Holy Blizzard, Batman

Cool.

Everything's closed. Plows are off the roads, the average snwofall for February is 42cm, we're in the process of exceeding that within a 24 hour period.

I let Lucy out back and there was a skiff of snow on the patio. "Humpf" though I. What a load of brouhaha for nothing. But apparently the 100 km an hour wind has pushed it all to the front of the house, for when I opened the front door there was a drift a meter high.

Today I am grateful for my nice tight warm little house; for bringing work hom with me, so even if the plows *weren't* off the roads and all the malls and businesses weren't closed, I still woudn't have to go out; and for... good coffee and eggs benedict!

Maybe once I get movin' I'll take a few pictures.

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Well, apparently Richard's gone off the road and is down over a 5 foot snowbank about 5 or so miles from here. (He worked last night and was on his way home - fool, dunno why he just didn't stay at the hospital) Luckily he's not hurt at all, and there isn't any damage to the truck but he's ticked. (go figure)

I dunno what to do. There's no way da Mazda can get to him, 5 miles is a long way to walk in a blizzard and there is nothing commercial moving right now - tow trucks, buses, cabs. The ironic thing is, he's the one with the four wheel drive. He's the one other people call when *they* get stuck - so there's nobody else to call.Luckily it's not that cold out - only about -2, but the wind is wicked, so walking would be horrible. Sitting tight, however, wouldn't be so bad. Not great, but not bad.

I suspect that somebody will pick him up if he waits a few minutes (gotta love Nova Scotia for that - if anybody else is on the road, chances are they'll drive him right to the door. Good ol' Maritime congeniality.

Meanwhile, I'll just sit tight.

Cool!

A state of emergency has been declared for the whole province.

I see no emergency. I see an opportunity to enjoy a little eggs benny and a cup of coffee and get some homework done.

Emergency? What emergency?

(cool streaming webcam here http://www.cs.dal.ca/cam/univave1.shtml)

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It's still snowin' and blowin' like a sun-of-a-gun.

Here's a picture from my front door. The first dark spot, from the floor up, is where it's drifted right against the door. The second white pile is how high the snow is across the whole front lawn. I can't see any evidence of the shrubs in my front yard, the tallest of which is just under a meter.

http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/gperigo/Blizzard.jpg

Sure, I live in "the great white north", but I live in Nova Scotia. We NEVER get snow here. Well, not much anyway. At last I heard, which was a while ago, as I've gone off and had the greatest nap for the past couple of hours, we'd had 50 cm and another 20 cm to come yet.

I don't have any phones, but I have internet(odd, since I thought the internet was through my phone lines, but I'm not complaining) My work email says that they've closed our office because of the state of emergency (yay!) and that it will most likely be closed tomorrow as well (yay again!)

Richard got home fine and proceeded to rip the carpet up in the bedrooms. We've spent the blizzard day (aside from my two hour nap) in construction mode. Thank god the power didn't go out, it would have been rather... er... inconvenient.