I officially hate this weather

[ellid]

The bottom of the driveway seriously looks like two separate groups of small children have constructed fortifications to facilitate snowball battles between the Norwegian maples and the mailbox. I also have Icicles of Doom hanging over the front door, which in turn led to an enormous island of ice that made it all but impossible to get in and out of the house. It took most of a sack of rock salt to soften it up so I could whack it to pieces with a shovel and clear the front steps.

All this, plus ANOTHER !#$!@#$@!$@!$ storm coming in on Tuesday. Climate change SUCKS.

Comments

[kaiz.livejournal.com]

I hear you! The snow piles on either side of my front walk are so tall that I can't actually toss the snow high enough anymore. Not sure where the heck I'm going to put another 20 inches of snow in the next few days!

When did I move to Buffalo? *is confused*

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Don't know if this will help at all, but one year we had so much snow that L used a shovel to cut the snow up into large rough "bricks", which he built into a wall next to sides of the sidewalk and driveway. He started with it only a couple of feet high, with bricks set aside. Then he was able to fill in the snow piles more fully than when making a mound of snow, which is the usual snow pile shape. Then he added another couple of rows of snow, etc. Of course you can only build them so high and still get snow over the wall, but it meant we could stack a lot more snow in the same square footage.

Not a problem here at the farm, but we have our own challenges...

[gardengirl6.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen icicles like these in YEARS!

And I'm with you about the forecast weather this week. Snow... I can deal with that. Ice? Not so much. Physics experiments and I don't get on well at ALL since I mucked up my back :(

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yes the icicles are really phenomenal. One house we passed today in Shelburne Falls had some between 2nd floor roof and first floor porch roof that had formed a solid column! Tomorrow I will be knocking off as many of them on our house as I can reach with a stick. Happily, we are well equipped with sticks of varying lengths...

[orphandani.livejournal.com]

You can send me some snow... I miss it! :)