Winter Wonderland: Snow Storm Hits Columbia

I decided to document the snow storm and take some pictures of what it was like today starting first thing in the morning looking out my windows.

Here is the view outside from my home office window.

Looking out from the dinning room.

View from one of the windows in the living room.  Note the desolate bird feeders and the trash waiting to get picked up.  They canceled trash pickup for Friday in anticipation of the cold weather.  

So far it was not actually that cold - yet. That would change in a few hours.

Lior and I had just left WalMart and the temperature dropped at least five degrees while we were inside.  This is what it looked like at Lowes.

This is Shepherd Elementary before they cleared the drive.

Later on I went to Columbia College to get ready for classes next week.

This picture is at the Stephens College campus on my way to the Columbia College Campus.

Here are pictures going onto the campus:

These are heading back out to my trusty van.

The two girls are enjoying their two days off and the roads have not been that bad after the initial treacherous conditions we had when the storm first hit. My only complaint?  Why couldn't that have waited until next week when we ALL could have benefited from the heavy snow?  I was already off.

Flash Flood & the Green Valley Drive Bridge

Last Thursday and Friday the heavens opened up and we got a lot of rain in a short amount of time.  I was driving to work and the alert came on the radio warning of flash floods.  Later that afternoon , after I finished my last class around 3 p.m.,  I decided to take some pictures, and the pictures are a little more dramatic than what I had expected.  Although the rain had stopped the runoff was still considerable, kind of hilly around here, and the water was still rising. 

These pictures are of the area just east of Eastgate IGA of an old one lane bridge open only to local traffic on Green Valley Drive.  Here are the before pictures taken while the water was still up:

On the bridge facing south:

On the north side of the bridge facing north and East Broadway.

On the north side of the bridge facing south:

 

Here is what it looked like now that the water is down a week later:

A short movie.  The water is still swift and strong a week later:

Here are some pictures I took last winter of the same bridge: