The holiday brought us a lot of snow!!!

I thought I would attach a few pictures to this post to give you an idea of just how much snow we are dealing with.

As a new “front” comes in tonight we are expecting to get another 10-12 inches and of course there is no end in site.

You can check on the webcam periodically to see the progress.  Notice that the benches around the fire pit are no longer visible.  You also can’t seem

much of the bench that is normally in front of the spruce tree.  We did put lights in the spruce again this year but thee is so much snow on the tree that they are hard to see. 

I’m ready for some global warming.

You can also see the last 40 webcam images here…

It has been snowing since I arrived home from my business trip on Wednesday 12/17.   We have shoveled and blown nearly 25 inches of snow from our sidewalks and our driveway.  I just want it to stop.

What we are hearing on the news is that the record snowfall for a 24 hour period was somewhere in the neighborhood of 13 inches back in 1950.  The National Weather Service on last report that I looked at had us at 19 inches in a 24 hour period.   Absolutely shattering the prior record.  (They’ve been keeping records here in Spokane since the early 1880s.)

Now for the most part I am like the snow.  I was born and raised with it and know how to drive in it and we have the equipment to help use remove it, etc.  What I don’t like about it is the way others deal with it.    Take the City of Spokane for example… they can’t seem to figure out how to keep our city streets clean.  When we lived in Chicago we would get a major storm and within 24 hours things were back to normal.  Chicago I believe at one point was going to impeach a mayor because they couldn’t get the roads cleaned efficiently.  It’s no surprise we are going to get snow… Why does it take so long to get the streets open?   Another example is the amazing impatience that people have with one another… particularly when driving.  Conditions call for a slower speed… remember that as you are wrapped around the light pole and spending the night in the emergency room.

This is two winters in a row now where Spokane has experienced record snowfall.  And preceding this snow we had some incredibly low temperatures to boot.  I’d like some environmentalist or expert on our world’s environment to tell me how this is all a part of global warming?   When even Las Vegas gets snow…Well maybe hell has frozen over and we are going to now get what we have coming?

I’ve always liked the snow for it’s cleansing ability.  After a fresh snow things are very quiet, things are peaceful… the sounds of the city are muted and the cares of the world, at least for the moment seem to disappear.

It’s the aftermath of the snow that I don’t care for too much… slippery roads, the melting and the turning of the pristine environment into a muddy, slushy mess, getting “plowed” into your drive by city snow plows, and those heating bills.   Interesting thing is…the reason I enjoy the snow is for the calm… the reasons I don’t like it are the inconveniences in my life.  Right now I want it gone… the inconveniences are winning.

On the positive side… maybe we won’t have severe drought conditions in the summer… We could certainly hope!!!