Digging Out

Digging our way out of the blizzard took several days. It had snowed a few times after the initial storm on the holiday weekend and the city took much longer than normal to respond with plowing this time. The city did a great job cleaning up a heavy snowfall last month during that Thanksgiving storm and we could drive around doing errands the following Monday morning. This time there was a driving ban almost all week because of the number of stuck cars on streets throughout the city. It was very helpful for me to have Todd here this week to do a lot of the shoveling. 

The driving ban was lifted today. Katie and Todd and the kids went downtown by subway yesterday and today Todd's father dropped him off here to pick up their car and take it downtown. That was good because I was able to move our car into the regular spot in the driveway and shovel out the rest of it. 

The snow plows and loaders came down the street yesterday and did a very thorough job clearing the street. They went up and down with the plows and

loaders at least a dozen times and loaded a lot of snow on to trucks. They also dumped a lot of the snow into very big piles that covered the sidewalk in some areas. There was just too much snow to move and the main objective was to clear the streets which they did but there is still a lot of work to do.

On my way back from walking the kids over to the subway station I came down our street as the city workers were digging out the street. One of the unusual activities this time was for the loaders to clear everyone's individual driveways too. I took a few pictures of that process as i came down the street.