{"id":277,"date":"2008-02-03T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/2008\/02\/03\/wet-cold-snowy\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:52:13","slug":"wet-cold-snowy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/2008\/02\/03\/wet-cold-snowy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet, Cold, Snowy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had a dream that the sun had come out and melted all the snow\u00a0off of\u00a0my driveway. It was a nice dream. In reality, as I got ready to head out to an early church meeting this morning, I found another six inches piled on.\u00a0And it was still snowing!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/snow-1.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy House\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the National Weather Service, December 2007 was the 4th wettest December on record for Salt Lake City. The monthly summary for January hasn&#8217;t been published yet, but I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s got to be in contention for the all-time record, because it seemed like it snowed no less than every other day. Ethan and Gerrit keep hoping for a snow day with cancelled school, but sorry guys, this is Utah.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/snow-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gerrit\u2019s Tunnel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a storm hit the area about a week ago, my boss told us all to go home (and work there) so that we could beat the worst of it. It was not a good time to be on the roads. There were white-out conditions in some places, where you were stuck with the dilemma of driving nearly blind or trying to stop somewhere with the danger that someone would rear-end you. At one point, I suddenly found myself staring right in the headlights of a truck. Fortunately we were going slowly enough that we could stop, and the other driver, after a moment of confusion, backed up and moved over onto his side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The visibility was so bad that day that Ethan walked right past\u00a0our neighbor in her\u00a0white van, who was\u00a0waiting to\u00a0drive him home from school, and trudged into the blizzard. Another neighbor rescued him before he got too far, but it will still be a good story to tell his kids if they&#8217;re ever soft about having to walk home from school.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/snow-3.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Meter Table\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Today&#8217;s fresh load of snow was easily more than a foot. Fortunately some kind neighbors helped dig out the driveway when we got home from church. Aside from the snow placed there by nature, there was also a two-foot\u00a0wall of snow and ice blocking the drive from the snow plow.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/snow-4.jpg\" alt=\"Groundhogs?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiff.com\/a\/groundhog-day.htm\">Punxsutawney Phil&#8217;s prediction<\/a>, we&#8217;ve still got more to go. Maybe the sun will\u00a0clear my driveway in a month or so. Until then, we&#8217;ll keep shoveling,\u00a0sliding and sledding. Did I mention that it&#8217;s still snowing?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/snow-5.jpg\" alt=\"No One Is Exempt\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had a dream that the sun had come out and melted all the snow\u00a0off of\u00a0my driveway. It was a nice dream. In reality, as I got ready to head out to an early church meeting this morning, I found another six inches piled on.\u00a0And it was still snowing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}