I’m hoping that my company declares a snow day Wednesday, but it doesn’t seem likely. They haven’t had a snow day since 1967.
I think you’re in luck - one coworker today was telling me how they’re forecasting “the biggest storm since 1967.” I think this one might be your lucky storm!
Guess I should fill the tub. And I have my own trees of death outside my bedroom, and I’ve been thinking about that all night.
Yeah…real relaxin’, ain’t it?
I currently live in Aomori, Japan. We get the highest snowfall for any city with a population over 300K, and this has been a bad year (like everywhere it seem.) The snowbanks are higher than the cars by far.
It’s not so bad though. People are used to it, so everything is usually accessible and I haven’t had any service outages. Also luckily, my apartment hires a snow-cleaning service and I don’t have a car to worry about, so yeah. Other than the busses being up to 30 minutes late, it’s just a minor annoyance to me. Better this than the scorching heat!
Here in Chicago I’ve heard them predict from 10-12 inches of snow. I never know what we will get in the city since the television forecast seems to apply to such a large area.
Anyway, I live right on Lake Michigan in one of the high-rises on Sheridan Road; any closer to the lake and we’d be in it. This morning the lake had very little ice and was slightly choppy. I just looked and it is already iced over with a good covering of snow pretty far out from the shore. I’m sure the wind off the lake will be delightful tomorrow.
LOL just in case Hiz Honor is even thinking about it, I’m not even sure that we have a brigade available in Petawawa, if ya have to be dug out.
Declan
We have had 30 cm (11 inches) so far since about 7 this morning (it’s 4 pm now) here in Hokkaido. I cancelled my classes today because I was out most of the time shovelling and though the main roads are clear, the smaller residential roads like mine are a mess. I was just getting worried about my ten year old walking home from school, and was thinking about walking out to look for him when he came through the door - a mini snowman!
How come “Snowpocalypse” is so popular but no one seems to use the infinitely more clever “Apocalypse Snow”?
I’m rather partial to Wintergeddon, myself.
I’m in the Chicago burbs and they’re calling for us to get 2’+. I’m a little scared but mostly pumped.
Kinda funny, my boss was trying to get people to come in for early tomorrow because they know they’re going to be sending us home early (I normally work 230-11pm). But WHO in their right mind would agree to work and get paid for 8 early hours when we could instead work for 2 hours and get paid for 8? Not I, said the fly. It doesn’t even come out of our PTO bank; it’s considered an emergency office closure and doesn’t affect me negatively in the least. Bring it, mother nature! I’m excited at the prospect of a snow day! I should be sleeping now but I’m too excited. Also, I just watched Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead and I’m kinda scared to go to sleep…
oops today, Tuesday. not tomorrow. I just haven’t slept yet so it still feels like yesterday.
Well, plenty of ice in Columbus this morning, but I still get to go to work! Hopefully I don’t crash on the way in. Lots of accidents already this morning.
They have included St. Louis in the blizzard warning, and are now expecting 10"'20"+ (depending on how far north you go).
Bleah. Baltimore is now supposed to get a bit of freezing rain/ice… which will then transition over to rain today. Lots and lots of rain.
I’d much rather get snow. Snow I can deal with. It doesn’t even interfere with my walk to work. Rain just bites, especially when it’s cold.
The weather forecast in Pittsburgh was talking about “ice pellets,” whatever that means, and lots of ice on the roads. It seems to have fizzled out rather–just rain and the cars are zipping along outside. I haven’t ventured outside yet, but no inclement weather days for us, it seems. Maybe tonight.
I have a conference to attend in Baltimore this week (staying at my sisters in Frederick, MD). We’re right on the Southern edge of this thing, but it looks like we’ll just get rain/sleet. Luckily when we go home, we go South!
It’s now sleeting here. When I woke up, it was still freezing rain. Snow (2" to 20", apparently) is immanent. As well as thunder, lightning, and up to 50mph winds, apparently.
This is absurd. The itty-bitty sleet ice pellets are falling on to a sheet of ice… this is like like throwing ball bearings out onto your oil slick to slip up Wile E Coyote.
We’re going to start getting a westerly flow today, so our weather will be changing to sunny and warm. Of course, it is
-33ºC with the windchill out right now. 
BLIZZARDPALLOOZA has begun! Snow Patrol is headlining.