Background for those of you outside the Twin Cities; we’re expecting a winter storm.\u00a0 It’s actually the tail end of a blizzard that’s currently working over the Plains states).<\/p>\n
So I was standing at the bus stop this morning.\u00a0 I recalled “we’re expecting snow”, remembering the radar from the morning weather that showed a big front bearing down on the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n
I looked around; no snow at all in my immediate proximity.<\/p>\n
“Hmm”.<\/p>\n
I looked down the street.\u00a0 It seemed clear down as far as Snelling, maybe even Fairview (3\/4 of a mile away) – but beyond that, down toward Prior, the snow was coming down heavily enough to make it hard to see past that street, about a mile away.\u00a0 I could see the front of my bus, just ahead of the snow.<\/p>\n
And I watched as the snow caught the bus, changing the headlights from sharp glints to diffused washes of light as I watched.<\/p>\n
Literally – the front came in that sharply and identifiably.<\/p>\n
That <\/em>was cool.<\/p>\n Figuratively and literally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Background for those of you outside the Twin Cities; we’re expecting a winter storm.\u00a0 It’s actually the tail end of a blizzard that’s currently working over the Plains states). So I was standing at the bus stop this morning.\u00a0 I recalled “we’re expecting snow”, remembering the radar from the morning weather that showed a big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}