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Cheating here. Pulled out a DiGiorno's and doctored it a bit. That and a bowl of 'tater soup will be dinner.

So, we DID start a lot earlier than what NWS was calling for, but the 2 hours of snizzle and, as @Bob Chill said, sand took forever to accumulate to making everything white. The flake size has definitely increased in last 20 minutes and visibilities are down in the 1-2 mile range now compared to the 5-7 mile vis earlier. Just a holler to those upstream.

After TWO HOURS of very light snow, have enough for the ground to be white, lol. Currently 15.8/3.0, light snow and ENE wind at 6 mph.

I'm thinking Blacksburg said 5-6 pm ish? So yeah about 2 hours ahead? But it is LIGHT, I can almost count the flakes in the air falling.

And first flakes here. Currently 19.5/1.3, so still pretty dry.

Yep. I'm to the point that going to Roanoke is irritating lol.

Started light snow in Blacksburg about 20 minutes ago per VDOT traffic cams.

Well, it WILL take a bit to get the moisture down to the ground layer. It is pretty dry in the lower column.

Crazy.

All of that is SUPER ugly! YIKES. Someone said Dominion Electric VA hiked rates at start of year, so we'll see what happens. Sadly many have to be chained to that with no recourse, and I seriously doubt it gets better going forward. Happily I use the 3 step heating system, cut the wood, stack the wood, burn the wood. I have propane (which is ridiculously high too) as back-up and what I call 'shoulder seasons' in early fall and late spring, but that may go bye-bye if propane keeps going up and I'll just burn wood 24/7/200+.

Congrats!!

After a chilly 14.9 low it has warmed to a toasty 17.1/0.5 at 11:15 am. Mostly cloudy skies. Brisk NE winds!

It is cold! And WINDY!

LOL. My wife likes to listen to either a crackling fire or rain falling to go to sleep. A big change from my 'widower' stage when I fell asleep to hockey playing on TV.

Back to the 'car issues'?

You mean he's back out after being in after being out?

28.1/10.4 at 8:30 here and falling.

*Considering*

Looks like I hit the 'high' today about 2 pm at 42.2 degrees. Now down to 40.5/8.1 with WNW wind 15 gusting to 31 mph. Yeah ANOTHER windy day, just shocked!

Yep. In the 02/14/2007 storm the sleet ran down the chutes/ravines on Rt 220 between Clifton Forge and Iron Gate and closed the road! It was 3-4 feet deep and took VDOT about 4 hours to get both lanes opened again.

23.4 for the low this morning. Currently 36.3/12.9 at 10:35 am.

LOL, as I put up the last post church sent out text, no services Sunday.

So true, many, many days I loaded up onto the bus as the snow was falling and roads had been covered for a couple hours. Can't remember the year (but I was in elementary, so pre 1976) and the older teens got off the bus and helped the driver put the chains on the bus, going TO school. Our route picked everyone up in neighborhood and dropped the youngsters off at elementary before taking HS kids on to school. That is a no-no nowadays, as is the fact that 90% of the time the last stop or two STOOD in the isle because the seats were full.

02/14/2007 says-

I wish they'd quit filling my spam email filter with requests for overdue credit card payments! Especially since I've never dealt with them before.