I’m glad I don’t live in South Dakota…
On one of my snow posts, Chuck quoted something DH has often said …”Just remember that all you need to think about when you think you have it soooo bad you don’t always have to look to far to see that some poor schmuck always has it worse….”
That certainly hit home today. I received an E-mail from my ex brother in law and in it were 20 some pictures taken in Lead, South Dakota back on January 5th when they were hit with a major blizzard.
I’d post the pictures but I don’t know who took them so I can’t get their permission. However, picture if you will snow so deep that it makes huge snowplows look like toy trucks. Two and three story homes covered to the rooftops and people having to shovel their roofs because there’s at least six feet of snow on them.
Can you imagine looking out your windows and seeing snow packed up against them? How about opening your door to a wall of snow? YIKES! Yeah, my feelings exactly. Somehow, that makes the total of 29.9 inches for the winter so far not seem quite so bad.
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Doggonedmysteries 
I’ve been in snow like that a couple of times. Yes, it’s weird to have snow packed against your window. Even more weird when it’s packed against the door so you can’t get out.
Thanks for the reminder. I’ve been complaining about the bitter cold, but reading your post I realized it isn’t that bad.
Amen to that. I too have lived in areas where the snow was like that. I do wish I could’ve posted the pictures…Maybe if you check out Lead, South Dakota they will have the pictures posted somewhere.
Yikes that’s a lot of snow!! Another point for this area is, our temps don’t nearly reach 40 degrees BELOW zero!! I hear that’s been North Dakota’s temps as of late.
Yikes! That’s cooooold!
Wind plus snow packed the snow against the front door with no way to open it. And I was home with a young Golden Retriever who had her legs crossed.
But since she had never gone in or out the back door, she was not about to start now. So, I picked up and carried my gal who now weighed over 60 pounds, to her usual spot.
Business done, like a flash she headed for the front door and then turned to me to come and open it. She was cold!
I had to get my neighbor to help me carry her into the back door – she wasn’t going to do that again. His wife baked her some special treats to help her get over this horrendous violation of her doggie routine.
I’m afraid with these two that would be the first time they’d break their housebreaking.
I saw the pictures that were posted as from Lead, South Dakota and many were recognized as from Ontario and Quebec, Canada after the snow storm of 2006.
Another good reason for me not to post the pictures.