Spring is just a six-letter word

Think you've seen this photo before? Well yes and no. I've certainly taken a photo of the same view, but this is again what was out the window this morning. This was a mammoth storm. We were supposed to get about 2 inches of snow, and ended up with about 6 inches in my area. But what I mean by mammoth is that if one looked at the radar, it extended from Ohio in the east to Montana in the west. and in our area a little comma shaped part of it extended straight down in northern Missouri.This snow fall pushes us to about 1 meter over the average snow fall, and this particular one ranks up there as one of the larger ones for March. It seems this year we are getting one of every kind of unusual type of weather event.

The good news is that the moisture came as snow. It's just going to sit there for a bit. The temperatures for the next few days are just at freezing, so there won't be any quick melting.

Every day at noon now I get a phone call from the emergency center. At noon today the river depth was at 10 feet.

Here's the updated plotting of the river level outside my door at 8:15 PM. -- up another foot.

And the title of this entry is not original. It comes from an article in today's Pioneer Press.

This is the kind of snow that arrived every week in Pecs last year. I thought spring would never arrive, but it finally did, and I'm sure we will see it too.