We were reconnected with the civilized world late Monday afternoon. For those of you that have never experienced what blowing snow can actually do, I thought I’d share this (you can click on the picture to see a larger version):

It took a road maintainer with a large v-blade about 30 minutes to cut this path. It’s only one lane wide. The drift on the left hand side is somewhere around 12-14 feet high. We only received about 3 or 4 inches of snow on Sunday, but that was more than enough for the high winds to play with.

The unsettling part of all of this is that we’re not even to the first of February yet. If 4 inches of snow and a stiff wind did this, just imagine the mess we’ll see if we get a “significant” snowstorm and a little bit of wind now that we have the ditches piled full.