March Snows Remembered

Last week, we enjoyed some beautiful spring weather. On Thursday, I spent all afternoon transplanting some daylilies that are springing up where they ought not be. On Friday, another pleasantly warm day, I admired my work. (I was too sore to do much else. Apparently I am out of practice at standing with my head in front of my knees.)

Tonight, the weather has reverted to winter. The grass is crusted with snow. The wind is gusting, and the temperature is hovering at the freezing point. The roads are probably a bit slick in places. March is letting us know that it's a tricky month, able to spring a surprise anytime it wants.

In our 25 years in Kentucky, we've seen tornadoes in March. We've endured some terrible March ice storms.  And we've had some significant March snows.

The photo below was taken on March 5, 2015. The high that day was 25°, and the low was 6°. Brrrr! The snow was so deep that Sophie, our Basset Hound, had to stay in our tracks so she wouldn't get high-centered. I wrote on Facebook that day,

We got at least a foot of snow here at the house. It came with wind so it drifted pretty high in some places, but in the level areas, it measures 12 inches or more. Our kids, beside the Mississippi River in the SW corner of KY got more like 15 inches and also in the next county north of here, there are some reports of 20 inches. The bad thing is that under the snow there are a couple inches of sleet and ice.

Sophie, our Basset Hound, and a March snow

Yep, that was a good one, March.  And here's another time you showed us what you can do!  On the evening of  March 7, 2008, our son Isaac and I had a memorable trip  through the snow. I got off work and scraped the snow off my car's windshield, then drove to Kroger and thawed Isaac's car. He got off work at 9 p.m., and we headed home through a swirl of snow. We couldn't tell where the lanes or the edges of the roads were, and when we turned off the highway onto the side roads, we had to bust snowdrifts.

The next morning, Isaac was supposed to be back at work, but he got stuck in our driveway. He called Kroger to let them know he was going to be late, and his manager accused him of inventing an excuse. The roads weren't bad in town, the manager said. I took this photo to help Isaac prove that it was different out in the country.

Snow in March, 2008