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Originally Posted by DRH
It's quite interesting how much the local snow accumulations differed around the lake today. Here in West Alton, we had a total of 12" when the storm finally wound down this afternoon. The air temp. averaged about 23 - 25 degs during most of the snowfall, but what fell as light, fluffy snow packed down as the inches accumulated and the resulting foot was much denser than I had expected. In fact, a shear pin actually snapped in my snowblower's auger this afternoon while I was clearing away what turned out to be 12" of fairly heavy snow!
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As I walked out the door this morning at 11, what had looked like 5-6 inches on the deck railing, was literally 12 inches measured in several places on our driveway. I am guessing that we ended up with at least two more inches after I left, but no way to tell now. Weather radar had some pretty heavy bands of snow showing this morning and it looks like the SE end of the lake was right in the way of them.