The Big Snow

  I don't know if it's accurate but I've read that we just had the biggest snow since 2004. In any case, I don't remember any storm that dropped 10.5" in recent memory.

 The snowstorm arrived mid-day on Sunday, 01/05, and by the next morning at 7 am I read 8.5". It continued snowing through much of the day and dropped 2.5" more.

 Here are the pictures I took of the storm:

Mid-storm I checked the snow depth on our picnic table: 3". I didn't take my reading glasses so I placed the ruler upside down.

 Tom's car was buried in a drift.

 The north wind (never terribly strong) whipped snow into a drift on our back porch.

 You can see where I've cleaned off the end of the picnic table to I could measure new snow.

 Late in the afternoon of 01/06/24 I was napping in a recliner and woke to hearing a muffled car alarm. At first I didn't know what it was. But when I walked to the window I saw an overturned truck across the road from us at the south edge of our property.

 Someone stopped in a red truck and soon there was a large group of emergency vehicles there.

 It was a white Ford truck.

 An hour or so later a tow truck had righted the vehicle and hauled it away.

 My security cam caught the action at 4:30 pm.

 Note that the truck was facing north (left) when it stopped but traveling south (right) as it skidded to a stop. I doubt anyone was hurt. Whoever was in the vehicle must have been quickly extricated. I never saw an ambulance though I suspect there was one, maybe before I woke from my nap.

 Today (01/08) this is the view. All the snow to the left of Tom's car was shoveled by us.

 Jarred Erisman plowed out our driveway on Monday. He would have done more but I figured having Tom's car parked there would have made a real problem for him. At least we had access to the road in case of an emergency.