Tue, 13 Feb 2007

Blizzard!

Well, here's a brief from the National Weather Service that we've not seen in these parts for some thirty years:

...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT...
...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT. THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

HEAVY SNOW ALONG WITH FREQUENT WIND GUSTS OF 35 MPH OR HIGHER WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES TODAY. SNOWFALL OF 8 TO AS MUCH AS 14 INCHES WILL OCCUR BY TONIGHT.

A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL.

So I'm sitting in the library on a very wintry Tuesday morning - I can't even see the highway (about 100 yards away) much less drive to it or on it.

In truth it kinda makes me a bit nostalgic - my eldest daughter Rhiannon was born during the Great Indiana Blizzard of 1977. That was fun! Ha! But then again, I was thirty years younger, and could chase down county snow plows while wearing nothing but my long johns and barely break a sweat. Now, it'd be a different story.

All I'm hoping for at this point is that I don't lose the barn roof (I have a panel that ripped loose during the night) and that Francie (my only doe goat) doesn't pick today to have her kids. Maybe I'll get lucky.

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On 2/13/2007 21:27:20
Karl Donaldsson wrote

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