When I wrote that Waffle House started closures in south Carolina. Now there are closures in Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi.
About 3 inches in phila. Mostly kids and dogs braving the snow.
Still supposed to get 8-14 inches (6-10 today, 2-4 tonight), but it’s just begun in the last hour or so.
Looking at about 5-6 inches just outside DC on the Maryland side. Supposed to get another inch or so through today but it’s not really doing anything right now.
It was 4°F when i woke up. The storm window in my bathroom frosts when it’s cold, and i get a rough temperature indication just by looking at how much of the window is covered in frost. All but the top two inches were, so i looked at the thermometer.
(That’s -13°C, for my friends who use Celsius.)
It hasn’t started snowing, yet, and my husband just went out to play bridge. He’ll be back before it’s supposed to accumulate.
We did get a bit of soft snow on top whatever we did have(I guess it’s crusty snow, not quite ice). I think 4 in..
Low was 17°F
The kids are overjoyed.
Big snow man plans.
Dogs are not liking it. Had to coax them outside to pee. The Chihuahuas are up to their belly out there. Trying to climb up my leg to be held.
Snow started right on schedule here about 8 AM and is accumulating steadily, fine small flakes on a light south wind. Current predictions for about 17 inches with some spots up to 24 by tomorrow morning; then the snow’s expected to mostly stop falling but the wind will pick up and blow it all around. Also it’s cold. Even the youngest cat and the dog don’t want to be outside. Wood stove and furnace are both running, though the wood stove will soon probably take over for the middle of the day.
I might be slightly reckless and start a batch of bread, figuring that the power will stay on for at least most of today (the wood stove is primarily a heating stove; I can do some basic cooking on it but it has no oven.)
Current state of affairs in south St. Louis County:
8 American degrees (-13). Everything between now and 7pm tomorrow has been cancelled, so I am planning on staying right here.
Same area, it’s sleeting now. I got some snow cleared and ice melt down, and am going out soon to get the rest of the sidewalk. Dog enjoyed it for a few minutes then wanted to go in. He could still be feeling the effects of the blanket eating Thursday night.
If misery loves company there’s going to be a lot of company around the country these last couple & next few days.
Hmm, i have a bilingual thermometer. I must have misread one of those. Either way, it’s cold today
I filled the bird feeder yesterday. There are squirrels beneath it, eating the seeds the starlings scattered. One squirrel is busy finding seeds and eating them. Another is following her around and sniffing her bum. Is it squirrel breeding season? It’s so cold out, i can’t believe that’s his top priority right now. Especially since she’s obviously not interested.
Here in west suburban Chicago: maybe 2" of snow fell yesterday evening, before tapering off sometime during the night. But, now, it’s snowing again: lake-effect snow coming off of Lake Michigan, as the wind, for the moment, is out of the north-northeast. That’s not supposed to last too long, so we’ll wind up with 3 or 4".
It’s about 15F right now, which is the warmest it’s been since Thursday evening.
Up to about 7 or 8 inches in Western PA and snow still falling. Forecast is somewhere between 9 and 18 inches.
He’s just trying to keep his nose warm.
5 inches in Philly and we are in the snow to sleet switch now. Stupid ocean.
Georgia is getting some wild weather. There are tornado warnings down there.
Why would I be miserable? I RELISH this kind of weather. Tomorrow I’ll have a chance to burn a lot of calories digging my car out, as I sing: “Valderee, valdera, valderee, valdera-ha-ha-ha-ha!..”
Our daughter is in Edgewater, a few blocks from the lake. She pronounced it “not bad at all.”
Probably have 6-8" on the ground but the storm shifted so the end of it will be sleet & freezing rain. 
I did shovel before but am not touching it again as I want the frozen precip to stick to some snow & not some driveway; if it’s on snow, it’s removable tomorrow, if it’s on driveway, not so much.
OK, I’m gonna make it official. The weather bureau lied to me. I was actually looking forward to a big dumping of snow while I huddled warm and cozy in the house, but we got all of about half an inch and now the sky is brightening and I think the sun may come out. Pisses me off. They still have the orange alert. I guess to be fair to them, these are observations and forecasts out of Pearson airport and for the nearby areas, and I’m somewhat distant from there, though farther north, so you’d think the snow would be even worse. But no, I don’t get to have any!
Got milk? Make cocoa.
I laughed at my grandkids walking. They don’t break thru the snow crust immediately. It’s like a little jump scare step. The Chihuahuas skittered allover the top of it, falling in a boot print occasionally when the weren’t begging to be picked up. Cats didn’t even dare.
Bayliss loved it. He chased and chased. My Son had gotten the 4 wheeler out and pulled the sled for the kids. Til he noticed one tire going flat. Ended that.
And no electricity outage at all.
Lucky us.
All I gotta do is get to Dialysis in the morning. I think it’ll be fine. The AR-DOT claims the highway is well traveled, if a bit slushy. It will refreeze over night.
The state highway my roads starts at is not well traveled and no hope of a plow out here. My son and husband have dragged/scrapped my road with the tractor and a thingy behind. So it’s good.
We seem to have gotten through this OK. Some ice on the trees but nothing like the “catastrophic” inch plus of ice we were warned about yesterday.