Spring Blizzard

I seem to have gotten out of the habit of posting to the blog. There were a couple glitches with my phone service last month which helped knock me off my routine.

We are having a warm blizzard right now - lots of snow and extreme winds, but the warm temperature means the wind chills are only in the 20 to 30 below zero fahrenheit range. The highway has been closed and will probably remain closed all night.

The doghouses are getting filled with snow as the wind swirls around them and blows the snow in from every conceivable angle. Some of the dogs hold their ground and thus maintain at least a dog-sized space in their house. Others exit their houses which then rapidly fill up completely with hard, wind-packed snow.

Sometimes a drift will form so fast that a doghouse will be buried before the inside has a chance to be filled with snow. The dogs in that situation will always exit their houses and sleep in the snow. I rescued several buried houses today. One of them took me a while to find because it was a full foot underneath the snow. That means that the snow had risen three feet in that spot since yesterday. If the wind quits tomorrow, I will start shoveling snow out of fifty houses and putting in fresh straw.