Someone finally showed up to clear our parking lot with a Bobcat today. They stayed all day and made quite a bit of progress. I figured I had an hour's worth of work left to do before we could eek Jaime's car out of her parking space. I have done maybe 8hrs of shoveling since Saturday. The back steps, the front steps, a small path in the back, uncovered the opening to the french drain in the back, and Jaime's car. Well, as soon as I started shoveling today, the Bobcat guy came over and cleared out the bulk of the snow in front of Jaime's car. It only took me about 20 minutes to clear some more out. There are still piles of snow over two feet tall on either side of Jaime's car, so it has to be parked ever-so carefully.

Between noon tomorrow and Wednesday afternoon, we are supposed to get dumped on again. I've seen reports that say 8-12 more inches; I've seen reports that say 12-20 more inches. Who knows. With all the compacted snow that's still left on the streets, it could be a pretty dangerous situation when more snow falls. I guess that's why the guy is still out there scraping snow off the asphalt with his Bobcat. This is why we went grocery shopping today in case it gets bad again.

I hope I never see another snow shovel in all my life, and I'll most likely be using one again for the next two days. Great.

UPDATE: Jaime said she heard the Bobcat guy still cleaning up our parking lot at 2:30am. You can't tell from looking at it. Most of it is covered in slick, compacted snow. My walk this morning was rather dangerous as it was still dark and I had to walk on the streets. All the streets in our neighborhood and the neighborhood across the street are in rough shape. Only one lane is open, and no blacktop is visible.

Stephen slept through the night for the first time in six nights last night.