January and Febrary 2012

Since we are breaking a record of over 132 inches of snow this winter, I had to share some pictures with you. :-) We have done a LOT of shoveling. The city has done a pretty good job of keeping the roads half way cleared. There was a time in February that MOST streets were down to one lane. It was VERY difficult and kind of scary to drive in the neighborhood for a while. It's kind of fun to watch the big road graters and the Big front end loader with a HUGE Snow auger on it, that blows the snow into big trucks that haul the snow away. The auger is about the size of a car. The areas where the big dump trucks are dumping the
snow, are all full and they have asked businesses with spare land to let them dump the snow on them.

 
This pile of snow was removed twice this year.
This was taken right near our house in January.

We had weeks of very cold this winter also. There are parts of Alaska that were a LOT colder than Anchorage, but...

Isn't this beautiful!! This is our view out our front window. This poor tree, it's a wonder any of the trees or plants come back after such long winters. I'm sure it will be mid May before it's all gone. I'll have to see how close I am to guessing when it's all gone. We'll see...