While the news reports have been full of the huge snowfalls blanketing and causing chaos down in the midwestern US states and in England. We have been sitting in the middle of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in the Interior of British Columbia with only an inch of snow on the ground. That was after the second year in a row of experiencing a very unusual Christmas with no snow at all on the ground.
Well, last night Mother Nature did try to make our surroundings look a little more like a normal winter, by giving us about 3 inches (9 cm) of snow. It was enough to encourage me to crank up the snowblower to clear my driveway. That really wasn’t done to enable us to get our vehicles up to the road, but it was done to remove the snow from our slightly sloping driveway, so that the snow wouldn’t be compacted into ice when we drive over it, which does often cause us problems.
I always like to have snow covering the ground to help insulate it, just in case we have an Arctic cold snap that could freeze our buried waterlines. Plus we also need a lot of snow to alleviate us from the drought that makes the forest fire hazard so high during the summer.
I praise Mother Nature for her effort and encourage her to keep it coming.
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