We have had quite a nice stretch of good weather in November, even extending into early December. That all came to a screeching halt on Thursday night. Yeah, they told us it was coming, but it was still cruel.
The snow started falling while I was in my troop committee meeting on Thursday night. Still, as I left it wasn't sticking to the roads and was still pretty light. So I figured I had time to stop at Meijer. WRONG. I came out of Meijer to snow that was sticking on the ground (and roads) as well as coming down at a fast enough clip that it was what I call "Star Wars" snow, comes right at you like the stars do when the Star Wars ships are traveling through space. Still, with nice and slow I made it home ok.
Thankfully, I don't work on Fridays anymore because that little bit of lake effect snow turned into 8+ inches around home, and even more to the west of us. All of the area schools were closed (though not colleges. But Eric chose to stay home anyway as he only had one 50 minute lecture and it would have taken twice as long to get there as he needed to spend there.)
Things had cleared up enough by yesterday that I got out and did some Christmas shopping. Still, it was the first trip down the Sargent Hill this season, back to creeping down at 10 mph...
Sunny but cold today. Calling for more snow tomorrow, as well as the potential for a blizzard Wed and Thurs. Goody. (not) Just in time for Roundtable.
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