Who's got snow?

[Mary]

We had our first snow of the season yesterday (in Southern Missouri).
Anyone else have any?

 

[Christian]

Four inches in Pittsburgh. Took me ninety minutes to shovel the driveway and walk. Thank God I'm not the heart patient.

 

[Paul_N]

Just over 6 inches last night. I'm 90 miles south of Chicago. Winds picked up at around 10:00 p.m. and we ended up with some pretty good sized drifts. As fate would have it, my daughter's school is the only one in session today in Iroquois county. Many east/west roads are still drifting as soon as their plowed. Some north/south bound lanes are impassible on south bound side because of drifting.

We had 5 rescue calls on interstate 57 last night or up to 2:30 a.m. this morning. Fortunately they were all slide offs. As I was heading to work this morning, we were paged for 2 more ... ended up being slide offs too.

How many days til summer?

 

[Sherry]

We've got it here in Southern Indiana. In fact, it was enough that all local schools are cancelled. Are you out too, Mary?

The only problem with the snow, though, is that it is hampering the reconstruction efforts for the tornado victims. I drove past an apartment complex yesterady that had a side wall and the roof torn off from the Nov. 6th tornado, and there was all of an occupant's belongings covered in snow. It's pretty sad actually.

 

[JimL]

About six inches here, north of DEtroit. I've been out to shovel twice already, one more time should do it. It may soon get cold enough in Michigan that I'll have to put on a jacket, but the weather forecast is for above freezing, so not today.

 

[MarkU]

None here, but I saw some on TV last night. The forecast says it may drop into the frigid 50's here tonight...

Mark

 

[Georgia]

Mark, we're laughing really really hard here in the rest of the country. But you guys have your own problems . . .

We got a little less than 5 inches. I holed up for the day - tea, hot chocolate, good book . . . fed the birds a couple of times, played outside with the dog. No way I was going to join the nuts on the road.

It was -1 this morning; supposed to get up to @18.

Sounds like the northeast is really getting hit today.

 

[EVELYN]

NADA HERE IN EASTERN LONG ISLAND!!! But we did have sleet and freezing rain this morning. Now it's just major winds and rain, rain, rain.......Looks like we escaped the storm for once.....usually we get hit harder than the rest of Long Island because we stick so far out that we get New England's weather.

Evelyn

 

[tobagotwo]

Here in Bridgewater, NJ, at the base of the Watchung Range, there was 9" of snow. Fortunately, the sun is now out in full glory, so it's rapidly beginning to sink in on itself.

Best wishes,

 

[Ross]

Hey Mary, Bite Me!

We've had snow since the day before Thanksgiving.

 

[Nancy]

Like Ross, we've had snow on the ground for a while, but we just got enough today to plow.

Here in upstate NY, many towns pick up autumn leaves and pine needles which the people rake to the curbs. We have so, so many trees and it would be impossible to bag them all. The leaf trucks just finished cleaning up the leaf piles from Fall. The trees hung onto them for a long time, making it real crunch time for the Town garage, since they use the leaf trucks for plowing too. If they don't get the leaves cleaned up, it becomes a terrible mess. The piles freeze and then the road plow scatters them all over people's property.

Our driveway plowman, just did the driveway. He makes lots of money on the side during the winter. He's got a nice full time job, and this is just gravy.

It's been VERY cold. It was 13 the other morning.

 

[hensylee]

well, er....... um...... wait, I'll go look.




nope

 

[Harrybaby666]

We are Getting Belted with Snow here in NH...

We are Getting Belted with Snow here in NH...

It is really coming down right now, and they are saying upwards of a foot of snow for us here, but I suppose it was about time for us to get some....Sheesh...LOL

 

[Debster]

Just south of Kansas City we were at -4 this am.....most schools still out too due to cold/snow. Wish I was in the frigid 50s!!! Deb

 

[Mary]

Hey Mary, Bite Me!

We've had snow since the day before Thanksgiving.

Hey Ross!
You deserve that snow!
*with apologies to Ross's neighbors*

 

[Karlynn]

This isn't our first snow, we had some for Thanksgiving. We had about 7 inches in the NW suburbs of Chicago. Rush hour was incredible. I'm sure most of you have heard the horrible news of the jet that went through the barricade at Midway airport and onto a road, killing a 6 year old boy.

At 5 pm last night, the travel time from The Loop (center of Chicago) to I355 was 4.5 hours. It should take about 40 minutes.

 

[starkone]

What's snow??

What's snow??

We have the AC on....which I don't like in DECEMBER!
It is supposed to cool off soon ...down to the 50's like MarkU said.
I can't even invision what you are experiencing....born and raised in Fl.
Keep Warm
Karen

 

[Granbonny]

We were looking for snow yesterday..Just got the ugly cold, rain. Harrybabe...bet, you cannot open your patio door...Jim, are you dipping into your home-made wine??? If it runs out, you may need that jacket.. I think I posted elsewhere..I heard this is the coldest winter so far..in 60 years. What is Jan/Feb going to bring?...Ice storms are the worst in the south...Pine trees, limbs, ect..falling and knocking out power. Bonnie

 

[tommy]

Very little snow in the Dallas area. Some parts got freezing rain Wed/Thur as the front moved in - lots of fender benders.

So sorry about the plane crash at Chicago's Midway Airport.

Last night the temperature here dropped to 8 degrees. It was still as high as 18 last night when my wife and I basked in the hot tub with a cup of hot chocolate.

 

[fyrfytr]

Hey Mary,
We got an inch of snow two days ago but have had below zero weather yesterday and today Got down to -20.
I will take the snow over the cold.
Take Care