I’m interrupting my vacation picture flow here to jump back into REAL time for a few days because we are under a severe winter weather advisory including a BLIZZARD warning. They’ve been talking about this storm for 2 days now. Surrounding areas 2-3 hours away already have roads closed and a foot of snow. One report I read is predicting 9-10 inches tonight and possibly just as much tomorrow with wind gusts up to 45 mph. They really don’t know what this storm is going to do, but they have said that we haven’t seen a system like this in our area since 1950 something when there was about 40 inches of snow! WHOO YOO! We’re hoping for a REAL WINTER STORM one of these days.. of course, one that doesn’t cause the power to go out, nor close the roads, nor cause any other inconveniences (LOL). We would just like the snow without the problems. At 9:00 a.m. we barely had a little rain and some puddles….

I’ve been photographing the weather all day so I can have a record of how this storm progresses.. y’all know that I’m into weather reporting from the books I’ve read lately, right? Here are some pictures from before noon this morning. If you look in the background of the picture you can see that it’s already snowing in the hills, but hasn’t quite started down here yet as of 11:00 a.m. After lunch it started to snow, but it wasn’t cold enough to stick so it melted as soon as it hit the ground. I’ll update later this afternoon o show you how the storm has progressed. Here are the around-noon pictures.