You Know There's Too Much Snow....

...when even snow plows get stuck in the snow! Well, it probably wouldn't have gotten stuck if the driver had obeyed the traffic sign. But apparently, this one read my previous post about snow plows always pushing snow to the same side of the street, so he decided he's going to go the wrong way on a one way street.

Bad decision! He couldn't make it up the incline at the end, and the wheels started spinning around. He probably would've made it through just fine if he had just come down the other way and allowed gravity to do the work.

So now, all the men in the neighborhood are trying to shovel him out. There was even another plow that came and tried to push him up the hill, but that didn't seem to work either. I just hope he's not going to back into that pole right behind him. Because if he does, it's coming straight down on our house!

Snow!

Although we definitely didn't get as much as Washington D.C., we did get about a foot of snow here in Staten Island yesterday. My son wanted to shovel the snow from the moment he woke up, so after a quick breakfast, we headed out.

At that point, the snow still wasn't that bad. We had maybe 2 inches or so, and we shoveled our sidewalk as well as our neighbors' on either side. (Mainly because I couldn't get my son to go back into the house.) Then, it started snowing more, and more, and it never really stopped until almost midnight. Thankfully, my husband came home early, so I didn't have to go back out there again, but he had to shovel 3 times during the evening hours!

But we're actually lucky compared to our neighbors across the street. We live on a narrow one way street, so when the plow comes through, they always push the snow to the opposite side of the street. I swear, their snow piles are always twice as tall as ours! You don't really think about things like that when you are buying a house, but it does make a HUGE difference!

By the way, the footprints in the photo are mine, not my son's. That's right, I have hearts on the bottom of my boots! I'm only 4'10", so I wear size 2 shoes. I try to find as "adult-looking" shoes as possible, but sometimes, my footprints give away my secret :)

Oh well. At least I got to take an appropriate picture for Valentine's week!