Our first winter storm

 This deep freeze has been expected for over a week.  Winter storm Blair blew in from Canada and this was the residual.  Winds and the blast were expected overnight from the 7th to the 8th but it came in 12 hours later.  

The morning was unusually dark.  Incoming clouds were so thick I couldn't even see San Jose Peak to the south.  There was no evidence of a sun.  I drove to school feeling like it was 5:30am instead of 6:30am.

Temperatures only dipped further, too.  Snow began to fall in the afternoon.  By the time I got home, there was two inches of snow on the ground.  

I did not walk the dogs today, but I let each dog out individually for as long as they wanted to be.  Fritz and Zana, though, managed running around outside for six hours in this cold blast.

The deep freeze arrived then early on the 9th, with temps in the 20s and a school open delay by two hours.

Meanwhile, the hills northwest of Los Angeles are ablaze by four merging fires, burning down the homes of celebrities