Territorial Bloggings

Just in case anyone is interested, here are some photos of what the lake effect snow machine dumped on us here in Valpo a few days ago. The snow started about 2pm on Tues (02/03) afternoon, and these photos were taken at about 8am Wed (02/04) morning. During that 18 hour period, we got between 12-18″ of snow here at the house! By nightfall on Wed, we had gotten another 2″ or so. Fortunately, in the days leading up to the snow, we had bit of a melt-off, so that we only had about 6-8″ on the ground for the new snow to build on. In Westville (12 mi NE, where I work), the official final total was 22″, and in Chesterton (10 mi N, closer to Lake Michigan) they got 25″!

This snowfall, and this entire winter (re: snowfall & cold temp-wise) for that matter, is the worst/most severe that I can remember being around since I was a kid. As I recall, the winters of 1977-78-79 were all doozies, with some epic snowfalls & cold temps. This winter is now right up there with them…

-ghp

I just got my first coffee this morning from the newly opened Evelyn Bay Coffee Company location in Valpo. Very nice coffee house – good location, good ambiance, good selection, nice staff, good service, and, oh yeah, great coffee! There was also a nice article written about them in a recent edition of the local paper.

So, at least something good came from the kids having missed the bus this morning — I got to try something new!

Highly recommended.

-ghp