So, I’m home from work because the building I work in shut down. Good thing too because I wouldn’t be able to make my way out of the damn driveway anyways. I got off at about noon yesterday and when I got into my driveway there was only about a 1/8″ layer of hail on it. Things weren’t dangerous yet. About two hours later I went out to smoke and there was so much little hail balls on every thing that it looked as though it had snowed already. By about 8pm there was a good one to three inches of hail/ice covering everything. This morning when I woke up it was about 5am and I couldn’t figure out why I had woken up. Well my neighbor across the street was trying really hard to get his car going forwards as the plows had basically build walls around it. Tires spinning, engines revving, and occasional cursing had me up in time to call works weather phone number and find out that the building was closed.

Unfortunately the guy kept me from getting any kind of solid sleep until about seven thirty when he finally gave up. The car is still there. Anyways, I got up around eleven a.m. and talked with my wife for a bit then decided to take some pictures and shovel snow. The pictures are below, but the snow shoveling was ultimately worthless even after spending about an hour with it. I kept trying to do it even though there was about an inch and a half of ice under the snow because it has been about… 5 years since I have shoveled snow and I sort of enjoyed it. The ice cracked my shovel though, it was only cheap plastic.