First time I've seen a condition the Land Cruiser can't get through. It's not the epic storm, which missed us by 150 miles. It is the snow plow truck buried us with 2 foot wall of ice. I've seen much worst (3' to 4' foot with 5 to 6' foot drifts) snow storm in Denver. I admit this was a super wet very heavy snow. So much so my winter clothing become soaked while shoveling, which was a first. But to pile a mountain of wet snow just before temp drop from 33F to 18F freeze it, made an ice wall only heavy equipment can remove. We've another storm coming tonight. Needless to say, we're stuck home for now. Neighbor over-due to give birth, well this could get interesting!
The driveway and steering converge about 12" below bottom of my glove. It's solid ice on street side and slush and water on driveway side.
Frozen solid.
As a pilot, I've watch weather systems most of my life. This was the largest low pressure system I've seen cross the panhandle, as it heads east. Had the slow moving eye of the low been 75 to 150 further south, as it sat here for two days. This would have been epic. As it was, we about 20". But it was so warm and wet as it snowed, it did accumulate first 12 hours. Had it been a cold snow we'd have maybe 30" to 40" remaining this morning.
The driveway and steering converge about 12" below bottom of my glove. It's solid ice on street side and slush and water on driveway side.
Frozen solid.
As a pilot, I've watch weather systems most of my life. This was the largest low pressure system I've seen cross the panhandle, as it heads east. Had the slow moving eye of the low been 75 to 150 further south, as it sat here for two days. This would have been epic. As it was, we about 20". But it was so warm and wet as it snowed, it did accumulate first 12 hours. Had it been a cold snow we'd have maybe 30" to 40" remaining this morning.
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