Hey, it’s at least that hot down where I live, and I sooo wanna go to the beach.
This seems like the thread for it. I’m in Houston; it was 83º when I left work yesterday. I don’t know the exact temperature right now, but it’s in the 30s and dropping. I’m truly curious about just what to expect in the morning as I’ve never heard a forecast like the one I heard this afternoon. It was predicting 3/4 of an inch of ice! While we get freezes every winter, and they’ll warn about icy roads, I’ve never heard predictions in inches of ice. 3/4" sounds like a lot, but then I don’t really know what it means.
Stay warm, y’all!
Nine inches in the Quad Cities and we are expecting more.
I love it when I have snow on my birthday even though it didn’t snow today it is still on the ground looking pretty!
My nephew who is from Florida couldn’t understand why I was searching for my sunglasses. I looked at him like he had grown another head and then remembered that he’s never seen the way the sun reflects off the snow.
struuter - I love tortilla soup. They make a good one in the cafeteria where I work, and I asked for the recipe but it makes five gallons. I’m not good at math. I’d love to have your recipe. Pretty please?
Got stuck in the driveway this morning and despite wearing Thinsulate gloves, my fingertips were frozen after just a few minutes of shoveling.
Turns out front-wheel drive isn’t worth much when you’re in reverse. Whodathunkit?
It’s -8 with a -30 wind chill. But there’s no wind. WTF?
It’s too early to be this damned cold! This is late January weather! And I’m going to miss the meteor showers in the morning. Watch before dawn. Yeah, right.
Anyone near Naperville, IL wanna shovel my driveway? I’ll give you a crisp, new dollar bill!
beatle – I’d take three feet of snow over a half inch of ice any day. Expect power outages from falling branches (and whole trees), and don’t even think of driving. Or walking. You have my sympathy.
All right, checking in from Ann Arbor…
We got something around eight inches; I don’t pay attention to local news and therefore don’t know an exact count. All I know is that at midnight last night, all that snow was blowing around in about a thirty-knot wind. Sidewalks that were cleared yesterday evening (and thus should only have had another inch or two on them) were just as deep thanks to the blowing snow.
However, Ann Arbor is known as a place where you don’t have to worry much about getting plowed out, even on the side streets. The streets should be fine by tomorrow.
And, I can gloat a bit, because my car’s been in the shop this whole time and if it did get snow on it, I don’t have to dig it out. The unfortunate part is that it was in for a headgasket, and I’m out around $900. <sigh>
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Thanks, Auntie! I expected that forecast would mean branches and lines down. When I told our secretary, she said, “Great! We won’t have to come in!” I thought, “I’d gladly work a weekend as opposed to having a big ice storm.”
Ah, well! It’s now a little past 10:00 and close to freezing, but the rains haven’t started yet (fingers crossed).
Lazarus! You’re from A2! Coolness! I lived there for many years. My mom still lives there, and she said the same thing today–no road problems today. That’s what I always liked about living there. The plow guys just stand outside & wait for the flakes to start falling, and once they hit, they’re all over them. The plow guys here in Flint would do the same thing, if the mayor would only tell them to. Sigh.
The grand total for our area was 13 inches. We live in a condo complex, so we pay the big bucks to the condo association so that we get our parking lot and sidewalks snow plowed for us. However, the big snot heads only plowed the parking lot and didn’t clear any of the sidewalks, so my hubby had to go out and shovel the walkway from the door to the parking lot. The distance from the door to the parking lot is only about 30 feet or so, but it still took him the better part of an hour to shovel it. School was canceled too.
Hahaahaahaa! My son did the exact same thing today. We put him in his snowsuit and he fell backwards into the snow and started hollering “I can’t get up! I can’t get up!” The hubby and I both looked at each other and burst out laughing at the same time.
Pam, no problem. It’s absolutely the best soup I’ve ever had. I don’t have the recipe with me today, but I’ll post it as soon as I can. My mouth is watering just thinking about it! Ha.
…and the second wave is here. I’m in central Iowa, and it’s been snowing for the last few hours. Light snow, but steady. Very pretty, I might add. I imagine this will make it’s way eastward, so Illinois and Michigan dopers beware.
TV 5 (mid-Michigan) is predicting another 1-3" here tonight, probably from the same storm system you’re referring to. They also mentioned that Midland (where I’m sitting now) had 14" yesterday, Bay City had 8.5".
After living in Grand Rapids for 2 1/2 years, 1-3" is nothing AFAIC–we’d often have that much two or three days in a row without any serious difficulties. No doubt those in Northern Canada or a place like Houghton, MI would laugh at 1-3".
Well, I left work around 2:45 on MOnday and in the time honored Michigan tradition, stopped at the store to buy milk on my way home.(20 miles ne of Lansing)
We shoveled (by hand) 15 inches of snow from our 150 foot dirt driveway. (not to mention the several feet from the back door to the drive). School’s still cancelled in Lansing 2 days after the storm (side streets still blocked). All I want for Christmas is a snow blower.
Hell, mrblue, I laugh at 1-3"! That’s not a snowstorm! That’s rain! Hahahahaha!
On top of what we’ve already got, though, it’s a huge pain in the butt.
My dad bought a snowblower attachment for his riding lawnmower last year and it works great… Of course it was inevitable when the axle on the old one kept falling out.
The only reason I don’t laugh is because I know even a little bit of snow coating the roads is enough to make it a slippery, which leads to an increased chance of fatalities. Being careful isn’t always enough, because it only takes one careless person, and suddenly it’s not that funny.
You are all making me so homesick. I grew up in Grand Blanc (just outside of Flint) and went to college in A2. Now I’m living in Baltimore, Maryland where it’s cold but snowless. I know it sucks sometimes, but snow somehow justifies winter. It’s just so damn pretty.
Send me your address, I’d be happy to ship about 27000 inches of “pretty” your way…
from The Tasks of Persephone <Movie voice-over>“Rated PG-13. Opens Wednesday in select cities, Friday nationwide.”</Movie voice> ::
Greetings mistress! Tender felicitations and hoping that you don’t get severe cabin fever.
Hmm… ::Studies thread, begins scribbling furiously:: …Municipal employee, lives in Flint, A-HA ONE daughter!
For the rest of you: I’m NOT an internet stalker. She sent me to find this stuff out about her.
Yeesh - -20 ambient air temp? Hell wid DAT! Read the Dopefest, MI thread and would love to attend, if only for the chance to gaze upon the shining face of the Glorious Lady :), but that Arctic Clipper weather bizness is OUT! Any chance of you guys re-locating the 'fest down to a more SANE latitude? Like Cancun?
Nothing weather-wise emminent here in Raleigh, other than slight possibility of freezing rain tonite. I just LOVE hearing the words “Wintery Mix”. Sounds like a nice Holiday snack food, right? :rolleyes:
I’ve actually been to MI once, a decade ago. Then-GF’s family was from there & I went with them to visit. Can’t remember where, exactly, though we did pass by Ypsilanti (sp?). I’m pretty sure we went to Detroit - I remeber crossing the river and standing in Canada. GF’s brother’s gf (a native of FL, never further north than NC) was going nuts over being in another country. She even called her folks in FL from the park there just to tell them.
Back to the point of this thread: all I remember of the weather there was (in March) COLD and RAINY. I was struck at the time how similar the weather was to when I was in Germany.
Well, I see this post displays my obvious character flaws: a tendency to ramble, poor recall ability, and a pathetically short attention sp
Okay, not ACTUALLY Lansing (Grand Ledge, which is 7 miles west of Lansing). We got a foot and a half here, which means school has been closed for 2 days (I’m 15, so I can still enjoy the consequences hellish weather brings). It took 4 people to shovel my driveway. Yikes. I live in a subdivision that isn’t in the city limits, and if it wasn’t for our neighbor with a snowplow, I would still be confined to my home. Has anyone ever been the only person in a mall? I finished my Christmas shopping yesterday, and there was not another shopper there. It was like twilight zone…