They’ve been talking all week about this MASSIVE storm that was supposed to hit us yesterday and today…like, 5-8” of snow. Now, I’m writing this at 9:00 on Sunday night, and so far the sidewalks have just enough snow to make them white. Unless a lot more comes in overnight, we’ll see a whole different scenario that what was predicted.

I feel sorry for weather forecasters. They can study every model, calculate every possibility, compare and scan and look at all the gauges and computer printouts and radar and still be wrong, wrong, wrong. Perhaps they need a weather rock. If it’s wet, it’s raining. If it’s white, it’s snowing. If it’s moving, it’s windy. We are often just as far ahead if we stick our head out the window and look. Yet, you can get an app on your phone that sends you a message to say it’s going to start raining in seven minutes. Often, it’s right. Go figure.

We changed our doctor’s appointments from today to Wednesday in anticipation of this latest round of dire predictions. Facebook is full of stories of empty shelves at Walmart. Did they wait too long to go? Or were the people ahead of them greedy and buy ALL the things…just because they were there? My Denver family have seen shortages in the stores secondary to the strike at King Soopers. In all this time of “supply chain issues”, I have yet to see it reflected in our local stores unless they’re predicting snow. Then, everybody and their brother runs out to get “French Toast”…eggs, milk, and bread. Oh, and let’s fill a whole cart…you know, just in case we can’t get out till the spring thaw.

These people would never make it in the Colorado Rockies in the winter. I know they haven’t had big snows since they’ve been in the grips of this drought and if you waited till the threat of snow was over, you’d only get out in July and August. I talked to my sister-in-law in Salt Lake City last night. We discussed the difference between winter driving here vs. the Rockies. First, the feel of the snow under your tires is different. Here, the roads feel greasy when there’s snow on them. Colorado snow is a lot dryer and compacts differently. Also, it doesn’t snow nearly as often here in West Virginia…no one uses studded snow tires while they’re de rigueur in Colorado.

I put a crockpot of chili on late Saturday night and we had a big bowl while we watched football yesterday. I’m making quicker progress on the second sock and shopping online for yarn to make a sweater next. My brother has managed to dodge any real illness with his case of Covid…just one day of head congestion. He was fully vaccinated and boosted…on time. Daughter #2 and her wife weren’t as lucky. She hasn’t had fevers for a few days, but still feels pretty darned sick, bless her heart.

We have no place to go till Wednesday, so it’s more knitting for me!

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“The stormy wind comes from its chamber, and the driving winds bring the cold. God’s breath sends the ice, freezing wide expanses of water.”

Job 37:9-10 NLT