I don’t know what our “official” measurement is, but I went out with a yardstick and measured 10 inches (25 cm) in the front yard, 11.5 inches (29 cm) in the back. The top two inches of that is sleet and ice. Fortunately, I went out and shoveled last night at 1:30am when the sleet was just starting and my neighbor had made the main pass up the driveway with his plow. There was more snow around the car than in the yards because it was blowing so much and it had drifted. This morning I just needed to go out and clean up the secondary plow piles and the mouth of the driveway, and de-glaze the car. Oof! That was harder than last night because it was all frozen. The temperature has gone above freezing now but the sun hasn’t come out yet. The reason the car is moved back down the drive is that I moved it to make sure it wasn’t frozen solid to the ground. 🙁
If you can see a little bump in the snow in the lower right quadrant of the right-hand photo (the back yard)…that’s a rock cairn that’s about 18 inches high, so that gives you an idea.
Feeth ‘n’ begorrah, where’s the whiskey?? 🙁