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By noon on Tuesday, it became clear that we were going to get hit with a good amount of snow on Wednesday. Susan managed to rearrange her schedule so she could do her conference calls from home and we’d have a nice snow day around Newburyport. We were hoping that we’d get enough powdery white stuff to have a good snowshoe adventure at Maudslay as well.

We went to bed shortly after midnight and it had not started snowing yet. I woke up around 3am to the sound of snowplows warming up outside our bedroom window. Since we live on a US highway access road we are both blessed and cursed by snowplows. Looking at the window I saw a lot of wind and an inch or two of snow down.

By 7am when I got out of bed we were up to 8″ and by the time I got outside to shovel at 8:30 we were up to 12″ on the front walk and back yard.

About 11:30 Susan was done with her morning calls and the snow was still coming down hard. We decided it would be too difficult to dig the car out to get to the state park so we decided to strap on the snowshoes and walk around town instead. We took a walk down to Bartlett Mall, walked around the pond, back up High St. to the bike path, and back home. When we got home I shoveled one more time while Susan made me cocoa. 12:30pm as I write this and we’re over 16″ with 30″ drifts in the back yard. My best guess is one more shoveling in a few hours and I’ll be done until morning.