Crazy Nova Scotia Weather

I thought I should probably clarify as to how the roads were magically clear today when yesterday I was worried about there being too much snow to bring my car home.

Crazy Nova Scotia weather. That's how.

It did snow about 4+ inches yesterday between 10am and about 4pm. Light snow though, so I went out right at 5:00 and shovelled it all out of the driveway... especially since my car was gone all day....I was worried it might freeze and then I wouldn't be able to get my car back into it's spot today.

The forecast had called for ice pellets and rain for the evening. Well, I never saw any ice pellets, but good Christ! Once it started to rain it never stopped. And then it got heavier and heavier. And then the wind started. Amazing, crazy, blustery, hard, fast wind. House rattling style!

I went to bed at midnight and was awake for probably 2 hours because the weather was sooooo loud. That huge window in our bedroom was vibrating and rattling the blinds. It sounded like the roof was going to pull right off. I kept having visions of laying there in bed and just having the whole roof tear right off, leaving me and the cat there in bed getting rained on. This tall house of ours really sways in the wind and last night was the worst yet. I finally fell asleep, but it took a long time.

The benefit to the whole thing was that it washed away more than a weeks worth of snow. The five foot pile of snow in my front yard has been reduced to two feet. The back deck is cleared completely. DBF's car is no longer buried under 8 inches of snow, and actually looks clean from nature's power wash. Even our driveway was pretty much washed clean.

Now, as long as it doesn't freeze, this should be good for at least a few days!