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Sunday, March 02, 2008
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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It has been an interesting winter so far. The closest official weather station in Cedar Rapids has had nearly 5' of snow for the winter, 4th highest on record with over a month to go in snow season. Here in Anamosa, we have had at least one foot more than Cedar Rapids. We also had 3 ice storms totalling at least 1" of ice. I cringed at the sound of some of my trees crashing to the ground after the worst ice. School has been called off 6 times, with several other late starts or early releases due to weather. It got warm today, mid 50's. About dark the heavy thunderstorms hit. We are now under a flash flood watch and a winter weather advisory at the same time. We are expecting 2-4" of snow by morning. I expect the drive to work tomorrow will be very interesting. The gravel road ditches are full of snow and piled up about 4' higher than the road surface. The runoff is all going down the road, so it will likely be badly eroded under the snow.
The pumpkin patch is under about 2' of hard packed snow and ice. If we get any flooding, I hope we get it while the soil is protected that way. I don't want all of my fall patch preparation to go down the creek. In a couple more weeks we will be starting some seeds. Jacob is going to raise a bunch of things for the FFA division at state fair, as well as to sell at the farmers market. We will have 6 pumpkin plants for October, as well as long gourds and watermelons. I may even try to raise something for the state fair, if things warm up in time.
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