It's hardly news anymore, but we had quite a big snowstorm last weekend. Today I'll post a few highlights from the dig out in Alexandria, following up on yesterday's post about Luray. I'll finish up the series with a couple of shots of Hawksbill Cabin, taken by neighbor Dan, tomorrow. I've tagged this post with Snowmaggedon, as well - that was what we called the 2010 storm, and the label will take you to my posts on that one.
This time, the snow began on Friday evening and continued until very early Sunday morning. True to form, Sunday was a beautiful sunny day - perfect for all of us to start digging out!
I powered through our stairs and got much of the walks done, and then Mary came out to help. She found the Equinox, buried over there under a huge drift, and got it most of the way freed.
We learned our lesson from past storms, though, and didn't clear the driveway out to the street - we decided to wait for a plow so we wouldn't have to clear the space twice.
This plan worked fine, except by Monday night the plow still hadn't come. So we dug out anyway.
We also went around back to dig out. This was a major storm, around 20 inches of snow with deep drifts. So I decided to make sure that we could get out the basement door and the sliding glass door in the back of the house. I also shoveled a path part of the way into the yard so Tessie could get out there (she prefers to go in the street though, I think because she sinks in in the yard).
As a final touch, I cleared the space around the generator - just in case we need to go on generator power. We're all set!
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