Actually, the picture is deceptive. It's taken from the office window, which is on the second floor and overlooks the roof of the back room addition. The snow is not, in fact, piled up to the top railing of any decks.
It looks to me, as I glance out the same window, like we have about 10 or 12 centimetres - 4 or 5 inches. It's very blustery, though, and it's hard, cold snow. So, while it may be 4 inches in a sheltered corner of my backyard, it will be more like two feet in a wide-open corner of the school yard across the street as the wind sculpts it into drifts.
Seriously, I would rather live in a place where I get snowed in once or twice per winter than live in a place where hurricanes turning houses into kindling was not uncommon. It's all relative, right? If this storm had happened yesterday, I'd have gotten a day off out of it, with pay. Not bad, really.
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It looks to me, as I glance out the same window, like we have about 10 or 12 centimetres - 4 or 5 inches. It's very blustery, though, and it's hard, cold snow. So, while it may be 4 inches in a sheltered corner of my backyard, it will be more like two feet in a wide-open corner of the school yard across the street as the wind sculpts it into drifts.
Seriously, I would rather live in a place where I get snowed in once or twice per winter than live in a place where hurricanes turning houses into kindling was not uncommon. It's all relative, right? If this storm had happened yesterday, I'd have gotten a day off out of it, with pay. Not bad, really.