Snow Drifts

Thought I would add some more snow pictures. All of the following pictures are of the road just to the south of us. Our neighbor tried getting through on this road Sunday to take care of his dog and got about a quarter mile before he had to turn around. Most of the snow drifts are almost as high as Mike's Explorer.

One of many drifts the grader had to bust through.

Some of the huge drifts on this road were actually caused by long rows of round bales. I'm not sure how tall round bales are (fairly tall) and the snow drifts were almost as high as the round bale. The drifts that started after the round bales were as tall or taller than the round bales. If you look close, you can see the actual round bales causing the snow drifts.

The drift in the above picture is actually caused by a row of round bales. This snowdrift is as tall as the Explorer. Right now most of the drifts make the road one way traffic. The grader has done a great job winging back most of the snow except where the huge drifts are at. I know they worked hard to even get the roads passable.

I think this is the snowdrift that stopped the neighbor from getting to his house. He even had a plow on his truck. Of course when the drifts are larger than a vehicle it's hard to do much but turn around and head back the way you came.

This shot is actually the beginning of the road. For some reason I can't get my pictures to go in the order I want. So you pretty much just viewed all the pictures backwards. :-) This is a shot right off the state highway. The grader did a great job opening up this road. Luckily no one actually lives on this road. I don't tend to use this road very much because of the number of hills (and the number of crazy people driving). I'd also rather be on a road where if I did get stuck, a neighbor is close by.

Today's high is four degrees but the rest of the week we are supposed to be in the twenties. I can't wait for warmer weather. If it warms up enough were we can actually stand to be outside longer than a few minutes at a time, we might be able to fix the fence in the small pen. Once that fence is fixed, I can move Jimmy over. He's been here more than a month so his quaranteen time is over. I had to keep him where he's at because of the cold weather and the fact it's going to take me a half day just to dig him out. The snow is now up to the first rung of the corral panels and up to the secong rung in a couple of other spots. Maybe I'll actually get some current pics of Jimmy this weekend!