Nemo found us...

...and left a few feet of snow! 

So...earlier in the week, "snow" was on the extended forecast. The weather folks kept saying they were "watching it" but expected nothing major and that we should just "stay tuned". I tweeted my fav weather guy, JR, and asked him if "stay tuned" meant "we're in for it big time" - his response was "maybe..."

By Wed night they were talking accumulation of feet - not inches. By Thursday the lines at the markets were insane and they were telling us to expect a historic blizzard. Delightful! School was canceled for Friday, so after a gym session and a coffee run,  I hunkered down for the storm of the year (century?). 

The snow moved in around 10ish on Friday and slowly got harder and harder. The governor issued a travel ban and everything shut down! Late Friday afternoon, I ventured out to get some "before" shots. By Friday after dark it was coming down like CRAZY! By the time I went to bed at 10:30, we were 90 minutes away from officially being a blizzard.

Well, we easily earned ourselves a blizzard. Along with insane amounts of snow! Boston eventually wound up with 24.9 inches, Brookline got over 26 inches! It's now the 5th largest snow storm in the region!!

I was floored by the amount of snow. Because of the insane winds, there were areas where the snow measured upwards of 3 feet. Cars had become mini-white mountains and windows were plastered with snow. 

I had a lazy, lazy morning and then went out to find my car. 2 hours later and it was found (take that Nemo) and I felt like I ran a marathon!

Twitter was awesome through this and I was tweeting with my fave weather guy, JR the whole time. He knows how badly I've wanted a big storm and actually sent me a tweet (!) saying, "loving this storm?!?!?! It's YOUR storm!" - I have nothing but praise for the storm team, they spent over 48 hours in the weather center getting us through this! 

It was great to get out and walk around after it stopped snowing. People were emerging and checking out the neighborhood. Lots of snow everywhere. People were skiing places, just strolling around, and taking it all in. I even saw one guy running in shorts and a short sleeve top - only in Boston!

The best might have been the thought I had when I saw that the subway was open: sub buyers should know that any snow total measurements taken with their "12 inch" subs might not be accurate... (I know, I know...)

We still have much digging out to do. They say long range temps are supposed to be normal so this snow will be around for the next month or more. For now, I'll enjoy the leftovers from storm of the century and the blanket of white in my neck of the woods!