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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:10 AM
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rurallib - I woke up this morning to freezing rain and now it's snowing and the wind is blowing
x( What's it doing at your place?

(okay, this question is to all Iowa DUers, not just rurallib - I just blame him for jinxing Iowa with his 'no snow' post! :crazy:)
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:31 AM
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1. Glad to see you're "sharing the wealth"
So to speak. Here in the Quads, it is raining at this time. Not freezing yet, but that will undoubtedly happen later. I hate winter. Gripe, moan, complain...Ah never mind. Baseball players are in spring training, can Spring be far behind?
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 01:08 PM
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5. Spring is never
x( we are now covered in snow.......
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emmadoggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:51 AM
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2. Snowing and Blowing here in Allamakee county...generally pretty nasty already.
We're supposed to end up with 6-10". Blizzard warning in effect. Yippee. This winter has been something else.

Just to the south of us - around Prairie du Chien they have already had a good dose of freezing rain and ice accumulation. We had a little the way the trees look, but not much, thankfully.

This one definitely sounds like it will be nasty. Batten down the hatches, Iowans! :yoiks:
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 01:10 PM
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6. Get warm and dry and stay that way!
We've been watching all the morning political shows as well as watching the sleet/snow fall outside. Tomorrow will be interesting!
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IADEMO2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:32 AM
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3. SW IA , ice + inch of snow much wind
Enough ice to fall, not enough spilled bird seed and snow for a proper angel.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 01:11 PM
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7. I just tried to shovel!
:wow: Now THAT was silly
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 12:10 PM
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4. Rain at 7AM. Snow started @ 10:30
Kids came from Indiana this weekend. I begged them not to. So they get up this Am and smoked out of here by 7:30. They 'didn't realize it was going to be so bad.' Oy Vey!
Guess we will miss the intellectual stylings of of KKKKKarl tonite.

I am really, really sorry about my prediction. I have lots of walks to shovel as my personal punishment
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 01:12 PM
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8. Shovel?
bud you need an ice chipper for my drive! :scared:

Can *he who shall not be named* even get here tonight?

It's U-G-L-Y out there!
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Cairycat Donating Member (454 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 01:51 PM
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9. I'm thinking that next fall Rurallib
needs to write a post about how terrible the winter of '08-'09 will be, how much snow and sleet and snow days for schools, etc. etc. - so that it will be a mild and green winter!

Think it will work?

c-cat in CF like debi, where my pastor canceled services this morning
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 02:24 PM
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10. Did anyone go to St. Pat's this morning?
I've shoveled once (well, kinda) now that there is a little break in the snowing I'm going to go out again. Brrrrrrr.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 02:48 PM
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13. I have already scheduled such a post.
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 02:48 PM by rurallib
And am now looking at a hot, miserable, dry summer.
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Counciltucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 02:32 PM
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11. Sunny and 72 out.
Damn I'm liking Louisiana winters. :bounce:
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 02:50 PM
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14. JUst talked to my daughter back in Indy
They are back home already. It's 60 and sunny in Indianapolis right now :shrug:
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:49 PM
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16. Jerk
x(

No wonder you and Steve King are best buddies!
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:19 PM
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19. You won't be laughing come hurricane season
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Counciltucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 12:01 AM
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21. Apparently we're inland enough that there wouldn't be much damage.
At least that's what I hear. Apparently it can get nasty, but nothing more than Cat 2 by the time it gets this far inland.
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Blue Gardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 02:38 PM
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12. The wind is really picking up
Here in Coralville, and it's still snowing. No snowplows on my street yet. It's not very pleasant out there, but nice and cozy in the house.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:50 PM
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17. I've only been as far as the beginning of our drive
Our 'plow guy' will take care of the rest. :hi:
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pstans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:43 PM
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15. heaviest snow that I have ever shoveled
I moved this fall from a 1 car garage and no sidewalk to a 3 car garage and a sidewalk. I have done more shoveling this winter than my entire life. Today's snow was the heaviest snow that I have ever shoveled. Here in Marshalltown we didn't even get as much as they expected (3 inches or so instead of the 6-8).
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:52 PM
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18. Just a bunch of slush!
My back and knees are killing me x(.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:21 PM
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20. We only got about 2 inches but oh so heavy
and the blower is useless with this stuff.
The city plow drivers kept going by and they were kind enough to turn their plows at my driveway.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 07:48 PM
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22. And our slush now has all frozen.
Ice hahzahds all ovah, fiddeldeedee. I just remembered to watch GWTW tonight to take my mind off this misery in the no'th.
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IADEMO2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 02:13 PM
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23. Winter
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 02:34 PM
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24. OMG! you ought to post that by itself
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