Blizzard of 2016 brings beauty, hard work

Kathy shares this beautiful photo of her house as the Blizzard of '16 was winding down Saturday night. A National Weather Service spotter in nearby Scarsdale measured 19 inches of snow from the storm.

Reports for the Baltimore suburbs were in the range of 30 inches. Doug and Lisa managed to do quite a job of digging a path to their door on Saturday night.

Here at Birch Street HQ, where the snow and wind continued until late Saturday night, we waited until Sunday morning to tackle the shoveling. By then the sun was shining brightly on the thick coat of snow. Dan measured 20 inches, while an NWS spotter nearby reported 24 inches. And those drifts by the car were certainly higher than that.

Christine takes a brief break

Making good progress

Nanette took this picture from her home on Shelter Island. Daughter Courtney, in Florida, wrote: "Not going to lie -- a li'l jealous of my mom's winter wonderland."

The storm also reached up to Cape Cod, where Owen took this next photo in his driveway. "It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be," he writes, "but I wish I had a two-car garage."

"My guess is we got at least a foot," Owen says. "My plow-and-shovel guy came twice to clear the snow, and the roads are not bad, so I'm not stuck in the house. Hope there's no repeat of last year!" Just about a year ago, he and brother Austin, visiting from Florida, were snowed in by a blizzard that dropped about 2 1/2 feet on the Cape (See that story).

Now back to Maryland, where Hugh and Dolores were able to watch as workers at their Oak Crest Village home shoveled the path from the entrance to the parking lot. Hugh then started working on digging out their car.