I'm having to double-check the calendar to make sure we're really in the 2nd half of April, because all the evidence points to February.

We had 14 inches of snow on Saturday, along with 40+ mph winds. It pretty much shut the city down that day. I rode a few miles in it just to prove to myself that I could.

I spent most of yesterday moving snow. It was an extremely wet, heavy mixture, the type of which is so heavy that if you take a full shovelful it's about all you can do to lift it, let alone throw it off the driveway. I broke out my snowblower. It's a two-stage 11hp unit. Not commercial grade, but pretty big for a consumer model. Even then I could only take about a 4" cut with each pass otherwise the chute would slush up and jam. It took two hours to clear my 40'x45' driveway.

Then I drove across town and helped manually shovel another location for 3 more hours. I could barely walk when I was finished. Drove back home to discover the plows had come down my street and packed the entrance to my driveway with a couple feet of compacted snow. Broke my snowblower trying to clear it. I'd heard the street department was having trouble as the snow was so heavy it broke a bunch of their plows as well.

This morning the roads had all been plowed (at least on my route to work) so I hopped on the winter bike. It was a brisk 17F with a 10 mph head wind. It was a good thing I had the studded tires as there would have been no way I was making it to work upright without them. While the streets had been plowed of the snow pack, there was a lot of rutted ice underneath that the plows couldn't remove. Amazingly enough, the MUP was overall in better shape than the streets, so that part of the ride was actually easier, which is backwards from normal after a snow.

Temps are supposed to top out at 33F today, so I'm not expecting much of a melt off. They're predicting 6" more snow tomorrow, so apparently spring won't arrive anytime soon.