It began with predictions on Thursday night...
It started to snow around 8 am on Friday...
It snowed harder and faster than most thought, by 11:30 it was really snowing and schools were sending kids home...
Decided to take the kids out and play around 2:30. Man, it was coming down and we had about 5 inches or so. Jen shoveled our walk and I took that snow, packed it into our recycling bin and made a snow fort frontage. Avery (our neighbor) helped out too. Caleb and Lauren also went down the hill on their first sled ride of the year. We finally went in, had some hot chocolate and ordered Domino's pizza for dinner.
If you didn't know, I am a weather geek and I LOVE what Rich Appuzo has done with http://www.skyeyeweather.com/ make sure to check the site out ASAP. He has a forum also and so around 10 pm, I settled into the basement with my computer, cameras, glass or water and girl scout cookies. Watched the heavy snow bands setting up, took some pictures, talked on the forum and then finally went to bed about 2:30 am with about 7 inches on the ground...
Woke up around 6:30 am to 11 inches of snow! :o) Was happy with that, figured maybe a little more, but since a dry slot was forming, that might be all. Well... the dry slot filled in quickly and before we knew it the snow was falling again. We were all out playing in the snow again around 9:30 am and by 10:30 we were in "white out" conditions. I mean the snow was really coming down in buckets, the wind was gusting to over 30 mph and it was awesome. Enjoy these pics...
Finally, it was over around 4:00 pm! We finished with around 14 inches of snow, actually more when you consider that so much blew off and drifted. The highest drift I found was 18 inches. Plan to sled and play a lot more tomorrow after church. Thank you God, this was a great present! :o)
Now the snow has all but stopped and the sun is out! How beautiful the whole thing was. If you don't live near here, I sure hope you enjoyed the "blogger" version of the blizzard of 2008.B Out!!