Snow update

Perhaps you have been wondering about the snow from last Friday's post. If so, here you go. If you haven't been wondering but still don't have anything better to do than read some strange guy's blog, here you go. If you're wondering how you even got here in the first place, welcome to the club!

Anyway, soon after my Friday post, I hit the road, hoping to make it home before too many people got into too many problems. It ended up taking about 90 minutes, twice as long as usual. On the way, we passed one accident, and 3 cars in the ditch at various places. The drive really took longer than it should have, thanks to a couple of different cars that were going way slower than they needed to go. It's one thing to be cautious. It is another thing entirely to drive so slowly that you almost cause wrecks for all of those people stacking up behind you. Frustrating, to say the least. One guy in front of me was brave enough to pass the two cars in front of him on a snowy, icy, 2-lane road. Just as I was working up enough courage to do the same, the lead car turned at a driveway, and the situation improved greatly. At least for a few miles, until we got behind another horribly slow car.

Those wonderful weather forecasters predicted that the snow would last until 6:00 Saturday morning. But then it had all ended by about 10:00 Friday night. Oh well. We still ended up with about 3" on the ground.

And around here, 3" is more than enough to cause a panic. I purposefully avoided the grocery stores all day Friday, even before the snow started, knowing that it was going to be a zoo. A news story that night talked about how everyone was stocking up on everything. One lady they talked to said, "I'm stocking up, because we're going to be stuck inside for 3 days, at least." Not sure why she thought that, but apparently she hasn't listened to our local weather forecasters all that long. Take every snow prediction they make, cut it in half, and you usually have about 25% more than what we actually get.

Things started to clear up Saturday morning, but there was still some ice and snow on the roads. Gave us a good excuse to stay inside all day, watching the Olympics, movies, television, the backs of our eyelids, or anything else that caught our fancy. Days where we get to stay at home are pretty rare, so I'll take any chance I get.

Things are about back to normal now, with temperatures in the 50s. The remaining snow on the bush outside my office window will probably be all gone by the time I leave this afternoon. It was fun while it lasted.

Then again, they are predicting some snow and freezing rain again this weekend. Maybe I better go to the grocery store now, just to be safe.