Last night after dinner, on the local NPR station: "Tonight's weather forecast calls for a possible one inch of snow accumulation tonight, followed by another inch tomorrow, tapering off in the afternoon."
Two inches, my ass.
By 10 am I had to clear 6-8 inches off the driveway, and it kept snowing heavily all day, at least in our neighborhood. Jason works downtown, which usually sees heavier snowfall than here, and he said it didn't do a thing there all day. Everything we got was that insanely light stuff that just flies back in your face when you try to shovel it (yay!), but at least it was decorative:
I can't decide if it looks more like some form of virulent mold, or a feather boa.
Check out the weather report summaries for the past couple of days and notice how nobody seems to know what the heck is going to happen. My personal favorite quote was from the forecast at noon today, when they said,"The total snowfall from this storm from overnight to this evening will probably reach 10 to 18 inches." Yeah, that's like NINE TIMES as much as you were saying yesterday. Slight difference there, folks.
This, combined with the 40.5 inches of snow we got in January - yes, that's only 2" shorter than my daughter, and 2.5" short of an all-time record - and the lack of thawing means that the ends of my driveway look like this:
And according to that damn groundhog, we've got another six weeks to go. Really, really wishing that Jason's conference in Orlando next week hadn't been turned into a videoconference, because we were this close to being in Florida this month. Florida. Where, you know, you're able to wear something other than snowboots every single day for months at a time.
2 comments:
Is Cleveland sooo flat that you have to create your own sledding hills at the end of the driveway?
Time to turn this into a snowman!
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