Snow In Sanford
Posted on January 20, 2008
by Kim
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We had our first snow of the season here in Sanford yesterday – well, second, if you count the faint, 2 second showing of snow that you had to squint to see a couple weeks ago – I am not counting that day – yesterday was the REAL first snow!!
This is what I saw looking out to my back yard this morning….
JUST KIDDING – this isn’t my yard and not even in Sanford and not even this year — it is a photo my brother sent me of HIS back yard after a nasty storm they had in my home town last year. THIS is what I saw looking out of my den window this morning – there was a little more of an accumulation late last night, but not much more than this!
The weather reports called it a “winter storm” and predicted 1-3 inches for our area. Now, remember, I grew up in the Buffalo snow belt on Lake Ontario in Western New York — in my books, 1-3 inches is a minor annoyance – not a winter storm!!! Tell me you are predicting a foot or more in a 24 hour period and I’ll start paying attention!!!
Yes, despite my history with snow, I DO get a little giddy about seeing the first (and usually the only) snow that Sanford gets each year, but I don’t tend to get too excited about it. I get a real kick out of everything shutting down and people rushing out to the grocery stores to “stock up” in case they get “snowed in”…….in the 20+ years I’ve lived here, there have only been two times that I can remember not being unable to get out for more than a day – once due to snow and once due to ice – both were pretty nasty storms and ones that created a lot of real havoc! I do get a little nervous when they predict a wintry mix, though – to be fair to the reason the town shuts down, we aren’t equipped here to handle any accumulation of snow and the problem here is usually caused by ICE, which is far worse than snow!
So – back to yesterday’s snow fall…….it started about 2:00 or so, I guess, as a mix of rain and sleet. It soon turned to huge, white, wet, flakes of snow! It came down pretty hard and lasted for several hours and at times was snowing hard enough to impair visibility a little!!! So, it was a pretty significant down fall…………….unfortunately, it didn’t stick much!!! The ground still wasn’t terribly cold and the flakes were so wet, they mostly melted into the ground until later in the evening. When it finally started to accumulate, it pretty much stopped and returned to a fine, sleety type snow. So — what ended up being visible on the ground was little more than a dusting – nothing that we could have made angels in or made snowballs with or built a snowman with…….the girls barely noticed it – even when I let them out while it was coming down nice and hard – so I don’t have any photos of them acting crazy in the snow!!! But — it came down pretty good for quite a while – if the ground conditions had been more receptive, we just might have had a nice accumulation!!!
It is all gone now — all except a crusty coating on my back deck where the sun doesn’t really shine directly enough to melt it and a patch or two on some of my neighbor’s yards. But – it created some excitement around here and was really pretty while it was coming down!!!
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