Still Deep Snow and Cold

I took this photo from our bedroom window this evening. The heavy snow that covered Buffalo in the storm last week is still out there and still very deep. It's been very cold in the single digits with the highs in the low teens all week. Tomorrow may be a balmy 28 degrees.

The driveway was shoveled the day after the snowstorm and right before we arrived home from our Philadelphia trip. We were very grateful that we could pull into our driveway but it was so narrow that we could barely get out of the car because of the high snow banks on either side of the driveway. I needed to spend some time shoveling the driveway wide enough so that we could get our luggage out of the car and into the house. Despite that I was very grateful that our neighbors cleared the driveway enough that we could get in there and not need to park on the street first where there were many cars stuck and no plows had gone by yet.

I've been out working on the snow pack every day. Widening our driveway, chopping ice, shoveling a path to the backyard and trash bins and spreading salt where needed. We do have one very large icicle on the house over our side door walkway and I need to constantly throw salt down there below it where there has been some melt and refreezing.

So it looks like we will have mounds of snow for months barring some amazingly high temperatures and deep thaw. Right now we have an old school Buffalo ice pack.