After a few little snow showers here and there with an inch or dusting sticking around a short time in November and December of 2018, two of those small snows arriving before Thanksgiving in early November, which I took as a sign of a bad winter ahead, we finally had a heavy snowstorm start in by mid afternoon of January 11th, and by the next morning, several inches were on the ground. I measured both my front yard at nearly a foot deep and my backyard about ten inches deep, so I am guessing the truth was somewhere between the two. 🙂

There was a vehicle accident with minor damage on the West Overpass around noon the day before on the 10th, a Franklin County Deputy struck by a small green pickup truck….

….luckily there were no injuries to either driver. I also was able to go get my Tacoma pickup the next morning before the snow arrived, after first returning the 2018 Ford four door rental pickup I had been driving….

…..while Tim Weiskopf and his crew repaired the damage to my truck….they did a great job on it !!  here are the before and after photos on it….

The Ford pickup was nice to drive, although it had so many bells and whistles on it, that I had to go by Jack Cuneio`s and have him come out and show me the basics on it…it was a comfy ride but it did not have four wheel drive so I was glad I got mine back before that big snow hit. 

The next afternoon, we had heavy snow falling….

I have to say, our city Street Department did a great job of keeping the Sullivan streets cleaned off after working all night long…I live on a main drag in town, and I can hear them going by with the plow down, even when I cannot see them, and let me tell ya, they were going up and down my street back and forth all night long. GREAT JOB GUYS !!   Sullivan Fire Department was called out during the snowstorm to assist Bourbon Fire Department  with a possible semi trailer on fire about half a mile east of Bourbon on WB I-44. I saw no fire when I arrived on the Service Road, but let me tell ya, my flash sure lit up the snowflakes falling and they were huge….

The next morning, after going to the grocery store, Onyx and I drove down to a horse farm owned by some friends of mine on the south side of town where I often take snow photos.

I had not been down there for a couple of years since we had not had any measurable snow in a couple of years, so I was a bit shocked to see that one of my favorite trees to photograph in the snow, providing a high contrast look at things…had been cut down some time back. Luckily for me, my friends have yet another tree off to the right that I was able to focus on instead…

Plus he has some pretty horses down there too….

…and after photographing them, I drove by the Harney Mansion which looked great in the snow, and photographed it as well….