Snow on the deck

[Mike Buckley]

I realize a lot of people participating in the forum experience this kind of scene on a regular basis. However, this much snow and blizzard conditions in the Washington, D.C. area is very much a rarity. The scene is my deck.

Edit: For those of you who remember a color image, you are correct that I changed it to black-and-white.

[Wavelength]

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Man, you guys are really getting pounded aren't you.
Too bad you can't ship it out west, we could use the moisture.

[Shadowman]

Must be enjoyable as well as frustrating times. Nice capture.

[rachel]

Having seen and heard so much about this on the news it's nice to see some real pictures. Stay warm!

[Ziggy]

We where right on the edge of this storm and only got about three inches. 30 miles south of us and beyond it was a different story.

Stay safe.

[rtbaum]

Wanna borrow my snowblower?

[Mike Buckley]

I changed the image to black-and-white. I was so so tired from shoveling snow that I didn't use my normal thought processes before releasing the shutter. I realized hours later that I should have known this scene "needs" to be presented in monochrome.

The record here is 28 inches and is about 90 years old. We still have bout one-third of the storm to go, so it's possible that we'll break the record.

Must be enjoyable

Seeing your comment made me cuss at you under my breath. That's because at the time that I took the photo, my estimate is that we had received 20 inches of snow and that I had shoveled 28 inches of it. (The blizzard winds blow old snow from other areas onto the new snow in the areas that I have to shovel.) I have shoveled my driveway and sidewalk four times and have at least two more times to go.

Even so, I got back to liking you again when I had an experience I thought I would never have: I experienced complete whiteout. I stood in the middle of my block, which is a normal length for American suburbia, and could not see the houses at either end of the street. I was ending a 40-minute walk, some of it in snow up to my knees and all of it in a howling wind with a wind chill of about 0 degrees Fahrenheit, and my tiredness enhanced the experience. I love new experiences and it was really amazing to wonder what a true whiteout in the wilderness is like with no landmarks such as the houses in my neighborhood to provide bearings.

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Mike, a true white out is when the fog is so thick you can't see the ground four feet in front of you.

[Mike Buckley]

I definitely don't need to experience that, Alan. However, if Wikipedia is correct, a whiteout is induced only by snow or sand, not fog.

[Steaphany]

I grew up on Long Island ( New York ) and one year when I was about 10, I was asked what I wanted for my birthday and my reply was Enough snow for school to be closed for a week !

It snowed, just as it's doing now, I had school closed for a week, and I had to shovel the walkway and drive way with a shovel, not even a snow blower

Now I hate snow

[DEAN01]

Mike, very nice conversion. Stuff like this is why I live in south Texas . Stay safe and warm!

[Mike Buckley]

Wanna borrow my snowblower?

Nope. I wanna borrow the snowblower and the snowblower operator.

[Rob Ekins]

Yikes!

[John 2]

Stay safe Mike. That sounds like a lot of work and not a load of fun. It could be worse. Apparently some of your seaboard areas are suffering high tides and floods as well. The prediction for us in the UK this evening is that the storm will cross the Atlantic over the next few days but will warm up as it travels. We are being warned that when it gets here we are in for another dose of heavy rain. Fingers crossed it doesn't hit and flood the areas that suffered over Christmas and the New Year period.

[Rita]

As nice as snow can look I say give the shovel a rest, and, hunker down in front of the fire with a bottle of wine

[NorthernFocus]

Wow, that's a bunch of snow, Mike. More than we have here at present.

[rtbaum]

Nope. I wanna borrow the snowblower and the snowblower operator.

Strange.....My brother in Md had a similar request. Alas, it won't fit the carry-on.

[Mike Buckley]

A couple people have explicitly asked that I stay safe. Such nice thoughts...and I'm complying with them!

hunker down in front of the fire with a bottle of wine

I began taking care of the bottle of wine awhile ago. I'll comply with the other part later this evening.

[TonyW]

Wow, that's a bunch of snow, Mike. More than we have here at present.

More than we have here too, as we suffer from 30+ Celcius temperatures. It sounds nice and cosy sitting inside a warm house with a glass of wine.

I did experience something like that in Canada once. We had to climb out a high window because the the snow had piled up against the screen door which opened outwards.

By the way, it is a nice picture.