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Friday, January 1, 2016

Five Days After The First Flakes Fell - Artesia To Cloudcroft, NM.


Blog Updated @ 8:52 AM MST Saturday, January 2, 2016.

Artesia, New Mexico.

Drifts At My Brother & Sister-In-Laws Grocery Store In Atoka, 5 Miles South Of Artesia.

Common Scene In Artesia Neighborhoods 5 Days Later.

Residents & The City Still Plowing The Streets After 5 Days.

Freezing Fog Painted The Cities Trees Overnight.

Many Residential Streets In Artesia Still Look Like This.



Common Scene In Artesia Neighborhoods 5 Days Later.

The Drive From Artesia West To Cloudcroft.

Just West Of Hope Along US Hwy 82.

Looking South From Just West Of Hope On US Hwy 82 At Guadalupe Peak.

Looking Northwest From Just West Of Hope On US Hwy 82 At Capitan Peak.

Snowbanks From The Plowing. Just Northeast Of Dunken In Chaves County On US Hwy 82. 

Snow Drifts On US Hwy 82 Just Northeast Of Dunken In Chaves County.

Herd Of Female Elk Near Mayhill.

Many Rural Roads In Eddy County Still Look Like This Five Days Later.

Ski Cloudcroft.

Looking West Over The Penasco River Valley Near Elk.

Back In Artesia Just Before Dark.

Wal Mart Parking Lot In Artesia 5 Days After The First Flakes Fell. 

Wal Mart Parking Lot In Artesia 5 Days After The First Flakes Fell. 

Wal Mart Parking Lot In Artesia 5 Days After The First Flakes Fell. 

 Entrance To Wal Mart In Artesia 5 Days After The First Flakes Fell. 

 Downtown Artesia.

Downtown Artesia.




Atoka 5 Miles South Of Artesia On Blevins Rd Just East Of My Mothers Home.




My wife and I took a drive from Carlsbad to Artesia and then west to Cloudcroft yesterday. I wanted to get out earlier and do this but I came down with the flu, was working, the roads got shut down, and finally after five days I was able to get out and take these.

I shot this photo in the Artesia Wal Mart Parking lot just before sunset yesterday. Simply incredible seeing how much snow is still on the ground up there and elsewhere across SE NM and how big the drifts are five days later.

Even though I live in Carlsbad now Artesia is where I grew up. Most of my family still lives there. You can see more of these incredible photos of the city and more taken five days after the first snowflakes started falling during the later afternoon of Saturday, Dec 26, 2015.

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