snow days are the best days in time. Enjoy. It brings out the best in everyone, everyone feels cheery and concerned about their neighbour. Anyone who has ever lived through a big snowfall knows how much fun it really is.Complain, shovel, make loud brrr noises if you must, but revel in the warmth when you return indoors and bless the powers that provide you with a hearth.
As much as I dispise driving in the snow, I am jealous. Send some to us in Colorado, please!
Hey Satan, like someone said, go out and build a snowman, take some red Kool-Aid and dye 'im red.
OpalCat, at least get out there for a few minutes to throw some snowballs.
Brian…did you have to send ALL the snow up this way? I can’t afford to keep taking snow days off, dammit!!! I need my vacation for March!
In all seriousness though…I do love the snow. Time to find my hot chocolate, a blanket, and a good book.
Satan, I’m supposed to get a whole helluva lot too, but I don’t even have a car, and the buses are so packed I can’t get on em. I’m stuck walking from my building across Q-lot to all but one of my classes, and that one’s over on the other side of campus. Oh, btw, it’s also 3 degrees and the wind is gusting at about 20 m.p.h. Snow? You have it kinda easy. Well, I’m off to the tundra for my 1pm lab.
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them. - Isaac Jaffee (new quote)
Satan,
I’m in Raleigh too…
Amen to your well expressed sentiment
At least we (where I work) have more
days off this week. 
It’s still pounding down here in glorious Ft. Meade, and they are saying up to 18" inches on the news now.
The kids were scheduled to have today off anyway, but given the tizzy that last weeks snow day sent the school administration into, who knows if they’ll be going the rest of the week.
And the puppy doesn't want to go outside, this is making housebreaking very difficult!The snow IS beautiful, but when it piles higher than the back of your car it becomes annoying. I for one just pulled a 12 hour shift because the people supposed to relieve me could not make it in. Then I needed a snow plow to make it out of the parking lot. I made it all the way home, only to get stuck in the parking lot of my apartment complex. Sigh, enough is enough, I left Colorado to get away from this junk. Seems like I brought it with me. “Worst snowstorm in almost 100 years”. Great. How far is Cuba ? They don’t get snow in Cuba do they ?
“Solos Dios basta” . . . but a little pizza won’t hurt.
Another Colorado-an checking in here. It’s currently raining in Durango. And raining. And raining. And it looks like it’s going to keep raining. And raining. And raining.
– Sylence
I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one.
Okay, the final tally:
18-24 inches of the white stuff. The 20 inches at the airport make this officially the largest snow storm to EVER hit Raleigh in all recorded history. And I got to be here for it! 
In personal news, tried to drive my car for the hell of it. Ford Escorts are not the best mode of transportation when confronted with a deluge such as this, especially when my parking lot is all up-hill for where I parked.
I didn’t get far, and needed help getting back into the parking spot, which I didn’t really do, but oh well!
I decided to walk around and document this wonderful day. So I wandered around for several hours taking almost 2 rolls of film. I covered about five miles, I think. I will be sore, but it was a lot of fun!
I was actually GIGGLING this morning. In spite of all that time in the white stuff, my enthusiasm has not wavered…
Yer pal,
Satan
No weather here in Saudi Aurora either.
I work at a hotel. This morning, we were overbooked by 8 rooms. Then the eastern airports shut down. When I left, we had 3 rooms to sell.
One word for ya’ll southerners:
WIMPS!
“I’d think God would want to LIMIT my powers.”
I beg to differ. I have bronchitis with a severe cough. The cold air makes my cough INSTANTLY about 10 times worse. Plus it hurts my lungs just to breathe it when they already ache.
You must be new. I haven’t eaten chicken soup–or any other meat–in over 13 years and I’m not starting now just because it snowed.
That said, of course I DID go out in it a LITTLE, just like I did last week. I didn’t get to build a snowman or anything, or have massive snowball fights or any of that kind of thing, which is what I would have done if I wasn’t sick.
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“Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat
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If the Intellicast forecast is correct, it looks like what snow you have now will be there for a while. They’re predicting the temperatures to stay below freezing till Saturday.
Take it easy, and enjoy.
>< DARWIN >
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As a former hotel manager, I feared the snow & ice. I dreaded the snow & ice. I hated the snow & ice.
First, any inclement weather and your hotel fills up. This is good for your bonus but it leaves no room for your employees.
Second, I was the one who had to go pickup all of the employees who couldn’t make it to work and give them a room to sleep in, with their families.
Third, when the hotel loses cable or power, they expect by some miracle for the hotel to have cable & power, as if we are not on the same grids!
But now that I am out of hotels, I love the snow!
Using special’s comment, referring to the 30" in Chicago-Bang-Bang, South or North this amount - 20.3" at RDU - in any town would shut down any city. Granted though for not as long.
And I agree with Gabriel’s comment, once it gets above your car, enough is enough.
To Cabbage: hysterically, uh, I mean historically speaking, Raleigh usually gets sleet and not snow. The now line runs from Hillsborough diagonally to Roxboro. West of it - SNOW. East of it - rain, freezing rain & sleet. That slight change in elevation, makes all of the difference.
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
E A Poe
didn’t mean to offend you, opal. sorry about the meat thing. i forgot. you don’t do boullion either?
& i didn’t know about the bronchitis. thought you maybe just had the sniffles.
Satan: Duuude- that’ll teach ya to write about the Debbil’s music…
Seriously, whattever ya do, don’t drive. Weather anomalies fall into the Southern category of “Party”, so they’s gonna be a bunch of hotwired folks hoppin’ into their 4-wheel drives to test the murfuryer out. Lessin’ the Triangle’s got more gentrified than when I lived there.
Stay Warm.
Hmm I guess hell HAS frozen over.
Anyway, here in California we just got loads of rain. Up in Ben Lomond (Santa Cruz Mountains), they had recieved since Saturday 7 inches of rain. I think where I live it’s more like an inch and a half or so. Anyway, the storm’s moved out, and we might not get anything til Monday.
Satan: be happy, at least you guys aren’t having flash flood warnings and mudslides.
It’s worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance…
I find it morally repulsive to kill an animal uneccessarily (like for food, when there is so much else to eat)… so whether it is a side of beef or a cube of boullion, no, I won’t eat it. Also, if something smells or tastes like meat it makes me sick to my stomach, the way it would if my food tasted or smelled like shit.
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Yes folks…we southerners are genteel by nature. But we aren’t always the smartest creatures God put on earth. Yesterday most schools were on a two hour delay because of snow we got Saturday night. In the county that I work in…which also happens to be the county that Satan and a few others live in the school buses started picking up kids and then the schools announce that there will be a two hour delay. I still haven’t figured out yet what they did with the kids already on the buses…I guess they took them on to school.
We just totally lose it during snow. We are in no way equipped to handle it. We rarely have any. If we get 2 inches a year we are in shock. So you can imagine what this 22 inches is doing to us. Have patience with us as we try to lose that glazed look.
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
NC’s really getting along with the rest of the East. I was in Atlanta when the blizzard hit in '93. The whole place was nuts. Southerners (and I am one) are clueless on how to drive in the stuff.
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
– a Celtic motto
WOohoo!!! No work tomorrow for me either, since the federal government shut down again!
Time to go make a snowman tomorrow…