The snow storm... that wasn't?

The End

(Putting it at the top for those who already read this yesterday)

We finally did get some snow and had a good ground cover by 1.

And winding up with what we figure was about 2 inches here.

When we got up this morning, it looked like about 4 inches had fallen during our 'super storm'.

Granted, IF we hadn't had the dry air masses and the snow had been able to fall like it had south of us in Kansas, we would have been buried!

(Winter Storm Q)

Q?  Really?!  NEVER remember storms being named when I was a kid - except hurricanes!  Back home in South Dakota, we just called this 'Winter' - from about October to May, simply winter with about a heavy snow once a month and referring to them by their year and month.  Or, simply, 'You know, that thunder-snow storm that buried everyone my freshman year of college in '98'

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So Nebraska was shutting down last night for a predicted major snow storm (up to 16" in the south east corner I live in).

And many schools, including my daughter's, were shut down already last night.  I get e-mail alerts from her school and received this at 8:44 pm:

(my daughter's) School will be closed on Thursday due to predicted severe winter weather.

And we woke up to this new forecast of up to 16"...

...and this view out our front door at 8:00 am!

My son also gets daycare called off when schools are - so both kids have a snowday.

With not much for snow, when they woke up and started watching TV at 8 - notice the brown, not white, ground out the window. lol

At least the snow started coming in a blustery, small snow flake kind of way around 9 and had accumulated a little when I took this picture at 10 am.

Perhaps it's my growing up in South Dakota that makes me so cynical to Nebraska's approach to snow storms and their approach to weather vs SD's?

(off the Sioux Falls, SD school district site - where I grew up, and the biggest town in SD) 

  "The first and foremost consideration is the safety of students. In recent years, while snow events have not hampered the school calendar, tremendously cold wind chills have. When wind chills approach the point where exposed flesh can freeze in 10 minutes or less [-40 on a calm day, -30 on a windy day], the District will typically call off school.

  When it comes to weather-related delays, early dismissals or cancellations, numerous factors are in play. What time of day will the wind chill be in that dangerous range, and for how long? Will the 12 inches of snow be done falling by 3 a.m. and give city plows enough time to clear main thoroughfares and the streets around schools? What time in the afternoon is the winter storm predicted to hit our area?"

Lincoln, NE, biggest town near me, doesn't even have a policy that I could find!

Perhaps it's the weather man's complete seriousness they take in their guess work.  Totally on board with my riding group's term of Big Fat Lying Weatherman (BFLWM)

 (the site of my group's 'fearless leader' and her blog's first? reference to the BFLWM http://www.horsetrailriders.com/2008/07/big-fat-lying-weatherman-bflwm-strikes.html)

Will update on how much snow we get....