neurotwitch

same dog, same porch, +14 hours

It’s still snowing. Though I really do think the worst of it is over, it won’t be “officially” over until about 5 or 6 pm.

This picture was taken about 1:00 pm, and boy what a difference, eh? (click the picture, and the others, to enlarge)

Of course, nothing is official until it’s measured. Here, at Squirrel Half-acre, there’s only one place to get an accurate measurement without having to slog through drifts up to my butt, and that’s on the patio. Nor’easters always whip weird around our house, I think because of the angle of the opening in the front hedge and all the trees, so our drifts are really interesting. But the patio doesn’t get drift during this type of storm. Our total, as of 1:30 pm on February 12, 2006, is 13 inches.

You’d think with all this snow it would be brighter out, but it’s not. I’d be really surprised if we got another 11 inches of snow like they’re predicting on the Weather Channel, no way. I know there’s some flooding going on in Westport and probably here in Norwalk and other areas along the coast. And there are some power outages, but not very many (especially as compared with the outages during the windstorms last month). But, as blizzards go, this one is not that big of a deal. I was living in Boston during the Blizzard of ‘78—now THAT was a blizzard!

Here is a picture looking toward the backyard from the front door, and one of the stack ‘o snow on the birdbath.

At least it’s not that wet and heavy stuff, so shoveling won’t be nearly as horrendous as it could’ve been. It’s supposed to get close to 50 degrees on Wednesday—not looking forward to that slop!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

1. I don’t trust the Weather Channel for anything other than tons of pretty computer graphics.  Their forecasts tend to be inaccurate, to say the least.

   Three cheers for The Weather Underground.  When I compared the two sites’ accuracy last winter (Feb-April - more for my own amusement than anything else), the Underground had an accuracy rate of 85 percent for both 24-hour and 4-day forecasts, compared to 71 percent (24-hours) and 60 percent (4-day) for Weather.com.

   But I’m insanely jealous of the snow y’all got up in Connecticut!  Kirstin’s folks (up in Somers) received 22 inches of the stuff.  We tallied 6 or 7 inches in our ‘hood - a nice coating, but the ground wasn’t frozen so it’ll melt quickly.

   Posted by Rudi Riet  on  02/13  at  05:17 PM

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