Damn! The weather guessers finally got one right for a change. They said we would get 4 - 8 inches of snow between "mid-afternoon Friday and 11:00am Saturday". They even went so far as to say it would start around 3:00pm today.
OK. Now I figured that this being Kansas, they had about a 3% chance of hitting the prediction. Give or take about 10%.
I got home around 3:00 and no snow. It was cloudy, and had been getting cloudier all day, but nothing else. No big cause for concern. Still, they were keeping to their guns.
I called Dudette at work and discussed some running around I was going to do shortly, and we discussed the weather a little, a "just in case" kind of thing.
"Yeah, they still say snow."
"When?"
"This afternoon. Okay?"
"Okay. I'm going to stop at the store and pick up some things. Need anything?"
"No. See you later. Okay?"
"Okay."
I dialed in a weather radar to see what was happening with the snow. Nice green patch about 4 counties long (North to South), and 3 counties wide, with us right in the middle of its path.
Hit the "refresh" button and the green area moved over to cover our location. Now this looks promising. Maybe we will get some snow. Better get moving before it hits.
Turned off the computer and walked into the kitchen and looked out the window. DAMN! It was snowing. Had to get in high gear to get things done before it got ugly.
Too late. Took an hour and 15 minutes to do a twenty minute run. The melted snow at the beginning of the storm froze to make a nice ice foundation for the rest of the snow.
Think Paul Simons' "Slip Sliding Away".
All the weather information now is calling for a snow of 5 - 7 inches. Looks like they got this one right.
They are also saying we will get another storm in on Monday night into Tuesday. Great, more snow on top of the ice that forms from this snow.
Kansas has some of the weirdest weather.
That ice sure is a headache for traffic!
At least now Cop Car should be able to have snow ice cream!
Posted by: Bogie | December 13, 2003 at 08:03 AM
Indeed. Dudette and CK woke me up Sat. morning talking about how I would miss out on the snow ice cream if I didn't get up.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | December 13, 2003 at 08:33 AM
Of course, we had NO intention of sharing our snow ice cream with him. But we sure did have fun giving him a hard time!!
Posted by: Dudette | December 13, 2003 at 10:21 PM
As always.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | December 13, 2003 at 10:47 PM
Poor WD, a house full of women and no way out. LOL
Posted by: Bogie | December 14, 2003 at 02:17 AM
I think that I had 3 bowls of ice cream, yesterday. You can't imagine how upset I was to learn that Wichita didn't get much snow each year. When we arrived, it was snowing and it ended with about 14 inches on the ground that stuck around for a couple or four weeks. You should have seen HH and me trudging about in the snow trying to find a hotel that was near the train station into which we had ridden. It turned out that there were no nearby hotels, but the falling snow obscured the view so that we had no idea. We finally got a taxi (with our borrowed pennies) to take us to a hotel at 1st and Broadway (or there abouts--the Lassen?). Think that was my first stay at a real hotel--and my introduction to Roller Derby! And, of course, Dudette was "on the way"--in about 3 months.
Posted by: Cop Car | December 14, 2003 at 05:29 AM