So much for a "mild" winter

[Bob Schroeck]

These first three were shot through two adjacent windows before I actually got outside, and show most of what things looked like right at the entrance of our house:



What I couldn't see from this angle is that there was a wind-built wall of snow just about as tall as the car stretching from the rear driver side fender off into the yard.
Okay, a shot of the garage entrance from the inside after I opened the door (and did a little shoveling):

The wall of snow here stretched all the way across the door.  Oh, and those windows are the ones the earlier shots were taken through.
Slightly higher angle, showing the wall right across the entrance of the house.  It was partly built by snow falling off the roof -- which happened at least twice that I know of during the middle of the storm yesterday.  At its highest point, that wall came up to about my shoulder.

And finally a shot down the driveway showing the extent of the wall.  I should have shot the other side of the car, but frankly, my fingers were freezing from operating my cell phone at that point.

Average accumulation in our yard is hard to determine, but the driveway ranged everywhere from about six inches near the car to a foot and a half or more closer to the street.  (And of course I gave the dimensions of the plow wall above.)  My snowthrower has trouble with more than a foot of snow, so sadly I only made use of it for about half the driveway and had to do the rest of it all by hand.
Oh, the white house across the street on the left?  Guy with gas-powered super-snow-blower.  He was done in less than two hours, complete with sidewalks.  Grrrrrrr.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.