Digging Out?

A group of neighbors dug out cars.

Well, not exactly.  There seems to be a few glitches in the system this time.  Although the first Snow Emergency started at 8:00 PM on Saturday night, and the second Snow Emergency on Sunday night at 9:00 PM, my street has yet to be plowed.  We got ALL the cars off the street by 8:00 AM Sunday as required, but the plows never showed up.  Not sure what's happening now.  Managing 16-20 inches of snow is difficult in densely populated cities,  but something went wrong here.

Because I wanted to put lights on the Christmas tree last night, I ventured out yesterday afternoon to look for a string of LED lights.  Traffic on the majors streets was moving just fine and the shopping centers were crowded.  It's tough to keep Minnesotans down - what's a little snow?  Clearing the residential streets seems to be one of several majors issues though, and schools are closed in both Minneapolis & St. Paul because the school buses are not operating as they can't negotiated many of the streets.  The other major issue is the collapse of the Metrodome.  I suppose the stadium debate will really heat up now.

Mariah finds the snow a bit deep!

The dogs are managing the weather and even got (very short) walks yesterday.  While the snow was coming down so hard on Saturday, we kept a path shoveled to the dog yard, so Mariah could manage the snow which ended up being over her head.  Argus has packed paths in the yard and is not bothered by the weather, but poor Josie finds it very unpleasant.  Like the late Sidney, she really seems to feel the cold more than the others.

They just reported that we have now had 34.6 inches of snow for the season, 60% of our normal snowfall.  And winter hasn't even begun.  Oh my.