Snow and more snow.

This might be one of the last big snow storms of this winter, especially the way the winter has been going. Cold and snow then warms, to the upper 30's to 40's, and rains. Today it began to snow last night and it was predicted to be around 10 inches of snow, and it's at least that much! It hasn't stopped all day and I'll be plowing with the quad when we get home.

This is now the next day, Thursday the 13th. I got home and spent almost 2 hours plowing. This morning with all the overnight snow it looked like I hadn't done any plowing. On the way to work we see that the plows haven't plowed hardly anywhere. We later found that it snowed so much that no one could keep up with it all. Turns out it hasn't snowed that much in such a short time in years, and never in the almost 5 years we've lived here full time. The upside though is that the county basically closed at noon today. School had been cancelled in the morning and many of the small stores in the city didn't open either, it was just too messy. I'll add some photos tomorrow that I took today. And now I get to go out and plow again! It's supposed to turn to rain this evening and rain tomorrow. Shaping to be quite the mess tomorrow. And Stacy has to drive to Boise on Saturday, for almost a month. :(

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