I just shoveled for about two hours since the snowplow failed to hit my street. (Like really failed; it tried to come down here but got stuck and gave up) After lunch I'm gonna take the kids out sledding. Should be fun!
I love winter and cold and snow. My friends both on this site and irl think me mad. Me? I'm just a guy born on the first day of winter who loves his mother.
Had to leave yesterday at 3 PM to beat the snow home. Caused a fit when my sister and her boyfriend decided they'd rather go bowling with their time off instead of come safely home; there was much arguing and unpleasantness with the parents. (Which I evaded by spending my time alone in my room with the internet, as always.)
Dad wrecked on his way to night shift work because they didn't call the night (happens when you work in food distribution, he says). Thankfully no one was harmed, the wreck was within walking distance of home, and they got the van - undamaged - out of the ditch this morning.
Power was out when the first arrivals at the office got here. It didn't come on for another hour and a half, I later learned.
Roads were salted and slushy but drivable late this morning. I got to work about two and a half hours later than usual; between waiting for the roads to be navigable, driveway Tetris, and scraping and brushing all the snow off our vehicles, I didn't leave the house until almost 10:30 instead of my usual 8.
I cannot wait until spring. Allergies be damned.
3pm... Virginia?
Meanwhile in southern California, today will be in the low 80's with sunny, clear skies. We may cool down into the mid 70's over the weekend though...
3pm... Virginia?
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
[voiceover] Reporting in from NE GA: [/voiceover]
I was off work Monday already, but due to the snow/ice I haven't been back to work all week.
Got caught up on Season 2 of Grimm and encounter writing this week, so it's been good. :)
-TimD
3pm... Virginia?Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Bah! I was one state away (diagonally)!
Had to leave yesterday at 3 PM to beat the snow home. Caused a fit when my sister and her boyfriend decided they'd rather go bowling with their time off instead of come safely home; there was much arguing and unpleasantness with the parents. (Which I evaded by spending my time alone in my room with the internet, as always.)
Dad wrecked on his way to night shift work because they didn't call the night (happens when you work in food distribution, he says). Thankfully no one was harmed, the wreck was within walking distance of home, and they got the van - undamaged - out of the ditch this morning.
Power was out when the first arrivals at the office got here. It didn't come on for another hour and a half, I later learned.
Roads were salted and slushy but drivable late this morning. I got to work about two and a half hours later than usual; between waiting for the roads to be navigable, driveway Tetris, and scraping and brushing all the snow off our vehicles, I didn't leave the house until almost 10:30 instead of my usual 8.
I cannot wait until spring. Allergies be damned.
Ugh, sorry to hear about the drama. Glad your dad's okay. (Tell him to install floodlights on the van. =D )
Ugh, sorry to hear about the drama. Glad your dad's okay. (Tell him to install floodlights on the van. =D )Had to leave yesterday at 3 PM to beat the snow home. Caused a fit when my sister and her boyfriend decided they'd rather go bowling with their time off instead of come safely home; there was much arguing and unpleasantness with the parents. (Which I evaded by spending my time alone in my room with the internet, as always.)
Dad wrecked on his way to night shift work because they didn't call the night (happens when you work in food distribution, he says). Thankfully no one was harmed, the wreck was within walking distance of home, and they got the van - undamaged - out of the ditch this morning.
Power was out when the first arrivals at the office got here. It didn't come on for another hour and a half, I later learned.
Roads were salted and slushy but drivable late this morning. I got to work about two and a half hours later than usual; between waiting for the roads to be navigable, driveway Tetris, and scraping and brushing all the snow off our vehicles, I didn't leave the house until almost 10:30 instead of my usual 8.
I cannot wait until spring. Allergies be damned.
Or just take the Eclipse, it has better tires.
[voiceover] Reporting in from NE GA: [/voiceover]
I was off work Monday already, but due to the snow/ice I haven't been back to work all week.
Got caught up on Season 2 of Grimm and encounter writing this week, so it's been good. :)-TimD
Nice. Here in MD, I'll be sledding with the kids, followed by watching Adventure Time.
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Meanwhile in southern California, today will be in the low 80's with sunny, clear skies. We may cool down into the mid 70's over the weekend though...
Things like this make me miss living in Arizona, doubly so in the winter.
Hey! After 2 bouts of shoveling i found my jacket.
When I came home 4 hours ago, we had a foot of snow. I literally waded the quarter-mile length of the driveway after friends dropped me off from work. I like snow. I look forward to not being at work tonight due to the State of Emergency so I can enjoy it more :)
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I'm very much in the North East (I live in Pennsylvania) and we have a LOT of snow ... and it's supposed to KEEP snowing until sometime this evening around 8PM or so.
Luckily I'm able to work from home in weather like this so I didn't have to brave the roads today.
I'm definitely growing to hate these North East winters!
(Oh, and Freehold DM ... you ARE crazy! :)
Here in NYC the moronic chancellor announced that the schools would be open today YESTERDAY, before the snow started.
One of the dumbest reasons was that "it would give hot lunch to the children", while every parent knows the lunch is not hot. As if the kids would not be fed at home, or in the weekend or during the vacation next week.
But afterschool programs are still cancelled, so parents still have to pick up the goblins at 2:20 anyway.
/sigh
It's raining, now! This might impact the sleddability of hills in the area. Still no plow, either.
Got called up this morning and told to not bother reporting for work. Huzzah!
Of course, tomorrow is Valentine's Day--if you're in New England, I hope your significant other didn't ship your gift through UPS...
All across the Northeast, couples will be breaking up tomorrow.
"But baby, I ordered it two weeks ago!"
Upstate NY here. My roommate fielded a call yesterday from some federal agency asking what the emergency plans were for their facility. He laughed at them saying "even if this facility wasn't built to nuclear safety regulations, a foot of snow is standard here."
Snow didn't start until this morning, and honestly it isn't coming down that hard. I feel sorry for all you down south where they don't know how to use your bumper as a plow.
Left work Wednesday before the snow starting falling in Raleigh. By the time I got home 20 minutes later I couldn't see the road surface because everything was sticking. Cars were sliding all over the place.
This was in Raleigh yesterday: Atlanta had it easy by comparison in some ways
My company shut down the office today, for the first time in their history. If things freeze over tonight, I'm probably not going to work Friday. Of course I have President's Day off on Monday, so might be a long weekend for me for gaming and working on freelancing stuffs. :D
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Went to work took me about a hour. Not alot of people showed up...like my little green goblin comrade I work for UPS also. The few people who showed up concentrated on the few truck loaded with flowers and other Valentine day gifts...so atleast my hub got that stuff out unlike those Boston people(than again they are all Red Soxs fans...so who would love them to make Valentine's day mean anything ;) ).
It took me about a hour to get home. Kinda sucks as my Thursday game is canceled.
I wish I was a sports fan so I could start a flamewar.
Meanwhile in southern California, today will be in the low 80's with sunny, clear skies. We may cool down into the mid 70's over the weekend though...
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE.
Meanwhile in southern California, today will be in the low 80's with sunny, clear skies. We may cool down into the mid 70's over the weekend though...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE.
agreed. All should experience the joys of winter and only experience the horror of summer during its alloted 3.5 months.
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Eh, I live in Syracuse, New York. Snow is just this thing that happens here. "It's snowing outside" has about the same punch as someone telling me "It's Tuesday".
But SU did cancel classes last Wednesday night. Night, not the day. We all still had to follow the plows in for work and school before 2pm. That's pretty huge, though. I can't remember the last time classes were cancelled due to snow. Maybe 5 or 6 years ago?
Hopefully it will climb back up into the 40's soon so I can start wearing shorts again.
Meanwhile in oregon, snowpack remains critically low. Any eastern clerics of Gozreh willing to intervene? I can promise at least six chickens, and probably a bullock or two.
I'm in central New York State (well south of the Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse snow belt) and we're only on the periphery of the storm. We're only expecting 4-6 inches, which is no big deal around here. (We got about 8 inches last week, which also wasn't that big a deal.)
I actually think today's weather is more pleasant than it's been the past two weeks: the temperature is up to a balmy 25F! Until today, it hasn't gotten above 15F by day since mid-January, and the nights have been down to -12F. That's pretty cold, even for us. I'm not looking forward to my gas bill this month!
The big downer is that my wife has been working on assignment in Las Vegas for the past two weeks, and she was supposed to fly home today. Her flight (Vegas to Charlotte NC) got cancelled. Now she's not due in until late Saturday night-- and she still has to fly back on Monday! On the plus side, she can at least go back to her lodging in Vegas and isn't spending the night in an airport.
But we won't be together for Valentine's Day. :-(
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I'm very much in the North East (I live in Pennsylvania) and we have a LOT of snow ... and it's supposed to KEEP snowing until sometime this evening around 8PM or so.
Luckily I'm able to work from home in weather like this so I didn't have to brave the roads today.
I'm definitely growing to hate these North East winters!
(Oh, and Freehold DM ... you ARE crazy! :)
We've gotten about a foot of snow (12") so far today and the friendly weather man just said we can expect another 2-4" more this evening before the storm moves on.
And then, apparently, there is more snow in the forecast for Friday evening into Saturday.
Did I mention how much I'm starting to hate these North East winters?
Did I mention how much I'm starting to hate these North East winters?
The trick to learing to love Northeast winters is to take up winter sports. This is the first year in several that we've gotten enough snow to go snowshoeing!
And, to be honest, I like winter more than summer. I hate the heat-- it makes me miserable. I also sunburn very easily, but don't tan. I'd much rather be on a cross-country ski trail than a beach!
(And, yes, I do know how to drive in the snow. If you know what you're doing, it's actually kind of fun in a perverse sort of way.)
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agreed. All should experience the joys of winter and only experience the horror of summer during its alloted 3.5 months.Meanwhile in southern California, today will be in the low 80's with sunny, clear skies. We may cool down into the mid 70's over the weekend though...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE.
I'm with you, Freehold!
I'm with you, Freehold!agreed. All should experience the joys of winter and only experience the horror of summer during its alloted 3.5 months.Meanwhile in southern California, today will be in the low 80's with sunny, clear skies. We may cool down into the mid 70's over the weekend though...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE.
FHDM and Haladir - best winter friends for life!!
I'm very much in the North East (I live in Pennsylvania) and we have a LOT of snow ... and it's supposed to KEEP snowing until sometime this evening around 8PM or so.
Luckily I'm able to work from home in weather like this so I didn't have to brave the roads today.
I'm definitely growing to hate these North East winters!
(Oh, and Freehold DM ... you ARE crazy! :)
We've gotten about a foot of snow (12") so far today and the friendly weather man just said we can expect another 2-4" more this evening before the storm moves on.
And then, apparently, there is more snow in the forecast for Friday evening into Saturday.
Did I mention how much I'm starting to hate these North East winters?
I wish I got a foot of snow...
And, to be honest, I like winter more than summer. I hate the heat-- it makes me miserable. I also sunburn very easily, but don't tan. I'd much rather be on a cross-country ski trail than a beach!
I am quite the opposite. Love heat, hate cold.
Autumn is the absolute best time of year though. Cool, not cold, warm enough for jackets without being hot, and beautiful colors everywhere. (At least on this side of the country.) It's the one thing I prefer here over Arizona for.
Ugh... I think I'm going to graciously conceed round 3 to the storm, and blame equipment failure.
We can rebuild the shovel stronger.. faster....
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Big Snow II, Revenge of Work and School Closings, was insufficient in its ability to stop ol' Abyssian from making a booze run in the Corolla. A neighbor from the next court over couldn't make it up the hill in his Crown Vic. Front-wheel-drive, I think I love you.
I wish I got a foot of snow... kicks rock dejectedly
We've got so much we can certainly share if you want to come out this way :)