Let's see. We got snow last Sunday, then another storm that started Thursday afternoon and didn't end totally until Saturday morning. For that matter, it was still snowing when we (David and I) left for Wakefield and a district volleyball tournament at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
The ill wind did me some good, giving me a nice break in the action. I got to stay home on Monday, Thursday and Friday when night events I was scheduled to cover were canceled by the storms. Since it was the last week of the regular season, they won't be rescheduled.
This week is district basketball tournament week, and I've got games every weekday night. Since they are all in my county, no long drives out of town. Well, except for the sportswriters' meeting on Wednesday morning, which is about 150 miles away. I have to blast off that morning before 6 a.m. Fun! Then I've got the regional volleyball tourney on Saturday, about 120 miles away.
No blizzard struck here, though we wound up with something like 12 inches (30 cm), including some bonus snow that lingered the day after. We stayed home and off the roads because it seemed like a really good idea. I don't like driving through snowstorms and avoid it whenever I can. (Sometimes I can't.) When the storms hit, I am more than happy to stay home and let others get photos of the worst of the weather. Unlike the guys at local TV stations from here to there, I am not getting paid to endure such conditions. Plus, they get to tool around in a company car/truck.
Regardless, I got a number of new wintry pictures for you. Drives a chill up the spine for those of you in warmer climes. Can't help it. It has to be done. Anyway ...
This first one was from Tuesday, showing how strongly the wind was blowing from the east, sending the newly fallen snow all over. This view looks west, towards the golf course ...
Apologies in advance for the lack of color, but with natural lighting, there simply isn't much color to see under gray, snowy skies.
I drove south, across the river into Wisconsin and along my favorite stretch of road. But there wasn't much to see except for partially snow-covered roads and one cold crow ...
Still, the local road commission was on duty ...
I had the back sidewalk shoveled out by then. This is how I do it. See that diagonal trail leading to the passenger's side of the car? Aren't I a thoughtful husband?
Then it was Thursday night, and Storm No. 2 struck. It was snowing quite merrily that night. This shot looks towards the old car wash across the street ...
I really didn't take many pictures of the storm's immediate aftermath. I got one of the snow shovel buried in snow, but it was no great shakes. The others were pretty standard.
But things were cleared enough on Saturday for the volleyball tournament, about 70 miles away to the west. We ran into lake effect snow on the way there, but it had cleared out by the time we started heading home in the late afternoon. Here are some snowy rocky bluffs across from the gas station where we stopped before heading back east ...
It was late afternoon, and the sun was setting behind us. I had time to stop for a photo or two on the way. Here is a woods road, well sealed off by the plows ...
And here's a closeup of the snow-covered branches on a tree--partially sunlit at the top.
I called my wife to update her as we were leaving and told her that it was sunny here. She said to bring some home--it still was cloudy there.
As the sun set and the moon rose, David mentioned that we were supposed to have a total lunar eclipse that night. In fact, there was just a little sliver of moon visible, rising above the trees to the east--so the eclipse was under way. As we made our way east and the sky darkened and the moon rose, it also started growing larger--the total eclipse had already ended. Darn!
I have one more photo from Saturday. But that was taken on my work camera, so I'll have to post it later. Some impressive snowpiles in front of the school in Wakefield, where they got something like 17 inches (43 cm).
The other big news is that my new office computer was installed Friday and is in service. Quite a difference, yes indeed! Within a day, I had transferred my iTunes library to the new machine and bought new headphones. (The really good ones--they cost me $8 at the local drug store.) I was the only person from the news side who showed up on Friday--one was snowbound at home, and the other was battling a bad cold and stayed home. For that matter, a lot of people were under the weather.
I'm still feeling pretty good. *Knocks on wood* Except for that highly contagious sickness that I picked up: I am totally sick of winter. This dread disease has spread like wildfire around here, and there seems no cure except one thing ... spring!
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