~Survivors of our first North Dakota Blizzard~

YAY US!  We have survived our first blizzard in the frigid North Dakota.  We got 9.2 inches on just Christmas Day.  Lucky for us, however, we are in an open enough space that all the snow floats and blows.  Even though we have so much snow, we are not feeling too much of the impact around our yard and house.  We can still see the blades and tips of the grass.  How? you may ask.  Well, all of the snow has blown into drifts.  We have a snow drift right up to our window, (probably was almost a foot or so higher than the bottom of the window), and was probably almost 4.5 feet or so.

For those of you who have seen Chloe in person or in a pic up to one of us, you know how tall she is.  Well, the snowdrift is a foot of two taller than her. 

Here is her going out to the bathroom.  Poor thing, she doesn't know what to do with all this snow!

Yesterday, after it had slowed down, my curiosity got to me and I had to go out and stand in the drifts.  We have one (I don't have a pic, but I think Mom will put some up on her blog ) that is in our field and the snow is all the way up to the fence.  Well, I kept falling into the snow and it was coming up to my hip and I could have gone deeper.

We have successfully survived our first North Dakota blizzard, and luckily the Weather Channel's website says we aren't due for any snow showerd until Sun January 3rd, and then some more on the 4th.

Let's hope that every time we get snow, it's light and fluffy and it all blows out of our yard.  The snow drift next to our sidewalk has made itself our own snow fence...litterally.

=)