It's stopped snowing; the sky is overcast but light. I don't know how high the snow is, but it's too high for me to open my front door. No one's driving, for the side street that I'm on isn't plowed and the governor instituted a statewide driving ban yesterday. (This isn't a case of "please don't drive"; it's a case of "I'm ordering the state ( Read more... )

They're predicting that we'll get up to three feet of snow by the time the snow ends on Saturday. It's the weight on the wires I'm worried about, because it doesn't take much for us to lose power around here ( Read more... )

I filed an insurance claim this week because of all the food that spoiled during the massive power loss earlier this month. Today I got the letter from the insurance company ( Read more... )

I'm still iced into my house. The driveway and the sidewalk are both covered with ice. I've been trying to chop ice and put down rock salt, but since I can't get far from the garage and the front door, this is difficult.

And there is a storm expected tomorrow. Five to ten inches of snow. Joy.