Sprintime in the Rockies! A wonderful time of year! Beautiful crisp clear days interspersed with howling blizzards! Ain't it great! We just had our first really serious blizzard here in the Central Mountain Area, all that snow you see on the news got stuck on them ski slopes and rarely made it here....until now.
This was really just a baby blizzard, really!
When the news gabbed about it endlessly for days and predicted 1-2 ft of snow, folks in town got all excited! We always do in a blizzard! It could mean a couple of things to us....it could be a "whopper" where everyone is seriously stuck for days and even the snowplows run for cover! It could be a "sorta whopper" where we may be stuck til the plow comes but folks that can are still going to work...Or, it could just fizzle out to be a plain ole' snowstorm. Thats what this one did. Fizzled. Pffft! Phooey!
Cracks me up seeing the grocery stores filled with folks buying stuff cuz there is a blizzard warning on the news! Heck, the news can't even find my house much less predict near right what the weather is going to be round here!
Folks seemed to think this could be the "Mother of All Blizzards" the way they were buying stuff! Oh, what was I doing in the store? Buying stuff! Thats right! Just in case the TV went out I had to stock up on videos, popcorn and stuff too! It (tv) never did go out, but sometimes it does! Now, if the power goes out we have a plan for that, too!
So, the snow came and the wind blew and everyone vacated their jobs at about 11 am in Cripple Creek last Thursday. I didn't get to head out of town til around 1pm. That was fine, though, cause the snow was light and even tho the wind was blowing the flat to the Mt Pisgah curve wasn't covered with ground blizzards like it can be. Temps drop quickly in one of these storms, I try to carry a winter coat and gloves around with me, cause it did! And I only had to deal with a couple of paranoid drivers in 2 wheel drives going down that hill, so leaving after the rush has its merits too! I made it home, stoked the fire, snuggled into my couch with my blankie and the wind howled and the snow blew as the night wore on.
Friday morning we woke to a white wonderland. Snow drifted up about 2 ft on my southern porches, and there was about 8 inches in the pastures, but that was it. Big Whup! So, that made this Mother of All Blizzards a Baby Blizzard in my book. Didn't have to get plowed out. Didn't get stuck for any amount of time...except no one really moved much on Friday. Give the plows a chance to do their thing, give Old Man Sun a chance to melt the roads and just about everyone else does the same thing around here too. Barely any snow on my 1 mile of driveway at all. Oh, I threw the horses a couple of bales of hay cause they were giving me big sad eyes. We shoveled the patio and made a path for the dogs.
Its almost all gone today, Sunday. I didn't even get a chance to take photographs of this blizzard, it came and went and left such a little impression! Don't get me wrong, I am thankful for the open winter we have had this year and doubly thankful for the slight moisture we got from this baby blizzard! Lord knows we need it! But there is always that excitement when the Big One comes....where it really snows, and snows a lot! Maybe still this year, but most likely not. Life goes on. We wait. And Watch. And stock up on stuff!
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