No pictures except on FotoFeed, it’s too depressing.
This wasn’t even in the forecast. What’s more, with over six inches at our location and still coming down, it STILL isn’t in the forecast or weather reports. Snowing hard as I write…heavy wet stuff, smashing all the tulips that were just about to open, turning the dirt road to pudding for another week. I never even had a chance to cover my woodpile, and now I can hardly find it again. I’ve been here 10 years, and this is the most snow I’ve ever seen in April. Actually, it’s the most snow I’ve ever seen in my life in April. Vista del Valle road was graded yesterday, exposing a fresh absorbent surface to the snow, which means it will be absolute holy hell for the next few days.
More snow tonight, the word is now. And yet, it’s supposed to be in the 70s in two days, which probably means the new ice age will begin. Everything is backwards, look out!
UPDATE: And now MORE snow, coming down like skink. I’ve never seen anything like this in April. Then again, last year when we drove to Iowa and got slammed by a blizzard in southern Nebraska on May 2nd, I hadn’t seen anything like that, either. I could say I need to get out more, but then who can go anywhere now???
UPDATE #2: for the record, just across the border in Colorado, the snowiest months are (in order of decreasing magnitude) November, March, and April. I don’t have the New Mexico stats in front of me, but they’re obviously similar, and I guess it’s just amazing that I’ve been here 10 years and haven’t experienced a real April storm before. This is normal, in other words, and the last 10 years have not been.
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At these temps, I call this “Time Released Rain.”
J
Well, that’s true. There might not be any of it around by sundown.
My wife, however, who had carefully nursed a small garden of daffodils and tulips that were just about to open, is apoplectic. Most of the stems are broken. And our god-awful road just got worse.
I am so done with this stuff. Seriously. Enough is enough.
My wife is ready to bite nails in half.
I prefer to think of all the green lushness that will result, but I’m keeping a low profile on the weather thing for now. Aside from this post, at least.
But man, it’s been a long winter. They’re always long. I haven’t been “hot” for 10 years, because it never really warms up, and then it’s cold again. Can’t stand being sweaty, though. What to do, what to do… Suck it up, probably. I counsel caution: this is all part of the Big Test.
We must be incredibly lucky in our flower placement. I just scouted and didn’t find a single broken stem. Of course none of them have bloomed, yet, either. Even our tiny little “racist flowers” (the plant is a nettle variety called “White Nancy”) held up to the covering.
Is it possible to attach a picture to a comment? I’ll email the pic.
J
I just mowed my lawn last week with my manual reel mower – and now there is 5 inches of snow on the ground. Glad I havent planted anything yet, but still….Ugh. My nails might be going the way of the dodo too…
THUNDER!?!?
I just heard thunder for the first time in about 6 months. Of course it was snowing at the time!? My first experience of the “Time when the thunder sleeps.”
In TX, it thunders all the time, even back when we used to elect Democrats.
J
Yes, that was thunder. But if you want a real thrill, try driving down Vista del Valle Road. Jesus H. Christ, now we’re being buried in corn snow. This is turning into some kind of freak disaster scene. My wife just tried to get to her studio and turned back. Things are going to get ugly…
As for pictures, I think you could add them if they were on a server somewhere and you linked to them — and you knew the proper HTML, etc. etc.
John…you got what we got…that’s what our bushes look like …I heard on the Denver station that the Sangre de Christos were getting 10 inches of snow…I almost messaged you to look out…and I heard thundersnow…all major interstates were closed out of town…..ah – Springtime in the mountains…
Quit feeling like a victim and remember you are the hero of your story…NOT the victim!!
You need to REPROGRAM your self-talk.
Oy Vey!
Oy vey indeedy, you got that right. That scratchy ol’ record has been playing for years and years…
Then again, you probably haven’t been effectively trapped inside your house for four long months! There have honestly been only a handful of days when one could just walk out the door and take a hike. Incarceration is a bitch, and something needs to be done about that.
Point taken, though. And have you read the Helen Chronicles?