So, I am catching up on my daily blog of snow melting. Is it an interesting thing to do or do you feel like it is watching paint dry? This is only the 6th daily blog since I started the process and I think it has really begun to melt away and allow for our spring to begin. Today was in the '50s and tomorrow promises to reach the 60-degree level. I may have to break out my shorts!
These pictures were taken twice today. The first time I did not realize that the SD card was still plugged in my computer. So these are the second set, taken around 2:45 PM ADT.
Today I took 5 pictures. This one is toward my front door. The step tunnel is shrinking. The steps are no longer covered with snowpack, although down on the stone steps there are still some icy areas along the outside edges.
This is straight out the driveway. The bare spots on the asphalt are becoming larger. During the day, if a car comes in and out, it is helping to break up the hard-packed snow. I only have about a tad less than 2 weeks before my studded tires are required to come off. My subdivision has had the hard-pack removed, so those roads are back to asphalt and all of the main roads outside have gotten back down to the asphalt, so when my driveway is no longer ice, the tires can come off.
This is one of the extra shots You can get a better view of the melting going on.
This looks past the second garage door. The mounds of melting snow are melting nicely in the sunshine which is actually producing heat now. It does not always do that when the angle is so close to our horizon.
This is a close-up of the pumping setup. The little yellow thing is the "Water Bug" pump. The intake is on the bottom. You can add a hose either to the top (where our hose is connected) or the side near the bottom. Rob tells me the entire pump can be submerged. He has dug a small hole underneath the pump so the floating grass and debris do not clog the intake area. It is really doing a nice job of keeping the melting water at bay, otherwise, the water would be all along the front of the garage pushing inside and the outside corner would have water all long the storage shelves and anything underneath the shelves on the garage floor would be wet. No good for the long-term health of the garage.
See you again tomorrow!!!
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