When I awoke in the 8:00 hour, I found my phone had been receiving alerts since somewhere
in the 3 o'clock hour.
A week of extremely low temps (for the area) and occasional freezing rain — punctuated
by a pile-up of over 130 cars on US Highway 35 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area resulting in
six deaths — is about to culminate in an estimated 4 to 8 inches of snow tonight into
tomorrow.
Laurel placed an instacart order Friday night. When the shopper was filling the order
yesterday, he sent her images of bare shelves. There's a lot of our order that went unfilled
simply because shoppers cleaned them out in advance.
I took a photo out our front door at 9 AM. We appeared to have received about 1/4" of
precip by then. Later, at 11 AM, we seem to have received some additional snowfall, but
not enough to make 1/2" yet.
The big show is supposed to happen sometime this afternoon, I think. The current temp
(11:50 AM) is 17°, with a wind chill of 1°. WTAF
UPDATE: I measured 2.5" of snow on the ground as of 6 PM this evening, and 3.5"
at 8 PM. And the weather alerts are piling up: it's now believed we'll receive an additional
6 between this evening and Monday, I think; wind chills may reach -20°F. All we can
do about it now is just brew some coffee and brace for impact.
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