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Archive through February 15, 2007

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Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
My prayers are with all of you for safe traveling and staying warm!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 4:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Watching, yes it is, which is funny since Tampa is considered more central FL than south FL. Everything here is closed and the snow is blowing so hard I can't tell what's coming down from the sky and what's blowing from the rooftops. But here in the city we are still better off than the folks out in the boonies where they are getting snow in feet instead of the few inches we are getting.

Sheilaree
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sheilaree a private message Print Post    
Thanks, I can't even get out of my driveway, I don't think I will be going to work tomorrow. Do I feel bad about that hmmmm, nope. I have to wait until our guy snow plows the driveway. We got aleast 20 inches. Unfortunely they were right on the mark about this storm.

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 6:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
Wow, Half those top two pictures are stunning!

Well, it did snow down here....with ice.

This morning I looked out the window to a snow covered yard and saw that 204 area schools had cancelled for the day. The university and the schools in the university town were holding, but where I live, the schools were cancelled. So I bundle up to feed the cats and am STUNNED, STUNNED, I tell you, to find that there was a whole 1/2 inch of snow! That's INCH, not FOOT! Just a tad bit of ice, but not bad.

I leave for work 30 minutes early because no one around here knows how to drive in bad weather, and I could just see some yo yo sideswiping me as I'm going over the reservoir.

Once I got out of my block, the roads were clear. Once the sun came up, all the ice had melted and the snow was totally gone by noon.

Haven't they heard of two-hour delays around here? SHEESH!

For those of you who are REALLY buried...I could lend you my snow shovel, as I'm probably not going to need it.

Halfunit
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09-02-2001

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 6:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Halfunit a private message Print Post    
lol, Marm... far cry from your last house out this way, eh?

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 6:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
Yuppers....I think that the whole state of Pennsylvania had a snow day today!

I certainly don't miss paying the handyman enough to go to Bermuda just to keep the walks and drive shoveled!

I am the only one in my new neighborhood who has a snow shovel. Two years ago when we got 20 inches dumped on us on Dec. 23, my neighbors were trying to clear their drives with garden hoes, rakes and garden shovels. The next day the city garbage men came out on a back hoe to "plow" our street.

I'm just dumbfounded!

Neko
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Neko a private message Print Post    
We're not getting snow.
We're just getting rain and lots of it....then it's going to get cold, covering everything in a nice slippery sheet of ice.

I don't want to walk on that stuff so I'm hoping school's nice and cancelled tomorrow, but unless they declare a state of emergency, that ain't happening. :P

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
We didn't even get our predicted 1" of snow.

Oldtex
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03-06-2006

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 9:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Oldtex a private message Print Post    
Believe it or Not! Our weatherman was correct!

I woke up at 4:45 am to the sound of sleet hitting my windows. Actually stuck my head out to make sure LOL. I watched out local weather radar and there was a small line of sleet, about 20 miles long and 10 miles or so wide...I was right in the middle of this streach of sleet.

Only lasted about 1 hour, but my raised deck was covered in a thin sheet of ice or sleet. We barely got out of freezing temps and more "flurries" are expected tonight.

I was really surprised that our weatherman got it right for once!

Of course, this was no big deal and am thankful we didn't get any freezing rain. That's much worse on tree limbs, then they fall on the power lines and the electricity usually goes out. No fun there.

Hope all of you stay safe and warm.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i'm taking my ice skates over to half's personal ice rink!

Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
Half, where do you live, I don't understand all the hoopla over that little bit of snow, you seem very excited about it, you must be somewhere south. Being from canada, we wouldn't even shovel that , just drive through it.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I am going with Landi.

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
I live in Lorain County in Ohio, and we got hit pretty hard with the snow....

I had to abandon my car in a 3 foot drift in my complex's parking lot...thank goodness it was only a few buildings away from mine...same with just about everyone in my complex ... we were all stranded.

Yesterday afternoon when it finally stopped snowing, we all kinda just filtered out and started helping each other and clearing parking spaces so we would be able to go to work today...

I got to meet some new neighbors...it really was a "community effort"....

Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Llk, at my mom's this Christmas we got a half inch of unexpected snow and they closed the schools!!!

of course, this was in Tucson Arizona where it rarely snows so they don't know how to deal with it - particularly with the accompanying ice.



Watching2
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07-07-2001

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Still snowing here. Not as bad as yesterday, but what's bad is, the cold, wind chill and drifting snow. Everything is filled back in from yesterday and DH barely made it in the driveway when he got home from work. Darn plows. I think they should have to come and do the end of our driveways, too! Yeah right!!! We're just leaving it sit for now since it keeps snowing and both of our backs and shoulders are killing us from yesterday. Every time we have a storm like this, we say we should invest in a bigger snow blower, but we never want to spend the money. It would be nice if for one, it was gas powered and two, it actually moved some on its own. It would also be nice if it wasn't something that's about 30+ yrs old. Maybe now that we're getting older, we may just have to give in since the muscles and backs don't hold out like they did before!

I think at Half's it's not so much the amount of snow, but the ice. It's not fun driving on an ice rink and when we have ice storms here, all the trees which were damaged from previous ice storms tend to come crashing down, taking power lines, etc., with them!

Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
oh Ice isn't nice, I hate it, bring on the snow I will drive through any of it but not ice.School was cancelled here today because of the icy roads, guess when I found out, when I turned the radio almost at the school. It was so icy, I had to drive very slow in low, now if it hadn't been that it is Hilary's semi prom tonight I wouldn't have gone out, but they have a rule at her school if you are not there the day before and the day of a dance you are not allowed to go and if you don't show up the next day you are not allowed to go to the next dance. I was driving alone cussing the morons that didn't cancel school. Duh, turn the radio on fool.

Sheilaree
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07-19-2002

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sheilaree a private message Print Post    
I am so mad, I am still not snow plowed out, looks like I have to take another day off, and try to find other people for snow plowing is forget it. I was on the phone all pm. I have a headache now

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
LOL Poor Llkool!!! I'm still watching the news in the morning for the school reports for my son who's in community college. I'm so glad I don't have to worry about regular school anymore. With 3 kids, it was years and years of just wishing there WAS a snow day, since you didn't want to get stuck having to get them later. The most school days off ever was because of our ice storm in '91. Hard to believe it was that long ago! I remember being terrified all night hearing the huge limbs coming down. So many people went up to two weeks w/o power and it was COLD. Lots of camping out w/friends/relatives! Since then, ice and wind bring down branches all the time.

Sorry about that Sheilaree. They didn't close the govt again today? Looks like I'm going to have to go join DH outside and try to get some of that snow out of there. It's snowing like CRAZY again and drifting. So much for my back which feels like I pulled a muscle. His back isn't much better, so I feel guilty leaving him out there on his own. Yuck! I'd give anything for a plow to come by about now. I'm not beyond chasing a private snow plower down the road. LOL

Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
Remember to stretch and warm up before shoveling, it is a hard work out. People die of heart attacks every year shoveling snow.

Halfunit
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09-02-2001

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 5:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Halfunit a private message Print Post    
Llkool, I'm in Ohio.

See... I used to live in the snowbelt, east of Cleveland, where 100" of snow a season is typical.

10 years ago, I moved 100 miles south and if we see 10" a season here, we're lucky. We ended up with about 6" from this storm.

I love the snow. I miss it!


Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 5:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1/2crazyunit.

Our school has this nifty little system set up where they make one phone call and it alerts parents to important school news (min. days, vacations, when school starts, and what we found out recently, for school closings due to incliment weather.) No waiting for the radio here, you just wait for the phone to ring, lol, of course in So Cal it's not like we'll hear much of that message!

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
I did my finger exercises before writing the check to the 20-year-old who plows my driveway and shovels my walk.

*Whew* I'm exhausted after all that work... Better do my cool-down now.

Sewmommy
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07-06-2004

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 8:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sewmommy a private message Print Post    
I mostly lurk, but I had to share in the Blizzard 07 conversation. We had 2 snow days and Champaign was out for a 3rd day because they couldn't get all the schools cleared of snow. I am so thankful we did't get the 100" of snow. This CA transplant was amazed at just over a foot. I hope everyone feels better after all that shoveling.
Even with all the snow we were feeling creative.
snow head

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 10:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Hey, Sewmommy, I lived in Chambana from 1967 to 1975.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Friday, February 16, 2007 - 12:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Our son sent us this YouTube video made by his friend. It's the first time in 14 years that Cornell University shut down operations due to the snowy weather. This is a slope near the Quad area of campus which is good for sledding when it snows.

Music by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.


Snow Day at Cornell University