Snow!!!

[fenchurch]

Or what would probably more accurately be described as "pre-snow" -- it's that really fine stuff that's technically snow, but is barely there. Sort of the "light drizzle" of snow. We're supposed to get a few inches of the real stuff starting this afternoon, but it was still a bit of a shock to see this stuff floating down this morning. I'm just excited because it's been a few years since we've had any measurable snow here. Not an uncommon thing, really... although we happened to move to the area (wow, ten years ago next month!) just in time for the two worst winters in recent history, and even after all this time I still expect the weather to be like that and am surprised when we get no snow at all.

Hmmm... I need a good snow icon! Although speaking as someone who got dumped on back during the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption, ash can certainly double as extremely dirty snow... so the current icon actually kinda works.

ETA: It's now 11:35am and we have flakes! Big fluffy flakes! Nothing sticking to the ground yet, but I suspect it's only a matter of time.

ETA2: And ten minutes later it's starting to stick. Whee!!!

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[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I *thought* I saw drizzles. I'm glad I'm not going crazy.

Last winter was our first winter here - didn't that second snowstorm count as appreciable? *is nervous* Hee.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I wonder if that happened while I was out of town (highly likely) or if it just didn't hit us here very hard.

1996 and 1997 were actually really, really BAD. They had roofs collapsing under the weight of the snow... electricity was out all over the place, and it wasn't any one big area, it was a bunch of little areas, making it harder to fix (we were without power for three days -- this is why we bought a house with a fireplace... we never wanted a house to get that cold again). Even worse, they had almost no way of plowing the roads of the nearly two feet of snow we had gotten. The whole area just closed down for a week at one point, because it was impossible to get anywhere except on skis.

The really funny part is that when we first moved into the house we had rented, everyone told us we should have just left our snow shovel with someone down in Utah, because we'd never need it here. Ha! About a month later, they were all wanting to borrow it!

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I remember it specifically, it was the weekend of the 9th. Or that might have been the first one. It could have been the weekend after. Anyway, I remember that we had to shovel our driveway and I was surprised because the people we bought our house from had said they hadn't shoveled in like five years.

That is funny about your neighbors though. Hee.