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Another Blizzard!

When I was little we never lost power - this is unreal. We have evn had our water stopped because of the storm - never heard of that years ago.
 
Mama Mangia said:
When I was little we never lost power - this is unreal. We have evn had our water stopped because of the storm - never heard of that years ago.
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Happens all the time to us. In our water district the towers (which gives you water pressure) are filled by electric motors. So quess what. When you lose power you have just a few hours before you will lose water pressure too.
 
JP, same here, and we lose power a lot. I think mostly to tree limbs. Even in the summer time power goes out. We complain but nothing happens. CF:)
 
We hit 6-below last night.

Watching the news they said that 20 below was our area's record some 30 years ago- but that can't be right. I remember as a kid we lived in a ramshackle farm house w/ no insulation and often it got down to 25-30 below then. According to our thermometer, anyway!

We had natural gas but w/ no insulation, so when it's that cold we heated the outdoors more than the indoors w/ all the heat that escaped thru cracks, etc.

I remember always about January we would hafta drag our mattresses downstairs and set them up on the dining room floor near the old black wood stove just to keep from freezing!
 
my furnace shuts off long enough to turn right back on - it's so dang cold - I've been shoveling my azz off - and I don't think my body will ever warm up again - I swear my body temperature has to be just above freezing!
and those winds whipping through here are making it even worse -
it's so bad that the mercury in my thermometer even left town! it's not there anymore!
 
Mama Mangia said:
my furnace shuts off long enough to turn right back on - it's so dang cold - I've been shoveling my azz off - and I don't think my body will ever warm up again - I swear my body temperature has to be just above freezing!
and those winds whipping through here are making it even worse -
it's so bad that the mercury in my thermometer even left town! it's not there anymore!
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Time to make a pot of soup and a grilled cheese.

It's not good to be out in the wind like that :( shoveling
can wait.
 
We only got about an inch and a half. It missed us thankfully. Got down to 14 and supposed to hit 5 tonight.
 
With last night's/today's BLIZZARD, I walk a fine line...

Knowing other regions have suffered like this all winter long- while we have been spared (until now)... and being a former Alaskan whose seen harsh weather- I'm tempted to blow it all off and remain in a sort of stylish denial about it all.

But...

Truth is...

This was bad. REALLY bad.

And it's only half-over. MORE snow coming and tonight the 10-15 below zero temps set in. YIKES!

The newspaper is using words like "colossal", "paralyzed", "buckled", "monstrous", "worst-ever", "record-blowing"...

Check this out:


CHICAGO -- A colossal blizzard roaring across a third of the country paralyzed the nation's heartland with ice and snow, leaving motorists stranded for hours and shuttering airports, hospitals, police departments and schools as it barreled toward the Northeast. Even snow-plows were stranded.

The monstrous storm billed as the worst in decades delivered knock-out after knock-out as it made its way from Texas to Maine, bringing a huge swath of the country to a halt. With two to four feet of snow in as many hours, and double that in drift heights, combined with 70 mph winds, two to four inches of sleet and freezing rain, and even thunder and lightening some say this is the worst and biggest the U.S. has ever seen in terms of number of states and square miles affected.

Whew!
 
I know Kev - everything is closed here - and we didn't get hit with it real hard - YET - right now the ice pellets are hitting the windows - I would rather have 2 feet of snow - ice storms are worse - and they say it's going to get worse later.
I'm tired of shoveling - and this morning it was a ice packed - I ache. And I am not a lazy person - I shovel several times a day. But today I just could not finish it. And it's that damp cold that goes right through you. I'll never warm up.
Future forecast - another big one on the way for next week Wednesday.
And that little rat they pull out of the hole each year in PA did NOT see his shadow.
So we are supposed to have an early spring.
Yeah - right - I'll believe it when I see it..........
 
I'm more worried about the ice storm then any sleet or snow. In the South here we tend to get that more then sleet and it tears up everything. Ice building up will bring tree limbs down to the ground, plus any power lines that happen to be underneath them too. Thats what they have predicted for us Friday. I sure hope they are wrong. I quess we need to get out in the swamps and put some mittens and scarfs on all them alligators. . . . nah, they're just going to have to suck it up.
 
well the storm that was predicted for this morning and never came is here now - dang winds - I'm waiting for my neighbors tree to come down on my house

can't find my driveway - after all that hard work

and it just won't stop

hey - if your swamps were up here right now you those alligators wouldn't have to worry - they would be encased in ice until summer time -
heck - summer - I wonder if we will ever see spring again -
 
According to the groundhog it is supposed to be an early spring. It was 50 here yesterday and high of 24 today with 15mph frigid winds. Yesterday people were running around in tshirts with no jackets.
 
it's still snowing here - and I have to shovel AGAIN - my body aches right now - this stuff is heavy - it's water-packed and if I don't move it soon it is not going anywhere until summer! LOL

and get this - it's snowing in my front yard but not in my back yard - happens a lot here - I'm right on some line of some sort!
 
Mama Mangia said:
it's still snowing here - and I have to shovel AGAIN - my body aches right now - this stuff is heavy - it's water-packed and if I don't move it soon it is not going anywhere until summer! LOL

and get this - it's snowing in my front yard but not in my back yard - happens a lot here - I'm right on some line of some sort!
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I think it's called a temperature inversion line.
I've seen it in my yard but then we live in a
hollow and nothing is normal, especially with
this goofy NW WX.
 
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