A Winter Wonderland! (Maybe not). Saturday 2nd August 2025

Boy, did it snow. This is the heaviest snowfall in Armidale since the 1980's.

It started off fluffy, nice and pretty..

 It confused a Magpie.

 Then it didn't stop.

 We wouldn't have got out of the driveway.

I'm glad I am now retired as it would have been a nightmare trying to get nurses into town to work. 

Also getting them home from work. I imagine there were a lot of double shifts that weekend.

That's our red roof completely white.

The roads are all closed, people are stuck on highways.

THEN THE POWER WENT OUT!

We were lucky that ours was only off for several hours, but many people had no power for days.

There have been so many horror stories of older people stuck at home with no heating. 

THANK YOU to the poor essential energy people having to go out and do their best to fix things with impassable roads and in dreadful conditions. 

Hi my Mum's Dear Readers,

It's Miss Lizzy here to tell you how much I luvvved the snow!

It was sooo much fun.

At 4 o'clock, when we took Graham out for a play, 

he'd throw our toys and the toys disappeared into the snow!

I had to dig around to find it, snow flew around everywhere, hilarious!  

I got covered  in snow. Mum said I looked like a big snowball.

 

Teddy didn't like it, it was too close to his undercarriage.

 

Did you know that I think it is my job to monitor the goings on in the park next door?

 

When people visited the park to look at the snowy view 

I had to lope down the hill, barking, to let them know I was keeping an eye on them.

 

 

Then I found that the snow came up further than my leg pits and it was hard work getting back up the hill because I needed to jump through it.

 

I can eat snow, its a bit cold like ice cream, but tastes like water.
 

Until next time

Love and (cold) wet noses from

Miss Lizzy

 

I'll take the blog back now, thanks Miss Liz for your thoughts on the snow event.

You can see how heavy it was by how the tree branches are weighed down.

The trees that suffered the most were the pine trees, surprisingly for trees from the northern hemisphere huge trees just collapsed, in a concertina effect. What a mess and the whole town smelt like pine.

Wattles didn't fair well either, but the biggest damage was to the gums. Branches down everywhere. A lot of branches were just bent but when we had big winds a couple of weeks later huge limbs where crashing down. A month on its still bad, dying branches are everywhere.

Worse was damage to peoples roofs, gutters, collapsed sheds, the roads are a mess. Everything's a mess.It was just a total disruption to normal life.

Then Sunday morning all silence under a blanket of snow. (See first photo of the post as well).

It was gone by the end of the day and melted into great rivulets of water and slush.