{"id":173,"date":"2005-02-03T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T05:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2012-12-13T09:46:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:46:29","slug":"the-harpers-index-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/the-harpers-index-of-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harper&#8217;s Index of Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Feet of snow outside my front door: 4<br \/>Feet of snow up in the mountains: 16<br \/>People trapped at the Planneralm resort: 500<br \/>Helicopters used to evacuate them to the base next to our house: 17<br \/>Level (from 1-5) avalanche alert for the last 48 hours: 5<br \/>Cows killed in yesterday&#8217;s local avalanche: 6<br \/>Barns destroyed: 1<br \/>Pairs of snowshoes parked by our front door: 2<br \/>Total hours out of the last 48 we&#8217;ve spent on snowshoes: 6<br \/>Times (while wearing snowshoes) we&#8217;ve been asked &#8220;Where&#8217;s the dog team?&#8221;: 1<br \/>People we&#8217;ve seen on snowshoes besides ourselves: 0<br \/>Soldiers used to clear snow from railway lines: 50<br \/>Days until winter break tourists start clogging the roads: 0.5<br \/>Projected number of travelers: 100,000<br \/>Days until helicopters start throwing bombs to start controlled avalanches so they can clear the roads: 1<br \/>Days we&#8217;ve had chains on the car: 2<br \/>Days since we&#8217;ve been grocery shopping: 5<br \/>Feet of snow in the forecast for today: 2<br \/>Days until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/global\/stations\/11157.html\">forecast<\/a> says the snow will let up: 1<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feet of snow outside my front door: 4Feet of snow up in the mountains: 16People trapped at the Planneralm resort: 500Helicopters used to evacuate them to the base next to our house: 17Level (from 1-5) avalanche alert for the last 48 hours: 5Cows killed in yesterday&#8217;s local avalanche: 6Barns destroyed: 1Pairs of snowshoes parked by &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Harper&#8217;s Index of Snow\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/the-harpers-index-of-snow\/#more-173\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Harper&#8217;s Index of Snow\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria","category-the-great-outdoors","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}