News reports say IT'S COMING BACK AGAIN.

Forecasts in my area, beginning a week ago, predicted a "possible 5 to 7 inches" of snow. We got 12.2", the second largest snowfall ever recorded, only about 3 tenths of an inch short of the local record set >50 years ago.

By standards elsewhere, that's hardly even enough to notice, but here 8" is considered a "big one" and although crews are working hard they're not really equipped for much more.

More than 200 miles of I70 (a major interstate) have been closed in western Kansas for a couple of days, with many other roads shut down. (A "conservative" attitude toward closing roads here has to consider that just getting stuck in the snow may leave people stranded 50 miles from the nearest farmhouse in some places.) Some of the storm that's moving on eastward is reportedly dropping about as much ICE as snow, although predictions are for (resumed and) continuing snow toward the northeast.

Stay Snug.

John