2–3 November 2022 — 0938 mdt

A short note to readers

During the past few days, the best laid plans of mice and this blogger got kicked into the ditch when unfriendly microbes and other opponents of good health made an uninvited and unwelcome visit. They’ve finally been evicted, but I’ll need some time to catch up with a backlog of guest essays and posts on turnout and the status of certain candidates and ballot issues.

My immediate task this morning is clearing my driveway of three or four inches of rather wet snow that fell overnight and is still falling.

 Update, 3 November.  When the snow finally stopped falling, which was around midnight, I measured nine inches of the heavy wet stuff. Below, the view to the southeast from my front porch.

The weight of the snow tore three large branches off the top of my tallest sycamore tree, but the tree will survive. Many trees in the Flathead were damaged. Driving in northwestern Kalispell I noticed that large-leafed trees that had not lost their foliage suffered the most damage.