I was wrong
and that makes me happy! We had an informal office poll on Friday about how much snow we'd really see out of the "storm of the century" that was threatening us. Keep in mind, that even though this is Minnesota, land of Arctic winters and Equatorial summers, we have not had very much significant snow in the nearly 10 years we've been in the state.
Because I'm the cynic, and because we haven't gotten the predicted accumulations at all this winter, my vote was 0-2 inches.
(Click for larger) This is probably 7-8 inches, though there was still some falling snow and slight accumulation happening when I took this picture.
Here's one looking north of our front steps:
and one looking to the south:
What doesn't make me happy, though, is that the north-looking picture shows the entire amount we were able to snowblow before the main drive belt snapped. Which means the driveway is still buried (the first picture is the one track in the driveway S cleared before going out to the front walk). What also doesn't make me happy is that we helped more friends move yesterday (for those who are local and counting, yes, that's two households we've moved in two weekends, for a total of 12 hours of schlepping boxes and furniture from house to truck to house).
Fortunately, we have a friend with a snowblower who is willing to come over after he does his house. Thank goodness for friends with snowblowers.