Cold and Snowy Winter in Greater Cleveland!

What a winter this has been in Hambden Township, Chardon, and Greater Cleveland! For a while Lake Erie froze over, and we have been dumped on by about 100 inches of snow in total. Temperatures have hit -13 in Cleveland and -17 in Hambden Township (at Guy Wilson's Weather Underground weather station on Chardon-Windsor Road). Tomorrow we will hit the 40's so snow will begin to melt. Still, I bet almost 2 feet of snow will remain after tomorrow's snow melt.

The people around here are tough! And the weather is one of the reasons.

Cold Rain, Sleet, Snow, Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth

On Sunday, October 26, I rolled my snowblower from our shed, in the way-back of our yard, to our garage because of the ominous weather forecast. The prediction was for bitter cold rain, sleet, snow, dark of night, and weeping and gnashing of teeth. In other words, the normal late October early November forecast for Northeast Ohio's snowbelt. We didn't panic--we are used to this drill.

Last night I heard it--the pounding of wind-driven sleet on our windows. This morning there was just a small amount accumulated on our roofs and lawns; the temperatures are still too warm for the sleet and snow to hang around very long. That will change, we know. We have stiffened our necks and girded our loins. This is what makes us snowbelters tough! We still vividly remember November 10th-16th of 1996 when about 6 feet of snow fell on the Chardon-Hambden snowbelt. We are ready for anything!