Snow, Snow, and (Seriously?) More Snow

Today a slushy machine exploded onto Colorado. It rained all day yesterday. Much needed and nice. Most of the day was more like a heavy, misty fog. Gray and dreary. My hair curled. It made me long for the misty, foggy mornings of northern California. It got old when I lived in it day after day after day, but it's such an anomaly here that it's a nice change! Sometime after midnight and before 3:45 am, when I woke up, it started snowing. And it pretty much hasn't stopped! The snow is not the normal light and fluffy snow that Colorado normally experiences, but a heavy, wet, "white rain" (as my friend called it). Look at the poor tree in my front yard (the one on the far right):

It's normally much more upright than this! In fact, you can't see window on the far right most of the time. Not today. We've already lost our satellite signal and power (right around bed time). The latter of which came back on, but not until after Caitlin had a fit because she thought I magically turned her light off, even though I was in the other room. She's still having issues.

The weather today was just plain weird! I had a meeting at a friend's this morning. Since the kids were up early, we decided to brave the elements and head over. We bundled up in snow boots, coats, hats, etc, and headed out. It was an 8 mile drive (nothing is close around here), and about half way there the snow got light. It was as if we walked out of a darkened movie theater into daylight. There was no snow on the ground! The heavy snow we'd been experiencing just vanished. It was raining, but nothing hard. We looked a little dumb showing up in all our cold weather gear, but at least the kids didn't get their feet wet walking through the puddles up to the house. On the way home, the rain turned back into snow, around the same place, and it was still snowing quite heavily back at our house. That didn't let up all day, but had periods of the "white rain". When Caitlin and I went to pick up Brandon at school, the ground was so slushy I had to carry her in places because there was water up to her knees! You couldn't always tell when you'd be stepping in to it, either, as all the slushy parts were covered with a pristine layer of white snow.

Brian didn't know if he'd make it home tonight, either. From what I hear, he's on the ground here an on his way home. But we didn't know if he'd make it home today, or tomorrow. We have 8 inches of wet snow already, and it's suppose to pick up again over night. Brian's been gone all week and leaves again on another business trip on Monday, so we want him home for a couple of days! A friend e-mailed me from DIA with the sobering news that the airport closed and planes were being rerouted to Pueblo (about 2 1/2 hours away). Fun. Luckily that didn't happen for us. So Brian's on his way home. Yeah!

Colorado has been so dry this winter. It looked like a tinderbox. I wonder what the moisture level is now. Maybe spring will come after all. My tulips might not make it, though:

(There are at least 10 more under all the snow that you can't see!).