Perpetual Snowglobe - Redux (Okay...bring on spring...)

It is February 6, 2008. It is a day that many Wisconsinites will not soon forget...the snowstorm of 2008. Weather forecasters prepared us for this storm. Schools were canceled starting last evening. This morning, many more were canceled. Afternoon classes and evening classes at the UW-Madison were canceled.

I opted to stay home today. I have vacation and I have the ability to "make" up the time within in the pay period. My friend, Gail, who is an R.N. in Madison got up at 3 a.m., shoveled and left at 5:30 a.m. making it to Madison by 6:55 a.m. They let her leave about 1:00 p.m. and got home well after 4:00 p.m. She was not allowed to travel to Janesville on I-90 as it was closed. She had to take Highway 73 which was not even plowed to get home. Fortunately, she made it home. Lots of angels working overtime in WI today!!



Over 1000 motorists were stranded and Governor Doyle has just declared Rock and Dane Counties disaster areas. The National Guard has been called upon to get traffic moving. Schools are canceled already for tomorrow.

Here are a couple of photos. I have so much snow here, that I won't be able to get to the barn until spring and the snow banks are almost as tall as my 4' high fenceline. The one photo is an old doghouse that I have covering an old water pump that's not used anymore. And....the other is looking from my house out to the road. Notice the footprints (mine) going to the mailbox.



I think....that 58+ days of snow, 19 days of an inch or more of snow and 5 days of snow over 6". We will soon surpass the 1978-1979 record year of snow (76.2 inches). We have had about 70 inches so far.

As Batman and Robin would say..."holy snowfall."