Bend, don’t break

Holy Moley. There’s like 3, 4, 5″ of big, heavy, foofy snow on the ground — and it’s still coming down! Plants, lawn, deck, all covered up. Even the street is spottily covered. The outside temp is just about freezing, but the snow keeps coming down.

Hey, there’s even a Winter Storm Warning in effect here:

Snow… heavy at times… will continue this morning. Storm total accumulations of 6 to 12 inches are expected.

A few thoughts.

1. Well, so much for planting the plants we got at the Plant Sale yesterday (a couple of roses, some nice irises, a wide array of little ones). We’ll have to set them up for easy watering while we’re away.
2. Oooh. Bad news for the Plant Sale today. It was cold and dreary yesterday, and the crowds were light. They might not run it at all today.

3. Heck, we might not be going anywhere today. Nor might anyone else, much.

4. All the trees and bushes have leafed out by now. Lots of plants bent over, limbs weighed down — and, I fear, a lot of plants out there with limbs ready to snap. Early fall snowstorms are worse, but we’ll see some damage from this one.

On the other hand, it’s an excellent time, from a water supply standpoint, for a heavy wet snow. Farmers would be releasing irrigation water, and this will directly replaces some of that.

Mother Nature takes, and gives. And doesn’t seem to care much one way or the other.

UPDATE (8:59a): We’re officially at 6″ here in Centennial. Still a Winter Storm Warning, though the low is moving east. Lots of power outages out there, too, from fallen branches leading to fallen lines. And the lady who was coming over to give us a lawn mowing estimate just called to put it off until next weekend.