The Surprise Blizzard that Stole Halloween in New Fairfield, CT
It was October 29, 2011. We were enjoying an extended Indian summer in New Fairfield. Without an early frost, flowers were still blooming and the leaves on deciduous trees were for the most part green.
First snow drops appearing on blooms in late October '11 in New Fairfield
New Fairfield was decked out in its finest Halloween pageantry. Children already started celebrating one of their favorite holidays EVER, testing out costumes at various pre-event activities around town and in school, and… most eagerly anticipating the REAL Halloween night with its adrenalin highs of Trick-or-Treating, generously fueled by ongoing sugar consumption.
The weather forecasts for New Fairfield and the surrounding Candlewood Lake areas were DIRE: not to be believed, but we were expected to get SNOW and not a trivial amount of it. In this area, it often does not snow until around Christmas.
Well, the meteorologists were quite right. The snow came and the results in New Fairfield were nearly disastrous. Not to mention that Halloween in New Fairfield was ruined that year.
Same roses as above a short while after it started snowing.
...and that was just the beginning.
Note: all photo's courtesy of Olga Simoncelli
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