As our friends and family were gathering in Raleigh for Nicholas’ baptism, we were quite surprised by other forces coming together. All of our weather reports yesterday indicated that the expected snow event was going to be a few flurries with little to no accumulation.
Yeah, right!
What the weather guys weren’t considering was that another storm full of Gulf of Mexico moisture was coming north as the other system was coming south and they converged right over Raleigh. That meant we went from a few flurries to 2-4 inches on the ground!
We tried calling Gramps to let him know that the roads and the weather were much worse than anticipated but he got an updated report and was in the Raleigh area right about noon. Whilst he hung out at his hotel, our prospective godparents were leaving Evansville, IN and were going to encounter this at RDU International Airport in the afternoon.
Fortunately, the roads stayed pretty clear all day long and the expected icing at night really wasn’t as hideous as expected. There were at least 600 accidents in the Raleigh area that day but fortunately, none of the most important parties were involved!
And compared to the flurries Nicholas experienced on 19 December 2003, this was an honest-to-goodness snowstorm and fortunately for us, it was without the ice that usually shuts down the city and makes travel and life rather miserable!
