Show of hands--who is due to get pummeled by snow this weekend?

4-6 inches tonight into tomorrow and possibly up to a foot on Sunday.

Wheeeeeeee, December in New England...

Which makes it the perfect time to play this:

NYC under snow cover tonight? :)

Got sent home early, too. :D

We weren't going to get smashed until 3 p.m. so I went and did almost all of my xmas shopping. Got home before 1.

:bounce:

Both vehicles are parked inside the MBTA garage so no shoveling out for us. :bounce:

We're getting 14" today/tomorrow and getting the storm on Sunday too.

we are getting a foot RIGHT NOW!

no gym for me tomorrow

I GET TO SHOVEL! :P

:hi:

And more headed this way for Sunday as well!

Better get out and do errands before the ice part hits.

Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain

(winter storm Claire) but after they canceled school and everyone made a run on the store for whatever the hell it is people always think they will die without if snowed in (my run to the store consisted of chocolate, diet red bull and wine) we ended up with a paltry 5 inches.

especially the mountains. (raises hand) (smiles) :) (waves) :hi:

so no.. we won't be getting snow :rofl:

:P :D

:hi:

...and in six months, when you're sweating in places God did not intend for you to ever sweat in...






...I'll post a thread. Something like "Man, what a day today! 72º, cloudless sky, and the lack of humidity turns the sky luminescent blue, harder than a sapphire. Boy, I sure feel sorry for those poor slobs south of the Mason-Dixon line!"


:rofl:

but I must admit we do suffer terribly and have to turn the electric blanket on high when the temps drop to 40 at night.

my company sent us home at 145...they NEVER close earlier than 4pm!

We have more than enough of the fluffy white stuff here in CT. 1 Dog loves it...the others have to be forced to leave the house. And if this continues on Sunday it will force me to rearrange my holiday vacation plans...yikes!

Pretty cold for here. Likely to rain, too.

LostinVA and I both got sent home from work early. She only works about 17 miles away and it took her two hours to get home.

it's been raining or sleeting here all week.... :cry:

"rare and complex" weather system over the weekend, according to NWS. We in the Seattle area may get about 4 more inches of snow. The worry is high winds--in some areas they are predicted to reach gusts up to 70 mph. No bueno!

A FOOT of snow already, 1 to 3" more expected by midnight. Blowing and drifting tonight as well. And we're supposed to get hit again on Sunday! YAY!
:woohoo:

eeek

Sunday there is supposed to be a blizzard that will dump about a foot. Thankfully tomorrow will be OK because we are traveling tomorrow.

8+ inches is my guess. Worked from home and have to go in tommorrow to finish, blah!

I have no clue how much is out there. I don't care, as long as I can get out tomorrow. DH got his car stuck in the driveway. Luckily he got it off to the side so the plow could get up the drive. He has some major digging out tomorrow.

No not Seattle. More North than that.

Lucky me!

Still have snow from the storm earlier this week.

Getting more over the next few days.

I love living in Seattle, but there are times when living in the hilly country sucks bigtime.

Such a thing is unheard of in the Bay Area (CA).

5-7 more inches today with winds up to 30 mph. My only regret is that I wasn't able to go to the grocery store before the storm (didn't get paid until Friday). I could be spending my snowed in weekend baking cookies and stuff, ah well, extra sleep and catching up on Tivo isn't a bad second.

So I guess 5-9 inches in the next 24 hours. Then a cold front. -12 by Monday morning.


And it's not even Christmas yet!

They're saying another el Dumpo tomorrow.

Makes you fall in love with the place all over again.

about every other day. Expected snow fall is somewhere between 3 - 6 inches. It's getting challenging to find a spot for all that snow.

But it sure looks beautiful.

I say it'll be closer to 1 to 3.

:blush: :argh:

:evilgrin:

Feels like Christmas!

on top of about 4 inches already on the ground and un-melted. Nice light fluffy stuff & it is
very cold today so likely to stay there. More on Sunday and again on Christmas eve. Wheeeeee! Nothing I like better than getting out there in my L.L. Bean boots and slogging through howling storms. Really. Very invigorating. Fortunately I have no shoveling to do. :woohoo:

As I write, it's coming down pretty good, and it's expected to continue all day and into the night. Looks like about 6" on the ground in the morning. Time to break out the snowblower and the shovels tomorrow and clear away.

Folks in southwestern MN are getting slammed harder, with high winds and heavier snow.

Comfort food time.

For me I love getting out there in my L.L. Bean boots with their thermoplastic soles (basically softer rubber like snow tires). Secure footing makes for excellent snow-stomping.

are up to the task.

Blundstones have a pretty good and supple tread. Wear nice warm heavy woolies with them to keep the snow from getting in over the tops. Check these:

http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=bean-boots&categoryId=503437&cat4=503425&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&nav=va

No big snowbanks to step into for me.

I live in downtown Toronto...they barely plow the damn streets but the sidewalks...the city sidewalks, are the responsibility of the homeowners or the shopkeepers to shovel. Needless to say, not everyone does it, or does it promptly, which means there is often ice under the snow. One of the worst offenders near me is a municipal parking garage! Every damn time they leave a long stretch of humped trodden icy pack, presumably without fear of sanction. I'm going to get on my city councillor about that tomorrow. And NO ONE clears the curbs where pedestrians cross...it's kind of No Man's Land so I scale moguls routinely right downtown, and often just to push the button for the crossing signal. In the suburbs they plow the sidewalks but downtown there are too many obstacles, parking signs, newspaper boxes, parking payment machines, to do it from the street, they say. They do not HAVE to do it from the street; there are small plows made to run on the sidewalks, but they go for the free, often shoddy, labor here. That's why I invest in serious boots. It is worse than New England where we know how to deal with snow. Side streets really don't get plowed..they hold off hoping for a melt until it is nasty hardpack. I like to go out when the snow is new fresh and fluffy, unplowed, unshovelled...it really is the easiest to get through right then and the most fun. I come hoke apple-cheeked and invigorated and ready for a hard day watching TCM.

Seriously I'm right near downtown and they plow Rideau Street sidewalks which are about 3 blocks from my house. So when I walk to work I'm doing very little heavy treading in deep snow. I know I'm lucky. My brother lives down the street from a big apartment building. Because it is a fire lane they plow his street right away. Too bad we couldn't find out what the plowing situation is before we move in somewhere. Cause with snow like we had in Ottawa last winter it matters. Makes a big difference in quality of life. Anyway...I can walk on the middle of the road till I hit Rideau street. All I worry about is slipping on ice when it forms. I've gone down a few times in the last decade and I don't want to have again the bruise that sticks around for two months.

That kind of snow sucks ass. Shovel to the end of the walk, turn around, shovel back, repeat ad nauseam. My work didn't want me to come in, but they wanted me to work from home. Oddly, I just couldn't find a way to manage that. I sat around and just looked at all that white shit outside. Being from the west coast I was morbidly fascinated.

Ugh.

posted about it.

But I've got about 18 inches right now on my back roof deck. I just took a fall out there when I misjudged what was underneath all that, but, ah, it was a lovely soft landing. Reminds me of going to school in Maine where we did have Serious Snow and no Melting until spring. Even better, very year we had a couple of storms that dumped three feet or so at a go and that was when we started jumping out of the dorm windows or ledges into the drifts...I'm not good with heights so I only did drops from the second floor but third floor free-falls were the standard of self-respect.

jumping into water and I have a cliff behind me..I just do it.

an assessment of whether one will find a congenial landing. I'm the same way. I'll jump into water from height (well, not crazy height) or snow, but won't stand at the edge of a cliff just to look-see.

to the very top of the hill.. the "dome". It was treeless and once up there there would be nothing behind one except for air. I knew I wasn't up to taking the lift up to that dome. I stuck to the slopes that gave me some back-up.

Yup cliffs I'm not into. That and bridges. And high escalators. Airplanes are fine though. Weird our fears eh?

It snowed again tonight...pretty good snowfall..I was out & could not get a cab even though I had booked cars to take me to the theatre and pick me up so I did a lot of slogging...no plowing, no shoveling yet -a lovely mess - but I understand on Christmas Eve we are going to get a bunch of freezing rain dumped on top of all this pretty snow so we could have a Big Slush for Christmas. Let the meteorologists be wrong. I want the big snowpiles.

The ski hills are loving it I am sure. But not the freezing rain that we have today. Very slushy. Hard to keep the bottom of your pants dry.

By the same storms that will pummel you!

I've lived here over 20 years. It's never done this before.

:scared:

x(

:shrug:

Light, but consistent. And that's expected to add several inches to existing snow. It really hadn't snowed in several days, but the temperature also never got above 30 degrees so it couldn't melt.

It's definitely the first time in decades I can remember any significant snowfall in December here though. Let alone snow that lasted for more than two days. It's been a solid week of winter. Which beats a week of solid rain anyway. The snow doesn't seem so depressing. And I'm not in any way talking about "christmas spirit" or any of that bah humbug reindeershit.

I was born and raised here, in N.W. Oregon. I am im my mid-50's. I've lived here all my life. I have never seen it like it has been today. Blizzard conditions, near white-out tonight. Somewhere between 8 and 14 inches of snow on the ground. Winds howling out of the Columbia Gorge, with gusts here around 40 mph. Weather service said that winds were blowing near 70 mph in the Gorge. Most recent report says that freezing rain has started. :yoiks:

He's an Oregon state trooper.

I get worried as hell when he's out in weather like this. He has a wonderful wife and two litle kids at home.

I'm assuming there are a lot of truck drivers stuck at that big truck stop in Troutdale tonight. Has I-84 between Pendleton and Hood River been closed for a while at this point?

minus the snow.

It makes my knees hurt.

:shakes fist at weather gods:

:P

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/AFD.php

...If the upper low tracks as predicted, cold temperatures aloft will also support snowfall across the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, but at this time it does not look like we will have any fresh snow for Christmas day.....

The people who work at the observatories up there actually have to have chains 'n' stuff!

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