And it’s still snowing (lightly). This record-setting snowstorm is not one anyone here will soon forget. After seeing several more flashes of lightning out my window last night (hooray thundersnow!!), I woke up this morning to a regular winter wonderland. There was about 3 inches on the ground this morning near my apartment, but more than that has fallen, as it’s all been continuously and slowly melting, with temps at or slightly above freezing (other places around town have 6 inches already). While walking into campus, I became very glad that my car is parked a long way from any trees in my apartment building’s parking lot. There are tree limbs down everywhere around State College, and 10,000 Allegheny Power customers here in Centre County are without power this morning. It’s a total mess. Here are some of the photos I took this morning on my walk in:
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As you can see, it was beautiful outside to see the rare sight of the snow and the fall foliage together in a single scene, but there was also a lot of damage as a result of the snow. This record-setting snowstorm isn’t done yet either. Forecasts are calling for another inch of snow today, another 2-4″ tonight, another 1-3″ tomorrow, another 1-3″ tomorrow night, and then a rain/snow mix switching to plain rain on Sunday.
And now the grass tailgating lots for tomorrow’s football game vs Minnesota have been closed. That’s not a surprise, because the ground isn’t frozen yet, and this is a heavy wet slop on the ground right now, that’s constantly melting bit by bit because the temp’s hovering just above freezing and the light snow is occasionally mixing with sleet or rain. If the ground were frozen it could handle all the car and foot traffic of a tailgate, but not when it’s like this, it’d turn into a huge mud pit. At least that’ll make my decision easy about whether or not to endure the crappy weather to go tailgating. Now I’ll just go endure the crappy weather at the stadium for the game tomorrow afternoon. 🙂 Some people have been complaining that just because we’re playing Minnesota tomorrow, it doesn’t mean that the weather has to be like Minnesota, haha. I really hope it doesn’t switch to rain for the game, that’d be completely miserable…