Is that a deer?

I just happened to take a pic from my shop's back door (2nd floor) this morning too.

Dave:

Yes, that was a deer. Actually there were 3 of them but couldn't get them in one picture.

Isn't paradise wonderful. Looks like you have ski slopes out your back door.

So that's what paradise looks like. We were supposed to wake up to fresh snow on Tuesday morning. Nothing. It was so dissapointing.

We have learned that a blamket of snow is a great thing in winter. We have maybe 5" of snow on the ground. I came into the office on Monday morning about 5 AM. I checked my e-mail and did a little internet work. Being about 3/4 asleep, I decided it was time for a cup of coffee. I pushed back from my desk and saw these great big footprints coming from the stairs over to my desk. I thought, Uh OH, I've tracked something through the office and the Laser Queen was going to kill me. So I walked back to the stairs to see what I might have stepped in. Nothing on the stairs. So I turned around and saw another set of tracks following me to the stairs. ???? So I made one more lap and suddenly it hit me, I was squishing my way through the office. 2" to 3" of water covering most of the office. Turns out a water pipe run aloong the top of a block wall had ruptured. (I am hesitant to say the pipe froze and ruptured, because the adjustor doesn't show up until tomorrow morning.) So it has been quite a week. We got to keep the desks in place, but everything else is gutted. The computers are still on, except when the 8 big blowers happen to kick out the breakers and the PC's shut down. If any of you have called, and we haven't answered the phone, please accept ourt appologies. We can't hear the phone ring most of the time, since the blowers are so loud. I'll bet we are the only office with a wind chill factor. -6 degrees this morning and a good 20 mph wind blowing around. I wish we were headed to Vegas today. :O)

Dave,

You guys up there are getting hammered almost everyday!!I've been watching it on the news down here. We got 4 inches of SLEET! Needless to say, people can't drive a little bit! Were you shoveling your roof off?

I'm further south than the really heavy stuff. Up north of Syracuse in Parish and Oswego they've had 10-12 feet. I'm in Owego (as opposed to Oswego) and we've only had a couple of feet of the white stuff. When it all hits at once, like yesterday, everything stops for a day. Pretty much back to normal today.

My house is an old one, and the roof has a very sharp angle so the snow just falls off.

I was down in Washington DC one March in the 90s and they got about 1 inch of snow and shut the city down in a panic. I ended up stuck down there for an extra day, not because the plane couldn't take off from there, but because we'd had a few feet of snow up here and the plane wouldn't have been able to land once it got back up here.

Not exactly out the back door of my shop, but you get the idea.

Now if you will excuse me while I duck behind my desk... (insert laugh here)