Serious Snow & Wind

It seems that whenever I've moved to a new state, the weather that year is pronounced as "unusual" for that area... well, that seems to be happening once again!  Village schools are rarely cancelled because of weather, but this year it's been necessary.

To give you an idea of the quantity of snow, here's a shot of my classroom window last October:

To give you perspective, when there isn't snow outside, the school is raised up, so in order for kids to peek in my window to check what I'm doing, they have to prop a board up and climb up.  From September to November, they kept the light coming in by shoveling:

The accumulation proved to be too much, and the window stayed completely covered for some weeks.

Then, last week, my class was startled to hear some crashing and scraping coming from our wall.  It turned out to be a bulldozer, unburying the school!  They pushed away the snow to almost ground level.  We could see daylight once again!   I'm watching it fill in once again... still about a foot of clearing at the top of the window.