Note
In the end, no blizzard hit our area; the storm might have shifted just enough further to the east for us to escape. Signs on the interstate indicated highway closures about 50 miles further east.
It had snowed since trail grooming in the morning and it was snowing lightly the whole time I was up skiing in the afternoon. Maybe 2-3" of dense but dry snow, which was slow on my skis. I skied for 2+ hours, and got back just as dusk was about to set in, on this first day of (winter) spring. It sure didn't feel like spring in somewhere, like, the South. It felt a lot more like (winter), because it was.
Coming back home along Grand Ave., I noticed several restaurants had dimmed lighting in the seating areas, but had drive-throughs open. More signs of changes underway in town.