When we went to bed last night it was raining quite hard. You could hear it drumming on the roof and running off onto the plastic covers on the scapewells. (Nice bass, that.) Sometime during the night it got quiet—ominously quiet—and when we woke up this morning it was painfully obvious why. The rain had switched to snow.
It was still coming down while I prepared pancakes for breakfast but stopped altogether by 8:30 AM. We got between 1 and 2 inches of very wet heavy snow here at the Aerie (elevation 2100 feet).
More than enough to cover the ground and deck. They even sent the snowplow up the road to plow and spread cinders.
But down in the valley…nothing, or at least just a dusting.
It’s April 12, for crying out load. One year ago we were getting all set to have the log package delivered. The foundation had been poured and the deck was almost in place. This year it’s been colder than a well diggers bottom most of the time and the snow showers have been coming fairly steadily.
And I DO NOT want to talk about the forecast for this weekend.
For now—I saw for NOW—the weather is very pleasant. It’s sunny and the temperature is supposed to reach 45 degrees this afternoon. All this batch will melt away leaving the roads a nice slick reddish clay.
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The tree-huggers somehow equate all of this unseasonably cold weather we're having to global warming.
I would assume that if we were having unseasonably WARM weather this Spring the same bunch of enviro-fascists would attribute that to global warming, as well!
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