21st October, 2007
SNOW!
Well, well, well…….the weatherman was right. It was going to snow today. As a 2 ½ yr. native of Denver, I have taken the ‘let’s wait and see’ approach to the news people when it comes to weather. That’s because Denver is a bowl and sits next to the Rocky mts., which can make predicting weather hard. They say it will snow, but it doesn’t, they say the high will be in the 50’s and it’s in the 30’s. So I just wait. I know that snow is coming. It came.
This morning I woke up to rain when I drove James to the bus to go to the airport. Humph! Rain, I thought, see they were wrong again. At the bus stop 15 minutes later it was a rain/snow mix and then on the way home, snow, glorious snow. I like driving in the snow, but it’s distracting. On the one hand you have your car hurtling towards the snow at 60 mph. As the snow whips past you and slams into your headlights, it’s like you’re in a video game. You are the space ship zooming through space as stars stream past you. On the other hand if you look at the snow in the streetlamps, the flakes hover and then gently swirl to the ground like dandelion seeds in the sun. At night when it snows, sometimes we sit out on the porch and watch the swirling clouds of flakes meander down in the glow of the lights. It’s fun try it sometime.
Anyway I came back and went to bed and now it’s 9am, I think they predicted 1-2inches (again I don’t believe that, remember the 6 inches that was 3 feet?) and we already have one inch as of 8:45am. I asked Hannah if she wanted to go sledding, “unh-huh!” was her reply. Now the flakes are bigger (so there’s more moisture in the air and the flakes are grabbing onto it) they are now small cotton candy puffs melting on the sidewalk, but gathering on the grass and trees.
It will all be gone by tomorrow, but for today, we celebrate!
Click here to see it snowing!
Posted at 11:47 am |