THE WEATHER FORECASTERS were right.
As I snapped this photo from my living room window awhile ago, this pick-up truck slid on the snowy street.
Heavy, wet snow began falling in Faribault about 90 minutes ago, shortly after lunch.
Mega flakes fell initially, but have now decreased in size. This is another shot taken through a front window of my Faribault home.
It began as a beautiful snow globe snow.
Neither rain nor snow…later than usual mail delivery in my neighborhood.
But as we Minnesotans know, this is the heaviest to shovel, the most challenging to remove without plugging the snowblower, the type of snow that really slicks the roads. (Be careful out there.)
As soon as the snow began, my neighbor girl slipped outside to build a snowman and a snow fort. Faribault schools were closed today because of the impending blizzard. Photo shot through a second story window in my home.
Fun times…
Ā© Copyright 2014 Audrey Kletscher Helbling
Minnesota Prairie Roots 
Your captures make me want to curl up with a good read by the fire with a glass of wine:)
The wine I have in the house. The fire I don’t. Perhaps after shoveling this evening…
It really does look like a snow globe out there š It’ll be interesting to see what the winds will do with this wet snow? This reminds me so much of the 15 inches we got last May 3rd, heavy and wet. Stay warm and enjoy the view š
I don’t know how wind can move snow this heavy. I shoveled for an hour this afternoon. Randy joined me a half hour later when he arrived home from work early. He used the snowblower. It’s extremely icy under all that snow. I nearly slipped once and Randy was sliding along behind the snowblower at one point.
The rain/thunder was a bit of surprise, here. Our warning has been reduced to an advisory……’they’ still don’t know exactly where the snow line will land (we’re on that line!!)LOL! Note: other choice “Jacob’s Ladder”. Hugs…………………..
I like that one, too. Thanks for the suggestions. The rest of you have no idea what Doreen is referencing with Jacob’s Ladder. I tapped into her quilting knowledge for a poem I’m writing.
The snow photos are beautiful and I imagine by now snow drifts are everywhere and if you listen real closely, you can hear the snow flakes as they land on trees, houses and all. So quiet yet so beautiful. Stay warm and inside.
No snow drifts yet here in town as the wind has not picked up. But lots of snow weighing on the power lines and tree branches.