If you've paid any attention to the news, you probably heard about the big snowstorm that hit the east coast this weekend. Now further up the coast, near New York & Boston, I would definitely say that it was a big snowstorm, a nor'easter as they call them. Down here in Virginia, however, we got a mere 5 inches as opposed to the almost 27 inches that fell in the Big Apple.
On Saturday, the day Virginia got all of its snow, I drove to Kentucky. Now several people from work were a bit concerned about my plan to brave the winter weather. Things like "didn't you hear there's going to be a big snowstorm this weekend?" and "Hope you are rethinking your drive to Kantucky tomorrow! Snow snow snow!" (The misspelling of Kentucky is quoted from an e-mail).
Just because easterners & southerners - whatever these Virginians are - are scared of a little snow, doesn't mean that I have to be.
Anyway, the roads were fine for the most part. The last stretch between the Virginia/West Virginia border & Harrisonburg was a bit dicey. For a while the passing lane was completely covered by a few inches of snow & the driving lane only had tire tracks clear. It was slow going for a while. At times there we long lines of semis & cars & trucks crawling along at 35 mph on the Interstate, but better that than stopping & having to pay for a hotel 30 miles from home.
The snow here in Harrisonburg was absolutely beautiful. About 5 inches of thick, fluffy snow had covered the ground by the time I got back. It was that perfect type of snow. It's the type of snow that just begged you to make a snow angel or to build a snow pa and snow boy.
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I love people's perception of weather. People in Idaho and Montana think they get a lot of snow. They have NO IDEA! That South Dakota upbringing was good for something, huh?!
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