We are supposed to get a combo of snow and ice here starting midday tomorrow. I love snow but I don't like it messing up every weekend. :)
We are supposed to get a combo of snow and ice here starting midday tomorrow. I love snow but I don't like it messing up every weekend. :)
I agree. I LOOOOOOOOOOVE snow. and this amount is nothing new for me... although this area is not equipped to handle it effectively without shutting the city down....Quote:
Originally Posted by Marigold2
but I love and always will love the snow. the more the better
but I also don't have to shovel it :)
Latest forecast: 14-22 inches. I am so excited...
Yes, I am so excited.:mad: My enthusiasm knows no bounds. I love how it sits in a frozen immobile mound, covered with dirt and trash, crunching under my cold feet.
Lovely, my *ss.:rolleyes::D
LOL! Don't forget about slipping on ice and doing the lovely flailing arms thing! I slipped several times and hurt my knee (waaaaaahhhhhhh)Quote:
Originally Posted by orangemm
Poor Callie is having SUCH issues with pottying outside. She wants to go on grass, only its all hidden under huge mounds of ice and snow. She climbs to the top of the snow plow mounds, sinks, climbs some more, sinks, climbs, sinks.... gives up and poops in the house. I can NOT blame her or yell at her; she tried to go outside and kept having issues.
Sure - all the above is true - as long as you can admire it from the warmth and safety of your own home - if you have been fortunate enough not to lose power.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marigold2
On the flip side, the above has a totally different perspective.
Snow starts to melt - it gets dirty and ugly - it's a thaw and refreeze process, with slush during the day which promptly freezes to solid ice when the sun goes down. Eventually it will melt, but with the ground still frozen, it has nowhere to go so all that water just lays there, and waits for some thawing - then you have wall to wall mud.
Walking and driving in it - hazardous to your health for MANY reasons too numerous to mention. Just a few - motor vehicle accidents, heart attacks from shoveling, broken bones from falling.
No power? There are people that will not leave their homes to go to a shelter, because they are fearful their empty house will get vandalized, or they don't want to abandon their pets. Damage to their residence from frozen pipes that burst. Some of these folks will end up dead from hypothermia, or end up burning their house down from trying unsafe methods to generate heat in their home.
Impact on the economy - Stores, malls, the government shutting down all but essential services. Lost wages for those that don't, or just can't get to work - a staggering figure. Schools closed and parents of younger children trying to figure out who will take care of the kids if they themselves manage to get out to work.
Got an emergency - need an ambulance to take you to the hospital or the fire company to put out that fire? I wish you luck there.
Oh yes - it is soooo lovely!!! :rolleyes: I can hardly wait till I see that first flake fall later today, since it's a repeat performance of the show Mother Nature put on for us this past weekend.
It's on the way - started snowing here about 0700. The worst is due after sundown. We're only scheduled for 6 - 10 though.
Here in NE PA, we haven't gotten ANY of the last 2 storms. How wierd is this weather? It has been COLD though. We are expecting 6-12 tonight and into tomorrow but I'm thinking it's all going to VA :)
Stay warm everyone! I know what it's like to get that much snow and it can be a major pain, especially when it keeps piling up like that.
It's snowing here now.:D:D I have to get ready for work. Today is my birthday and the snow make a lovely gift. Yes I have to drive and shovel it but it beats 80* at least for me. I know I am an odd one. But that is what makes the world an interesting place the odd folks. We make the rest of the world laugh sometimes with us, sometimes at us but at least we are not boring.
Your daughter is so cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pembroke_Corgi
Our snow is very light and fluffy - so far. I was able to just sweep it off the porches.
ours isn't supposed to start until this afternoon. hannah is at daycare today so I will likely be picking her up early so I can get her and back home before the snow starts. I'm used to snow but I've only been driving for less than a year so I'm not ready to tackle snow driving yet :)
Just drive slow, no need to rush and a good tip is that your hands follow your eyes. So if you are sliding and you want to go left and car is going right look at where you want to go and your hands will follow.
Stay safe.
Yeah I kinda drive slow as it is lol but I'm worried about driving around other people in the snow. people's brains kinda fall out around here when snow hits the ground lol.
one thing I am really enjoying... since we got all this snow I have a lot of litle birdies visiting our backyard. Over the past few days I've watched a male cardinal trying to attract the eye of the lady cardinal that stops by. So far she is NOT impressed lol. and just now I had a lovely male cardinal singing me his pretty song. OK it wasn't a song for me but I got to hear it :)
I love the Cardinals - they look so wonderful against the snow and pine trees. We normally have 20 - 30 in our yard. They are the first to arrive in the morning, and the last to leave at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by sparks19
They're my favorite, and we have a lot here too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
I'm out of bird seed, and can't get to the tree with the feeder anyway. I noticed the birds have been raiding the dry cat food on the porch that is Sherbie's. We always have a problem with the crows doing that in the Spring and early Summer, but never saw any others doing it.
I crumbled up some bread and a stale bagel, and added some rolled oats to it, and tossed some out in the snow for the poor hungry little ones. They have been eating it, so at least they are getting some food. I remember when I was a kid, my mother always took bread that was getting stale and crumbled it for the birds. :)
I've actually just been spreading the seed on the railing of our porch since I don't actually have a real bird feeder.
I'm glad you're doing the crumbs. I've read that once you start feeding the birds in the winter, you shouldn't stop because they have become dependent on that food. But it gets real hard sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
We have one suet feeder and two hanging tubes. There are 5 - 6 places where I scatter seed on the ground for the ground feeders. When it snows, I'm out there a couple of times a day, brushing the snow from those areas so the birds can get to the seed.
I don't have any seed, but I have some stale bread that I wanted
to throw out for the birds. Trouble is, I have to wait till it stops snowing
or it will just get covered up.
A lady I used to work with sent me a little take off of the Who Dat
song. It's pretty good.:D
"This is what i wanted to yell at people on the way home this evening.
Snow on da' ground.....snow on da' ground..... Drivin' like a fool wit da' snow on the ground....look at ya now - car spinnin' around.....drivin like a fool wit da' snow on Da ground!!!... Slow it down .... "
Here we go! It's SNOWING!
hasn't started here yet... said it should start after 3. so I'm gonna head out soon to the bead store and then go get hannah so we can hunker down, keep warm and watch the snowfall :)
We totally missed out the last storm; we're supposed to get some this time.
Yikes! Good luck to you all up there; I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!!!Quote:
Here we go! It's SNOWING!
The snow has started. I timed it perfectly HAHA. I went to the store and to pick up hannah and it started snowing when I was under 2 miles from home. perfect :)
now they've upgraded us to getting 20 inches possibly more
Hasn't started in south Jersey yet.
I'm trying to avoid the sensationalism on the tv because all that does is increase my nervous anxiousness over the whole mess.
This one is going to last longer than the last storm, it sounds like.
Hopefully the fact that the temps aren't going to be quite as cold will facilitate melting quicker afterwards, but at the same time that increases chances of heavy, wet snow sitting on wires.
Cape May County was pretty crippled with power outtages and they still haven't finished fixing things down there...so if other areas lose power, it's going to be a while before things get righted. I heard Cape May County asked for Federal Assistance but it couldn't get there before this Storm Part Two gets started.
Be safe everyone! I hope it passes quicker than they think and is less powerful than they think! Our expected accumulation is anything from 8" to 20"...hoping for something much closer to 8" for sure!
Nothing here - yet! They're saying could be sleet and snow mixed before changing over to all snow tomorrow. I'm hoping it's all snow, since sleet will make it treacherous. Any where between 6"-20" of snow depending on who you listen to, so I'm not listening to anybody. We get what we get, and go from there!
Stay safe everyone - it's gonna be a long day again tomorrow! :(
It started snowing here this morning and it's now after 6:00 and it's still snowing. We're expecting another foot. Sigh. :mad:
In my neck of the woods, we're expecting around 6-10" of that white stuff overnight tonight and tomorrow. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people in the D.C. and eastern Maryland area who will be hard hit again.
yeah we're in the 12" to 18" range "possibly more" they say.
We've got just over an inch already and it started just after 5pm
We could have mixing as well. Nothing yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
Definitely going to be a loooong next 24 hours. For South Jersey it isn't supposed to wind down until the later evening hours on Wednesday.
My main worry is power loss, as usual. I also hate wind, it just freaks me for some reason.
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Originally Posted by sparks19
They are giving us about the same song and dance about totals...could be this, could be that.
It hasn't started here yet.
It was supposed to start snowing here last night, but I don't think it did. Now they're saying we could get 1-4 inches here tonight. But I don't know. The weather people around here seem to always be WRONG lol.
We are getting rain and sleet. I think they are calling for light snow here tomorrow. I'm sick of this weather. Got a call today while at work from my neighbor, my damn pipe burst in my outside storage. Luckily, I have a great neighbor who is a jack of all trades and he cut the water off for me and will sauder (spelling?) the pipe for me soon. No rush since water isn't spewing out and flooding my patio :rolleyes:
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Weatherman Freaking Out Over DC Snowpocalypse
by TheDlisted
I believe this is/was many of the people whom have posted in this thread thus far.
Come back and talk to these folks when you actually have to drive in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hellow
According to the 6pm news we had 5.5 inches then. They are saying it is supposed to continue until at least 2am, maybe 4am. And in that time 1/2in to an 1 inch per hour, so 4- 7 more by morning. And when it stops is when the wind is supposed to pickup. Could be interesting!!
It's snowing but the roads were fine when I left work at 7pm. They are doing a great job keeping the roads clear. I am a bit worried about tomorrow morning getting out of my driveway as I have to be back at the office at 8. Hubby gets to stay home the rest of the week. :rolleyes:
I find it funny that you post this, considering you live down south, in Georgia or something if I recall, and rarely if ever have to deal witht he inconviences snow causes. Flight delays and cancelation, very annoying for people whom are traveling to go see family, on business or have to be at a destination at a specific time. Driving, black ice - very dangerous. He is not freaking out over nothing, Washington DC is in a very big mess right now. They already have well over a foot of snow - and they are not well equipped for it. Everything is closed, no one can get to the captiol, the whitehouse, all trains are down..I don't see how you think he's freaking out over "nothing". My brother cannot even walk out of his apartment right now in DC, he said his road isn't even salted or plowed yet from the first storm. Power outages are probably the worst thing right now, there isn't heat or ways to prepare food. Sorry, we're not all sitting in nice 60 degree weather with shorts on down south right now, although I wish I was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hellow
School was just canceled here, oh happy day. :D My dad already told me I'll be helping him shovel tomorrow, gotta love parents. :p
Where everyone lives, how much snow does it take for y'all to get before school closes? My school is the one school that doesn't close unless it's REALLY bad. If we have bad roads and a lot of snow, we get out. If they're predicting bad snow, sometimes we get a two hour delay...