Most of you know that these days I work at Corporate State Farm here in Bloomington. I work 3rd shift in the basement of this Fortune 25 company at "CMS" or Central Monitoring Services. We are similar to a 911 emergency call center- we monitor and receive burglary and fire alarms, which we dispatch police and fire departments to. We call and wake agents up during the night to get them to go to their offices to meet police, etc. Sometimes it's slow and boring- other times it's hectic.

Another thing we do is monitor "Environmental/Mechanical" alarms and observe when temps go above or below normal in offices- when power or phones fail, sump-pumps fail, etc.

We're also the Corp. Dept. people call when weather will impact the opening or delayed opening of both agencies (17,000 SF Agents from coast to coast!) and Operations Centers around North America. Yesterday at 05:00 calls started coming in from all over the south... after a couple hours and all was said and done we had prepared Office Closure forms for mass-emailing for over 400 agencies, operations centers, field offices, catastrophe sites, legal centers, etc. from Houston, Baton Rouge and Biloxi to Winter Haven, Atlanta, Spartanburg, Columbia, Raleigh and Rock Hill. Whew! What a morning that was!

Here snow started falling just after midnight this morning. It's 2:30PM now and looking out it looks as if we've probably gotten 5-6 inches and nothing's falling now.

Kevin where I live in N Georgia we got hammered with 12 inches. I know as far down as Atlanta the roads are almost impassable. We have little to no snow equipment down here. I can't even get out of my driveway. It's over 200 ft long and on an incline going up to the road. Lots of hills and valleys make this place treacherous with even a little snow.

and it's now hitting us!

Your gonna hate me guys... we only got about 2-3 inches.

heck I only got 2 to 3 inches - 3 to 4 times over -LOL