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1st blizzard of the season!

AprilBaby

AprilBaby

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55 mph wind and 2 inches of snow an hour. Karl is already buried, I’m half buried and DeeJay is just starting.
Checking in on LA Jennifer? Woof mama? Miracles Rule? Quaddio? Haven?
 
We're just getting rain the next few days 4 hours down south of you, thank god! Hope everyone stays safe and doesn't lose power or any type of nonsense blizzard-y inconveniences.
 
Just peeked outside and I’ve got the barest hint of wet snow sitting on the car, but zero on the ground so far. It’s hovering at/just above freezing so nothing has built up. Will be curious to see if I wake up to a winter wonderland here downtown!
 
We only have about 3 inches here. It sure looks pretty!

It was reported some areas already had over 11 inches. Stay safe everyone who needs to be on the roads tomorrow.
 
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Good luck to you out there in the snow. We had about six inches here a couple of weeks ago. Not a blizzard, but for some reason it badly snarled the traffic in a few jurisdictions. I didn't hear a lot of complaints from Connecticut, but New Jersey is investigating what went wrong. Six inches in November is no major shock and shouldn't take highway crews by surprise. ;))
 
It is funny back when I was growing up we called a snow like this just another day at school.
Now days they shut everything down the night before when they dont even know how much we will get and everything is messed up for a couple days.
Back then true story:
School superintendent: I never decide until 5 am. i let my dog out if she goes out school is on, if she refuses school is canceled.
 
This wind is crazy! We are only expected to get 2 inches. But 40 minutes to our north starts the larger snowfalls (6 inches or more). Downed power lines and outages near me, but our heat is on! The wind woke me up and now I can’t sleep!
 
@Karl_K I remember riding the school bus or riding with my mom or dad on some pretty old school, treacherous country roads. When schools are closed because of “weather” here it’s usually because it’s too cold to stand outside waiting for the bus (little kids) and also so buses that travel rural routes don’t have to travel ice-covered precipices a la Dr Seuss.
All in all, we’re just pretty cautious and don’t really care what we look like...
 
It's going to be 14degrees C by the end of the week here in the UK :P lol
 
What state are you April? Up here in Maine we got 7 inches Thanksgiving eve and day! stay safe lady!



AprilBaby said:
55 mph wind and 2 inches of snow an hour. Karl is already buried, I’m half buried and DeeJay is just starting.
Checking in on LA Jennifer? Woof mama? Miracles Rule? Quaddio? Haven?
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I remember the sound of chains on the bus! I lived in a small town in upstate NY. Snow days were at least 6 inches of snow. Loved snow days, hot cocoa (with real milk, real chocolate cocoa powder, (hey whole milk!), lots of sugar and a teeny bit of vanilla!!).. itchy wool snow pants.. it was heaven. Here in Maine they don't cancel school much because snow is a way of life :)


Karl_K said:
It is funny back when I was growing up we called a snow like this just another day at school.
Now days they shut everything down the night before when they dont even know how much we will get and everything is messed up for a couple days.
Back then true story:
School superintendent: I never decide until 5 am. i let my dog out if she goes out school is on, if she refuses school is canceled.
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Stay safe and warm and cozy everyone.

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Sending you lots of warm hugs.
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My sister went to visit a friend in Colorado Springs over the weekend (cancer so felt it was necessary) Accoridng to her facebook they drove 40 miles per hour across Kansas to get home. Got home at 1am.

You all stay safe. Talked to my mom and dad they're not going anywhere. My mom said no school where they are (Kansas City, MO)
 
We got around 8 inches with some blowing.
The plowing sucks around here anymore.
It has went down in quality a lot since even 10 years ago and they spend a fortune on it.
Since everything cancels I dont think they care anymore.
 
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We got probably 4ish inches downtown. Not as bad as a lot of places!
 
I’m not too far from Karl. We got around 11” and drifted higher in places :eek2:
 
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Please be careful everyone!
 
Stay safe out there everyone...
 
Karl_K said:
It is funny back when I was growing up we called a snow like this just another day at school.
Now days they shut everything down the night before when they dont even know how much we will get and everything is messed up for a couple days..
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Thank you Karl. I don’t remember anyone making a big deal about snow when I was a kid, except for the snowstorm in 1967. That is the only snow day I remember where we didn’t go to school and all the dads didn’t go to work. The other year I remember really heavy snowstorms were back in January 1979.

Now a days they make a big deal if we are getting 3 inches. If you live in Chicago you should expect 3 inches of snow in the winter.
 
Calliecake said:
Now a days they make a big deal if we are getting 3 inches. If you live in Chicago you should expect 3 inches of snow in the winter.
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I agree! A few inches of snow in the midwest is NOT an anomaly!
 
Calliecake said:
Thank you Karl. I don’t remember anyone making a big deal about snow when I was a kid, except for the snowstorm in 1967. That is the only snow day I remember where we didn’t go to school and all the dads didn’t go to work. The other year I remember really heavy snowstorms were back in January 1979.

Now a days they make a big deal if we are getting 3 inches. If you live in Chicago you should expect 3 inches of snow in the winter.
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We got almost a foot!! Hubs and I went X-country skiing. It was HARD, at least I didn’t fall! :oops2:
 
Bonfire said:
We got almost a foot!! Hubs and I went X-country skiing. It was HARD, at least I didn’t fall! :oops2:
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Bonfire, I left TR's around 11 am yesterday (at his wise urging based on the weather radar) so I wasn't around for the snowfall up by you/him. He did keep sending me pics all day and night so I know how much you got. A lot more than we have here in the city!
 
Calliecake said:
Thank you Karl. I don’t remember anyone making a big deal about snow when I was a kid, except for the snowstorm in 1967. That is the only snow day I remember where we didn’t go to school and all the dads didn’t go to work. The other year I remember really heavy snowstorms were back in January 1979.

Now a days they make a big deal if we are getting 3 inches. If you live in Chicago you should expect 3 inches of snow in the winter.
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I live in the northeast, so maybe some of our storms are different. 1967 doesn't stick out to me. 1979 must be the one that I remember. One at around that time most certainly does. I was just married (1977) and living in a condominium with my husband downstairs from the woman and her husband who were on day to ask me to become the godmother to their second child. (They only had one child at the time.) My husband and I shared one car: a tiny Fiat convertible. No SUVs in those days. The governor shut down the roads and made it illegal to drive. I-95 was shut down. I think we got three feet of snow. It was memorable. :))
 
Calliecake said:
The other year I remember really heavy snowstorms were back in January 1979.
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ah 79,,,,,,
We had a 30 foot high by 40 feet wide pile of snow across one end of our road from them keeping the fire department main road open.
A couple days after the storm they closed the main road and a dump truck with plow started out by our house and floored it and hit the pile of snow.
It ripped the plow off and pushed it under the cab of the truck and totally destroyed the truck and the driver went to the ER in an ambulance.
He was staggering around out of the truck afterwards, he was lucky to be alive.
A couple days later they brought in a bulldozer and pushed through it, did a lot of damage to the road.
We had walls of snow over 6 feet high on each side of our driveway.
A neighbors son brought over a skid loader to move it back because it was way more than we could handle.

Earlier that year we were sledding out the second story window of my uncles house in ND.

It sucked because we had to go to school a week longer into the summer to make up for the lost days but it was a lot fun building huge snow forts.
 
Karl_K said:
ah 79,,,,,,
We had a 30 foot high by 40 feet wide pile of snow across one end of our road from them keeping the fire department main road open.
A couple days after the storm they closed the main road and a dump truck with plow started out by our house and floored it and hit the pile of snow.
It ripped the plow off and pushed it under the cab of the truck and totally destroyed the truck and the driver went to the ER in an ambulance.
He was staggering around out of the truck afterwards, he was lucky to be alive.
A couple days later they brought in a bulldozer and pushed through it, did a lot of damage to the road.
We had walls of snow over 6 feet high on each side of our driveway.
A neighbors son brought over a skid loader to move it back because it was way more than we could handle.

Earlier that year we were sledding out the second story window of my uncles house in ND.

It sucked because we had to go to school a week longer into the summer to make up for the lost days but it was a lot fun building huge snow forts.
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Wow, that would be surreal.... :sun:

We just got a dusting here that's only on the grass, but it had been so warm before I'm surprised it stuck at all. Nice and cold now, and windy. Perfect winter weather. We've had 3 snows already this year. As of late, that's unheard of. Hope there's much more to come.
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Oh, I don't miss it! I spent a few winters down the road from Lake Ontario in upstate NY. Too brutal for this southern gal! (On the other hand my late husband, who grew up in northern MN, LOVED it!) I don't miss owning a slow blower, seeing plows on trucks, or the lovely icy roads.

Stay safe and stay warm up there y'all!
 
I would actually miss the type of snowfalls that stick to the trees if we moved to a warmer climate. Everything looked so beautiful outside last night and today. It’s the shoveling, snow blowing and driving in snow that I could do without.
 
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