March 9th, 2008 Sunday 28* and sunny
Ok so it has been a while since the last update again. Xmas came and went with no real events happening. We spent the day at home enjoying the peace and quiet and just watched some movies. Same with New Years, stayed home and safe. Winter has been pretty present during the last couple of months although not much snow until yesterday. We had big snows forecast several times with nothing happening. The weather guessers were bound to get it right sooner or later. Cry wolf enough ya know! So our snow storm started on Friday around 10am, it was accompanied with pretty high winds in the 30-40 mph. During the first 15 hours of the storm there really wasn't much accumulation as the wind was blowing it all away. Now I gotta say I don't really understand that cause if it is blowing my snow away shouldn't someone else's snow be taking it's place? Anywho during the night the snow picked up and so did the wind. We had blizzard warnings issued.
Come saturday morning the wind died down and the snow began it's accumulation and it happened quite quick. We had I would say maybe 8" but he guessers said we had 13". Just south of us in Springfield they supposedly got 17". This was rated number 3 I think in worse storms we have had.
Then came 5pm and it was like a magic act, the sun came out and the snow quit! Our renter up front was busy clearing our drive and parking lot for us. A couple of times I had to go clean off the satellite dish due to accumulation of snow and interferring with the signal. It is amazing but the snow created a shelf that stuck out 18" beyond the roof line, of course in just the right spot to block our satellite. Got that all cleared away and we are now back in business!
Gary our renter usually plows a track around the building so I have a place to walk Major. Otherwise he doesn't have a clue where to poop! So that's about all there is! I am another year older so much wiser LOL!!!
I'm grilling some steaks outside so gotta get going!
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