SNOW

[Mortblanc]

About 20 years back I was living further south than I am now and those folks really wwre not used to having snow on the ground.

We had a real heavy ice storm and everything was encrusted with an inch of ice then covered with about 4" of snow.

I had to get to work and I lived way out in the boonies, but I had 4WD so I was not really concerned. 20 miles to work over ice covered roads. I went slowly and had no problems except as I got within sight of my destination there was a large junction with a stop light. The light was green for me but I had the sudden impulse to stop anyway. As I eased up on the throttle and dropped to a lower gear a large Ford Taurus estate wagon careened through the intersection sideways to its normal inclination and spinning more and more rapidly. It finally slowed on the uphill slope after it passed and slowly eased itself into the ditch leaving only amused drivers in its path rather than a pile of dabris.

As I type right now the temp outside is -12c. The light snow we had Christmas day has sublimated and gone. Only a few patches to show it ever existed, but a few miles north of me in PA they have 90cm on the ground.

They are up on the east side of the Great Lakes with both frozen air and 20% of the worlds fresh water supply to provide moisture.

Likely they wil not see the ground again until spring.