It Really Snowed, and Blowed!!

Well, the weather forecasters were right, it has snowed and the wind has blown and we are completely snowed in, along with most everyone else here!  No-one is going anywhere.  It's the biggest storm we can remember since the storm of '77 when we were living in London.  And it's forecast to go on all day tomorrow too, so Merry Snowy Christmas!

My usual view out the back window wasn't much of a view today.  Our resident crane/ostrich is totally buried somewhere in the lower centre, under that four foot drift.

I tried a view from the kitchen window, raising myself up as high as possible, but the snow was five feet high there.  And now that window is almost covered.

There is a mountain of snow between our house and our neighbours.

And the drifting is just crazy.  This storm has been accompanied by high winds howling down our street, with the result that it's a pattern of deep drifts and bare pavement this morning.  Our driveway is bare for 6 or 8 feet out, but then there's a four foot drift!

And the neighbours house across the street, the snow almost reaches the top of their window, probably 7 feet!  I guess all those exaggerated descriptions of the bomb cyclone, snowpocalypse, the storm of the century, and snowmagedon were actually accurate this time!  Stay safe and enjoy Christmas Eve!