Well! It took me a little longer than I’d thought to get all of these finished up, but here they are as promised! I really enjoyed working with Josh and Jen, and I’m really looking forward to 2009 to keep moving forward as a photographer! Here are the shots we got!

Don’t ask about this last one. I don’t get it either. Ha!

Fargo almost never gets shut down. We laugh at snow! Even more, we laugh at those southern cities where a couple inches of snow fall, and the whole city shuts down. We’d be shut down 4 months out of the year if we did that. You can get a foot of snow here, and it will slow things down, but things won’t stop. I remember having school growing up when the temperatures were -80 wind chill. So it takes something huge to shut us down. Well, yesterday we got it.

Yesterday, we had a blizzard...a REAL blizzard. It seems every year we get some sort of chance of a blizzard, but they never really materialize or they are just weak. Not this year! I honestly can’t recall a time when I have seen such a powerful blizzard come through...not in the last 10 years at least! I snagged a couple pictures during the blizzard and a few outside our apartment building this morning to show what how high the snow drifted and had to be piled up. I might snag a few more if I go out later today...stuck working right now! As for why there aren’t more pictures of during the blizzard, are you crazy? hehe! It was snowing like mad, with 40 mph winds and -45 wind chill. We saw people getting their 4-wheel drives stuck in our parking lot.

The television was full of cancellations for school the next day...even Fargo schools decided to close the day before! Restaurants and businesses were all closed...simply because people couldn’t even drive through the city to get to work! Even having a 4-wheel drive was useless, we saw them getting stuck in the street! I would have taken a picture of that, except for the most part, we couldn’t even see the street through the blowing snow, just catching glimpses of the trucks stuck out there!

This was a first for me. I had never seen the wind pound so hard that it forced snow through the screen door and the door, piling up a huge amount of snow inside the door. We actually had to open the door and screen and force the snow outside, because it was getting so heavy we were afraid it would tear the screen. And no, outside is not overexposed, you just can’t see anything through the snow!


You can see the cars outside getting buried, and this was during one of the short periods where we could actually see the building next door. There were many times when the snow was blowing so hard we could barely even make out its outline. Later on, the tree had a 6-foot snow drift around it! I was going to take a picture of it this morning, but the wind had completely rearranged the drifts by the time I woke up!

Here are the shots I got this morning.

And amazingly, the blizzard is over, the streets are getting cleaned, and tomorrow life will go on normally.