{"id":3892,"date":"2003-03-18T07:09:35","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T12:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T01:01:59","slug":"drifting_away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/drifting_away.html","title":{"rendered":"Drifting away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we don&#8217;t have 1-3 feet of snow on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Yet.<\/p>\n<p>There is a good 4-6 inches up on the back porch, though, and the streets look pretty nasty, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/state\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_21_1819820,00.html\">it&#8217;s still coming down<\/a>, pretty heavily.  The current storm warning, as of about 90 minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\"><b>&#8230;A Winter Storm Warning Continues Today Through Wednesday&#8230;<\/b> <br \/>\nSnow will continue through the majority of the day across the Front Range. There will be a brief break in the snow in the morning&#8230; but by late afternoon into the evening&#8230; the snow will increase once more. <b>3 to 6 inches of snow will fall through the day<\/b>. Tonight will be the main period of snow with <b>additional snowfall of 5 to 10 inches <\/b>with up to 15 inches near the foothills expected. The snow will be heavy at times&#8230; and strong winds will cause areas of blowing and drifting snow.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mention the predicted 3-6 inches for Wednesday day, with light snowfall Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, they mentioned snow starting back up Friday, though that&#8217;s not in the predictions I&#8217;m seeing this a.m.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the (ongoing) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/data\/640x480\/2xsw_ir.gif\">Regional Infrared Map<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/data\/640x480\/2xradarb2.gif\">Regional Radar Map<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/radar\/station.asp?ID=FTG19\">Local Radar Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some cancellations at DIA this morning.  All the big school districts are closed.  Portions of I-70 are closed.  &#8220;Wyoming is closed.&#8221;  And, quoth one hapless newscaster, &#8220;Well, you know the weather is bad when there&#8217;s nobody at Krispy Kreme&#8221; &#8212; as he shows a shot of the drifted, desolate KK a few blocks from our house &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Time to hunker down, crank up the heat, and dial up the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we don&#8217;t have 1-3 feet of snow on the ground. Yet. There is a good 4-6 inches up on the back porch, though, and the streets look pretty nasty,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-and-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3898,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/17\/when_it_rains.html","url_meta":{"origin":3892,"position":0},"title":"When it rains &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Mar-03 8:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"So over the weekend, we were in California for a great big rainstorm. 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