SE NM hit hard too. At least 11 inches in Oil Patch City.
Wacky weather, don't I know it! The white Christmas was nice, the last one I remember was 49 years ago up in the holler out of Isom KY. Now, the double whammy is quite enough and my weather bug is saying there might be more on Thursday?
Being from the Northwest a lot of the locals here think I'm used to having a lot of snow all winter long, but the truth is in the upper Willamette valley we would get snowfall 2 or maybe 3 times each winter and the accumulation was usually just an inch or two. More often we'd just have cold spells of a week or two immediately following some wet precipitation, so lingering ice was the thing, not much real snow. This winter there has not been any snow of freezing weather at all, and darn little rain.
So yesterday they were all saying gee you must really feel at home now, and I have to remind them once again how they lied to me about the supposedly pleasant winter conditions here. The fact is, compared to the cold snap last Feb. here in Hobbs, I have experienced colder temperatures only one time, during the 1989 arctic express episode when we dipped to -2F ever so briefly!
In Oregon there were the back to back hundred year floods in '95 and '96. And I'm sort of waiting for that here now. There is more than one rainless year in Oregon in my memory, so I am not at all comforted by this past year's drought.
Oh we did take a loader and scraped the snow off our lot yesterday after the now finally quit. But it left a shallow layer on the pavement and this morning it was solid ice. My helper took a step on to it and his feet went out from under him. It was funny for about a minute but his head hit the ground hard, it took a while to get him back on his feet and he was hurting pretty good all day. I did finally get him to go to the doc this afternoon and he is OK but still hurting!