Winter is coming (still...)

So, this title is partially in reference to the fact that I just saw the trailer for the new season of Game of Thrones, and I am SO excited!

But mostly, the title of this post is in reference to the massive snowstorm that is predicted to hit starting tomorrow night.  I am SO over this winter... The number of snowstorms has been ridiculous.  I was in Maryland for the winter of two blizzards within one week (they called it Snowmageddon or Snowpocalypse), but this winter is SO much worse than that!  It just doesn't stop.  You barely have time to dig out from one snowstorm before the next one hits.  And this next one is supposed to be the biggest snowstorm that this area has seen in years.  Yay.... (And by "yay" I actually mean "ugh").

Right now, the predictions I'm seeing for our area are saying 12 to 20 inches.  That's quite a broad range... The really scary part is that they haven't over-predicted for even one storm so far this winter.  They've actually predicted way under the actual accumulation amounts.

Another big negative of this next snowstorm hitting so soon is that the tree situation at our house hasn't been resolved yet.  Some tree guys came by and sorta kinda chopped down parts of the tree with the biggest problems, but a large portion of the tree is still up, including the big branch that is hanging precariously over the parking area.  And, they didn't pick up any of the limbs/branches/etc that they chopped from the tree.  Our yard is just littered with tons of sticks, logs, and branches.  I'm quite sure that Guinness would badly hurt himself if we let him in that yard area.  And I don't even know if we can let him back there once everything is cleaned up, because two areas of the fence were damaged!  One area of the fence was damaged by the tree falling, and the other part was damaged when the tree guys were working on taking another part of the tree down (their safety practices were non-existent... it was quite scary to watch).  Here are some pictures of our yard right now:

This is the tree in the back of the yard that still has a branch dangling over the yard (it's going to fall... it's just a matter of time...).  And you can see the sticks, etc that are littered all over the yard.  

Here's one of the parts of the fence that was damaged.  And you can see the logs, etc that are in the yard, as well as the ones that are in our parking area.  It's such a disaster... 

I hope everyone is doing well, and I hope your weather is cooperating more than ours is!