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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2561 Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: RE: Miss Cora... No they haven't! I think it's gonna be a while. That's the short answer. The first blizzard of this season began on Wednesday afternoon, and lasted all day Thursday. I was, literally frozen in my house. The back, sliding screen door was frozen shut. I could not get out that door. The front door had a three foot high drift, and since my storm door opens outward, there was no way I could get out that door either. I didn't try the garage door, because I thought that maybe there was enough snow against the door, that it would put too much of a strain on the opener, and maybe burn it out. I talked to my attached neighbor on the phone, and she was able to get out her front door. She told me not to try to open the garage door, because there was a LOT of snow up against it, and if it opened, I would have a garage full of snow. So, I was stuck inside all day Thursday. That was okay, because the winds were really strong, and even though it had almost quit snowing in the afternoon, the snow on the ground was still blowing all over. On Friday, Minda (my neighbor) dug out my front door, and I used a spoon to dig out as much ice as I could along the inside track of the sliding screen door, so finally I could open that one also. Later in the afternoon, Minda went outside again, and started working on the driveway. Her side had been blown pretty clean, the big four foot drift was across my side of the driveway. She opened up hers, and cleaned out the part of mine that was closest to the house, so if I needed to get out, I could angle around and exit on her side of the driveway. A lot of people (mostly men) were outside, clearing out their driveways, and the sidewalk close to the street. Two men, after they did their own driveways, came over and helped Minda move snow. Then - as usual - shortly after most everyone had cleaned their driveways, a city plow came along and plowed the street. You guessed it - when they cleaned out the street, they pushed lots of snow across all the driveways which had been shoveled out; including ours. Saturday morning my son and his wife and their fourteen-year-old son came over and cleaned that mess out, plus shoveled more snow off the driveway. By this time, the snow had pretty much turned to ice, so I believe I now have my very own glacier in my front yard. Later on, that same day, one of our neighbors, who had purchased a new snow-blower came over and opened up the sidewalk through that glacier, which is still across the bottom part of my side of the driveway. I'm getting pretty good at maneuvering around over to Minda's side of the driveway to get out. I am very fortunate because I have such good neighbors and family. There is no possible way that I could have moved any of that snow. My neighbors are pretty quiet; we never see them very often, but when the need was there, so were they! Since I don't bake cookies anymore, I think that I should buy some almost-homemade-ones and deliver them around the neighborhood. Deadwood, South Dakota, which is about 30 miles northwest of us, made the national news with their 45 inches of snow. And that's the long answer. And Ralph - aren't you sorry that you don't have as interesting a life as I do? Eat your heart out!  Cora Edited by Corabelle 2008-11-13 10:39 PM | ||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2540 Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: RE: Miss Cora...does it look like either one of these... GLACIERS... (reun2007-70.jpg) (reun2007-71.jpg) Attachments ----------------  reun2007-70.jpg (28KB - 622 downloads) reun2007-71.jpg (16KB - 618 downloads) | ||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2561 Location: Rapid City, SD | |||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2540 Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | |||
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