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Huge Winter Storm 01/23/05 |
We got hit with a huge winter storm last night (Saturday 01/23/05). 2 feet of snow with howling wind just about shut us down for the day!I had taken myself out to dinner to the Barn Tavern here in Dover last night just as the snow was getting started. Because of the storm warnings, they had quite a few dinner reservations cancel out, but a surprising number of folks braved it out anyway and came in stomping their boots off. Had a great meal - highly recommend the Chicken Saute - with a couple of decent glasses of their house Shiraz. Stopped by Cartellie's Bar and Grill on my way home and had another glass of Shiraz and chatted with the bartender Dean. I hadn't been into Cartellie's since Christmas Eve, so Dean and I traded Christmas Day cooking and movie watching stories.
By the time I got home, there was about 2 inches down, the wind was blowing pretty good, and I was glad to settle into the movie The Italian Job. I listened to the wind howl all night.
When I got up in the morning, it was spectacular. Check it out - though pictures can't really convey its true power.
Out the front door looking at what used to be a parking lot.
View out the living room window.
From the living room looking out over the burried deck.
Another view of the deck from the study.
Another shot from living window but back a little.
From the living room looking out to the deck - man, is that snow piling up out there or what! And, by the end of the day Sunday it was almost 3 feet deep out there. I ended up shoveling it all off as that would be a lot of weight and certainly would not do the wood much good to have that draining for literally weeks during the melt. I also shoveled it all away from the building; the ground is going to really be soaked and full when this stuff starts to melt!
The guys really had their work cut out for them with this storm!
Snow got piled up everywhere! There just wasn't any place to put it all...
The front loader did a great job of clearing the parking area.
They even got the walkways and steps! Great effort!
It's gonna be May before this stuff is gone!