SNOW

This post was written for Five Minute Friday

(linking up at Andrew's place while Kate is on leave)

Word prompt--SNOW

Five minutes to free-write about it

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Last night I was rudely awakened at 4:30 AM by a piercing alarm on my cell phone announcing a severe weather alert. A couple of minutes later it sounded again. And then again. 

Finally I got up, turned on the light, and put on my glasses so I could read the details and figure out how to stop getting the continuous alerts. . 

The alert was a warning to drivers that a snow squall was about to hit my area in the next hour or so. At the bottom there was a button you could click on to confirm you had seen the alert. Once you did that they would stop.

I did not know what a snow squall was so I Googled it. 

Apparently, it's a sudden intense burst of heavy snow and strong winds that does not last long, but like a blizzard, drastically cuts visibility by creating a whiteout and, in just minutes, also makes the roads extremely icy and slippery.   

The squall could not have lasted more than a few minutes, because when I got up the sun was already shining, and the only evidence that it really had happened was that the parking lot and cars were covered in snow. 

Wish I had thought to take a picture so I could have added it to this post on snow. (The one I've used is from my archives.)