The Great Snow of 2006

Walking in a winter wonderland...OK, the great snow storm of 2006 has come and gone here in Mid-MO. For the 2nd straight day, Tricia had the day off. With Libby being sick on Wednesday to the 2 straight snow days, Tricia's had 2-day work weeks for the last 2 weeks...I'm jealous to say the least! My University was closed today as well. It's the 3rd time in the last 30 years that we've been closed. Pretty much everything around here is closed, and if it's not closed they're opening later on today. It doesn't matter to us - we're staying in the house today.

Everything really got going around 3pm or so yesterday. It sleeted/snowed until about 9, then it changed over to all snow. Sometime in the middle of the night, we heard thunder - we got thunder-snow! They said on the news this AM that when that happened, we were getting about 3 inches per hour. Woke up this morning and it was a complete white-out!

Grand totals for our house - 14 inches of snow on the ground, with drifts of 28 inches. This is more snow than we've had in the last 2 years combined! Enjoy the picture show!

MK

The drift by our back door - you can see Earl's path out on the left



Our backyard


I'm not driving until March!


Libby and Mommy


Libby and Daddy


Libby's footprint...well, slipper print!


View of the front - Tricia's car is buried too!


Our street, looking to the west


Earl and the tree


"OK, normally I like snow, but come on guys, this is a bit much!"