I worked for our school district for 35 years and we never had a snow day in all that time, a few 2 hour late starts but only for freezing rain. They did have a snow day 2 years ago when we had over 2 feet in one night but that was because they weren't able to clear all that snow from the parking lots before school started.Hatchdog wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:16 amBreaking news (not really), it’s snowing here in the Inland Pacific Northwest. Wow, this hasn’t happened since…..last year.
The local news is going crazy with roving reporters out driving checking on the road conditions and informing us what the school closure notification process is. All this for some light warm NON-STICKING snow.
What has happened to society that this nothing event is causing such a “panic”. 12 years of school here and the schools only closed once. Once!
Anyway, back here at the ranch here it’s 34 with a very light very wet snow falling that is making the lawn a little bit white. Temp is supposed to drop to around 30 by 9am so the snow might pick up a little bit. Next we will have a cold snap with lows in the 20’s. But the daytime highs will still hip the mid 40’s so for now I won’t put the chains on the truck.
Man, unless the DOT closes the highway we will be driving into Spokane and hitting the Costco today.
Chain up the tractor Pa, it’s a big mess out there
Since they started using liquid de-icer on the roads they put it down if there is even the slight chance of snow in the forecast. I suppose it's a liability issue but there does seem to be a lot more people here now that don't know how to drive in the snow. A lot of our population growth is people moving over from the west side of the state especially now that there are so many jobs that can be done online.
Would like to mow my lawn one more time if it dries out enough and then get the mower deck off and the plow on.
Really didn’t want snow but can’t do much about it, everyone have a great day! 
