It's a Winter Wonderland!

Jess & I were closely monitoring the first major winter storm for Boone - and the ENTIRE state of Iowa, for that matter, on Tuesday night. We were anticipating 10-15 inches of snow, 40-ish mile an hour winds the next day. So at 10:15 pm, we decided to step outside to measure the damage up to that point.

We opened the front door and saw the snow piled up on top of our garbage can.

Using the ruler method we saw on the news, our front step had about 5 inches of snow at that point.

Jess and her boots braved the measuring of our sidewalk.

It measured about 7-8 inches.Our landlord's son had come sometime earlier in the day to plow out our driveway as best he could, so it had only accumulated about 3 more inches.

The drift by our mailbox measured about 11 inches.

Our neighbor Rose (who lives downstairs) had not done any shoveling yet, so her step had about 9 inches or so.

My car didn't get much more covered than what you see here - the drifts accumulated with about 1-2 feet away from my car, so it wasn't too hard to shovel her out in the morning. The right side you see here had about 1-2 feet just piled against the side of the car, but the top wasn't too bad.

Jess & I outside braving one of the worst storms in 20 years (according to the NOAA).

Heading back into the house.