Bonus Post: Snowed in
A rare second post for the day, but since it is pretty timely, I decided to do it.
I was home for a 3-day weekend, as our offices were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. day. I had intended to return to Charleston, SC this morning at 5:00 AM. However, the weather had different plans for me. Viewing last night’s weather report it called for 4-6 inches of snow. I thought of high-tailing it out of town last night, but it was already 10:00 PM by the time that we got back home and, quite frankly, I’m an early-to-bed kind of guy and didn’t feel like driving for 3.5 hours back to Charleston to arrive there at nearly 2:00 AM. It had already started to rain and those two conditions, rain and night, are what I try to avoid! I slept.
This morning, when I awakened, about 5:20 AM, the wind was howling and there was about 2 inches of snow on the ground and the streets, in places, were icy. I came downstairs, let Hobbs out to do his business, gave the birds an extra helping of seed, and did the sensible thing, surfed the web until it started to get light outside, then I took Hobbs out for a walk. What a blast he had. He just couldn’t wait to get his nose in that snow. We only walked about 20 minutes, less than a mile, but we had fun. Since I’ve been gone, nobody walks him, so he’s always excited to go, and this morning was no exception! Of course, I’m still awake and he is snuggled on the stairs in his favorite spot, catching up on his beauty rest.
I think that I’ll take a nap before heading back this afternoon!
BTW, I know that a 2 inch snowfall (5 cm) is wimpy, but this is The South, and we only have about 2 snow plows and 5 sand trucks for the whole city!!! It snows here perhaps once per year. Perhaps. Schools are closed, businesses delayed! I’m stuck! LOL!
I drove to work this morning. Hardly any other cars on the road. There is maybe 2 people in the office.
Your 5 cm of snow would be a lot now here in Helsinki – currently we have perhaps 1 cm on the ground. It has been a strange winter (very little snow is just one example), but this may be about to change if weather forecasts are to be trusted. I hope we’ll finally return to normal Finnish winter.
@JH: I would think that Finland would have snow on the ground measured in meters!
Well, according to the FMI observations from yesterday, half of Finland had less that 10 cm (4 inch) of snow, and even in Lapland there was only half a meter snow in most places. But during last night we got 5-10 cm more snow here in the Helsinki region, so it feels now more like winter.
Meters of snow – that sounds more like Norway where the hills stop the moist air from the Atlantic and it falls down as snow. We get only the remains…
Our winter blast in December faded and left us with a warm January here near the base of the Sierra Nevadas in California. I’m not complaining, mind you. Folks who have lived here for many years tell us hard winters come and go over time and that we should count our blessings when we get to enjoy a mild one.
We’ve had a steady diet of bitter cold this winter sprinkled with regular little 2-4 inch snowstorms every few days…none adding up to the “big one” yet but I am sure it will come!
Hobbs looks so cute covered snow! I love it!
So THAT’S where all the snow went. We got 10 minutes of the tiniest flakes and that was all.