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First off, a new blog theme starting today! Blogger came up with some new themes and I thought I would try one out. I may be trying others out and tweaking aspects of it. OK, back to our wild and wooly winter! On my last post, I was wondering about the possibility of another heavy snowfall that evening and weekend. Well, that didn't happen! No, the rains came! Culminating with last weekends really heavy rains, mudslides, and flooding.  Following are excerpts from a recent story about all this from the online version of an area newspaper "BONNERS FERRY — In the wake of snow and ice storms, Boundary County and the City of Bonners Ferry declared a state of emergency for the second time this winter on Saturday after torrential rains rapidly melted accumulated snow banks across the county creating floods and subsequent mudslides. A mudslide on the South Hill at U.S. Highway 95 and Ash St. backed up both north and southbound traffic for about five hours on ...

Since my last post, we had one week of 'warmer' weather, temperatures in the low 40s, followed by continuing weeks of winter weather! After snowing since yesterday afternoon it has finally stopped snowing, for the moment, but there is a "Winter Storm Advisory" in effect until 6 am tomorrow with up to 6 inches of snow that could fall overnight! That is the way it has been too. The past few weeks temps in the mid to upper 30s in the daytime then back down to upper 20s and freezing at night and many of those nights, from 1 to 3 inches of snow.  Then light, fluffy snowflakes whirling around in the breezes during the day but not sticking because of the warmer air temperatures. Above and below: all the photos here were taken yesterday morning, 03/08/2017 as we were leaving to go to work. Just showing the overnight snowfall of around three inches. As you can see, the tail end of the truck sticks out just a bit, so the snow builds up in the bed and in the area of the...