Alyice on February 23rd, 2010

Winter of 09-10

After living in South Dakota for five years, I can honestly say that I would be happy to move to a state that allowed us the opportunity to actually have a life during the winter months. We’ve spent more time indoors, dealing with cabin fever, then I ever want to do deal with again!

Sadly, South Dakota has nothing for its citizens to do during the winter months except movie theatres, shopping, and eating out. Unless, of course, you’re into bar hopping and gambling.

This winter, alone, we’ve experienced 3 blizzards, 2 ice storms, and several days where the drifts were so bad that driving was near impossible. Winter started earlier, it’s ending late, and the average temperature has been between 20 and -20 degrees—and that’s not counting the windschill factor. I guess we’re lucky though, in our neck of the woods we haven’t lost electricity—just a few flickers here and there.

Currently, our backyard has five feet of snow, making it impossible to venture into. Not only can’t we find our vegetable garden (we leave the fence up year round) but we can only see half of the clothesline.

Until next time…

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Virgnia says:
OMGosh that is a lot of snow!
Posted at 11:54 pm February 23rd, 2010
Alyice says:
You ain’t kidding! And it’s been like this since Christmas! The WalMart parking lot in Sioux Falls, SD has an area where the snow has piled to form beautiful mountainous scenes.
Posted at 1:05 am February 24th, 2010

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