December 6, 2007
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Oh the weather outside is frightening.... Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
I got up yesterday morning at 3:30am to set off for the great outdoors and a day of hunting. The early rising was for hooking up the trailer with the 4 wheeler in it, picking up my brother, and the 2 hour drive to get to the club. We knew the forecast was for snow starting at midnight, so we had a prearranged telephone call if either of us got up and saw snow, "Go back to bed!" I got up, no snow, and finished packing my stuff in the van.
About a quarter of a mile away from my brother's house, at 4:10am, I saw the first flakes. For about 30 seconds, there were on a few flakes. Then, the whole truck load came. A few minutes later, my brother called asking where I was. "I'm about a block from your house. Looked out the window?"
I backed up to the trailer to hook up. The snow was really coming down, so we talked about whether to go or not. My brother made a command decision: "We're not going. Go home and go back to bed." I stayed and talked about 40 minutes and we got about 1" of snow. The roads were starting to disappear in a solid white sheet. We decided that it wasn't the smartest thing to drive for 2 hours, in the dark and snow, to go hunting. And I was headed home.
About a quarter of a mile and I was back on the interstate. The snow was falling so that even the interstate had disappeared. The vehicles that weren't pulled over were going about 45 mph. The road was getting slick. I got off my exit and the roads were even more treacherous. My street was the worst, and it was gone! I got home in time to take my son to work and watch another 2 or 3 inches of new fall.
Southerners Can't DriveI'm really beginning to believe this. Even though WV is not that southern, people still don't see that much snow and they sure don't know how to drive it safely. I know that's a generalization, but it seems to fit. With this state having only 1.8 million residents and being considered small, we had 70 auto accidents between 4:30am and 6:00pm. There were 3 fatalities.
I'm really glad that we stayed home. We decided we would go today.
Thursday's Plans
My brother and I talked last night. We thought we would go hunting today, like we had planned on yesterday. Then we looked at the forecast again. The temps were getting colder and everything was freezing, including roads. So, we postponed the hunting until tomorrow. This morning, it was a really warm 17°F with a feels like of 8°. Roads were slick this morning, seem to be clearing now.
The forecast tomorrow is to get to a high of 40°F with snow, sleet, and rain in the morning hours. Some rain is expected in the afternoon. I'm glad that I've got some good cold weather and wet gear, 'cause we're going to try our trip tomorrow.
Toasty
I've got the wood-burning stove going and it's nice, cozy, and toasty in the house. It's been a great place to have spent the day so far. I think I'll stay right in here until tomorrow when I leave for the hunting trip. It's now time for some meat, so antlers won't have much to do with the shoot or not to shoot decisions.
Next week begins the muzzle loading season. It may be time to look for the Ninja Buck Master again.
The FogWalker is maintaining a bad migraine... time to seek oblivion again...
Comments (3)
You made a good decision!! It was treacherous around here (toronto area) for the past few days. Monday alone there was something like 7000 phone calls made to 911 because of the ice!
Take care of your migraine. I had a horrid one a few months back - I ended up getting toradol for it. That worked great!!
*HUGS*
I love to hunt in the snow, and have hit the road in some gawd awful conditions.
It has however been long established that I am a tad touched.
I although I have tried I really stink at trout fishing.
The fly rod is a blast for sunfish.
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