By Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: an old Unruh family photo SNOW DAY For hours, the snow falls. City crews plow, one blade following another. Shovels scrape concrete; a mountain of snow rises alongside driveways and sidewalks. Classes are cancelled. Again. Snow days pile up on the spring calendar, extending the …
Sun on snow
Sun on fresh snow. Wednesday.
Helping out
The cool thing about disasters or like today in Emporia when nature simply overdoes, is that people are eager to help someone out. Now I saw this guy drive by and his front wheel wasn’t moving, well before he applied his brakes. Apparently he had issues when he got to the corner and stopped. Seeing …
“When February Comes”
A poem from Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg: “When February Comes.“ ***
Blizzard on its way
Big snowstorm on its way. Snow begins this evening.
They Came to Stay
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: “They Came to Stay” by Greg Todd, Sherman County Courthouse, Goodland. THEY CAME TO STAY As last week’s winter storm began to move across the state, my mind returned to a trip I took to northwest Kansas last fall. Traveling I-70, it was around Russell …
Season’s first accumulation
Don’t know that it’s a record, but today, Jan. 10, is the first real accumulation of the season. I’d say we have had 4 inches so far. Still snowing off and on. More expected here in Emporia today.
Icicles
The grocery cart corral at Reeble’s.
Bumpy ice
Ice came down in splats last night – much better than glazing. There’s a lot of texture with this ice. The streets seem to be in pretty good shape. Even the side streets aren’t bad because there’s enough crunch to the ice.
Tin in a tree
“After a while, it just becomes part of the scenery,” Terry Smith said about the tornado debris on a neighbor’s property near his home in Pratt County. I visited Terry and Nancy Smith in October. The May 4, 2007 Greensburg tornado passed over the Smiths’ house. The following night, May 5, another tornado struck. Those …
November sky
Flyover Weather: It’s a glorious day out there, especially for late November. Partly cloudy, 72, no wind.