{"id":731,"date":"2012-01-09T21:43:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T03:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/01\/09\/120109-snowfall\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:00:46","slug":"120109-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/01\/09\/120109-snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-setting Snowfall in Midland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time I checked, we’d received almost 10.5″ of snow today, and it’s still coming down. According to the Midland Reporter Telegram<\/a>, this is an all-time one-day record, and also gives us a record cumulative snowfall for one season.<\/p>\n

The “weather event” was an interesting study in contrasts. The city of Lubbock sent snow removal equipment to Midland to help clear roadways, and Midland International Airport was closed for the day by noon. On the other hand, the public schools weren’t canceled in either Midland or Odessa (although all the private schools let out early). Many businesses let their employees leave early (ours didn’t), but the roads were not dangerous (except for the presence of those who’ve never mastered the art of self-control).<\/p>\n

The one thing we can all agree on is that this will provide some desperately needed moisture, probably the equivalent of an inch or so of rain, and it will soak into the soil. Good, good stuff for a parched land.<\/p>\n

Photos? Of course; I thought you’d never ask.<\/p>\n


\nThis is the obligatory view of the snow-enhanced pond. The ducks were not amused.<\/p>\n


\nAlso not amused was our palm tree.<\/p>\n


\nAn interesting predicament: snow-filled traffic lights.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is a clumsy 360\u00b0 panorama taken from the hill just north of our neighborhood. Click for a bigger view. There’s software that will stitch these pictures together much better than I did by hand, but I was too lazy to look for it. Oh, by the way, the big photo is 3,300 pixels wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost a foot of snow, and there\u2019s never a ski lift when you need one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[7,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-nature","category-photography","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\/731","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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}