[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by oldE

I punched a hole up between the banks this afternoon so I could check on the MIL and Aunt (84 and 94 respectively). It was drifting back in within an hour. I've got a place just above the barn where the drifts are reaching 8'. It's not drifting deep there any more, but just above that is getting to 4' now. Usually it blows clear, but with all the snow I've blown off the driveway, there are now berms a couple of feet high on each side. Just as soon as the wind picks up the powder, it drops it between the berms.
The winds are supposed to drop by noon Thursday. I'll get things blown out properly then.

"The world must have off its axis. Too many storms, something's not right."

The way it was explained to me by a meterologist was something like this: When you have periods of deep cold over the Arctic, the polar jet is rather stable. When there is less of a temperature differential, the polar jet tends to get drawn south and then swings north again, creating a ragged sine wave over the northern hemisphere. The cold winds, going further south than normal, pick up moisture and dump it further along.
Back in November, it was Buffalo, this time it's us.
Oh joy oh bliss.
Les

It is great Les that you are able to have MIL and aunt close by and presumably not in an old folks home? You would think that the govt. would send the military to dig out folks on the East Coast....
Guy