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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Csnog Ducks from snowballs thrown as it's 80 today.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 2:50 pm
A ton WG... I'm at work but I'm thinking about taking off outta here in case a mandatory evac order gets issued...it's nice if one of us is at home to pack clothes and stuff for overnight, ya know?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 2:58 pm
I don't blame you at all, better to be prepared than not. Are you still under the voluntary evac?
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 3:02 pm
yes voluntary order in effect...that's what freaks me out
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 3:35 pm
I'd be freaked out too Scooter. This doesn't show any signs of stopping anytime soon. It has continued to snow pretty hard here and is now sticking to the street.
Darren's leaving work now and I'm actually very happy with that, he should be here just in time to go pick the kids up and can drive. If my street looks like that, I'm sure the main streets are a mess.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 3:42 pm
Oy and just got a phone call from sis. Bil's brothers (coming back from work down below...LA area) are stuck and can't get over the mountains home. Bil also said coming from Mojave (where Darren's at) is pretty bad too. LOL, here's the funny though. They called to tell me to get Darren home so he could drive to get the kids, it's too slippery on the roads and they are sliding all over the place. Asked why they were out and about...Christmas shopping.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 3:46 pm
Ok ladies and gents, I'm out to head home and make sure I still have one.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 3:47 pm
Be careful Scooter. I hope and pray all is well for ya'll!
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 9:47 pm
((((Scooter)))) Man, it has to be so hard to live with the worry of evacuation so often. Hope all is well. WG - I know this is bad for you all out there, but I have to tell you when I looked at your first pic, I started giggling. I had a ton of snow to get off of my van this morning. My road was a mess, but the main roads were good by our standards. The temp came up above freezing so all that snow got heavy as all get out and it was hard to shovel it. Blech. I'm not crazy about driving when it's too snowy or icy out, but when I see what happens with other areas of the country when they get a inch of snow, we snow people can't help but crack up. It has to be a total blizzard and super cold before they'll close our schools. Whenever someone who's grown up around here moves south or west, they are always cracking up when their new cities shut down. I know ya'll don't have the snow equipment we do, but every year, people need to remember their winter driving skills. There's always some yahoo that thinks they're invicible and ends up crashing and sadly, often crashing into others. So how did you all make out? Did Darren get the kids? Will there be school tomorrow? Is there enough snow to shovel? ;)
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 11:42 pm
I just took my dog outside at 10PM and I really do think tonight is the coldest night since I moved to LA a year and four months ago. When I left Century City to come home this afternoon, it was sleeting.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 12:01 am
There's enough to shovel and it's STILL coming down. It got really, really heave around 2 or so and stayed heavy til 4:30. Huge, fat snowflakes. Darren left work at 2:20 (normally would be home in half an hour) and got home an hour later, freeway was horrible and there were a few cards that spun out stopping traffic for a bit. I waited til right at 3 to leave, big big big mistake. I think that was the hardest part all day, the roads were a mess and I couldn't see more than a block away. Took 15 minutes for a usual 4 minute drive to pick up Kota and the neighbors little boy. Of course when I got there they were having a blast, there was a group of kids still waiting for their rides, the principal and a couple teachers were out with them and they were in the midst of a snowball fight. Took another 10 to get the older two kids (their school is oh about half a mile from Kota's) and then 20 minutes to get home. Told the kids then and there that I was not taking them to school tomorrow. I don't think I drove more than 15 mph the whole time (all traffic was going that slow.) Most of the drive wasn't too slippery, stopped at one intersection and when the light turned I was turning and that was a bit slippery. My biggest concern was trying to keep enough distance between me and those in front of me, everyone kept slamming on their brakes. Sis called a few minutes after I got home, they were out measuring it and at that point we had 4 and a half inches. Not sure how much is out there now but it is more than it was when she called at 4. It lightened up some, but has been steady. And cold. Our over night high is supposed to be 24 degrees. Superintendant of the school district sent out an automated call around 7 saying they're cancelling school tomorrow. They're hopeful they'll be open Friday (I'd already planned on not sending the kids Friday) so basically our winter break starts tonight. Caleb's concert for tomorrow was cancelled, he's pretty disappointed about that. Darren's not sure if he's going to work tomorrow or not, they have a couple guys who didn't leave in time and are going to end up spending the night at work cuz the freeways been closed. Little "adopted" bros coming home from work (they've been down in LA) were able to get off the freeway and come down the back way before they closed that off too. We talked to Darren's mom earlier, her hubby works at the base (other side of Mojave) and they weren't sure he was going to be able to make it home or not. Haven't talked to her since then so I'm not sure if he did or not. Kids keep saying they've never seen it snow like this here. Good reason for that, it hasn't snowed like this since I was a kid, maybe '83 or '84. Watching, no fear, we've all been giggling at ourselves. Throw some 110 degree temps or 50-60 mph winds at us and you'll barely hear a whimper, little bit of snow and we're running to check to make sure we have enough toilet paper cuz we might end up "snowed in!"
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 12:21 am
It isn't just the snow equipment, but when it gets really cold here, our houses aren't built the same way yours are. Scooter, I keep thinking about you and I gather those slopes will be vulnerable for some time to come, too. My parents lived on a terrace and there were years when we had lots of plastic out there and had to fill in deep fissures to keep things more stable and we didn't have so much threat coming from above us, but it was something we had to keep on top of. And that was after they had to regrade the whole lot so the water didn't come in and fill up the hot air ducts in the flooring.. we spent tons of time stuffing towels down narrow ducts and sopping up water. Anyway, where I am, no snow, but lots of rain and wind and it has been in the 40s all day. I was sitting here in layers of flannel and cozy chic with Critter on my lap and cozy chic over HER and finally broke down and got out the space heater for the first time in almost a year.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 2:11 am
Sea, I meant to post earlier after reading your post that today was the first day I left the thermostat turned up to 72 all day. We also turned the heater on in the hallway at 5:30 (about 2 hours early) and finally decided to have Kota sleep with Caleb tonight and shut her bedroom door. Ours and Kota's rooms are usually colder than Caleb but it's not really a problem most nights, tonight it was just too cold to try to heat all three bedrooms and the bathroom. Yankee, are ya'll getting the icy cold? The cold cold isn't too bad, but this icy coldness is nasty. Our weather warning was cancelled, though replaced with a weather advisory. Still getting some snow and will continue to get a little through the night, but not expecting anything like earlier. Unfortunately, the winds are expected to be bad later on and between that and the light snow could be a problem. I'm more worried about ice in the morning. I know there will be some, but wondering how bad it could be.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 3:19 am
I heard on the news that in some place a bunch of Garlic Salt was donated to the city and they were using that in de-icing! They said it works but it smells. My place just felt icy.. old windows and such. Hopefully you can put off driving until the ice melts (assuming you get some sun, of course.. The wind we had today (when I went out to get the mail) was really cold/icy! Guess it was coming off the mountains? http://www.ocregister.com/photos/county-storm-officials-2257908-three-drains In the slide show there are two pics taken from Huntington Harbour which is maybe 5 miles from me and one taken from the Back Bay of Newport Beach, maybe 7 miles as the seagull flies.. but they must have had some super lenses to make the mountains look THAT close The one of Saddleback, that is sort of hanging above Bee's place..
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 9:46 am
We're down to 26º here (or maybe up to - I don't know how cold it got overnight). All the frost makes it look like we had snow! Sea, my place is the same way - icy! My heater kept kicking on all night, and it was turned down to 60º.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 10:03 am
merrysea and i are the same
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 10:32 am
My bird bath is frozen this morning. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 10:36 am
It's very chilly in the morning. Our heater wasn't working but thank goodness we got it fixed before all of this.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 10:39 am
don't ya just love global warming? lol.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 10:57 am
i do not know about global warming. Boston still has snow in the winter
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 11:04 am
global warming just doesn't mean everything will get hotter...it also means worse weather and changing weather for certain areas.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 11:23 am
We're expecting a huge snowstorm tonight around midnight to last over tomorrow. Glad today is the last day of work til Jan 5th!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 11:24 am
I was gonna cancel my aunts foot dr appt...they called me to cancel cuz the dr can't get over the mountains. We have bright blue skies today, a little wind this morning, snows starting to melt, but there's enough for the kids to play with. We even have icicles! It's up to 34 so far, but yep, icy wind coming off the mountains. My neighbors oldest boy is in the army (just this week graduated basic) and his mom went out to see. She's coming home today and he's coming to visit before going to advanced. Dad and the kids just left to try to get to the airport, I hope they can get over the mountains. Those kids will be so disappointed if they can't get their big brother today!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 12:17 pm
What MB said. We're supposed to get 5-10" of snow tomorrow. I'm hoping for a snow day so I can start my winter break early...
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 2:11 pm
We got 17" of snow in the last 24 hours and it's still snowing. Broke the record for 24 hours of snow fall. The snowing isn't supposed to let up for another 24 hours. Yippie for a white Christmas.
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