We got some snow

[helsgard]

It rained here most of yesterday, then the temperatures dropped and the rain froze, then it snowed, then the wind picked up to 80 mph. This morning the wind had dropped for a while, and the sun is out. The snow was mostly blown away but we're due for more on 1 Jan. At least it's pretty. I'm taking the day off. :-)

Comments

[stone_depot]

Wow it's pretty! Are those mountains in the distance?

[helsgard]

I typed answers to your question about six times, and my Internet connection kept throwing me off before I could hit "send" so I gave up for the time being. Let's see if this message gets accepted. Testing in three... two... one...

[helsgard]

Ha! Worked.
The mountains you see are the foothills to the Tehachapi Mountains, which are the southern end of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. The ones in the photo are only 1,200 meters high, slightly to the northwest of my house. I'll try to get a good photo of the really tall guys directly to the west. They go to 3,000 meters and are actually pine-covered because they get rain. We in Mojave can see the clouds coming from the west but they stop dead at the mountains. It can be raining like crazy 10 miles away and it's clear sky overhead. I've stepped out of my door and gotten a face full of rain that's traveling horizontally (not a cloud for miles); the wind gets really fierce out here at times. :-)
Tehachapi (tee-HATCH-a-pee) is a native American Indian word and no one is quite certain what it means (same with Mojave - mo-haav-ee) but certain ways claim it means "great stinking cold place." Heh.

[stone_depot]

Wow that's very interesting! ^__^ It must be awesome to live near the mountains...

Thank you for the answer, and sorry for troubling you to have to type it so many times!

[galynthia]

Have a lovely New Years!

[helsgard]

Thanks and same back atcha! :-)