I Spoke Too Soon

Last night we got 4 inches of snow.  I spoke too soon. 

Now the forecast is for more snow on Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday. 

Here's a photo of our current snow. 

We even have sledders on our hill. 

We Dodged a Bullet

Everyone is saying, "We dodged a bullet".  They, of course, are referring to the monster snow storm on Tuesday that stretched from New Mexico to New England. 

Here are some snowfall totals:  Tulsa 14 inches, Springfield, MO 14 inches, Columbia, MO 17 inches, Chicago 19 inches.  I-44 was closed through the whole state of Oklahoma.  I-70 was closed in Missouri for most of a day. 

But all we had in Mountain View was about one-fourth of an inch of ice with a dusting of snow on top of it. 

This photo shows what ice can do.  These are 25-year old white pines.  One is severely drooping and the other came crashing down.  Many smaller limbs are down around town.  But I've heard of no power outages here.  A little more ice and some strong winds would have been disastrous. 

The second photo is in our back yard.  My "precious" short-leaf pines are looking sad.  We lost a few limbs. 

I'm ready for some melting.  The streets and highways are no problem, but I don't want to lose any trees. 

Our predicted high temperature today is 21 degrees after an overnight low of 4.  So melting may be minimal today.  Springfield, MO, set a record overnight with -9 degrees.  Just last Saturday Springfield had 68. 

That's the way the winter weather goes in my corner of the Ozarks.  Last Friday we played golf when the air temperature was 57.

Stay tuned.  It will change.