Kelly and I managed to hack our way out of our driveway this afternoon, after sleeping until about noonish. This snow was an interesting one, as the initial layer (5 or 6 inches) were of sleet, the size and granularity of a snow-cone. The last 2 or 3 inches were of powdery regular snow. This combination allowed one to actually walk on the snow without it caving it around your feet, which in itself is pretty cool, but trying to shovel that stuff was a two person job! Kelly would break up the snow with a spade and I would shovel it off the drive. All in all, I estimate we shovelled somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 cubic feet of snow today.
After about 2 hours of that, we retired in-side and promptly took naps. Arising about 5ish, we headed out to get me some new gloves (and to survey the quality of our roads), get a bite to eat and get some cocoa. All were done in a timely fashion, and as you can see in the middle photo above, some folks don’t respect mother nature. Or, perhaps, got real drunk and slid down a 15 foot tall embankment into a drainage ditch. We, however, stayed inside the ruts and managed to get out and back with no troubles.
Now to watch Return of the King and quaff cocoa!
More photos in the 2004.12.22 – Snowstorm gallery.
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It is straight-up snowstormin‘ here in Louisville and the 2004.12.22 – Snowstorm gallery is evidence there of.
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Kelly and I woke up this morning to find that a tree-limb on one of our two big front yard trees had cracked during last night’s rainstorm and was laying almost in the road, but not quite. It completely blocked the sidewalk, though, so we thought it best to clean it up post-haste, as there is a fair bit of foot traffic. I decided to take some photos of the cleanup effort.
It’s just important to know that trees were down. That is all. Carry on.
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Last night we had a pretty powerful storm blow through town. The rain was one thing, but the powerful winds were quite another. Oldham County, to our east, has declared itself a disaster area. Some parts of Jefferson County namely the Highlands area didn’t fare quite so well either. My friend David Gruneisen went about today to shoot some photos (as is his style), and as per usual they are good and pick up on interesting detail. You should check out David’s Storm gallery and see what nature hath wrought upon the Highlands.
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A conversation between Jackson and I today:
ben: have you ever wanted to chase tornadoes?
jackson: shit yeah.
ben: as have i
ben: but for the time being, here is your vicarious link.
ben: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/33345
This would serve as a good point to remind my faithful readers of my “themes” options you can find at the bottom of any page. One of which is the “tornado” theme — in honor of the season.
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