Subj : Re: National Anthem
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Wed Jan 29 2025 00:51:00

RM>> more snow than I've seen in the past 20 years this early. My weather
  >> app on the phone used words I've never seen them use before, they said
  >> I should expect a blizzard tomorrow. If a few of the storms we've gotten
  >> so far didn't qulify as that I hate to think what to expect..

MP>I was reading something today that warned the US areas south and east of
  >you (across Lakes Erie and Ontario) to expect a lot of snow so I wondered
  >if you might also be in for it.  Sounds like probably so.

I guess to earn being called a Blizzard requires higher winds. We had
fairly high winds, 45 mph or so, for about 10 hours yesterday with some
snow on and off all day. It didn't seem like that much snow but with the
wind it did some 'interseting' things.. like my car was almost totally
boxed in by 3 foot drifts that, because they were formed by high winds,
were almost as hard as ice, easy to walk on. It ended up taking me
about 45 minutes today to dig out enough snow to move the car out of
my narrow parking spot, and even then the (private) plow driver ended
up helping me by pushing my car from behind so I could move off and he
could then properly clear out my parking spot.

Walking around is precarious since you can walk on top of a lot of
the snow, but not all of it, so you find yourself suddenly breaking
through into 10 or 15 inches of loose snow under the crust. That's
where there was already a fair amount of old snow. The drifts by
my car were almost shovel breaking hard right down to the ground.

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