An old-fashioned winter continues.

February 17.

Some three or four inches of snow fallen in the night and now blowing. At noon begins to snow again, as well as blow. Several more inches fall.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, February 17, 1856

See February 19,1856 (“the snow has been deeper since the 17th than before this winter. I think if the drifts could be fairly measured it might be found to be seventeen or eighteen inches deep on a level.”)