After Rain, Snow

So far the new year has been a soggy one. Over four inches of rain since the 1st. Enough rain for rivers to flood and lap over roads and bridges. Across the river in Illinois, a bus tried to drive through a flooded road, got stuck, and had to wait for rescue. Just now on the news was a story about a car that also tried to get through a flood. The car got stuck, the people in it crawled on the roof, one of them was swept away and presumably drowned, and the others spent the night huddled on the top of the car. A passerby saw them at dawn and called 911.

It just now started snowing. Much of the rain we had here in St. Louis was ice and snow to the west and north. But here it just now started snowing. Imagine all the snow there would have been if the temperature had been colder for the last four days. Four feet of snow. But the snow now is just a dusting. Nothing like a Buffalo lake effect. Nonetheless, I've moved the snow shovel from the garage to the back porch.