{"id":234,"date":"2010-02-24T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/02\/24\/100224_snowreport\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T08:05:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:05:05","slug":"100224_snowreport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/02\/24\/100224_snowreport\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Report: Historic but not Impressive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Midland’s official snowfall yesterday totaled 4.5″ which, as
\nsome commenters implied in the previous post<\/a>, is not worth sniffing at compared
\nto what they’ve had in their northern climes. But put it in perspective: that
\ntotal was the 9th<\/sup> heaviest snowfall in our area’s recorded weather
\nhistory. Midland has never had more than 10 inches of snow (officially) in one
\nday (the record of 9.8 inches occurred in 1998). So, for us and our anemic
\nsnow-handling infrastructure, yesterday provided an event of historic proportions.<\/p>\n

Of course, by 3:00 pm the sun was shining, the streets were
\n[mostly] clear, and those who’d gotten “snow days,” while enjoying their good
\nfortune, were doing so with just a tinge of sheepishness. (I initially used the
\nterm “guilt” and then decided that it probably wasn’t applicable at all.)<\/p>\n

I chauffeured my wife to her office around 8:30 a.m. so she
\ncould grab her laptop and work from home. The streets were a bit treacherous,
\nbut traffic was light and well-behaved. Even though her office was officially
\nclosed, several employees showed up, either because they weren’t intimidated by
\nthe weather or – more likely – hadn’t gotten word of the closing. She was
\nable to be productive the rest of the day from the comfort of our living room.<\/p>\n

The
\nbest thing about snowfall around here, besides the fact that it’s rare and
\ndoesn’t stay around too long, is that it makes for some pretty scenery.<\/p>\n

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Midland’s official snowfall yesterday totaled 4.5″ which, as some commenters implied in the previous post, is not worth sniffing at compared to what they’ve had in their northern climes. But put it in perspective: that total was the 9th heaviest snowfall in our area’s recorded weather history. Midland has never had more than 10 inches… Continue reading Snow Report: Historic but not Impressive?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-nature","category-west-texas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}