So, not to be outdone by the Utah folks (we saw your storm post, Cora...) we decided to have our own little snow storm here. And by little, I mean the biggest one in 30 years. According to the nonstop, breathless reporting of our local news, this is the biggest one since the "Blizzard of '78".
We were supposed to get snow starting around 11am Friday, so they had decided the night before already to let school out 2 hours early, at 12:25 for Jill. Being a simple graduate student again, I just stayed home. The prediction turned out to be wrong, and the storm started at 7:30am, and so Jill's school instead let out around 11:30. What was normally a 10 minute drive home took about 40 minutes.
It snowed pretty much all day Friday, heavily overnight, and heavy Saturday until coming to a halt around 3pm. All told, it looks like about a foot or so (I saw 10" in one spot near us and almost 16" at another spot near us, so I figure the truth is in between). We also had up to 35mph winds, so a lot of drifting (you can see the uneven snow line on our deck).
Of course the dog just loved all the snow. She went kind of bounding through the drifts and was running all over our area of the neighborhood while I was digging out. You can just see the look of joy on her face.
It took about 3 hours for me to dig out the driveway after the snow stopped. But we're supposed to warm up into the 50s this week so it should melt off eventually. I made some pretty decent snow piles by the garage...
3 comments:
Congratulations.
I am jealous, because you now have a legitimate reason to say things like "She's bad, but she ain't nothin' compared to the Blizzard of Aught Eight", and so on.
We got a foot of snow and they didn't even bother to consider closing school early. I'm jealous. But to be fair, we haven't had the wind as much.
We get school closings around here over an inch of snow. They just don't have the plows and such to handle it. It doesn't snow here enough to make it worth the investment. And half our county is rural, so there's a lot of windy country roads the buses would have to deal with.
Where you guys are, a foot of snow is normal, so they deal with it. Here, it's legendary.
Of course, it's now 48 today, it's melting off, and it will be 60 by Thursday, and it will be but a memory...
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