snoooow!
I'm guessing we had 3"-5" (7-12cm) more snow after I shoveled yesterday morning, and it was the lighter, powdery snow, so it was much easier to shovel. I'm guessing we had 21-24" (53-60cm) here. It stopped sometime before 20:00, but anniemal and I were planning to watch a movie (Dangerous Liaisons) on TV, so I went out after 23:00 to do another round of shoveling. Clearing the trenches I made in the morning was easy, except across the front of the house where there had been foot traffic that packed the new snow into ice.
There was very little motor traffic. A few state plows rolled through, not doing any more clearing, so apparently off to other problems. And pickups with plows, probably contracted for parking lots. Both streets at our corner are plowed and passable, although there's about 8 feet (2.5m) from the end of our driveway to the plowed channel, and the last quarter of that is going to be packed very dense and heavy from the plowing. (Plus there's still the driveway itself to do.) I shoveled a path past the neighbor on the county-road side (where someone, perhaps the next-next-door neighbor, had dug out a car and ignored the sidewalk), and down to the next corner on the state-hwy side. (The part I hadn't shoveled earlier came out cleaner than my own sidewalk, because it didn't have the thin layer with packed footprints.)
At that corner I could see that the side roads haven't been touched. Foot traffic left deep trails in the snow, but those cars ain't gonna be going anywhere for a while. It got down to 14 °F (-10°C) overnight, and it's only 22°F (-5.6°C) now, so there's not going to be a lot of melting. anniemal's gone out to take a stab at the walkway from the front door to the sidewalk, which I'd left for later. (I'm not expecting anybody at the front door until the post arrives Monday. I wonder where (s)he'll park the mail van, since the road hasn't been plowed wide enough for the usual parking spot? (Same for the bus stop at the other end of the block.))
I took the camera out with a tripod. Not great art, but documenting for posterity. There was a teenish-looking bunch who walked by (in the middle of the very-cold night), but they were pretty spread out and didn't seem partyish. They're just blurs in the long-exposure shots.