Whitetail Deer after Snowfall

We had a little bitty snowstorm here yesterday night that the local forecasters were frothing over prior to it hitting. We had predictions of 8″ of snow, strong winds, and everything scary from angry rhinos trampling down the highways to ice that the White Witch would have loved.

OK. They didn’t say that bit about the rhinos. But still…

What we got was a mere smidgen of snow, just 2.5″ with very ordinary winds.

When did weather turn into a media ‘event’ that has to be hyped instead of just predicted and forecast?

We live in an area where cold, snow and ice can easily kill you. We don’t take winter lightly. Snow storms that dump 2″ of snow per hour with 40 mph winds and twenty below (-20F) actual temperature - those are the killer storms truly worthy of the media excitement we saw.

But 2.5″ of snow in the third week of January? Pah! Anything under 10″ is just traction!