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Community spirit lives.....

They said we would have drifts of 4 - 8 feet and they didn't lie.
The blizzard raged all night. The winds were tremendous.
We even had thunder snow.
I have heard this spoken of before but had never experienced it.
We were just getting ready for bed, the wind was howling, the windows rattling when there was an almighty flash of lightning and then booming thunder.
It was a little bit scary really.

The storm kept me awake for much of the night but this morning all sounded calm.
Too calm.
Then the snowblowers started.
Outside truly was a Winter Wonderland.
The snow had drifted up the front and back doors. It had come in through the screen door and was in the gap between the two.
I couldn't open the front door as it was about 4 feet deep.

The birdie feeder had disappeared, as had two of the reindeer.
The third reindeer still had his head poking out of the snow........poor thing.
The mailbox seems to have taken a hammering too.
The back fence is around 7 feet high and the drift there was higher than the fence.

Alan and Philip tackled the digging out before brekkie.
Actually, it was rather exciting. Everyone was home from work as many roads are impassable.
This is the first time I can ever remember things closing for snow since we have lived here....over 13 years.
All the neighbours were out digging out drives, paths etc.
The community spirit was lovely to see. Everyone was helping each other, cracking jokes and generally making it not such a drudge.
I loved to see this.
The big problem now is where to keep piling the stuff up.
We are all running out of space.
The road hasn't been ploughed yet but ours is usually one of the last as we are a small road.
Once the road is ploughed everyone will have to go dig out again as the drive ways will all be ploughed in again.
Such fun.
No one seems to stress over it. At the end of the day it is only snow........lot of snow....but still just snow.......and it has been quite exciting, the storm, the thunder snow etc.
Winter can be very dull. Something like this does liven things up a bit.

posted by Sue Banks @ 10:09 AM