Sleet Drift -

A sleet drift of almost 14 inches!

That's what awaits out our back door 

after today's (Missouri) winter storm,

and I'm not certain if it's over yet!

This was dawn, beautiful for awhile, 

but you know what they say-

Red Sky at Dawn

Sailor take Warn

 It was one of those storms where the morning

drive was just fine, so

businesses were open.

But not for long.

I was fortunate enough to be able to work 

from home, the first time I've done 

that this year.

This is all sleet.

There were a few snowflakes

but mostly sleet all day long .

My husband was on  4 wheeler duty-

plowing the road since they don't 

treat our road up here on the ridge.

It's gravel but the hill down to the county road is paved,

steep and always slick in snow or ice.

Every time he'd make a pass, it was covered up

again immediately.  He said it was hard to 

keep your eyes open with the wind

blowing the sleet so hard.

It was cascading over our gutters, 

rolling down the roof just like a waterfall.

I have never seen anything like it.

 In the end we got 4-5  inches

  but not snow- all sleet.   Other areas received

up to 9 inches of snow.

We fortunately missed

the freezing rain or it would have been much worse.

OOPs, freezing rain coming in now.

  

This is where I worked today. 

I didn't even try to go in, I knew I might be stranded

on the way home once the weather started getting bad.

This is our attic that we redesigned to be a  "real" attic

with walls, floors and stairs.  We've got bookshelves

and some storage tubs up there- like the Christmas tree,

kids old toys, the model trains, old artwork, etc.

 You can see the old computer equipment, before

we used nice little laptops!

 The office closed 12:30 PM, physically, 

but anyone that could work from home 

had to keep working.  As far as I am concerned,

it's a great trade off. I didn't have to drive 

an hour (on a good day) in it and then another hour back.

If only an hour.  From what I hear traffic was moving

about 20 mph, and I'm 40 miles away,

across about 25-30 miles of highway then

through hills and county roads with no shoulders

and ditches that are so steep that cars flip.

No guard rails either.

Our county road has not been touched

and I just found out the plow cable snapped

so no more plowing up here either.

I won't get off our ridge tomorrow,

the roads will be too icy out here, especially since

the Jeep broke down which means 4WD is out.

  The weatherman said once we get past these next three weeks,

it will be all good, no more snow!

I'll be glad for that.

Stay safe- stay warm!

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