After the cold, snow

"The poor tell us who we are, and the prophets tell us who we could be.  So we hide the poor and kill the prophets." - Philip Berrigan

 The rather long cold snap has now passed.  Shortly after the temperatures rose to about 10 degrees F (-12C) the weather immediately turned to heavy snow.  Not a big deal around here, but you have to keep up with it.  I'll take snow over bitter cold any day.  I'll take rain over snow, because you don't have to shovel rain :)  

Because it was so cold when the snow came, the snow was fine and had a tendency to blow around in the wind instead of staying put on the ground.  Also the toilet water supply thawed out again.  Happy Day!  Anyway, some pictures...

  Below:  The parking lot at work about 6 hours after I parked the Subaru.  Yes it's under there, and the snow drifts are about up to the door.

Driving home after work.  There's a panel truck not far ahead, blowing so much snow that at times it could not even be seen.  Every time a car came from the other direction, there was no visibility for a few seconds.

 Below:  A guy in the median who apparently lost control and ended up in deeeeeep snow.  Nice shovel!

 Yup, had to plow as soon as I got home.  Again.  LOL.

 

The snow was deep enough that the belly of the car was scraping it.

My neighbor across the street is an older retired guy - a really cool dude.  He does snow removal with a snow blower, but when you have as much driveway as he has, it takes quite a while.  He often has it done before I get home, but this time he was right in the middle of it, so I made a few passes and opened up his driveway a bit, and plowed a path to his shop out behind his house.

Before I was finished, he came out with a red solo cup half full of peppermint schnapps - I suppose that's what he usually does before going outside to blow snow.  If you have ever been in a plow truck, you know it's a pretty bumpy affair, and you don't want a cup full of liquor in the cup holder - it will splash all over the place.  So I downed it and kept plowing - a true Idaho redneck.  I wasn't driving down a public road, so the only things in any danger were a few trees.

On the work front, we've begun re-lighting the entire facility with harsh 5K LED bulbs.  I'm going to miss the nice orangey glow of High Pressure Sodium bulbs, but won't miss replacing the bulbs when they begin to blink on and off.

Below:  The furthest fixtures have been replaced.

Now it looks like someone is arc welding up in the high bay.