Happy Leap Day, everyone!

Have I got a weather story for ya…
Since the beginning of the week, the weather reports for our area had been claiming that there would be a huge blizzard Tuesday evening. My family and I stocked up on groceries and otherwise prepared ourselves to be snowed in, but as the day went by, we were increasingly dubious of the forecast; even by 1 AM this morning we hadn't seen so much as a snowflake. Then I woke up this morning (long after everyone else in the household, mind you

) and looked outside to see at least a foot of fresh snowfall in the driveway, the outsides of the window frames iced up, a snowdrift encroaching on the front step, and directionally indecisive winds blowing all over the place, blowing falling and fallen snowflakes alike and sculpting the snowfall like desert sand dunes. All the schools were closed, my mom had to leave work before noon, and even my brother, who goes to college an hour-and-a-half away in Wisconsin, got the day off from his classes. This is, by far, the most procrastinatory snow day I've ever witnessed, and the biggest snowfall I can ever remember seeing on a February 29th.
*checks outside* And it's
still coming down! (Much lighter now, though.)