A winter storm Thursday and Friday delivered much less snow than was earlier predicted, though it was enough to give the area a white blanket in time for Christmas.
Homewood received 2.6 inches of snow as of 7 a.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
A Homewood Public Works snow plow heads east on Ridge Road shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22. Earlier predictions of a foot or more of snow did not materialize, but the storm Thursday and Friday brought Arctic temperatures and dangerous wind chill levels. There was . . .