Snow day!  Yesterday morning, there was nothing on the ground... the above is what greeted me when I stuck my head outside.  The University of Wisconsin-Madison, about 70 miles north of here, has closed for the first time since 1990.  Duckford has gotten around 10 inches, with another 1"-4" expected by the noon.

However, the bad part is going to be the wind.  We're expecting whiteout conditions later as the wind picks up.  Roads are lousy, according to the live chat taking place on one of the Duckford TV station's website, with pretty much everything outside of the city itself being dangerous and impassable.  In city, only the major East-West streets are clean; North-South are bad because of drifting.  The plows come through, but the wind just blows it over again.

A couple hours to our west, in the Quad Cities, Iowa, they're reporting blizzard conditions and emergency vehicles stuck in city centers.  That's what we've got to look forward to, yay!  I'll update occasionally during the day.

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