87 inches of snow!

Apparently that's not the proper way to measure snowfall, though, so the real number is probably somewhere around 4 inches in that photo.

We've been pretty lucky, Snowmageddon/Snowpocalypse hasn't really gotten us too badly. We were supposed to get snow last weekend as part of the big dump further south that shut down Washington DC etc, but none of that eventuated. At the moment we have quite a few inches on the ground and it's supposed to snow all night.

The day was interesting - I have little (less than an hour) experience driving in snow. Liz couldn't get to work this morning because of the weather, so I took the car. Driving to work was fine - there was about an inch around and the roads were all clear. By 11AM though, the snow was getting heavier. Word went around at work that the building wanted to suspend shuttle service to the train station because the roads were getting bad. I took that as my cue to leave. Even the main roads that I took had a fair amount of snow on them. I don't think I went faster than 20MPH all the way home, as even with slight acceleration the car told me it was losing traction. Traction was a commodity that was escaping a Mercedes on one of the major roads - it was bogged in snow like it was mud.

Things got more hairy closer to home, where the roads hadn't had many, if any, cars on them. Coming around one corner the wind picked up and snow blew off the road and trees forming a wall of white. The driveway was the most fun: a car was on my tail so I quickly pulled in and immediately couldn't get down the driveway. Luckily for Liz I reversed out and worked my way in. Luckily for Liz because if I hadn't she was close to putting on a jacket and shoveling a path to the garage...