Digging out from the Blizzard of '07

The storm of the century hit Vermont on Wednesday -- dumping down somewhere around 30" of snow at our house (by my perhaps less than scientific measurement). An absolutely crazy amount of snow -- I think Sugarbush reported 48" at the summit! The only bummer is that we were pretty much too snowed in to get out and ski it on Wednesday, however, we did manage to make a couple of turns yesterday afternoon at Smuggs, which was awesome. So much drifted powder that I actually got myself stuck for a few minutes just trying to traverse between trails! It's tough to explain to your manager that you need a snow day when you work at home, but I did my best and he was very cool with letting me out. I do have to work today though, despite the fact that Lauren is out with the girls tearing up the powder on the Castlerock chair at Sugarbush. Jealous!

So far, I think we've snowblowed (snowblown? snowblew?) the driveway 4 times since Wednesday, and I just went out to find that there is probably another 6" that's fallen/drifted since yesterday. It's all good with me, though -- I'll take another storm just like it tomorrow.

Here are a couple of pictures I took this morning:

It's hard to really show how deep it is, but take a look at the roof of our shed... remember that is after 24 fairly windy hours, too. I'm hoping there is nothing in the shed we'll need before April.

This is really the best of living in Vermont -- everyone who can is out enjoying a big ski/snowboard/snowshoe day. As I told some co-workers from Austin, TX yesterday, what others call a 'state of emergency' we just call a 'powder day'. :-)