Season's First Big Snow Storm

No, it's not currently snowing in ND (well, maybe somewhere but not in our area). This is actually old news. A week before we left to go on vacation, ND had its first big snow storm of the season. I meant to post this earlier but was waiting until I uploaded a picture of me shoveling the snow outside our house. We had about 8" over the period of around 36 hours. Because the temperature was still around freezing it was a wet, heavy snow that made it difficult to shovel. It took my wife and I about an hour to shovel our driveway. The main highway running between Bismarck and Minot (US-83) was completely shut down for a day and Interstate 94 was closed east of Bismarck and travel was discouraged on it to the west. Schools in the Bismarck area (including Underwood) were closed on that Friday, in some cases for the first time in a decade! This was the most snow that western North Dakota has received at one time since we've been here. Hopefully this isn't the start of a pattern!

By God's Grace, Jeff