Shoveling: near record snow

I didn't need the news organizations to tell me that we got some heavy snow (by our standards):

http://www.week.com/Story.aspx?type=ln&NStoryID=55702

Dec 01, 2006 - There is no doubt that Central Illinois saw some of the worst this winter storm could bring. Some communities saw more than a foot of snow.

From right around the Illinois River to the west seems to be some of the larger totals. As of 9:00 a.m. Havana was reporting 14.6 inches and Canton recorded a total of 13.5 inches.

In the Twin Cities, areas to the West of Bloomington were socked with heavy snowfall, while points to the east saw much smaller amounts.

The National Weather Service says the winter storm dumped eight-point-one inches of snow on Peoria. Meteorologist Chris Miller says that tops the seven-point-one inches the city normally gets in December.

But the snowfall is short of topping Peoria's single-day record for the month. That was set when eight inches fell on December 11, 2000.

Miller says more than two inches of the storm's snow fell yesterday, the last day of November. He says it missed the record on a ``technicality.''

Miller says the storm piled up at least six inches of snow from the state's midsection to the Iowa border. He says storms that big generally pass through Illinois only about once a decade. Typically, snowfall amounts that large are confined to four or five counties.

Great. We got our whole month's worth on one day!


I am still cursing myself for not writing a better Ph. D. dissertation (thereby giving myself more employment options, which would have included warmer locations!)

You can read our whining about it here:
http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2006/12/01/snow/#comments

What kills me is that it hit 62 F TWO DAYS AGO!

Daily Summary for November 29, 2006

Temperature
Mean Temperature	49 °F / 9 °C	34 °F / 1 °C
Max Temperature	62 °F / 16 °C	42 °F / 5 °C	69 °F / 20 °C (1933)
Min Temperature	36 °F / 2 °C	26 °F / -3 °C	0 °F / -17 °C (1976)

Also, this is the kind of snow that is not only heavy and wet, but also sticks to your shovel.

The upside to this is that the Jingle Bell 5K race has been put off until next weekend; that gives me another week to get ready.

On another note, my daughter got her hair cut short and my sister sent me photos. Here is one.