A Rush to Move Snow

I've been trying to keep up with moving snow each day this week.  Winter finally arrived here in our neck of the woods and we are finally seeing some snowfall.  

The snow this morning is deep and exceptionally heavy.  We're trying to dig out as quickly as we can because Lukey has a state championship hockey game at 1pm today.  Getting to the game depends on two things...  digging out the car...  and my health after digging out... 

I've been moving snow almost every day this week.  Most days I've had to move about four inches of mostly light snow.  Yesterday or the day before was about eight inches of snow that needed to be moved...  that is from our driveway, pathways around the house including to the oil tank and gas tank, and removing snow from the roof.  Today was clearly a minimum of 12 inches of wet heavy snow...  more in some spots, less in others.  Most important is removing the snow off the roof when it is heavy and over about six inches.  The biggest problem this morning was the two and a half feet of wet, heavy snow at the end of the driveway that the plow put there.  We can no longer see out the windows of the house.  The snow is piled over six feet high.  

I accidentally let go of the roof rake while I was on the roof and it fell into our neighbor's yard.  I climbed down the ladder and then walked around our house to the neighbor's yard...  I had to trek through knee-high and then mid-thigh-high snow to get to the roof rake.  

So we dug out the car.  As I type this blog entry, I am taking my lunchtime medications as well as some extra medications.  In a half hour, I can eat lunch.  Then I will evaluate how I'm feeling to determine if I can head to Stowe for the hockey game.  I've had great difficulty breathing each time I moved snow over the past month and a half though so...  

Oh...  I just remembered that the plow came by again since we've been out there so we'll need to dig the car out again before we can go anywhere...

POST EDIT:  We did make it to the game...  well, we saw the second and third periods...  and Lukey's team won the State Championship!  

The arena was packed and loud.  On the positive side, with so many people in the stands, it was actually warm in there today!  It was a great game and we're glad we were able to make it up to Stowe.

I'll share some photos and video another time.