Blizzard In The Garden or Silent Screams From Winter Hell – Snowpocalypse 2011
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Holy Cats! It is a blizzard out there. Literally! Snowpocalypse 2011 has hit the Chicago Zone 5 region hard this week and buried gardens beneath layers of ice and snow – approximately 20” so far with more expected throughout today.
Created for the sledding delight of my 10 year old is Mount Coronado. Above you see Mount Coronado pointed out with the red arrow. It is the result of our suburban city snow plows pushing snow off the cul-de-sac street and onto my garden. It takes 13 feet of snow a long time to melt. Repeat – A LONG TIME TO MELT!!
BEFORE – SUMMER VIEW:
AFTER – CURRENT VIEW:
AAAAGHHHHHH!!!!!! Can you hear my silent screams from winter hell? When will spring ever get here?
Rain Water Cistern Winter Update
Oh Boy…it's going to take a long long time for the pile of snow to melt.
This is all getting a bit old. I WANT SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Robin – YOU SAID IT!!!
SPRING I MISS YOUUUUUUUUU!!!
Shawna
Thoughts are with you Shawna. I can only imagine what you're going through because I've never experienced anything like that. Maybe SuperSowSunday and counting the days till spring will help. In the meantime, warm thougts are with you. Be safe!
Thanks Kathy – it's an adventure!! 🙂
Shawna
Shawna, with the blizzard of '67, it took till April for all the snow to melt. You could see small remainders under bushes where sun never melted it. Your mountain will take a while…but the kiddo can play on it.
Thankfully the groundhog predicted an early spring this year!
It does take a long time to melt. We still have a huge mound of snow in our front yard that has melted very little since last week. (Sigh)
I feel your pain!
On the other hand, plants are nicely insulated against the subzero windchill!
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