Fall and First Snow

|Fall got here last month. First snow got here last night. The predictions said it would go southeast of here. When Becky went to bed around 11:00 it was covering the ground. Around midnight there was impressive lightning and thunder. Thunder-snow is always kinda freaky. I went to bed around 1:30 and there was a couple inches on the ground. At a little before 4:00 a.m. we were awakened by a terrific explosion. Yup — transformer blew and electricity was out. Weird thing was there were already trucks in the street and workers running around; the electricity actually went off almost an hour before the transformer exploded. After a while the electricity came on, for about 15 seconds, then another explosion. This time it stayed off. We added another blanket and went back to bed. When Becky got up for work the house was pretty cold — a gas furnace still doesn’t work without electricity. There was at least four inches of snow. It was starting to melt on the street, and she went on to work. I stuck around to make sure the furnace came on whenever power was restored, which finally happened around 10:30. The snow was very pretty on the trees and stuff, and here are a couple of pictures (the first one was taken last month). There’s a worker (maybe two) in the tree in one of them (mainly you can see the hard hat). Living in Kansas is like living on at least two different planets, but you don’t have to leave home to experience it. ||