White Boxing Day

[altivo]

Boxing Day 2009: Dog Yard Fence
Originally uploaded by Altivo

We had rain for Christmas, just enough that we worried about flooding where the runoff was being held back by collapsed snow, so we ended up out cutting drainage routes through snow and ice around the barn. The temperature dropped right after that, and around sunset it began to snow. Tentative at first, we thought it might amount to an inch or so by morning.

Well, it picked up overnight and we got to three inches of fluffy powder by dawn. It's still coming down and has added another inch, with no sign yet of stopping. This has to be an edge effect of the major blizzard that is affecting Nebraska and the Dakotas, hundreds of miles west of us.

Here it's just pretty. The power is back on since yesterday, the predicted temperatures will hover in a manageable range of 15 to 28°F. over the next few days, and nothing is urgent until at least Monday. I suppose I could clean house but I'm more likely to read one of several books I got for Christmas.


[EDIT: As of sunset, we had accumulated somewhere between nine and ten inches of new powder over the top of the old hard frozen snow from two weeks back. It looks beautiful, but is so deep it goes above the top of my rubber boots in some places. Gary discovered that the fields out back have a lot of standing water under the blanket of snow. Once again, we are being damaged by the ruined drainage the subdivision idiots created to the north of us. And the snow is still falling here.]

Comments

[nrasser.livejournal.com]

Up in Duluth MN we got two feet + of dense, heavy snow. Truck plows will hardly move it, we got a W14 wheel loader stuck trying to clear the driveway. Had to resort to using a bulldozer, messy but effective. ^^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

That's interesting given the higher latitude. Here it's all powder, the kind skiers love, beautifully white and fluffy. Of course the wind will be blowing it across roads for days now.

Hope you had a nice Christmas in spite of the weather.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Very good photo; looks calm and serene. I'd probably spend a lot of time staring out a window instead of doing anything.

No snow here, though I just saw about nine snow flurries wafting toward the ground, before the clouds broke again.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'll bet you get something of this. It appears that our warm rain from yesterday did travel off to the east.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

So far we haven't gotten much. I came out to my car around 10:30 p.m. after a night in a coffeehouse, and there was only the lightest dusting on the flat surfaces.

I wish you could expect some redress for the drainage damage from that subdivision. It would probably take quite a few attorneys to pull it off, though. :(

[altivo.livejournal.com]

We'd have to "prove" that the subdivision caused this, and frankly, I suspect the developers are almost bankrupt. They came in, destroyed the tile system resculpting the land, put in roads and utilities, and have sold nothing. It's all empty lots.

Legal proof would be almost impossible, because the county approved the actions in advance. So they can just blame the county.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

We had a white christmas. But then it warmed up, and then froze again, which has made for some interesting ice related incidents.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes I did read about that in your journal, though I was more distracted by the notion of Rusty "taking Huskypupp out." I immediately pictured the whole leash and potty break routine. ;p

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Gad well we have to worry about flooding but at least there's no snow O.O Hey is the subdivision done by developers? There maybe a case to have someone from the county inspect.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

The county approved their plans and imposed all sorts of restrictions on what they could do. In fact, the restrictions were so severe that anyone with half a brain would have backed out, but they went ahead and did it. This was all before the real estate market crashed, of course, when banks were giving out stupidly huge loans for just about anything. In fact, most of that land was held in trust by banks and probably still is.