{"id":2308,"date":"2026-03-16T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:03:49","slug":"blizzard-elsa-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Elsa Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blizzard continued overnight. Some reports of 22\u201d of snow. It raged this morning. Winds gusts of 40-50 mph along with heavy snow. Three and four foot drifts in the yard. But the North wind blew away much of the snow from the West driveway. By Noon the blizzard slowly started to diminish and the sky brighten. By 3:15 PM the sun appeared although the wind continued. Mid-20s. Tonight in the single digits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Checked the woods and syrup building by 8:00 AM. Moved the milk cans of syrup into the heated R\/O room to prevent freezing since the temperature will been single digits, teens or low 20s for several days.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Before_Blizzard_Elsa_March_14_2026.jpg\" alt=\"Before Blizzard Elsa March 14 2026\" class=\"wp-image-2306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Before_Blizzard_Elsa_March_14_2026.jpg 320w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Before_Blizzard_Elsa_March_14_2026-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Before Blizzard Elsa, March 14, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Blizzard_Elsa_March_16_2026.jpg\" alt=\"Blizzard Elsa March 16 2026\" class=\"wp-image-2307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Blizzard_Elsa_March_16_2026.jpg 310w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Blizzard_Elsa_March_16_2026-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">During Blizzard Elsa, March 16, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A month ago it was 55 and we started tapping. Extreme weather fluctuations are part of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard continued overnight. Some reports of 22\u201d of snow. It raged this morning. Winds gusts of 40-50 mph along with heavy snow. Three and four foot drifts in the yard. But the North wind blew away much of the snow from the West driveway. By Noon the blizzard slowly started to diminish and the sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-season-109"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}