Drifting sucks.

Spent half the day clearing my yard with the tractor and it didn't even snow last night.

This was deposited on my lawn by the wind. 

Looks like somebody needs some snow fencing. 

In reply to TRoglodyte :

Trees are on order.

Usually the wind is from the west or north and all of this ends up in the fields.

Last night the wind was from the southeast and it blew directly into the yard.

The picture of the yard is facing due east.

TRoglodyte said:

Looks like somebody needs some snow fencing. 

Snow fence was a staple of my childhood but I never see it any more around here.

I have a long driveway that's across from about 1000 acres of farmland. I know about snow drifts. 
 

I thought this was going to be about something else. And I would have agreed

No tractor, but I had a helper.

Being so far south, I had to look up a "snow fence."

ShawnG said:

In reply to TRoglodyte :

Trees are on order.

Usually the wind is from the west or north and all of this ends up in the fields.

Last night the wind was from the southeast and it blew directly into the yard.

The picture of the yard is facing due east.

The wind during our two day blizzard was also from the southeast, and created drift patterns in our neighbourhood that I've never seen in my 20+ years of living here.  It worked in my favour, but many of my neighbours weren't so lucky,  Apparently in Ottawa the snow fencing in critical areas was on the "wrong", though historically correct side.

I think my truck is in there still

I'll just be glad for the floods upcoming later in the week....

TRoglodyte said:

Looks like somebody needs to move south. 

FTFY

We always have drifts. 2" of snow with the wind we normally see will be 12" drifts. 4" of snow means 2-3' drifts and bare patches of grass.

That makes me feel better about my 24" drifts in Ohio.

We still had a few–sadly, just a few–farms nearby while growing up, and each fall they'd sprout red snow fences. 

That was a few years ago with 8" of snowfall