We've had no significant local snow, althugh a half inch or so lasted a couple of days; but in the past couple of weeks the "high for the day" has ranged from 65F (18.3C) to 22F (-5.6 C) and has gone through the cycle about 3 times. Lows have been 45F (7C) to 14F (-10C).

An unusually large storm has mostly passed through the mid-central states in the US, and there have been some really gruesome pictures in the weather reports, especially for Kentucky and nearby where quite a few people are still without power after more than two weeks.

There are reports of large areas where "support" has not reached, so there are still many whose survival status is unknown.

Since that storm ran sort of slantwise across the country, both East-West and North-South major highway routes were pretty much shut down for about a week, but it appears to have cleared enough that fresh supplies were dispatched from Kansas bound for Quebec in the care of our family long-hauler on Saturday.

John