An update

Well, the snow stopped sometime last night, and the sun is now shining brightly. It's about 30 degrees. While it's still quite breezy, the winds do seem to have died down. Everything is covered under at least two feet of snow. I'm not sure how much fell yesterday because the winds were so fierce* blowing everything around, but I'd guess we got 6-8" here, maybe more. the drifts are as high as four feet in our neighborhood. Personally, I'm prepared to say that this is probably the snowiest Winter that I've lived through here - and the weathermen are now predicting another snowfall on Monday (!).
As you can imagine, just about everything is shut down, and I have no idea how we're going to tunnel out without the benefit of at least three 50+ degree days in a row. It's really something.


*Gusts of up to 50mph were recorded and the Manor was buffetted for hours by blows that were easily 25-35 mph - hurling chunks of ice and snow off of nearby trees and power lines against the house. We were lucky not to lose one or more windows with some of the hits we took, and luckier still that we didn't lose power, (many thousands did).