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On February 15-18, 2003 -- President's Day weekend -- it snowed. And snowed. And SNOWED! The storm system broke records here in Maryland, dropping 28.2 inches of white stuff on us between Friday night and Tuesday morning.

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flyaway > There are cars under there somewhere.

flyaway > Our red Toyota and white Mazda are buried under huge mounds of snow. Between the cars the snow is up to the door handles.

flyaway > I'm all bundled up against the cold. I don't have my glasses on because they kept getting fogged up, so I could see better without them than I could with them! I am making some headway with the sidewalk, although the path I've cleared is only the width of the shovel.

flyaway > Ken worked to dig out the cars. He's found the red one and begun to clear a path alongside it.

flyaway > This is a picture of the houses across the street. One car had been dug out so far, leaving mountains of snow on either side. Like the rest of us, this neighbor put a lawn chair in the middle of his hard-won space whenever he left to indicate that it should not be taken by anyone else. Everyone respected the territorial markings.

flyaway > After we had gotten the snow off the tops of the cars and shoveled enough of it out of the way to get the car doors open, we gave the contractor that came to plow the parking lot $20 to clear the huge piles from behind the cars. He did in five minutes with his big plow what would have taken us a couple of hours of backbreaking labor -- it was definitely worth the money! Then we pulled the cars out and cleared the entire area. Here, the cars are finally back in place. Like our neighbors, we put lawn chairs in the spaces whenever we pulled a car out to make sure nobody else would park there.

flyaway > While Ken was working in front, I went to shovel a path from the sidewalk beside our corner house to the deck. I suddenly realized that the heat pump was buried -- the vents are not supposed to be blocked, but the snow was covering about three-quarters of them. Ken tried to get to it from the sidewalk, but the hip-deep drifts were too hard to wade through. He finally decided to climb over the deck railing and jump down.

flyaway > Ken finally freed the heat pump vents, but the snow was soft and the waist-high deck was too high for him to climb back up. He didn't know how to get out!

He finally managed to get through by hanging on to the deck for leverage as he pushed laboriously through the hip-deep snow.

flyaway > It took quite awhile, but Ken finally managed to make his way out from the heat pump to the path I had cleared from the sidewalk to the bottom of the steps to the deck. You can see how deep the snow was by the accumulation on his jeans.

There are cars under there somewhere.

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