Well, the university where I work has announced that classes will be held tomorrow.
I could hope for a second snow day. but I certainly didn’t expect one!
We got somewhere around 10 inches here, I think. It’s certainly not a whole lot more snow than I’m used to, but it’s sure as heck a lot more snow than PA is used to. I got a snow day - Penn State cancelled classes for today. I haven’t had a snow day in as long as I can remember! YAY!
Although getting my car out was less fun, and the snow plowing services here SUCK.
a foot of the white stuff in fishers, indiana, baby!
i had to dig myself out (sorta) this afternoon since the housing association’s plower never showed until 10 pm this evening. i dug out four feet at the bottom of the driveway, and about 2 feet right at the garage door just to give myself a fighting chance to get out and do errands this afternoon.
now that i’m properly plowed out, i can finally exit my driveway safely instead of flooring the green machine (pontiac grand am) while i rocket out of the garage, down the driveway, hollering “bonzai!” as i sail clear into the neighbor’s driveway across the street just to clear the foot of snow in the rest of the driveway.
i know at least two of my neighbors think i’ve lost my damn mind. but it was fun… 
the dive master, last i checked, was contemplating six feet of snow in his driveway up in noblesville. better he than me. 
Second snow day in a row up here in Central NY-- school is cancelled in advance for tomorrow too. Yeah, baby. I hope it clears up enough midday for me to get out of here and visit my BF. I’m getting a little cabin fever.
Can I just hijack this to say that I didn’t realize how many Hoosiers we have here. I live in LaPorte. I have lived in Angola and Fort Wayne and I have in-laws in Alexandria/Anderson.
I like the snow except today when my snowblower quit. And the Honda was in the shop so I had to drive my old Trans Am to work. That was a treat. It’s a bit slippery out there.
We are under a lake-effect snow advisory for tonight. Unfortunately LP is small enough, and I live and work in town, that my work is never called off.
Yippee! After some plowing and blowing, we dug about 2’ of snow out of the driveway and I was on my way to Cincinnati. The interstates were mostly clear and dry but the ice on the trees from Indianapolis to Cincinnati was absolutely beautiful sparkling in the sun. A veritable winter wonderland!
I saw where a large tree had fallen onto I-74 which closed the interstate last night while they could get road crews out there with chain saws. And in tragic news, a young girl (10 years old?) here in Cincy was killed from a falling tree branch laden with ice. So sad.
we haven’t seen this much snow in indiana since the blizzard of 78, i do believe.
i was at ball state back in the day. it was a lot more fun then than it is now. 
Had to get to work yesterday.
The snow was up to my car’s windows.
The pickup was entirely eaten by a large snowdrift. It’s still buried.
But the streets were plowed by evening rush hour and things are starting to get back to normal.
We had 21" inches at our house. My husband was shovelling about every three hours to keep up with it and he’s extremely sore today. We have a small driveway, but as soon as he was done shovelling, there was already a half inch on the area where he started.
I drove past one house where they were just starting to shovel today. It’s going to take them at least 2 hours to do it all.
I’m so glad we stayed home with the baby yesterday!
Damn, classes (and non-essential university offices and departments) canceled until 6 am Friday. The first snow day this campus has had in 20 years and i’s two days! Christ. According to the paper’s website, we got 25.7 inches, a new 24-hour record, and the second biggest “single storm” snowfall on record. (The other storm lasted over three days, so had a smaller 24 hour snowfall)
Actually, we have. On New Year’s Eve 1999, we (the Greater Lafayette area at least) got 15.5" of snow.
Everything here is “normal” again. The roads are plowed, and driving is messy and slow, but perfectly safe. I just made a celebratory trip to Target. I’ve got salsa verde! WOOHOO!
My husband was getting seriously pissed off yesterday. He shoveled as much as possible, starting on Tuesday night when he got home.
No joke, EVERY TIME he got to the end of the driveway and finished shoveling, a plow would come by and plow a HUGE amount of snow back into our driveway.
I thought I was going to have to bail him out of jail for kicking the plow guy’s ass for that. We’re the only town out of about 5-6 townships/cities that doesn’t have the angled plow blades so that the snow doesn’t bury driveways.
E.
Our company called yesterday a snowday and it was on the radio with the school cancellations; it was just like I said upthread–we had been told it might happen so when I heard it AHHH! Back to sleep till noon.
By this morning I was seriously stir-crazy and antsy since the plow guy (I like to call him Mr. Plow) hadn’t come to do the driveway yet. Apparently he does most of town so he was straight out and hadn’t appeared by 10:30. So my landlord (we all share the parking area and driveway) went trolling down the street looking for someone with a plow and snagged someone to come do it. $30 for five minutes’ work…not bad!
I’d say we have 18" and more where it drifted. There were only two paths in the front yard so my landlords’ dog went as far away from its house to shit and piss, which just happened to be outside my door. :smack: I also had to help a co-worker from Florida dig her car out at work–I will be sore tomorrow!
I was all happy in this thread before, though that was before they said, “Oops! Instead of snow, you’re going to get some snow…and then ICE! Bwahahahaha!” Still, when I went to bed Tuesday night I thought we’d escape the worst of it. Ha. A quarter inch or so of ice is pretty, but it’d have been a damn sight prettier if we’d had POWER all day. Fifteen hours, no power, the house got down to 51F, we had no water because the well pump runs on, you guessed it, electricity…
I’d much rather have had more snow. Ice is awful. Pretty, but awful!
I am well and truly screwed. I have a long steep driveway. I usually park at the top of the driveway when they are predicting bad weather. Then I can come and go as I please and wait for the sun to melt the snow.
I did park at the top, but the plow plowed me in and it is all ice. I believe it will take days to get me out. And because of health issues I am not even sure I should be doing it…
No school announced Wednesday morning. No school Thurdsay announced Wednesday afternoon. No school Friday announced Thursday afternoon. One day will be made up 3/30; the main reason for school being closed tomorrow as well is that many sidewalks and side streets are very icy and unsafe.
WHEEE!!! Five Day WEEKEND!!!
hmmm. know that i did not, or didn’t remember. by chance have you got a cite i can read?
I remember the 1999 New Years snow storm vividly, I was driving from Crawfordsville to Marion ( a 2 hour drive), made it home just as it was getting really bad.
Snow drought. That’s what I trudged knee-deep through (and fell over multiple times in) to get to classes. Good to know.
There is a lot of ignorance to fight in Indiana. I’ll see your hijack and raise you one. Are you of Serbian descent? If yes that makes at least two Serb-Hoosier-Dopers from LaPorte county. How’s that for a minortiy? Maybe we should start a scholarship fund.