Tonight's Forcast: Blizzard

The Blizzard of '07 has rolled into town. I don't know why the news people always have to come up with a stupid name for any weather event. The Weather Channel is calling it 'February Fury'. The local news is going with 'Big Blast'. Stuuuupid. My boss called me at quarter to six this morning to tell me that we were under a level three snow emergency [only emergency personal are supposed to be out on the roads] (see what Colonel Eggroll says about that); she went on to say that they were going to try and have eveybody come in two hours later. It was my turn then to inform her that today is my day off. Thanks a lot, jerk.

And any discussion of snow in multiple inches in this area cannot avoid bringing up the Blizzard of '78. It's true that this county was the hardest hit by that particular storm. They had to call in the national guard to dig people out. It's the measuring stick by which all snowfall is judged by the media around here. Yesterday was not up to that level of craziness, but it was a nice little blizzard all the same. 10 inches of snow (give or take), 35 mph winds, and near white out conditions. The storm kind of tapered off suddenly last night or we would have probably recieved another 4 or 5 inches.

I put up some snowy pictures on my flickr if you're interested.

Oh and I did get out my winter coat last night when I went out to help one of my neighbors get his car unstuck.