Sunday, February 18th, 2018…... Weird
day! We heard last night that the
weather was going to be turning colder, and this next storm might bring a
little snow to the Portland area. They
showed the road commission getting ready with chemicals, sand and even salt because
they expected it to be bad in the city.
Our forecast called for snow as well.
We woke up and Lydia wasn’t feeling well. She had the chills but no fever. She got sick to her stomach. I wasn’t feeling all that well myself. She said she had some bread that didn’t smell
right. It was buttermilk bread, so it just
smelled like buttermilk to me. Maybe it was something else we ate. My sister texted that it was starting to snow
at her place. We got just a small amount
here but a little bit later it came down pretty good. But it was only just making the ground and
then melting. Nothing stuck. She brought Quincy over later and walked her
and then went in and sat with Lydia for a while. Eventually Lydia said she felt a little better
and got dressed. And I managed to eat a bit and I felt better as well. Meanwhile, the snow would stop and then
start. Again, nothing stuck.
Penny left and we settled in to watch our taped
tv shows. Later, the sun came out. Then
a few minutes later it clouded up and then snowed again! We watched as this went on almost all
day. We also got small bb size hail that
stayed on the ground and turned things white.
My grass is so thick now that you could barely see it snowed. The white stuff showed up only in the flower
beds. The Portland area news stations showed that they got way more than we
got. There were cars sliding around in
what they said was 2-3” of snow. We’re a
little over a hundred miles south of Portland and our valley here didn’t see
any of that at all. But because it’s
colder and we got the hail later in the day, it stayed in the flower beds for a
long time.
We had a combo of snow and rain on Saturday so by Sunday morning all the snow we got was gone due to rain. We are in for a week of rain now. It is warming up.
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