A view from our side deck of the igloo we built at the neighbour's place yesterday:
A close up of the igloo:
The wind lip of snow built up overhanging the gutter. It's nearly a foot deep, which makes you a bit careful when you step out the front door as if you slammed the front door too hard you might end up with a bucket load of snow on your head. We've cleared it off with the rake 3 or 4 times in the last couple of days but this is what has built up again since last night. The house 2 doors along has lost it's gutter - it's sagged about half a metre and he's propping it up with long bits of timber. Possibly a bit late for that!
The vege garden. Nothing planted as yet.... Thankfully some good hardy snow tussocks
The driveway this morning. It was cleared of snow yesterday, so the 10cm on it now is from overnight.
And the down side of all the snow - shovelling!
We have between 30 and 60cm of snow right around the house. Although we've been clearing paths, there will be a good day or two's shovelling to go yet clearing the drive etc. It's warmed up a bit this morning to a tropical 3 degrees which is helping to melt a bit of the snow, but as we speak another wall of black is approaching from Kingston so we don't think it's quite over yet. On the bright side, we haven't lost power or phone and still have heaps of food for us and Burton. The roads are nearly clear now (Graded to only 2-3 cm deep, but that's sheet ice so chains are necessary) - council have been doing a fantastic job. We can get out to the supermarket and the gas station... both of which are running out of supplies very quickly due to panic buying.
We're delighted to hear there has been snow in Auckland too - must be pretty exciting!
