Snow storm Izzy

 This storm had so much hooplah before it arrived. That's because they wanted everyone to be ready. And we all know that weather people forecast things which mother nature usually brings about in her own good time. I guess that way weather people can get their trucks and  cameras in position where they think the storm will hit.

One of the more famous weather people flew into Asheville earlier in the week. We then knew it was going to be an event worth televising. (Note, Jim Cantore was indeed in Asheville talking about our local snow on the national weather channel!)

Living with it is a bit different.

We have more than enough provisions. We have charged our phones, arranged our snow gear (I haven't worn those boots for 2 years) and then wait. And wait and wait.

Good thing it's due to start (I wrote this Sat. night) in the midnight hour. And so I will check out the window whenever I wake up to visit the bathroom. I've been disappointed most of last year. 2018 was the last good snow here...so that's more than 2 years.

Earlier there was a notification of a terrible wreck (their description) on I-40. But no precipitation has fallen at all, so it must have been caused by something else. I'll find out about that maybe later in the news, but there's likely to be a lot more coming. So I'm signing off for now...

At 7 am it wasn't beginning to be light as it usually is. 

At 7:10 this morning it was still night out. 

7:20 am - still as dark as midnight. We're surrounded by cloud/fog. There's maybe 5 inches over everything, but I don't see it falling. There aren't many branches with anything on them, though I don't see a bit of wind to knock snow off them. Kind of strange. But maybe because its so dark. Yesterday this was full light time.

Finally it's getting light outside!

At 8:15 very tiny snow flakes still coming down with a little southerly wind. Nobody is out there!

The front porch...

Still coming down pretty heavy at 9 am. (I used this for my header for a while). 

All day long there were either flurries or sleet for a while mixed with snow. 

And nobody noticed how deep it was in Black Mountain, at least on the local weather. That's ok with me. Our parking lot, our sidewalks, and our porches and steps are covered with snow. The little bits of salt that were sprinkled all over the sidewalks and steps kept them wet enough for the first snow falling hours (which I saw when I woke up around 4 am.)

By dinnertime (6:30pm) I could see over the building down the hill from me, as far as the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly building. But it didn't look as though Blue Ridge Rd had been plowed. I saw a couple of pick ups go down it during the day, but nobody tried to go up that steep hill while I was watching.

In the lower photo you can't see the tracks of the women who walked from the office building in the afternoon.  I saw them carrying a snow shovel and a broom. I guess they had ideas of clearing off their walkway. It didn't happen. And snow continued to fall off and on until the sun went down.

I think Monday will come and not much will have changed. I know that the next forecast is for winds with high gusts. I do hope we don't lose electricity. It's darn cold out there...never got above freezing all day Sunday.

I hope the rest of my friends who received some of Izzy had no problems from it.

Today's quote:

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -Jerry Seinfeld, comedian (b. 29 Apr 1954)