Karen grew up on the western slope of Colorado and is very familiar with long winters and plenty of snow. I grew up in the Hudson Valley and Mohawk Valley of upstate New York and was also quite used to cold snowy winters. We met in Lakewood, CO in 1972 and at the time there was one of many blizzards occurring which made my Triumph Spitfire hard to locate in the accumulation of falling and plowed snow on Capitol Hill in Denver. When we moved to Tulsa in 1974 we experienced a number of ice storms and then from 1977 to 2013 back in Colorado we endured a lot of blizzards, drifts, heavy accumulation and severe winter weather conditions.
When we left Fort Collins in our motor home on December 15, 2013 it was after a period of sub-zero temperatures, and promptly found ourselves hunkered down for five days in a north Texas ice storm. Since then, we have seen measurable snow only a few times, in Lufkin, TX, Charlotte, NC, north of Atlanta, GA and last year in Loveland, CO. But in the next few days there is the chance we will be on the southern edge of a storm which is forecast to be a "big one".
With recent advances in weather forecasting, computer analysis, radar technology and satellite photography and the "stardom" given to meteorologists, storm chasers and weather personalities, it seems that our storms get bigger, more dangerous and put more of us "at risk" and dominate not only the local news but the network news on a daily basis. So, here we sit with the option to get our weather from the Oklahoma, Missouri or Arkansas stations as well as the National Network News' Weather experts. My next blog will tell you what happened here on Magnetic Mountain, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, elevation 1250 feet; how much snow we received and how we fared in our home on wheels. Pictures will be worth a thousand words.
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