our cleaning lady!)
The gray pipe on your right is almost 4' tall.

Looking out the back door.

Then the snowplow went through and cleared up some snow and left us with:

Sean and The Big Snow Pile

Marie's Car and The Big Snow Pile

The Big Snow Pile

And we are supposed to get another 8-12" of lake effect snow overnight. (For those of you who don't know, Lake Effect is apparently one of the Great Lakes that specializes in producing heavy snows in this area. [Did a librarian really just give us false information???? Your assignment: look up "lake effect snow" and see what it is for yourself.] )

Singing: Snow, snow go away, don't come back another day!

Happy Valentines' Day

How's your Valentines' Day?

I woke up at 6am and got 9"...

of snow that is. This is the first "real" snow we've gotten so far this season. (Which doesn't mean we haven't had snow so far; we have 69.5" as of last night.) But this was the most snow we'd gotten at one time this winter. The photo above was taken at noon.

And as of noon we measured:

almost 18" and it is still coming down.

We don't have a snow blower so we shoveled the driveway out by hand--well, by shovel...

And another 5" is forecast by 7pm with an additional 5" expected on top of that overnight.

UPDATE: The snow slowed down a bit and by 6pm, we had a total of 21". But it IS still falling!