See, I look at places that have 2+" of rain with some amazement. It's been many years since I have lived where 2, 3, 4 inches of rainwater would fall in a day or two. Translate that rainfall into snow, yes I know ~ throw in some wind and drifting(!), there could be several feet of snow on the level and great drifts are possible.
I was in Coeur d'Alene when there was a 10" snowstorm. There was already snow on the ground. It was like the entire town shut down for a couple of days!
We have had 10" snowstorms since and 2 or 3 feet of snow on the ground at once but it's gonna really depend on where you are around here as to how much trouble that will be. I lived only about 3 blocks from a main street in Cd'A but narrow streets, too many parked cars, snow plows that buried driveways, residents who would shovel snow back in the street ...
@thistlebloom , if you look at a terrain map of the ground from Bayview to Spirit Lake, it's kinda a maze. During the ice age floods, the area north must have been chaos with water draining in two directions! Our storms from the south funnel in and the snowclouds lift into what must be meteorological confusion, a maelstrom.
The area north of Standpoint, somewhere around Naples (who named that town
!?) is somewhat similar. I'm wondering if you dumped a bunch of ice age water around there if it would have run north, south
aand west - all at once! If we measured things in the aquifer, it still does.
Steve
SOOO Sorry! Ice storms usually happen where I live. Hate them !!!!!!
We had one in the 1990's and power was out for 2 weeks in the country.
