We have been upgraded from Winter Storm to BLIZZARD Warning. This is the one time I’m happy about my 40 mile commute to work, it’s a wonderful excuse to stay home! 
I work in healthcare so my boss is out in his 4X4 making sure all the nurses and dietary staff get to work. He won’t come anywhere near my county though so I’m all set to hunker down and enjoy the blizzard through my picture window. 
You are so lucky. Farther north, we aren’t expected to get quite as much snow as you southerners. It has just begun to snow lightly here, and I have to go to work anyway.
It’s coming down here in Central PA pretty heavily. We’re expected to get around six inches total.
My life is going to suck for the next couple of days.
Robin
Bit north of you. Looks like we’ll be getting 4-6 inches today, another similar amount tomorrow. Lame. Wake me when we get more than a foot in one day.
I got a snow day today.
I live literally about three hundred feet away from school.
[Yankee accent] Apparently, this motha’ of a stoahm is headed our way, due to increase to a classic New England Nor’Eastah[/Yankee], bah, i’ll believe it when i see it, up here in Maine (southern coastal Maine to be exact) anything less than a foot is considered a “dusting”
right now, we have mostly clear, blue skies, and a brisk air temp of 5 degrees Farenheit, the outermost edge of the storm is just brushing the southern border of New York State
we have bottled water all set up, a full arsenal of candles, oil lamps, and flashlights, a fully charged UPS for charging batteries during power outages, my car has winter wiper blades, and snow tires, and we are ready for it
of course, that means that the storm will pass to the south of us, it always does whenever we’re prepared, in fact, i may just insure it passes us by by purchasing another flashlight tonight, every time i do that, the storm misses us…
Here’s the latest update from the city I work in (I live about 35 miles south of there) Bolding mine:
WINTER STORM: Blizzard – forecast for worst since 1800s
The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for Grant County through 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Gregory Lamberty, senior hydrologist with the weather service in North Webster, said the forecast of 14 to 16 inches of snow places this storm on par with the snowfall of Jan. 1, 1898 when 15 inches of snow fell on Grant County.
The storm could eclipse the blizzard of January 25 though 28 of 1978 when 15.5 inches of snow fell on the Indianapolis and central Indiana area.
Winds are expected to drive the snow and create blizzard conditions through Wednesday.
May get a day off tomorrow too!!
Another Indiana poster here, Lake County.
My employer - a large player in the health insurance industry, our office is in the Chicago Loop - called everyone and made an official Snow Day.
:eek:
We never close for weather! But we did this time… and my only complaint is that World of Warcraft goes down for system maintenance on Tuesday mornings. But I can handle it.
We’ll hunker down. I do have a prescription to fill (darn! Should have done that yesterday) but I can do without for a day or two if I have to. We have enough snow outside already that the drafts have stopped coming under the back door due to the drifts. Hope the power stays on, but even if it doesn’t, we have alternative lighting and the house will hold heat for a couple days.
Stay warm and stay safe everyone!
Maryland here. It’s snowing nicely, not heavily, but it’s supposed to change over to a mix later today. I hope I hope I hope they’re wrong. Ice falling is awful. Snow is at least pretty, and not as dangerous.
Oooh…the flakes got bigger in the last couple of minutes! I love snow! (Within reason, of course.)
…and in Toronto, we’re having a ‘snow drought’, as it was referred to in today’s Toronto Star.
Because the coldest prevailing winds are usually from the northwest, lake effect snow usually happens on the south side of the lakes. Toronto is on the north side of Lake Ontario, and we’re too far away from the south side of Lake Huron to get any of theirs. The same five centimetres of crusted old snow from a month ago is still sticking around.
It is cold, though: about -14C. My nose hairs froze after five or six breaths, so I knew it was colder than -10 and warmer than -18. 
We’re supposed to get 10-20 cm of snow tonight. The news is describing it as a ‘major winter wallop’, which is kind of embarassing. This is normal winter weather, people. It’ll only be a major problem if everyione has forgotten how to deal with it.
Here in western Maryland, we have about 2-3" on the ground already, and it’s still snowing steadily. We’re expecting a total accumulation of about 6" today, and another 2-4" overnight, as well as maybe a half-inch of ice accumulation. Schools were closed today, EtherealFreakOfPinkness just got a call from her therapist rescheduling for Friday, and I’d be very surprised if her dance classes this afternoon didn’t cancel, too.
For me, I was supposed to go to a community mediation center meeting tonight, but was thinking of not going because I feel like crap. Luckily, it’ll almost certainly be cancelled.
FWIW, I don’t like driving in snow, but I refuse to drive on ice! Nothing short of a medical emergency is that important, and for medical emergencies, we have ambulances.
Cincinnati received about two inches of sleet and freezing rain over night. I’m jealous. They got our hopes up last night with all that talk of inches of sleet and freezing rain but those road crews were on top of their game. All that’s left is slush.
I’m in Chicago, and I’m staying put today, too. I have a commute to work that normally takes about an hour. I’m thinking today, it would probably take 2-3 hours. Not worth it.
It’s been snowing lightly but steadily since 2 AM, and it’s supposed to continue into the evening rush hour. That could add up to quite a bit of snow. I’m guessing it’s already accumulated around 2-3 inches.
Call out the Army!!
Awwww - now I’m homesick. I’m from LaPorte county, near a BIG dune with world-class sledding. Now I’m down south and haven’t seen snow in a couple of years. 
That’s what happens when your local news station hires people from The South, ine or two flakes hit the ground and mass panic!
us longtime Northerners just shake our heads and laugh at the absurdity of it all, personally, any snow amount below 1 foot registers as a dusting
Arrgghh! One goofball mayor, and we’re a laughingstock for decades.
:: bangs head against wall in shame and frustration ::
:: sobs ::
On the other hand, the Weather Network just changed the forecast snowfall for the next day or so from "10-20cm to “20-30 cm”.
Another person from Indiana: we’re scheduled to get a foot or more, on top of the 6" that were already on the ground.
Purdue is, of course, operating on a normal schedule.
Schmucks.
Enjoy the snow day everyone. I’m looking forward to mine tomorrow. We’re expecting 18-24 inches.