4 posts tagged “snow”
Last night I flew into Albuquerque airport ~ 10pm. A full moon illuminated the snow cover on the landscape from west of Flagstaff all the way into ABQ. Just thrilling to the 30 of us on the nearly empty Southwest airliner. I sat behind an elderly woman who had lived in Albuquerque since the mid-1950s; she was beside herself with wonder and amazement having never seen the city under that much snow. I was disoriented the entire drive up I-25 (not The 25 here in New Mexico) to Santa Fe. I realize now that I navigate somehow by the geography that I could no longer discern under snow!
I have all sorts of iced canales to deal with in ways for which I have no solutions (ladder? ice pick? snow shovel?). Apparently my flat New Mexico roof is probably a swimming pool of melted snow dammed up by the mighty icicles that reach from the roof to the ground. I'm hoping the "new roof" put on the house four years ago can handle this. I'll take pictures tomorrow morning, perhaps. We still have over a foot of snow on the ground here in Santa Fe. The snow plows finally reached my neighborhood this afternoon.
The weather people say we'll get another snow storm late Friday. Let's hope I can find a snow shovel & salt somewhere in Santa Fe tomorrow afternoon! The utterly dependable and loyal Pet Nannies, Hope and Melissa, dug a path through the back yard for my old dog; Eutaw really can't muster the deer hopping needed to navigate her way!
We are delighted here in New Mexico - especially the folks who were actually here during the storm. Darn it - the first Santa Fe Christmas I've missed. Go figure.
It's a Snow Day! It's a Snow Day!
The joyous cries were heard far and wide through Santa Fe again this morning! I could take more pictures - but they'd look like the ones from before - but with MORE snow (~8"?). The sun is out today - brilliant blue skies - illluminating all the snow crystals. Eutaw and I explored the neighborhood this morning - she pounded through the snow like a puppy (even old dogs love Snow Days!). It's a light, powdery snow (telemark skiiers rejoice!) . But, the surface streets are frozen solid. It really is a winter wonderland here.
Unlike Seattle, Santa Feans are happy in snow. We woke up this morning to a snow flurry at dawn that brought about an inch of snow - our first accumulation of record this season. Too late for the ski hill that didn't open on Thanksgiving. But my paperwhites decided to bloom this week too - so it must be winter here at last.
Santa Fe is called the City Different for many valid reasons. Last night's weather was out of the ordinary even for Santa Fe. Starting around 7pm last night we had the most violent and vicious thunderstorms pass through since I've lived here. We got an awful lot of lightning, a little bit of thunder, and heavy rains (0.43"!) until nearly 11pm. Our power went out ~8:30pm and came back on in the middle of the night. There was a layer of frost on the patio this morning. Today around 10am the heavy clouds lifted off the Sangre de Cristo mountain range to reveal a dusting of snow! The weather service says Fall starts officially tomorrow
