snow snow and more snow

captmorgan72 · February 02, 2011, 03:22:08 PM

We got clobbered here in Wisconsin. Not exactly sure how much we got, but I know it's going to take most of the day to shovel out. How about you guys/gals.

After I opened the door on my porch, I knew it was going to take awhile. http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n301/captmorgan72/IM000693.jpg

ow_tiobe_sb · February 02, 2011, 03:25:07 PM

We appear to have ticked off everything on today's menu: heavy snow, sleet, ice, rain, wind, uncontrolled flatulence. That last condition might be part of a *cough* local forecast rather than a regional one.

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker

Glitch Girl · February 02, 2011, 03:43:29 PM

Sounds like a "nether-regional" problem to me.

(Gads, I can't believe I made that joke.)

Where I am it's merely cold and damp, so we're lucky, the worst of it went north of us. On the plus side, winter's almost over, right?

JeyNyce · February 02, 2011, 05:01:34 PM

In New York we were hit with snow storm after snow storm and now everything just frozen over. Where's Storm (X-men) when you need her?

Tawodi Osdi · February 02, 2011, 05:57:58 PM

Oklahoma took a heavy hit also. It probably isn't deep as it is in northern states, but our road crews are less trained and equipped for dealing with this sort of thing.

stumpy · February 02, 2011, 09:15:11 PM

I am in Indiana this past week and was supposed to have been on a plane back to California right now. Got the text message last night not to bother driving to Indianpolis; flight canceled. Hopefully, the weather is a little kinder to those looking to travel tomorrow.

There isn't any work I need to do that I can't do from a laptop here, so that isn't too much of a problem. But, I was worried that I would get back to SFO, take the train back to where I parked, and then (at about 9 at night) my car would have been towed from the pre-pay, airport-commuter lot I parked at. The good news is that they are used to this problem and made it easy for me to buy an extra day's parking via their website.

Anyway, I haven't seen a good snow since I left Chicago several years ago, so it's kinda nice. Of course, I don't have to clear the sidewalks and driveways myself now, so I may be looking at things through a rose-colored snow shovel...

cmdrkoenig67 · February 02, 2011, 10:46:53 PM

We got a bit here in Maine too, but it could have been much worse.

Dana

thalaw2 · February 02, 2011, 11:54:00 PM

I changed jobs to move to Suzhou in southern Jiangsu to avoid snow....but oh no! The darn stuff followed me her in 2008 starting with the coldest winter in China in 50 years. This year it snowed a bit too. I really don't want to move again before I return to the US (for good).

Tomato · February 03, 2011, 03:52:37 AM

Stationed in Ohio atm, we've been more or less stuck in the dorms for the last two days. I actually want to go to work right now, if only because it means I can go somewhere else.

BentonGrey · February 03, 2011, 05:40:05 AM

I feel your pain. We're in central IL, and apparently the powers that be think it's bad enough to cancel class pretty much all week....although, honestly, I feel like they're sorta' being wusses. I'm not complaining though. I'm basically getting a week off!

Epimethee · February 03, 2011, 12:30:20 PM

At last, we finally got a bit of snow in Montréal! Honestly, it had looked like the USA was going to keep it all to themselves this year... The Great White South?

Uncle Yuan · February 03, 2011, 01:21:10 PM

This particular dandy only grazed us in Minneapolis with about 4-5" of snow. Other folks got it way worse. But, this winter is on track to be the snowiest on record for us. We has measurable snow fall on something like 26 days out of the month of January with total seasonal snow pushing 6 feet.

Reepicheep · February 03, 2011, 02:07:29 PM

I'm in England.

Its pretty much like every other day ever.

ow_tiobe_sb · February 03, 2011, 03:30:39 PM

Quote from: Uncle Yuan on February 03, 2011, 01:21:10 PM
This particular dandy only grazed us in Minneapolis.

I was nowhere near the Twin Cities at the time, and I have witnesses to prove it!

Moreover, sirrah, as a vegetarian I resent the implicit comparison you make between ruminants and me. Harumph! *chews cud quietly*

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker

daglob · February 03, 2011, 04:00:19 PM

We get rain, sleet, freezing rain, and more rain, with even more rain, freezing rain, and sleet promised for today.

People who get snow are lucky: we get all the dangers of icy roads and falling power lines with 90% humidity that takes the cold right through just about anything but Gor-Tex, and we get gray muddy slush instead of pretty white snow.

Of course, when we do get snow, everyone goes... um... anthropoid excrement and either cower in their homes or get out and drive around in it like they don't have good sense (which, of course, they don't). Only expatriate Yankees have snow chains, and mud tires just don't work the same. Lots of "Hey, watch this" going on.

Snow plows? We don't need no stinkin' snow plows. We don't got no stinkin' snow plows, either.

Bill; Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Honolulu Blues Again.

Glitch Girl · February 03, 2011, 10:38:03 PM

I was at work when the above-mentioned freezing rain and sleet started. They closed work at 3:00 and it took over an hour (instead of the usual 15 minutes) to get home. Tomorrow work is... iffy. Depends on what happens tonight.

Cold sucks. I want that warm weather we briefly had back again.

The Hitman · February 03, 2011, 10:44:15 PM

As Tomato said, Ohio got pretty wholloped. Had 3 inches of ice on my car yesterday morning. Didn't stop me from driving wildly to work, though.

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