Finally got a little snow up the hill here, but it wasn't much, to be honest. Most of the quarter-inch covering our Peavine southern slope backyard had melted by 10 a.m. as the sun shone through and the winds had finally settled.
The roads in Northwest Reno were a different story. Even in my Jeep, it was a bit like an ice rink when I headed down Beaumont to pick up breakfast from Raley's. It's always funny, and a little disconcerting, to watch people get reacquainted with snow driving, particularly those two-wheel-drive owners who slip and slide at every turn.
The plows were out, but they didn't hit the steep slope of Beaumont until about 9:15. National Weather Service tells me there will be a chance of showers through the rest of the weekend, but the next most likely chance for anything significant is Sunday night into Monday.
Reno blogger James Ball was born in 1973 and raised in North Georgia, attending the University of Georgia in Athens. He and his wife, Pam, moved to Lake Tahoe in 1995, eventually settling in Reno in the early 2000s. They live in Northwest Reno with their two boys, Thomas and Alex. James is a web editor at the Reno Gazette-Journal.
