Be Careful What You Ask For, Part 2

The local weatherguesser needs desperately to be replaced with someone who can come a bit closer to the truth. Yesterday's 4" ... "oh wait, maybe 8 inches" ... turned into 22 25".

His forecast, of course, was for "half an inch" this morning. 

Do I need to run the snowblower for a measly three inches? Why, yes. Yes, I do. Otherwise, it freezes into an impermeable base which only an ice chipper will remove ... until breakup.*

At least the removal of an amount this small won't take long. The 30" mouth of the snowblower cuts quite a wide path. 

* = what Alaskans call the spring thaw & breaking up of the ice in the streams. The kind my little Ford Escape bottomed out in, last February during an early thaw cycle.

Hit or Miss

The Nat'l Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for last night, after a weekend's worth of dire predictions about a mini-snowpocalypse. (Hint: eight inches of snow is widely considered a dusting, here.)

So they warned us all that "heavy snow" would play havoc with this morning's commute.

We got an inch and a half.


The storm slowed down, they say. It'll be here tomorrow, they say. Be ready, they say.