My Fault!

My mea culpas as I watch my poor neighbour trying to scrape a thick layer of ice/freezing rain from his truck so he can go to work (and he works for the electric utility, so we want him to go to work today! Our power has been flickering a bit this morning!). 

You know how it's the end of April? The last day of April, to be precise? As in tomorrow, 'tis the month of May?

Yeah, this snowstorm in my fault. I tempted fate. I planted a few onion sets out in the garden with Rachael, and actually considered washing the kids' snowsuits and putting them away for the season. So sorry. 

Have I mentioned that we're currently in flood stage right now? Yeah.... because we need more precipitation.... 

In case you're curious, here's our forecast: 

A POWERFUL LATE-SEASON STORM SYSTEM OVER NORTH DAKOTA IS BRINGING A
RETURN TO WINTER WEATHER FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MANITOBA
TODAY. AS OF 10:00 AM CDT RADAR AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATED
THAT SNOW IS FALLING WEST OF A LINE FROM FISHER BRANCH TO BRANDON TO
VIRDEN TO MINOT. EMBEDDED WITHIN THE TRANSITION BETWEEN RAIN AND
SNOW IS AN AREA OF FREEZING RAIN. FARTHER EAST ACROSS THE WARNING
AREA, PRECIPITATION IS FALLING IN THE FORM OF RAIN BUT WILL CHANGE
OVER TO SNOW LATER TODAY AS TEMPERATURES DROP BELOW FREEZING WITH
STRONG NORTH WINDS.

SNOW WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THIS EVENING BEFORE TAPERING OFF FROM THE
WEST. GENERAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 TO 20 CM ARE EXPECTED
THROUGHOUT THE WARNING AREA BY SUNDAY MORNING, WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS OF
30 TO 50 CM POSSIBLE OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF WESTERN MANITOBA.
IN ADDITION, THE STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS, WHICH HAVE GUSTED AT TIMES
AS AS HIGH AS 90 KM/H, ARE RESULTING IN NEAR-ZERO VISIBILITY IN SNOW
AND BLOWING SNOW, PRIMARILY IN WEST-CENTRAL MANITOBA. HIGHWAY TRAVEL
HAS BECOME DIFFICULT OVER MUCH OF THE REGION AND RESIDENTS SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO ADJUST TRAVEL PLANS ACCORDINGLY. THE COMBINATION OF
HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS MAY ALSO CAUSE POWER OUTAGES.


(for those of you who don't speak metric, that translates into 10 cm = 4 inches, 20 cm = 8 inches, 50 cm = 20 inches, 90 km/h = about 55 mph)

Again, mea culpa.