I Am Here
Found this cool Topography Map created by KRANKARTA on Imgur. See your state rendered like this there.
Found this cool Topography Map created by KRANKARTA on Imgur. See your state rendered like this there.
From yesterday morning to this afternoon we had snow fall in the amount the equivalent of February’s total average snowfall – 6 inches – in November.
Shortly after it started we took a small drive downtown just to see what was what and to check our mail at the Post Office. It had barely started to accumulate, maybe an 1/8″, but the roads were getting pretty slick. We came home and parked the Mini. The photo above is what it looked like 24 hours later. And now 12 hours later it still sits there unmoved.
We did go out and spend an hour shoveling a path to the car to brush off the snow covering it. Because it is parked on grass we also shoveled off a path to the street down to about an inch or so to allow me to back out if needed. I hope it is not needed though, the roads have been packed down to a super dense icy consistency. The high performance all season tires on the Mini would be able to handle a little bit of snow on the grass okay, but the roadway, not so much. Looks like a set of dedicated snow tires is in our future…
One good thing about living way out west is Monday Night Football starts at 5:00 PM. When living on the east coast it started at 8:00 PM and usually ended around 11:30 PM, which is almost too late to stay up for the whole game.
The one bad thing about living way out west is it gets dark early in the fall, so that when Monday Night Football ends at 8:30, it is hard to resist not going to bed right after it is over.