I want summer! LOL
It's beautiful though...thought I'd share....







YAY!
LOL
Thank God for my neighbor with a snow blower who helped us..I was still out there for 2 hours!!!

More!







And my kitties cause I'm bored!

Awesome pics Laura!!! I'm gonna show them to my Southern friends cuz they will NOT believe how much snow that we got!! Yes, it's pretty but I am SOOOO readdy for summer now. LOL

Wow, that's crazy. My husband is in Quebec and he was telling me that they just got a ton of snow.... All I've had to deal with here in Maryland is rain for the past few days, but i'll take that over snow any day!

Cute kitties BTW

Were up in RI chilling--lots of rain here yesterday, but no snow!!!! I guess back in VA it was hailing!!!

so weird!!!!
It was snowing like mad and then thundering and lightning at the same time in some places...isn't that odd??
I pray this is the last of it!!! LOL

I have never seen that type of storm (snow and tunder).

Beautiful pictures, mede me feel like having a hot chocolate...

I can't wait for spring flowers....

Thank you for showing me what I am NOT missing (VBG)!. I had 49 years of snow like that - ok a few years it wasn't quite that bad - and I used up my life's quota. I am so happy not to have snow and get maybe a few flurries swirling around in the morning that don't stay because the ground is too warm. It is Spring here and I am a Canadian happily transplanted to the Deep - and snow free - South!

Yes the snow thunder/lightning thing is weird. I had never seen it before either, until this winter (or maybe last), I saw some lightning and I'm thinking - what!

Those pics remind of the great snow down of - hmm have forgotten what year it was - here in Calgary - St. Patrick's day. I got my shovel out and I think I was out there 5 minutes before I decided it could take care of itself.

On the other hand, it's beautiful here in Calgary - it is spring - -2 right now, but a high of plus 12 today, sunny

I just keep telling myself that this will be my lastttt winter here (if the process goes as expected with no problems!)

Yup, we had the weird mix of snow, thunder and lightning! First time I have everrrrrrrr experienced that. I really hope spring somes soon!

Holy shite. That's one thing I do not miss I tell you. No no no
It looks beautiful, but takes away all my charm and glamour, and that's just effing wrong

Wow. Those pictures are beautiful. Thank you.

Shoveling it was a b!tch!!!!!



Glad you liked them hon!

It's beautiful from a distance............a LONG distance.......keep it there!

Come on Spring!!!!!

I was just talking to my sister in Canada and she says there more snow then shes ever seen! Its nice here in Colorado in the mid 50s in the back yard and no snow !

Jesus, WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

I always thought that was my job.

Tell me about it. If it snows any more, Mumsie might just get a bit perturbed. More kitties' pics please!!!!!

Wow Laura, is that a lot of SNOW! Thanks for sharing! You mentioned if your friend hadn't a snowblower it would have taken you 2 hours to shovel?? What...are you robotic or something?? A week before I left in January 2007 we had a huge storm... a lot more snow than what you can see in your pictures, but it took my girlfriend and I ALL day to shovel!!

Going to be 63 here today...

I'm a robot! WOOT! I did have help from my parents though so it's not just me!

Just wait till April and May when we get our Winter season here in Colorado.

Anyways we had the lightning/snow just the other week. I remember getting those in Windsor and in Guelph growing up. Usually see it once or twice in the winter time, but haven't experienced a Thunder Snow shower for years though until a few weeks ago...

I've been in Kitchener/Waterloo area this winter. I have NEVER seen snow like this. I grew up on the Gulf Coast, and then moved to Pittsburgh in 05', so I'm used to a bit of snow, but nothing like this storm! We've visited Ottawa a few times, so I've seen it on the ground like this, but never had to deal with it! I feel bad for my fiance's 85 year old grandparents in Ottawa-as of yesterday evening, the snow plows still hadn't been through-and they got about 55cm's of snow.

Not being able to open your car door because the snow is too high-no fun.

I've never had to shovel before-until yesterday!

I absolutely love the snow-and will miss it terribly when we move down to the Coast & start getting those tropical breezes.

I don't know how I did it, but I think I brought the winter up here with me this year! As a US resident marrying a Canadian, who has actually made it through an entire winter in Canada-doesn't that make me an honorary Canadian or something?





Before it got bad:




And, I uploaded a couple of vid's on Youtube from the cleanup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06mJ8A2rmco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcC2yLdxxHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLE6CJ23Bb8

Yep - surviving one Canadian winter - especially a good old fashioned winter like this one - qualifies you as an honourary Canadian! (note the spelling, of course! VBG)


My Dad sent me the following - thought you would all appreciate it:

BLESSED CANADA

On the sixth day God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said: "Today I am going to create a land called Canada It will be a land of outstanding natural beauty. It shall have tall majestic mountains full of mountain goats, and eagles, beautiful sparkling lakes bountiful with bass and trout, forests full of elk and moose, high cliffs over-looking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea life, and rivers stocked with salmon."


God continued, "I shall make the land rich in resources so as to make the inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Canadians, and they shall be known as the most friendly people on the earth."


"But Lord," asked Gabriel "don't you think you are being too generous to these Canadians?"
"Not really," replied God "just wait and see the winters I am going to give them!"


So now you know!

(btw - those photographs look a lot like what Winter was like while I was growing up!)

I knew it. I guess now that you've become self-aware how long before skynet blows up humanity. Oh wait, it's running Windows, so no hurry.

My modus operandi with snow is to wait until it melts unless I really need to go somewhere and the weather forecast doesn't call for thawing of the permafrost . Then I will clear the 7ft. snow drift the considerate snowplow operator has left me (it's happened a few times this winter). Just 'lil ol' me and my shovel.

Wow! It "thunder snowed" here this weekend... it was the most snow I've ever seen in my life (only about a foot) lol
But hey, I grew up in sunny so cal. hee hee I had only been in snow twice before I moved here (and that was in the mountains on field trips)
It rarely REALLY snows here in Kentucky. this snow came after a 65-70 degree day . I wonder why people stay sick here in the winter? lol
Thanks for the pics