I was visiting my daughter at school up in Pottsdam, NY and I guess I stayed too late for the snowstorm.
While traveling South on Rt 81, in an almost blinding snow, I was following a State dump truck with a humoungus 12 foot high snow blower on the front.
All of a sudden it stopped dead in the single southbound lane, and started to back up, until he saw my headlights in back of his rig.
He turned around going northbound in the southbound lane, and cut a path to the northbound lane - I looked ahead and saw only a 12 snow drift dead ahead blocking the road,
I could go no further, so I too turned around and went briefly northbound in the southbound land until I saw a "cut-off", recently dug out by the State truck to the northbound lane and returned to Watertown.
I stayed the overnight in Watertown, and laughed when the TV weather said that it was -17 below at Fort Drum, figuring that closer to the Lake it had to be warmer.
Wrong!
The TV weather said that Watertown was -27 below, and that night, when I had gone outside briefly around midnight,
it was the first time I had ever seen "Frozen Fog", coming towards me, shimmering in the street lights.
Absolutely chilling and yet awesome !