It's 1:30 pm this Saturday pm and the weather forecasters are talking up a humongous winter snow event. Supposed to last a few days into next week. Our church has already cancelled tomorrow's service. Yesterday I went back over to Kroger to get Lib's medication and some more groceries and liquids to tide us over in case the worst case scenarios materialize. At the worst it could last until midweek. Just a few minutes ago an area near us reported loss of electricity.
Ir's 1:30 pm as I write and snow is not touted to arrive until around 6:00 pm. Then somewhere before midnight the question becomes sleet/freezing rain? Preferably sleet as it bounces off wires.... freezing rain sticks and causes power lines to become non functional from breakage. Our new Governor has already advised to stay off roads beginning tomorrow morning (Sunday)/if things become treacherous...... signing off at 1:45 pm until conditions change.
8:44 pm: we fixed and had an early supper anticipating snow around 6 pm. After supper we filled several buckets and waste baskets with water in case the water shut down. The temps remained at 20 degrees. It was now that I checked and saw that it was finally snowing. Almost 3 hours after it was supposed to. One forecast called for a light snow thru the night. Hope to get some photos of this event to place here...
11:40 pm still snowing. Temp 18 degrees. Snowing lightly. Signing out until tomorrow. We have everything working as of this time.
Sunday 8:55 Grateful we have electricity and water. Appears we had about 1.5 inches of snow/precipitation. This was a huge system stretching scross almost all of the lower third of the nation. Temperature remains around 19 degrees. I got up several times during the night and what came down was the fine crystalline variety. Around 4 am it appeared to have ceased.
