How about you dear read­ers? What do you depend on dur­ing harsh winters?

Images:
mine, 2, 3, 4, 5,6

With Snow­poca­lypse 3 (THREE?!) rag­ing out­side my win­dow, I sup­pose now is as a good a time as any to share a few more pic­tures from Snow­poca­lypse 2:

Unless you live under a rock or more likely, are one of my read­ers from abroad you might not know that this week­end brought Bal­ti­more an his­toric blizzard.

So this after­noon once the snow had stopped, I helped my fam­ily dig out. My mum was kind enough to sup­ply the fol­low­ing video of my father and I shov­el­ing their mas­sive drive:

Ok, so my sense of humor is espe­cially punchy today– we’re all a lit­tle batty from the miles of sparkling white everywhere…

Last night brought a snow­storm the likes of which the City has not seen in years… in ’96 I spent a week snowed in dur­ing the big storm… today does not look much dif­fer­ent, except the snow keeps com­ing so much faster

I live close to a state high­way, here it is this after­noon– so empty you could sit down and have a pic­nic

The USPS lived up to their promise of “nei­ther rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night” today, yay mail!

Here’s the first cou­ple ‘a shots from ear­lier today. Up to prob­a­bly a foot maybe a foot and a half of snow… no work tomor­row either; here’s to hop­ing Friday’s can­celled too.

my front step — not too much snow after the first shoveling

What’s all this stuff?

More later, perhaps..