As the Dopers in Chicago have already noticed, it is snowing like a S.O.B. outside. The blizzard that is just leaving your area is due to strike us in the next couple of hours. We already have six inches of snow on the ground that has fallen just since 10 a.m., and they are saying we may get another six to eight inches before this storm is all done. My husband worked from home today (gotta love computer networking jobs) and will probably work from home tomorrow too. School will more than likely be canceled. There are some kids outside building a pretty impressive looking snow fort out in the front yard (we live in a condominium complex). I don’t really like snow very much, but I have to admit that it looks pretty outside with all that snow. Of course, I will never go outside until it all thaws, but it is still nice to look at.
I hate winter commuting. I’ve driven in at least three whiteouts. No one needs to tell me how dumb that is, but I was trying to get home, not go to work.
I’m not doing that anymore. It’s just foolhardy. I love that word. Foolhardy. Fool and hardy – hmmmmm. Might have to look that one up.
'Bout time you city folk got a taste of my world up here in the buckle of The Snow Belt, SF.
We got 8 inches in SE Iowa.
The problem is really the wind and the cold temps that start tonight. -5 with the wind chill it could be -35.Too early in the season for that.It doesn’t usually happen until late january. Heard another storm is due wednesday. My sons coming home from college wednesday He is at Southern Ill. It was 50 there yesterday.Hope he is wearing his longjohns.
I think we’ve got about a foot right now, and it’s still coming down. Oh, it looked pretty this morning. Now it just looks like a huge pain in the fanny.
But am I gonna get a day off work? Nooooooo. Sometimes being a municipal employee really blows.
We didn’t get too much snow in mid-Missouri, but my car is trapped under a 1/2 inch sheet of ice. I had to beg one of the roving sites support guys for a ride in to work tonight, because I couldn’t get into my own freakin’ car.
::sigh:: I’m from Michigan. I should be used to crap like this…
It was 71 here sunday. Tomorrow it’s going to be near freezing, with a chance of rain. But we in central Mississippi know that there’s only a 1 in 20 chance we will get anything serious. So basically, we stock up and wait.
And Wait.
And Wait.
Oooooh Saint Zeeeeeeeeroooooooo…
POW!
Snowball! Right in the forehead!
Woohoo!
Now shut up.
Pershephone? Thanks for the snowball, I’ll treasure it always. I’ll think of it while I’m basking in the mid 60’s this weekend.
…wanna help me dig out my car?
SDMBer xploder called me this morning, to let me know that EVERYTHING is shut down today. The roads are closed. We’ve got a state of emergency. No driving unless it’s imperative. I flipped on the local stations, and I’m not seeing anything about my place of employment being closed, and my guess is that it’s probably not. But there won’t be anyone there for me to call until 8.
BUT, I’m not going in, regardless. I can’t. My husband had to go out last night, and on the way home, the car got stuck. But at least he got most of the way home–the car is only stuck about a block from here.
Woo-Hoo!! Sitting here smugly drinking coffee in Downstate Illinois, where we got only a token 3 inches–however, under that, there’s our specialty: ICE! It was raining yesterday morning, then by the time The Cat came home from school, she reported it was “slushing”, then by the time Bonzo and La Principessa got home, it was big fat flakes, then by suppertime it was snow pellets, and then at bedtime a HUGE wind came roaring out of the northwest (the famed Alberta Clipper) and the temperature dropped 30 degrees in, like, 10 minutes, and everything froze solid. Boom.
So, no school today, which is actually surprising, because with a school district of 60,000 kids, they don’t like to call snow days that often. We’ve had worse weather than this when the school busses were still running. But, it’s the ice we have to thank for it.
Just finished explaining to La Principessa that yes, this probably means they’ll have to reschedule her big Christmas concert at school tonight (she’s in Honor Choir). She doesn’t know whether to believe me or not–sure, they can cancel math and reading, but MUSIC? Why, Mrs. Pinckney simply wouldn’t allow it.
Still to come–having to explain to The Cat when she comes downstairs that no, people who have only had their driver’s licenses for 3 months don’t usually borrow the car and set out in the aftermath of the year’s first big ice storm to visit their school bud who lives out in the country 20 miles away. Just not the done thing, you know.
The Better Half had to run the car engine for 30 minutes this morning in order to get the driver’s side door open on the Bigass Chevy Van so he can go to work at the Post Office (he crawled in through the back). The Mail Must Go Through.
Oh, and Saint Zero? Bite me.
The newspaper isn’t being delivered here today. Wow.
I’ve been trying to call work for 45 minutes now. There’s no answer at any of the supervisors’ phones. This is weird. I’ve never had a snow day from work before.
I spent 30 minutes this morning shoveling the sidewalk and the plowed-in part of the driveway. Then, as my back started to bother me, I said, “Screw this, I didn’t buy a four-wheel drive truck for nothing.” Proceeded to hop in and gleefully mash down as much snow as I could.
As I was leaving, the landlord had came over with the snowblower, which of course doesn’t pick up packed snow very well… “I was wondering who crushed all the snow.”
Most of my roads were plowed, and I got to work in pretty much normal fashion. Thank God for the snowplow drivers.
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mrblue, where in Michigan are you? I wanted to send you an email, but yours is turned off. I’m in Flint. Email me back if you want to!
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Hey…I guess I should have warned you all. We got hit here in Nebraska on Sunday night. Not so much snow…like 5-6 inches, but the wind and wind chill was unbearable. Still is, as a matter of fact.
Stay warm everybody.
Its all well and good that my dear home has snow (my family lives near Persephone) but it had better be gone by Friday. My plane needs to land. I want to see my dear home.
One clear night and then it can dump us in until April. (“Um, I have to drop out this term…I can’t get back to school”)
[sub] looks like another nasty winter of global warming…[sub]
Auburn–you know, that dinky little town between Midland and Bay City. (Not to be confused with Auburn Hills…) You are from Flint, correct?
I keep e-mail turned off in an effort to reduce spam… But I’ll send ya a e-mail when I get the chance. Need to get back to work.
Medea? You’re coming back here?
Hey, wanna do dinner while you’re here?
Oh, Bishop is closed today. All flights cancelled. BUT, it’s not snowing right now. It’s actually a bright, sunny day. I’m sure things will be straight by the time you get here.
East Lansing checking in: I haven’t been outside yet, but it looks like around a foot of snow. It was snowing all day yesterday.
Rats…and I opened this thread hoping for news about a realease date for “Warcraft III.”
Checking in from Virginia, here…we’ve had dire warnings, “fronts moving through blah blah, wind chill blah blah, mid-Atlantic pattern blah blah Canadian winds blah blah”…so I bundled up this morning to go to the grocery store before the stepkid took the car to school…and it was 60 freakin’ degrees outside.
At least when y’all snowed-in folk get weather reports, there’s a chance in hell they’ll be RIGHT.
Oh, and to all you Michiganders going through snow and ice and wind and cold: BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA from a former Detroit-Metro-Area-er.