Record snow in Eugene!

Day two of being snowed in! Total of about 11 inches, which is said to be a record for Eugene. It all fell in less than 24 hours, beginning in the evening and continuing until near noon yesterday.

Some of us (yours truly included) had to get out in it. I went out once early morning to take garbage and recycling, had to wade through 8" of virgin snow. That part was easy. The hard part, which I hadn't thought of, was that there was also 8" of snow on top of the lids to those two big containers. I had to brush a good bit of snow off before I could get them open. Barehanded.

Then, I hiked through more virgin snow to my car where I used a brush and long-handled squeegee to get all the snow off the car, except for the top. I went out again later and removed the next 2-3" that had piled up in the interim. Also went out to my garden spot, which has a frost-gard 'tent' over the entire bed. Inside the tent are 6 baby romaine seedlings I planted last week. Over those are two layers of frost-gard kind of crumpled right over them, held up by supports. I had my doubts that these babies survived the cold, so I brushed all the snow off the tent, peeked inside and voila! those little seedlings looked happy as can be.

Looking the other way -- ruts of a big truck that brought two very nice men from our landscaping company who shoveled all the walkways and some of the handicap areas, sprinkled them with de-icer. A couple of folks have driven over it, though why anybody is out in this mess I'll never know. Our power has been on the entire time, but much of the town is apparently without power, lots of trees down, etc. And while the city/county have snow plows, it's not like what a town in some area that gets lots of snow would have. The bus system did not operate all day yesterday but I understand they are on limited 'Sunday' schedules today. Fortunately, I have enough food that I don't really need to go out, and I don't plan on moving that car until all this is g-o-n-e! I don't do ice and snow.