Winter Storm Warning

 

Well, here we go again.  The weather service is predicting that we are going to get a 'dusting' of snow.  

 

But with this prediction, we have a little bit of a different situation here at the Krooked Pine Farm.  After five months of looking for employment, I am now working for a 911 center nearby.  My first day was yesterday.  For the next 6 months, I will be on probation and in training.   So with this weather prediction, we three trainees were sent home as we were really useless in answering phones and sending calls for assistance to the people in the communities. 

 

It seems that the weather service kind of underestimated the speed at which this storm was going to come in.  I was still at work when the Blacksmith posted these pictures to let me know how bad it was already at home. 

 

 

For those of you that look at this and think, "that's nothing."  You are right, for an area that has the infrastructure to take care of it.  We live in the south in Georgia.  Due to this rarely happening, Georgia does not budget for such happenings.   This is what the weather service expected.  This is a dusting.  This, most anybody could handle.  But it did not stop at this. 

When I got home, this is what it had become.

 

 

A little while later, we had this.

 

 

A short time after this, we had this.

 

 

And finally, after the snow stopped, we had this.

 

 

Even this, for people who live in areas that get snow all winter long, is nothing.  But in the south, this is a disaster.   The grocery stores are stripped bare of any kind of bread or milk.  These are the first things to go. 

 

The Blacksmith and I are well set to weather most any storm.  We have two, four wheel drive vehicles.  We have food stocked including bread and milk.  But this time, we realized that we were very low on propane gas for our back up heat supply.  Our home is, unfortunately, total electric.  If the power goes out we are without heat.  So we have a old propane heater that will heat our entire home, if needed.  Thankfully, the propane gas company is just down the road about six miles. 

 

This is what we saw in route.

 

 

Turns out, we were not the only ones getting propane.

 

 

So, we got our tanks filled.

 

 

For somebody from, say, Michigan or Wyoming or Montana, they would laugh at how we react to something as simple as three inches of snow.  I, also, think it is kinda funny, as I have driven an eighteen wheeler in much worse weather than this.  But, the roads that I drove on had snow plows and road sanders or salters.  In the south, we are lucky to have a dump truck throw out a little sand on the bridges here or there.  Some cities have a road scraper go through town to move the worst of the snow off of main street and some of the other major arteries so the ambulances and fire trucks can move around town.  

 

So, please, don't laugh at us too hard.  We are just not used to this kind of weather.  If you look at my earlier posts, you will see one of the last snow storms we had.  That was back before we had even moved our home onto our land.  The Year so Far in Pictures

 

So, for those of you in the south, be careful and try to stay home.  For those of you elsewhere, be thankful you have the infrastructure to help deal with these little 'dustings'.  Stay warm.

 

 

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