First thing that happens with snow melt is the air gets knocked out of it and you get the biggest loss right away. Then it is compact and doesn't melt as fast.
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You're probably right, it went down about 2 inches Monday and Tuesday. In the last 24 hours it's went down in the 1-1.5 inch range.
It freaks me out even in good weather. Every time I am thinking what am I supposed to do if I go over this itty bitty rail? Sometimes I even put that rescue tool right next to me on my way out of the driveway. Wind is scary on it too.
What others have said and plus you want that stuff off the roads/drains if rain hits so it can drain away instead of pooling up and creating ice arenas everywhere.
My wife is freaked out by that too. Someday, we are going to go back to Key West (where we had our honeymoon) and I want to take Highway 1 down (we flew on a puddle jumper last time which freaked me out a little bit lol) and she's not going to like that drive.
Completely irrational, but I always roll my windows down when I cross that bridge. I only go up there in the summer though.
That lady seems a few apples short of a fruit basket. Especially considering this is the response from an actual climate scientist:
One of my kids drove that but I would have no desire to do that at all!
"Dreading for a long time".........? What's a long time in her book..........4 months?
Because I remember well just 2 seasons ago the "dreading" had nothing to do with water. What a bunch of useless tools.
Now I don't vouch for its accuracy but my windows computer just told me DSM is in for 3" of snow in the next few hours.... I think its coming from msn
The local news on 13 just showed .20 inches of rain today. It's way too warm for snow in Des Moines.
Somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 the snow in my western DSM suburban home is gone. Another week of this weather and it'll be gone.
I think we're getting lucky with this slow thaw. Just above freezing for like 7-8 days in a row, letting the snow pack melt slowly. We'd have a real mess if it had ramped up to 50 degrees right away.
Especially since a lot of drifts are in places a lot of people aren't used to. I think we'd see a lot of people finding water running to places it wasn't expected.