What a short strange winter its been...

I have seen a lot of things happen in a winter, just not so many of them in such a short period of time.

Day 1. Michigan City gets buried with 26 inches of snow, the majority of it falling within an 8 hour span. It snowed so hard that is was hard to see the house accross the street at times. The snow cripples the town to the point where they can only clear one lane in each direction on Franklin street, which the 5 lane main north-south street through town.

Days 4-5. Bitter cold sets in, two days before Christmas. Christmas Eve the lows fall to -5 degrees, with the highs struggling to make it above zero. Thankfully we were in Las Vegas for most of this, and just read about it.

Days 8-10. More like early March weather sets in. Temps soar to the middle 50's. Two feet of snow melts in about a three day span, letting the grass show through again like nothing ever happened.

Days 13-14. The torrential downpours hit. On the first and second days of 2005, we got a total of about 3-4 inches of rain. As bad as it sounds, any precipitation you can get in January that isn't snow is a prayer of mine answered. To put it another way, the common rain to snow translation is for every 1 inch of rain, assume 10 inches of snow. We just dodged 2 1/2- 3 feet of snow this weekend.... Maybe 2005 will be my year afterall ;0)