Silent Storm: December 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Snow, snow, snow

Last weekend they said we were going to get dumped on, we only ended up with about 3" and half melted then froze. The temps are what was bad, -12 or more with the Windchill.
Monday they said that we were in a Winter Advisory for Wed, expecting 4-7" of snow but we laughed at it. Then late yesterday it was turned into a Winter Storm Warning. I still laughed. Woke up at 8:45am this morning and there was about 2" of snow on the ground, I checked the weather channels website and there was a huge storm over us. I just checked it again at 6:40pm PST and the same storm is over us, hasn't moved sense this morning. I'd guess theres about 4-5" out there now, and the NOAA and NWS and our local news just changed the expected snow fall to

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST
THURSDAY...

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST THURSDAY.

SNOWFALL OF MODERATE TO HEAVY INTENSITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THURSDAY. 10 TO 15 INCHES OF SNOW ACCUMULATION NEAR SPOKANE...TO
NEAR 18 INCHES FOR COEUR D'ALENE AND MANY OF THE TOWNS SITUATED
IN THE VALLEYS OF THE NORTHERN IDAHO AND THE NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS.
11 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE
EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR
IMPOSSIBLE.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...COEUR D'ALENE...
POST FALLS...HAYDEN...SANDPOINT...RATHDRUM...BONNERS FERRY...
PRIEST RIVER...COLVILLE...DEER PARK...CHEWELAH...NEWPORT...KETTLE
FALLS...SPOKANE...CHENEY...DAVENPORT...ROCKFORD.

Picture from 3:30pm PST out front

Pictures around 6:30pm out back

About the Family

The Hubby

Hubby loves the outdoors and anything photography. He's also a bit of a computer geek.(lol) He spent most of his life in Texas then finished highschool school up here in Idaho and we met 2 years after he graduated. He loves it up here, loves the scenery, gives perfect photo op's.
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The Son

Seamus is my oldest, born July 2006 after an up and down pregnancy. He is a goof ball, loves to make people laugh, build things, and LOVES cars (especially tires and engines). Seamus hasn't had an easy 5½years of life, he's had developmental delays since he was a newborn. He has Aspergers and Sensory Processing Disorder. He is curently in Kindergarten and doing fairly well in learning (not so great in behaviors), Occupational Therapy and IBI/Intensive Behavioral Intervention he'll also be doing IBI over the summer in a 'summer school' like program to help with the transition between grades. Recently we signed him up for soccer and he will be starting that in mid April, we're all super excited for our first sport adventure as a family.
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The Daughter

Kieran is my youngest, born April 2009. She is a goofball and a princess. She loves the color pink and dresses and asks to be called princess, she loves making silly faces and taking funny pictures. Kieran is a lefty so its a new learning experience for hubby and I to teach her to write and such (which she's doing amazingly well at, already having O's down and pre-stick figures down which are O's with arms and legs), Kieran is the first lefty since my Grammie so we've been trying to get tips from her, haha.