More Snow

One month after my last post, here I am posting about more snow.  For a state that's been in a drought for several years, we've sure been getting a bunch of moisture lately.

It started Thursday night as you can see from the park out back.

This made Friday morning's commute an annoyance.  Fortunately, work allowed us to come in 2 hours later than usual.  As usual, there were a whole lot of idiots who were driving as though the streets were dry and clear.  Sigh.  Not surprisingly, there were a whole lot of accidents.  I was NOT one of them.

The middle of the day was snow-free.  However, I noticed the weather radar showed another band of snow was forming up west of town so I took a couple of hours of vacation and headed home.  I doubt I was missed since there were only about a dozen people in my whole office building.

It started snowing again about halfway home.  Fortunately the streets were damp but clear which made the afternoon commute much easier than the morning's had been.

Overall, it wasn't a 'vicious' snow storm.  It was more like a dripping faucet as opposed to a gushing one.  However, even a drip over a long time adds up.  Desultory snowing over 8-10 hours does add up.

From the snow on the wall, it looks like we got about 3 inches of snow.

And it looks like one of the local critters hopped around the front of the house. 

I know they're hard to see, but the sun wasn't out and I couldn't get good shadows.  The trail looked like it hopped across the driveway and hung out under one of my bushes for a while.

Not surprisingly, the neighborhood kids seem to be having fun in the park.  Last time several built a snowman.  I wonder if we'll have more being built this weekend.

Well, the street in front of the house looks to be mostly clear and it looks like things might be starting to melt a bit.  I may be able to get out and run my errands.

Papillon

Snow days

The forecasters were right when they said snow would be coming to the metro area.

Friday morning I woke up to snow, and more snow.

I was hoping for a delayed opening at work.  No such luck.

It did finally taper off in early afternoon and the high temperatures got up to several degrees above freezing so things did start to thaw a bit, creating this fun design on the pavilion in the park.

The snow continued, very lightly, overnight.  It put more snow back on the pavilion.

Not surprisingly, there were folks in the park having fun with snow.  Of course, there were the obligatory snowmen-in-the-making.  (I'm not sure what the people and dog are all looking at.)

And there was a couple playing 'fetch the snowball' with a small dog.

While driving around running errands, I found myself wanting to stop at the house of total strangers.  Most houses in the area show they have good insulation in their crawl spaces by the mostly complete blankets of snow on the roofs.  However, one house had NO snow on the roof of the living space.  There was snow over the unheated garage.  I wanted to ring their doorbell and say - you could probably cut your heating bills in HALF if you would just add more insulation over your living spaces.  I didn't stop because I knew they would be totally taken aback by being accosted in this way by a strange woman.  But the thought was there.

Things should be back to chilly mornings and cool afternoons next week.  It'll be nice to see the sun after several days of lots of clouds.

Papillon