045 ~ First Snow

Friday, December 3, 2010

(catching up...)

First Snow 2010-11

Began a little after 8pm Friday

Continued thru the night

started out light...

but had lots of periods of heavy snow

covering everything before too long

giving us about 8" to play in Saturday

Lake Tomah is now frozen over w/8" of snow on it

About midday Saturday the clouds returned,

the sun tried to keep shining,

but more snow came.

The first snow is always something!

Many people forget what it's like to drive in it!

(which accounts for the many accidents

that happened Friday night and Saturday)

Most years it comes on gradually...

we'll get a dusting...

then a few days later, an inch or so...

a few days to a week later, maybe 3 inches...

and somewhere close to a month of 

gradually increasing snowfalls,

we'll get a good storm that will 

leave us with over 6 inches

to as much as a foot of snow!

This year, we got dusted a few days ago,

and then slammed hard Friday and Saturday!

I know, this is Friday's blog - so we'll stick to Friday

as much as possible.

Everyone must head to the store 

just before the storm

to get those things we always need

during a storm.

When I'm there I tell myself to be sure

to plan better in the future so

I don't have to go out like this!

Then another storm approaches and

I find myself

once again

heading to the store

for those "gotta have"

last-minute things!!!

The first snow was due near 6pm,

then 7pm,

then 8pm,

then 9!!!

It's so frustrating when these storms don't do

what the weathermen say they're going to do!

I had one of my daughter's coming quite a distance

to visit us...

and she had to cut short her visit

so she could get ahead of storm

on her way back home. :(

Another daughter was doing OPENING NIGHT for

her latest play at school; 

"Twelfth Night"

WXOW's Live @ 5 segment with my daughter about the play

I hope they had a great Opening Night!

And to finish out the night...

something (we're not sure what yet)

caused a power outage in our neighborhood

starting about 10:15pm!

It lasted until 1am Saturday morning!!!

To bad I couldn't sleep in...

I had to run my son to work @ 5am

~ in 8" of unplowed, snowy roads ~

and then stay up because my niece, Dany

would be getting dropped off early

because her mom had to work.

And so it goes...

On to Saturday!