January 31st, around noon-ish:
This is just as the snow was beginning to fall. I call this the "before" picture.
Now, check out February 1, the next morning:
Yeah.
Yeah. That happened.
By the time it was all said and done on Sunday night (shortly before dark), we had pretty close to a foot on the ground. The temperature was low single digits with a 25mph or so wind, as well, so we also got drifting -- significant drifting in a lot of places, actually. I watched no fewer than three people get stuck on the road in front of our place, and very nearly watched a guy in a truck take out a snowbank at the end of our driveway. Of course, it was Super Bowl Sunday, so people were hell-bent on getting their beer and wings. At least, that was my assumption.
As an aside, I didn't watch more than about twenty seconds of the game. No, literally, I watched about twenty seconds of the game. Because of the snow and the poor antenna reception I get for that particular channel, I'd get a few seconds of the game and then the TV would tell me "No Signal" for five minutes. Repeat. After about twenty minutes of this, I just turned off the TV.
Now, two days later, most of the snow remains, yes, but the roads are clear-ish. They're just wet with a little slush on them in places. This is due, in part, to repeated plowings/scrapings/treatings by the Omaha road crews, but it's also because today the sun actually came out for a bit, and it's no longer in the single digits (it's in the mid-20s now). Snow is melting off the roof and falling in big piles on the ground every few minutes, so even when the temperature is actually below freezing by a bit, it's still melting off somewhat.
However, tonight (late night) we're expected to get another 1-3 inches, and tomorrow during the day we're expected to get the same, which is going to snarl everything again. It also won't help that the low temperature tomorrow night is supposed to reach -10. That's ten degrees below zero, and forty-two degrees below the freezing point. I'm not looking forward to it, especially since both Daisy and I have to work the rest of the week -- me starting today (in about an hour), her tomorrow.
Yeah. So I'll keep you posted on what happens, I suppose...
