We finished combining corn last Tuesday evening, a couple nights before Christmas with a sign of relief. I was in a rush to get it done because it was late in the season and Christmas was near little did I know what was coming.

While I was expecting a snow storm to move in that night or the next day, it actually waited till Thursday to hit and then it snowed and blew for two days.

At my house south of Valley, Neb. we probably had about 12 inches but the wind blew a big 3+ foot drift across my driveway that basically buried the driveway. I spent Saturday and Sunday scooping myself out with a grain shovel (guess I am too cheap to buy a snow blower). Then on Sunday I put up my snow fence that I should have put up 6 weeks ago in mid November and that will offer some relief from drifting during future snow storms.

At the farm south of Stanton, Neb. my family estimates they had 18, 20 or even as much as 24 inches of snow with drives sometimes reaching 10 feet in height. That is on top of the 12 inches of snow received two weeks earlier. My brother, using a loader tractor, dug themselves out but there is so much snow drifted on the farmstead that there is no place to go with it.

I feel lucky that we got our corn out (minus 10 or 15 acres of buried corn) but feel sad that our neighbor and combine owner (who focused on our corn) wasn't so lucky and now his corn is really buried and will probably have to wait awhile.

However we still have to move and restack bales so the buyer can get them hauled away. Fortunately these bales are sitting in a field where the wind blew straight across and did not drift so they are still accessible.

What we need is a warming spell to get some of that snow to melt and consolidate. And it isn't even January yet so what will the next two to three months bring?