Digging Out!

Yesterday Blair & I spent part of the afternoon digging out from our recent snow & blow. My plan was to have a trail dug out back to the cistern so I could back the truck in with a load of water, the drifts were 4 feet deep and we were in dire need of a good scoop shovel.

Well it blew all night and when I got up this morning the first thing I noticed was the spot we had dug out to the cistern was blown in again.

After going to 5 different hardware stores I finally found one that wasn't sold out of shovels. I thought it wouldn't take much since it was freshly blown in, but I was unpleasantly surprised to find the new 4 foot drift was harder packed than the last and I had arrived right after the county snow plow had made his first pass of the day so it was further packed in like cement!

After 20 minutes of hard digging, I was soaked with sweat but able to get the truck just far enough back to get my load of water in.

The drift on the south side of the road is really starting to grow. This morning it had drifted across like the other day. The bus almost didn't make it to pick up the kids today, he had to stop, back up and take a run at a couple of the hard drifts before he made it through to the house.


This is the snow pile at the east end of our lane, just before you turn north on the Range Road.

At Christmas time Blair and I were driving south up the road right-of-way to hunt coyotes, now the the drifts are like cement and the snowplow pile is just as tall as the truck!

Down the Range Road the snow had filled the ditches to the top and in places only the tops of the fence posts are visible, the kids were fascinated to see this, I remember seeing snow like this but only in Saskatchewan.

The front yard also blew in again, Carolyn made it out no problem for work but I didn't fair so well, it took me 10 minutes of rooting around before I got the truck out and was able to load the water tank and head for town.

Here's the drift in front of the garage that continues to grow & grow, its now about 3 feet high and hard enough that I can walk on it!

Carolyn's parents stopped in tonight and got stuck with their truck, which involved more shovelling! Hopefully it doesn't snow or blow anymore this week since I'm leaving for work tomorrow and Carolyn & the kids will be in charge of snow shovelling.