Still snowing pretty hard here ten miles north of Boston. We got about a foot overnight. Current forecast is total of 18-24.
My daughter had a hockey tournament game scheduled for this morning and as it hadn't been cancelled as of 7am I was out snow blowing and shoveling in the thick of it before dawn. Team ethos, gotta show up. We actually drove fifteen miles following closely behind a phalanx of big plow trucks (what is the proper collective noun for a group of snowplows? A blizzard of plows? A shovelful of plows? A scraper of plows?) along 95 until, within a mile of the rink, we got a call telling us the game was postponed until this afternoon. Great.
Had to turn around and drive home in same conditions. Followed a state trooper at 20-30 mph back up 95. Wouldn't have gone faster anyways but I followed the old adage about never passing a trooper on the highway. One guy in a pickup tried to pass me until he saw the trooper ahead. Amazing thing is that he was freaking texting!!! as he drove past me.
Plows had cleared all but a few inches from the road surface on 95 so that wasn't a problem but visibility was poor, maybe 200 yards. Felt bad for the trooper as he didn't have anyone to follow. Luckily the snow banks were so high that you could judge the left, right and middle travel lane positions by looking sideways. I'm sure that was what the trooper was doing. Got home to see that the local plows had refilled our driveway entrance but I just blasted through as the snow is light.
All cosy at home now doing an inventory of ice dam damage from the previous storms (living room, dining room, two bedrooms, foyer so far). Just had a crew chipping ice dams yesterday and it is windy enough today that the roof isn't accumulating too much now.
Good news is that my twelve year old Craftsman snow blower starts on first pull even at 10F and I can still barely throw the snow above the banks along the sidewalk. And, the house is warm.
