The “Blizzard of 2009” was predicted - Saturday, December 19 -
into early morning Sunday the 20th
The following photos were take Sunday - after snow ended - before dig-out
View of the back - look at next photo for snow piled on the porch railing -
look carefully and you can see the snow atop the black trash container - nearly 2 feet
... with snow piled on the porch railing
... backyard - croquet center post measurement at over 19 inches - compare this photo
with the similar one above taken in the February 2006 snow storm
... in the front - croquet center post measure in left foreground
... croquet center post used to measure the snowfall
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Sunday morning photo - snow cover - note croquet center post measurement on the car’s boot - about 18 in. of snow
About an hour later ...
Before the dig-out ...
About an hour later ...
More photos follow - taken Sunday
View from the front - fringe tree and car - look at snow piled atop the chimney
Note the tools for dig-out - scooper shovel from our Ottawa days is never seen in these parts -
it sure makes dig-out easy - never need to lift the snow - just move it around
Final photos - taken Saturday during the snowfall - of robins waiting to eat holly tree berries
Each year the robins systematically strip the holly tree of berries - they choose the Saturday storm
Two robins in the crape myrtle just outside the window - snowflakes visible
Looking out other window - in our Blizzard of 2009
... and, the Oriental Fringe tree still has leaves on December 22 ...
Fringe tree does not like to part with it’s leaves - the snow and winds helped to dislodge many leaves, but this photo taken
Tuesday (22nd) shows that final leaf-raking will still be after New Year’s day
February 8 to 14, 2010 -- called the Blizzard of 2010 ...
Looking up the street - this is day 5 - plow has not yet cleared Ivy Street; the walks are quite clean, but
two days later we got 12 additional inches ... WOW!
... and looking down the street ... no thaw anywhere in the forecast
View of the garage - look at the roof - the next photo shows the weather vain
... that is over 2 feet of snow .. weather vain ...
Heavy snow covers the bushes ...
OK, with the new snow it was time to get out the snow shoes - back from Ottawa days ...
you can see the oval-shaped prints - and the bushes are cleared of snow ...
... more cleared bushes .. and more snow shoe prints
Look at the same in summer views — for comparison — see the following links:
- The best summer view is the large panorama that takes the viewer on a continuous view of the bushes from the northeast corner of the house to the garage — in the back — or east-most side of the garden and yard
- The azaleas and lilac on the side
- Towards the end of this page you see the fringe tree in bloom, before leaves have fallen and covered by this snow storm
- Some remarks about the two snow storms - the 2006 was a heavy, wet snow making for lots of snow on tree branches. It was also harder to “manage” and the temperatures warmed quickly so the snow began melting the next day. In contrast, in the 2009 storm the snow was light and fluffy and the temperatures stayed below freezing for nearly a week. We had a white Christmas. The 2009 storm was a classic Nor’easter, with the low moving up the coast and the counterclockwise rotation delivering large amounts of moisture to the mid-Atlantic.
Site prepared and posted on: March 25, 2006
updated: March 26 & April 5, 2006; December 24, 25, 31, 2009
updated: March and August 2010
File: www.cojeen.com/garden/panor/snow.htm
