Darkness falls, and so does the snow

I'm pretty sure we're over 3 feet at the point these pictures are taken -- about 5 pm. People were out shoveling:

But Jeb the Wonder Dog needed to excrete:

While Jeb was about his business -- maybe -- I tried to get some perspective on the mountains of snow in front of my house:

Jeb the Wonder Dog is less of a snow weenie when some shoveling has been done:

Unassisted by shoveling cast-offs, the snow was up to the windows as one of my neighbors:

Jeb the Wonder Dog is, of course, not the only dog in the house that needs to excrete. Sadie the Auxiliary Back-Up Dog also has needs. She likes snow even less that JTWD:

She peed as quickly as possible and headed for the door:

My last check, at about 9 pm, indicated snow had stopped falling. It might just be a pause. We'll see if the Tsnow-nami is over. And how long it takes the area to recover.

2 pm and Tsnow-nami continues to try and kill us

I've never seen anything like this. I've always lived in the South -- this is as far north as I have ever lived -- but this is astounding. I realize many parts of the country get this kind of thing routinely, but this isn't one of them. This storm is a record-setter for this area. We're at about 3 feet of snow, and it is still coming down. These pictures are from about 2 pm -- probably 6 inches ago. Here, we have Jeb the Wonder Dog allowing me to break trail so that he can go drop a deuce:

Eventually, he had to go find his own spot. It was hilarious to watch him bounding through unbroken snow:

I think he eventually found a spot underneath a pine tree where the snow wasn't up to his asshole. On the way back, I marveled at how high snow was piling up on our neighbor's dormers:

It is still coming down, of course, but it's now dark. I still have a set of photos to post from about 4 pm. Stay tuned. Power still on, satellite still works. Life is good.

The kitties wanted in on the Tsnow-nami action

Who could deny them, after all? Sure, Mischief wanted to go out. Who wouldn't?

Murder joined her outside, while Mayhem stayed nice and toasty inside. Murder and Mischief apparently wanted to help clear the porch. Or something:

Even so, I think the cold proved to be too much. Mischief led the charge to get back in the house. You can see an amused Mayhem looking out through the glass, refusing to let Mischief in:

Saturday came, and with it, white death

The Tsnow-nami is for real. No shit, today at about 8 am, I had to shovel the porch and part of the walk just so I could open the door and give the dogs a place to pee. First thing in the morning, this was already one of the biggest snowstorms we're ever had in my 20 years of living in the DC area. Here's the view looking to the right from my front door at 9 am:

Moving down the sidewalk a bit and looking left:

At about noon, Mrs. Wolves took Jeb the Wonder Dog out. On the way out, he followed in her footsteps, letting her break the trail. On the way back, the snow weenie bolted ahead of her, using the trail already created to get his wimpy ass out of the snow:

Mrs. Wolves soldiered on behind him:

Yeah, I shoveled again:

But by the time I got around to taking a picture from the end of the walk looking toward the house, the walk was already covered in snow again:

Looking left (east):

And right (west):

More or less straight from the doorway (south):

Yes, still coming down, and expected to until tomorrow morning. Please, God, let the power stay on.