Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n
You may go now, the storm has ended.\u00a0 Well, maybe.\u00a0 The MIA, noted for never closing, closed yesterday and today.\u00a0 The metrodome collapsed.\u00a0 See.\u00a0 We told you.\u00a0 Zyggi Wilf and family.\u00a0 I threw thigh high snow off our front sidewalk and trimmed down a waist high drift on our deck so the dogs could get out and come back.\u00a0 Roughly a foot fell, always hard to measure.<\/p>\n
A local meterologist developed the gold standard for measuring snow depth.\u00a0 He puts a hard rubber mat on the ground, lets the snow fall on it, then pushes a yardstick through the snow.\u00a0 Check where the top of the snow meets the yard stick.\u00a0 Voila!\u00a0 No kidding.<\/p>\n
Snowapocalypse.\u00a0 Snowmaggedon.\u00a0 Snowmygod.\u00a0 Local weather weenies tried to raise this to mega-event standards, but it just doesn’t get there.\u00a0 Yes, we’re a major metro area and a foot to a foot and a half (south) makes the metro pretty miserable for travelers, but our snow totals are no record breakers.<\/p>\n
We do have a difference from a lot of other snowy locations.\u00a0 When our snow comes in winters like this one, it cools the air above it and remains on the ground until spring.\u00a0 That means accumulating snow fall becomes a challenge with parking lot snow mountains rising up like retail Himalayas and city streets sometimes going from two-sided parking to one-sided.\u00a0 It begins to get interesting then.<\/p>\n
Is there a collapse vortex near this location?\u00a0 Perhaps a quantum field breaking through into what we conceive of as the one and only true reality?\u00a0 I mean, it’s a brane teaser I know, but it could be.\u00a0 Think of the many worlds hypothesis favored by string theorists.\u00a0 Why do I ask?\u00a0 Well. This next picture, taken less than half a mile from the site of the dome collapse tells the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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