Yesterday Salt Lake City ground to a stop. Officially they only got 8 inches of snow but the weather service monitor is out at the airport where the snow is not as thick anyway. One son sent a photo of the snow piled on a bench in the back yard and it looked like at least 12 inches and it was still falling. All the schools were closed. All county and city services except the snow plows were stopped. FedEx didn't deliver. I know that last one because we sent something to our youngest for his upcoming wedding and honeymoon and it did not get delivered.
Since Utah gets most of its water from snow melt, the snow is not a bad thing, but sometimes it is hard to deal with. The house we sold last spring was in a desirable location for many reasons but one of the primary ones was that it was on a street that got plowed first no matter what. There is a hierarchy of plowing on the streets that involves schools, churches, grocery stores, etc., but our old house sat on the road that led up to the salt storage silo so all the plows had to go up and down so the street had to be clear from the beginning. Two doctors bought our old house and really liked that factor because they could get to work more easily than from their previous house that was on a non-priority street.
Still, I am glad I am here where the temperature is about 45F and there was some slight overnight precipitation. We aren't lacking in water but we don't have to shovel either.
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