Our winter storms continue. This time, we had both wind and snow. We had sustained winds between 50 and 60 miles per hour. A neighbor up here has one of those home weather stations and measured gusts at 87 miles per hour. The storm claimed our power and our fence. Luckily the power came back on the next morning, but the fence will take a little longer to heal.
Below is a picture of the gate once it was rescued into our garage. It measures 9 ft by 5 ft, and was flopping around in that wind like tissue paper. The rescue mission was a little hairy at 10 PM, 18 degrees, and 60 mile per hour winds. After about 30 minutes of wrestling with the wind, snow, and wood, we were able to call it a night.
Here is a close-up of the piece that was ripped from the 6 x 6 post.
The 6 x 6 post after shedding it's pesky gate.
We had a nice even 4 or so inches of snow in our backyard. After the winds, everything was whipped up into drifts.
Every window in the house has a similar look to it. The snow was blowing around so much, that on all sides of the house, there's a few inches of snow tucked in between the window and the screen like our below sliding kitchen door.
You know it's windy when your car, inside the garage for the past week, has snow on it the next morning.
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