You know, it was just as I predicted. Here in the valley we got snow that barely stuck to the ground (or as the more uneducated would say, ‘didnt hardly stick’). Basically, it was exactly as I anticipated. “But Helena got nine feet of snow! But Billings got seven feet of snow!…”, etc, etc. May be, but you know what? I don’t live in Billings or Helena, so I’m really pretty unconcerned about that. I said that where I live it was going to barely register as snow and thats pretty much how it played out. I call this one in my favor.
But thats this time. Next time…who knows? Which is why we try to maintain a particular level of readiness for these things.
But did people still drive like it was their first time ever seeing snow?
Had to leave for miles city Sunday morning. 2-3″ at 5000′ where I live north of Missoula. Road was pretty clear to deer lodge area. 1/2 after the road deteriorated I saw the first and only wreck a Toyota Camry with out of state plates directly into the end of a guardrail. Once I got to the other side of butte the road was pretty clear (even homestake pass was bare and wet).
Still 97F here and tinder dry… Not changing at all for at least a week… I’m thinking Fall is just a figment of my heat addled brain…
Regards
Commander, you’re a lucky guy. One of my friends in Calgary sent me a few photos and boy they got hammered. She had to deal with around a foot and a half when it was over. Meanwhile, where I am in southern Ontario, it’s been in the high sixties and I’ve been happily chipping away at the winter preps.
As the boss used to say when I was driving, hauling whatever to wherever. “Quit obsessing and worrying about what the weather is going to do or not do. It may be raining, hailing, snowing, freezing rain, whatever! 3 miles down the road it may be bare and dry and sunny the rest of the way, now get your ass out there and get this delivered”. Or words to that effect.
The weather is gonna do what the weather is gonna do no matter where you are. Be prepared and deal with it, or stay in mommys basement, cry and whine like a proper little cupcake….. Everyone seems intent on having the worst, most horrendous, most hazardous weather. It’s simply different no matter where you are. Who cares! There are people that are smart, more gifted, intelligent, more personable, beautiful, whatever than you are, just like the weather. Cept for me, I’m more intelligent than a box of rocks, but barely. Which is more than I can say bout our current crop of congresscritters, whom appear to be having difficulty getting an IQ higher than bacteria….. Bwwwwaaaaahhhhhaaaaaa … winter is almost here, time for a break, to sit on my fat arse and read a dozen books or so, and feed the phyre…
Enn-ess, when you are calling dispatch to tell them the snowplows have been called back to the barn,the State Police are locking the onramp/offramp gates and the guy from Buffalo is stuck in the parking lot,it is just to inform them and not to call while you sleep. 40+ years hauling lets you decide when it’s safe(black ice,freezing rain,ice fog not safe) but the steering wheel holders they are putting out there don’t seem to have the ability to handle simple conditions.
Same storm dropped over 7 inches of rain in a little over a hour where I grew up. Flooding had to have been worst ever seen, a lot of land built over since anything like that rain(we built boats and swam in the streets last time).