Snowing, snowing

It started snowing around 10:00 this morning and has not stopped as of yet. It may snow all night and into tomorrow, according to the radio. The station is in Branson, which is about an hours drive away, so sometimes the weather predictions are somewhat off. They let the schools out early and the grocery store was so packed I had to wait for a shopping cart to use! Everyone is stocking up in case they get "snowed in" for a few days.

Coming from Colorado, this all seems a bit silly to me. I mean, they have gotten over 50 inches so far this year in Denver and life goes on. Here, we get one inch and the whole town shuts down. I can understand when there is ice under the snow, but today it just started snowing with no rain before so there is no ice. The highway was dry and as long as the snowplows do their thing, the town should still be able to function.

So cold!

We have lots of family in and around Denver, Colorado. They are having the worst winter ever! They got snow dumped on them for the past four weekends (twice it was 2 feet at a time) and now they are having extremely cold temperatures (think -7) so all that snow is not melting. They have huge piles of snow the size of small mountains in parking lots and have even filled Coors Field with extra snow. They are still looking for other areas to plow even more snow, because some roads haven't been cleared yet.

We lived there for 20 years and have never had a winter that bad. Of course, the weather people are blaming "El Nino," but I believe it is the overall Global Warming of our planet. "El Nino" is supposed to be a shift in weather patterns occurring every 3-5 years, but the weather seems to have been getting progressively worse each year.