It’s 33 outside right now.
We got some inches of snow, which I haven’t been outside to measure yet, and a glaze of icing. Everything is shut down now.
We’re in a break of weather for now. Matter of fact, the sun is peaking through the clouds.
But what’s coming looks like liquid on the radar, and with everything so cold, if it is, it’ll freeze on contact. We’re going to have another break after that and then get whomped with another batch of the storm in the form of snow.
Sun is out, now (11:15). Homer Glen, IL officially marked 21 inches of Global Warming on the ground from the storm.
I have a 4.5 foot drift in the backyard.
The real bummer is that, coming home from my EMA gig at 04:00, I had to “ditch” my car in the parking lot of a strip mall so as not to get a ticket from the village for leaving my car on my street.
Got back to it this morning and the snow-service company beat me to it. They piled up as much snow around it as they could...that’ll teach me! (joiks.)
From what I heard we received 20”. It took us from 9 am until 2 pm to get shoveled out (though that included helping a couple neighbors). We were finished at home around 1 pm. I’m pooped and so is my wife. I’m going to have a little Maker’s Mark tonight to celebrate still breathing...