The Blizzard of 2009

Yes, it's March (almost April) and yes, it was 80+ degrees here not long ago, but the metro has been a flutter for a week now talking about the impending blizzard of 2009. It was forecasted to roll in yesterday after 5 pm, with the snow supposedly starting after 10 pm. There was a snow total in the 6" range forecasted for the eastern side of the metro (that's us).

I use the word forecasted because as we know, sometimes the weather man is wrong! I went to bed at 10pm with no rain, sleet or anything at our house, although there was sleet/snow in the western parts of the metro. We woke up this morning thinking we'd see a blanket of white. Um... not so much.

T left for work, joking about our blizzard. He called when he got to the casino (5 miles away, mind you) and apparently it WAS snowing there, but there wasn't any accumulation. So I opened the blinds just to have the light in the house. And then all of a sudden, like we live on a movie set, massive amounts of snow start blowing in from the west. It literally looks like someone had a pile of fake snow and had a fan machine on - completely wild!

So I don't think we're going to have 6" of snow, but it's been blowing in sideways and heavy for the last 20 minutes. So I guess we'll see what happens.