Blizzard of 1996

In my life, I had never seen so much snow.  Never.  We were living at Bob's parents house in Sterling Park and only a week into the new year we got hit with two feet of snow.  These photos are in the middle of the storm.  It lasted from January 6-8th and my office was closed for an entire week.  Pretty much everything was.  And as you can see in the middle shot, it was COLD.  So there was not alot of meltage for quite some time.  You can read about the storm here.

Since then, I think I've seen this much snow here at least two other times.  Something about where we live between the mountains and the ocean makes it more likely to pile up on us than it did growing up in coastal New Jersey.   I have to say, I like it.  Its an excuse to do nothing, which the older I get and the busier I get, the more I cherish.