Weather not as bad as expected!
We got about a half inch of ice. It was still doing the freezing rain this morning, but switched over to sneet and then finally snow around noon. The above photo is a close up of the walnut tree branches. Below is the yard… and I tried to get a photo of this view about every 2 hours today.
When it changed to sneet or sleet or whatever it was, it was hard to tell, except more white stuff showed up on the ground.
When it finally started snowing it was coming down heavy. I tried to get photos of the snow falling, but with a point and shoot camera that I don’t really know how to use very well… it didn’t work out. But here is some snow…
It’s STILL snowing. The wind is blowing like crazy, too… and from the north east. Weird, very weird. This storm system is moving steadily to the east, so why the heck is the snow blowing from the east? Ah, I guess it’s because of the layers of weather interacting… but it’s still very weird in my opinion!
More snow…
Some more snow before it got too dark to take pictures. Well, I do have a few more on the camera, might post em later.
In case anyone has forgotten, clicking on a photo opens up a bigger view of it. I resized all photos to about 800 px wide, so they aren’t too huge but get you a bit more detail.
Hardly anyone in the area has lost power… the electric companies did a good job of getting the right of ways cleaned up good. The biggest power outage I’ve heard of was when a car took out a major pole. Duh, stay HOME when the roads are bad. I can’t believe how many people feel like they HAVE to go somewhere when the roads are so messed up. I just took photos of someone in a pick up truck turning around almost in our driveway. He had about a 10 inch hole of cleared windshield, maybe wipers not working. Not going fast, but someone was behind him. Backing out, well he wasn’t IN our driveway quite, so he backed out in the fairly deep ditch. Made it okay tho, must have 4WD. He turned around and went back the other way (north)…. it’s still quite a bit of climb from here going south. Going north its a slide down to the lake, then a climb… and then either more up or more down and up depending on which way you go. I know the snow will drift really bad over the top of the hill south of us… if I’ve got 6 inches of snow in the yard that hill will probably have a lot more on top.
South is town, well, the small town closest to us. I don’t need anything. But I’m sure there are other people who do… even though we had a LOT of warning on this storm.
So, that’s the weather report…
Hugs,
Vyx
