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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:26 am
Twinkie, I just saw that the Niagara River rose 8 1/2 feet in 3 hours!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 11:17 am
Good thing I'm on high ground since I'm a few blocks from the Niagara River! I'm so glad I can stay home today. There's no way I'd be out driving in this wind. I'm not secure enough about driving in bad weather up here. Where's I'm from if your car breaks down you don't freeze to death. LOL
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 2:26 pm
My hubby is in Montreal this week and says this morning it was pouring down rain and now things have frozen solid! We're at about minus 38 here in SK I think, but at least we have not got a lot of wind... The mailman showed up today with the icicles hanging from his ski mask.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 2:30 pm
Crazy weather!! Here it is a nice sunny day out, thankfully.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 2:36 pm
LOL, about 11 our wind warning was cancelled. It's still only about 48 but it's so much warmer than it felt this morning that I actually opened some windows!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 3:22 pm
The local news was just showing some of the damage from the winds. Tragic. Roofs gone, huge trees dug up by the roots, businesses with plate glass windows gone. Lots of damage all over the area.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 3:33 pm
Twinkie, did you see that the entire roof of the Bank of America in Niagara Falls was torn off? My neighbor is in for a shock when she arrives home from work and finds my message about her roof on her answering machine! Not that she could have or can do a thing about it while the weather is so cruddy, but not fun to come home to, I'm sure.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 4:38 pm
Yep, I saw that. Did you see the huge neon liquor sign that they had to cut down because it was halfway down and swinging so wildly? That store is owned by a friend of our's and its just a few blocks from here.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 4:52 pm
wow you guys have got some serious cold wind blowing! around here it only seems to really blow when it is warming up/ stormy. West Coast Canada - still barely freezing, still a few inches of snow, still grey skies. It is unusual to be freezing nonstop for day after day. usually we warm up during the day to 2-5 degrees celcius then freeze back up at night. weird weather this winter
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:21 pm
Hope GAL is ok.. she posted about tornado sirens earlier.
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 11:43 pm
Snow, snow, snow... in Eastern WA. More snow in one week (or two, since more is on the way...) than we've seen in awhile. City school district has been closed for three days straight so far, and I don't know when that happened last... not when I was in school, so it has to have been two decades. This evening, a dump truck and bulldozer came to tote away the snow in my apt. complex parking lot... I haven't seen that in 10 years. Snow!
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:27 am
What part of SK are you, Dahli? I spent my childhood (4-10) in Tisdale, about three hours north of Saskatoon. I know what a Saskatchewan winter is... I don't envy you. It is weird weather here, hey, Sun? I'm not used to seeing snow on the ground for more than a day or two anymore. It's nice to see, for sure, but I damn near killed myself walking to work the other day. Vancouverites do not understand the concept of shoveling snow. ETA: Don't know how behind the times I am on this, but thanks to whichever mod pulled this out of the "OMG" folder... it always drove me crazy that I had to dig into another folder level for nothing. Can we do the same in the Celebrity Buzz --> Hollywood Gossip area, too?
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 4:56 am
SW Ontario 0 wind this morning....millions of stars in the sky and it is a 1F windchill...It is so much different now then it was yesterday at this time. We are under a winter storm watch...rain, ice rain, snow, ice pellets (6 inches) - wait and see what happens.
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 5:40 am
It's a snow day in Wichita, Kansas!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 9:18 am
Karen, y'all got to get that show stuff to stop before we come home. We are going to need a break in the weather on Feb. 12 to get across Siskiyou Pass at the California Oregon border. Yesterday and today it was chains only. We don't have chains.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 9:25 am
Juju, the mountain passes have been terrible lately. I-5 was actually closed for a 30 mile stretch the other day, from Grants Pass to Canyonville. I know the mountains up here are going to be completely dumped on again this weekend. Who knows what it will be like by the time you come through though. Did you know that if you buy chains at Les Schwab and then don't end up using them you can return them at the end of the season? Just a thought. 
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Sajó
Member
06-18-2007
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 3:12 pm
Southern Ontario Another winter storm is on it`s way tonight. Snow, ice pellets,freezing rain. I hate winter

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 3:31 pm
Jewels, I was just checking, and I-5 is closed at Siskiyou Pass right now. Snoqualmie Pass (I-90 east of Seattle) is also closed. No, I did not know that about Les Schwab chains. I wonder if I could buy them in California and return them in WA? Thanks for the info.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 3:37 pm
Vancouverites do not understand the concept of shoveling snow. I'm not 100% sure, but in some towns it is a priority to keep walkways clear, especially in town. For some reason here the city seems to get away with ONLY plowing the road and throwing all that snow ONTO the walkways....so people are forced to walk in the SAME lane as slipping sliding vehicles. its a miracle no one is killed.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 3:38 pm
West coast. Crisp Cold and beautiful bright Sun. Snow is melting very slowly.
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Merrysea
Member
08-13-2004
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 3:42 pm
SF Bay Area Rain again. <sigh>
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 5:06 pm
Today was a huge change from yesterday. It was fairly calm today but cold. But at least no huricane force winds. We did lose a few siding panels off our house yesterday but nothing worse than that so I guess we got off easy.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 5:14 pm
Fresno is 53 degrees. cold. windy. overcast.
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 11:52 pm
Juju, I would bet that you could. I love Les Schwab because they are service first, tires and everything else second.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, February 01, 2008 - 6:20 am
Western New York: Everything is closing around here again today. Lovely freezing rain since about 4 a.m. and will continue until mid-morning. Then it is supposed to change to a mix of freezing rain & snow.
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