Yeah, Xmas is over, but. It snowed all day today. It just kept up all day long.
I finished up work right down the street from home at 6 PM. When I walked out, there was 3" of snow on my truck. I had just driven it an hour before. 15 minutes after I parked at home, my tire tracks were gone from the driveway. They were covered in snow! Between then and 8 PM, I swept the snow off of the windows of my truck and the school van several times. In all, I swept off 6" of snow. It was futile, they are both still covered.
In between, I saw real blizzard conditions, with snow blowing sideways and falling heavily. We have over 8" of snow and it is still falling, sideways. The metal-sided hut next door is completely covered in ice.
At 7PM I couldn't see the house across the street, except for the porch light. The falling snow was that thick. The wind was hurling snow off of roofs and throwing it around so that visibility was near nil.
Weather records report that Prescott Valley has not seen these conditions in 30 years. Yet here they are. And here we are!
Blizzards and ice storms at 5100 feet altitude in Arizona? What is the world coming to?
Back in the late 80's the Valley had some real storms. I remember Scottsdale Road and McClintock Drive, {Hayden Road) being totally inundated. They were rivers leading to the Salt river. Each of those roads would run a foot deep in water, yet we still drove them.
I got off on those storms as I do these northern ones. There is nobody who can make me say WOW like Ma nature.
It is just awesome to see huge clouds move in and change all of the plans of man and machine!
I finished up work right down the street from home at 6 PM. When I walked out, there was 3" of snow on my truck. I had just driven it an hour before. 15 minutes after I parked at home, my tire tracks were gone from the driveway. They were covered in snow! Between then and 8 PM, I swept the snow off of the windows of my truck and the school van several times. In all, I swept off 6" of snow. It was futile, they are both still covered.
In between, I saw real blizzard conditions, with snow blowing sideways and falling heavily. We have over 8" of snow and it is still falling, sideways. The metal-sided hut next door is completely covered in ice.
At 7PM I couldn't see the house across the street, except for the porch light. The falling snow was that thick. The wind was hurling snow off of roofs and throwing it around so that visibility was near nil.
Weather records report that Prescott Valley has not seen these conditions in 30 years. Yet here they are. And here we are!
Blizzards and ice storms at 5100 feet altitude in Arizona? What is the world coming to?
Back in the late 80's the Valley had some real storms. I remember Scottsdale Road and McClintock Drive, {Hayden Road) being totally inundated. They were rivers leading to the Salt river. Each of those roads would run a foot deep in water, yet we still drove them.
I got off on those storms as I do these northern ones. There is nobody who can make me say WOW like Ma nature.
It is just awesome to see huge clouds move in and change all of the plans of man and machine!