It's snowing! :)

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1356577063' post='1279799']
Your house has been buried in 12 ft of snow?! How do you survive?!
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Keep the taps running so the pipes don't freeze. Lots of candles for emergency lighting and heat. Ramen noodles, cereal and oatmeal and whatever else you can find if you're not prepared for it. Otherwise... find something to dig with. I'm not someone that can wait for the city or state or my neighbor to take action -- I just do.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='Grapple Raven' timestamp='1356577424' post='1279804']
Lol, all we got today was tornado warnings all around and ALOT of rain! Lord have mercy, we get an inch on the ground here in NC and they close the schools, lol. Ya know we Southerners and snow don't mix very well, lol.
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Ain't that the truth? I love going to YouTube and watching those Texans on the highway with the snowfall. You see eight cars all piled up on the side of the road... sure enough, the next idiot doesn't slow down and falls right in with them. *LOL*[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Welcome to my world.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]

[Grapple Raven]

[i]@flaccopoe OMG, that picture almost gives me a phobia just lookin' at it, lol. Talk about "cabin fever"??? I would literally panic! lol[/i]

[Ragin'Raven]

Today, my son looked outside this morning and said, "My snow is coming down! My snow is coming down! God heard me, Mama! He sent my snow!" It's exciting to see how he enjoys the change of weather.

[Malkavian Raven]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]@FlaccoPoe: Nice pics. I wish I had some scanned in to share. I've got one with my door open and all you see is the big wall of snow. I've got my gloves on, ready to dig and dump snow down the sink drain.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='Ragin'Raven' timestamp='1356577715' post='1279811']
Today, my son looked outside this morning and said, "My snow is coming down! My snow is coming down! God heard me, Mama! He sent my snow!" It's exciting to see how he enjoys the change of weather.
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]You should've videotaped that, so when he gets older and starts talking about hating snow... ...Yeah, I loved snow up until I was about sixteen-years-old... and then... not so much. I don't mind it now though. It's so common.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1356577584' post='1279806']
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Keep the taps running so the pipes don't freeze. Lots of candles for emergency lighting and heat. Ramen noodles, cereal and oatmeal and whatever else you can find if you're not prepared for it. Otherwise... find something to dig with. I'm not someone that can wait for the city or state or my neighbor to take action -- I just do.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]
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Spoken like a true Inuit!

[img]http://www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/Quinzhee.jpg[/img]

[Grapple Raven]

[i]Okay, I just gotta ask, how do you get out of that??? Obviously, leaving in a warm climate I've never experienced anything like that. Doesn't it cave in on ya, and what do you do with it as ya are diggin' out? If I couldn't get out of my door, I swear I would start to panic![/i]

[Ragin'Raven]

Oh, he loves snow. When we go up to visit in-laws in Ohio, he begs for it to be snowing when we get there. It can be in the middle of summer, but he still asks if there will be snow on the ground. We didn't really have to "sell" moving up here to Maryland with the boys, especially since they're 4 and 1, but when we told our oldest that there would be snow, he wanted to leave that very day. When we got up here in July, he actually was angry with us because the first thing he wanted to see was snow. When he realized he had to wait for it, he honestly wanted to just move back to Florida because he thought we lied to him.

[MsMarvel73]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1356573413' post='1279734']
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]No clue if there is a warning or not, I don't watch regular TV. Netflix, Hulu and whatever else I can find for free on the computer. I'm a smegging cheapskate.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]
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I signed up for text alerts from Decatur County EMA.

[Malkavian Raven]

[i][font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif]*LOL* Kid you not, not five-seconds after I posted the last time -- the entire town went black. I think I jinxed us.[/font][/i]


[quote name='Grapple Raven' timestamp='1356578078' post='1279816']
[i]Okay, I just gotta ask, how do you get out of that??? Obviously, leaving in a warm climate I've never experienced anything like that. Doesn't it cave in on ya, and what do you do with it as ya are diggin' out? If I couldn't get out of my door, I swear I would start to panic![/i]
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[i][font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif]Lay down blankets and towels by the door to the nearest sink... start taking handfuls of snow and dumping them in. You want to dig upward. Once you've got a window to the sky, then it's just as simple as climbing your way up and out. Just don't take too large of steps or you can fall straight to the bottom and that's not fun.[/font][/i]

[i][font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif]~ Cosmic[/font][/i]

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='INRavensgirl' timestamp='1356583932' post='1279859']
I signed up for text alerts from Decatur County EMA.
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Your power go out too?[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]

[MsMarvel73]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1356585573' post='1279869']
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Your power go out too?[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]
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Nope. I wouldn't be here if it had.

I looked out the front door window and see that a plow truck came down our street.....shoveling that glacier away from the car is going to SUCK! At least it's not a very tall glacier, unlike Snowmageddon '10!

[MsMarvel73]

Wow... *blinkblink*

I have lost 35 pounds since August '11. Well I knew that actually but seeing it on my tracking app in bold orange numbers just kinda makes it hit home.

[Nge2grads]

Beautiful snowfall happening in VT right now. We should get at least a foot. Nice for the ski areas this week. Not so fun driving home from Annapolis yesterday and sliding on 287 in NJ and the NY thruway. And we thought we would beat the storm by leaving yesterday - ha!

[codizzle]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1356577657' post='1279808']


[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Ain't that the truth? I love going to YouTube and watching those Texans on the highway with the snowfall. You see eight cars all piled up on the side of the road... sure enough, the next idiot doesn't slow down and falls right in with them. *LOL*[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Welcome to my world.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ Cosmic[/i][/font]
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Welcome to my world.. I've been in the middle of that with these retards since Christmas night

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='codizzle' timestamp='1356621385' post='1280039']
Welcome to my world.. I've been in the middle of that with these retards since Christmas night
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[i][font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif]Piled up on the side of the road?[/font][/i]

[i][font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif]~ Cosmic[/font][/i]

[MsMarvel73]

Well DCEMA downgraded the travel restrictions to essential travel only....I'm going to have to try and get to work. *le sigh*

[codizzle]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1356622190' post='1280049']


[i][font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif]Piled up on the side of the road?[/font][/i]

[i][font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif]~ Cosmic[/font][/i]
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Technically no.. I drove around them ha..

Been working 16 hour shifts past two days try this weekend because people can't drive

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='codizzle' timestamp='1356639735' post='1280310']
Technically no.. I drove around them ha..

Been working 16 hour shifts past two days try this weekend because people can't drive
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People can barely drive when the pavement is clear & dry... Now, put ice & snow out there, couple that with texting while driving... just asking for trouble.

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]My biggest fear is one of these days, I'm going to be sitting in the house and someone is going to come flying down our street and t-bone my car (sits perpendicular to the flow of traffic).[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Like I tell my kids, "Just remember, while you're driving; everyone on the road but you is a moron."[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]~ CRP[/i][/font]

[MsMarvel73]

I am SO impressed with Greensburg's snow removal...not. I had one little slide on the way home from work this morning..tapped the brakes too hard at a stop light. Fortunately I wasn't going very fast.

More coming tonight.....it's supposed to start after midnight...so I should be ok getting home from work. *crossing fingers*

[YYZ66]

[quote name='K-Dog' timestamp='1356572839' post='1279724']
my wife is from the Boston area. She laughs at this area when it "snows".

Her first winter here they had a school closing, she thought something had gone horribly wrong.
I explained to her it was because of the snow she looked at me like I had three heads.

They are pretty hard core up there in the Boston area.
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I work with a couple people from Buffalo. They're amazed the way people panic in PA.

[cursona pirate]

Only 1 foot here. New Yorkers don't care.

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='INRavensgirl' timestamp='1356711171' post='1280870']
I am SO impressed with Greensburg's snow removal...not. I had one little slide on the way home from work this morning..tapped the brakes too hard at a stop light. Fortunately I wasn't going very fast.

More coming tonight.....it's supposed to start after midnight...so I should be ok getting home from work. *crossing fingers*
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]You will find that the Midwest, everything is "after the fact". They don't lay down salt BEFORE the ice storm, makes too much sense. And god-forbid you see a plow out before the snow stops.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Euclid's big brother is on the way!! WOO HOO!![/i][/font]

[MsMarvel73]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1356716300' post='1280962']
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]You will find that the Midwest, everything is "after the fact". They don't lay down salt BEFORE the ice storm, makes too much sense. And god-forbid you see a plow out before the snow stops.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Euclid's big brother is on the way!! WOO HOO!![/i][/font]
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I hate that already.....seriously....and to get to my house I have to go up a hill and then down one...

Two to four inches they're saying. I just pray fervently that I can get home safely after work tomorrow morning. *sigh*

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='INRavensgirl' timestamp='1356719595' post='1281034']
I hate that already.....seriously....and to get to my house I have to go up a hill and then down one...

Two to four inches they're saying. I just pray fervently that I can get home safely after work tomorrow morning. *sigh*
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Uphill... both ways... in the snow?... Grandpa is that you!?!?[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]You beat the snow last time, perhaps you'll get lucky again. [/i][/font]

[MsMarvel73]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1356719711' post='1281036']
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Uphill... both ways... in the snow?... Grandpa is that you!?!?[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]You beat the snow last time, perhaps you'll get lucky again. [/i][/font]
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Read that again...up one hill and down the other....my house sits near the bottom of a hill. Nice in the summer since we don't have to worry about a whole lot of storm flooding but in winter the suckitude is immense.

I'm praying again that it holds off again....might not get so lucky this time. *sigh* I hate the fact that I have to drive 18 miles back and forth to work. If I had a job in town, I wouldn't freak out so much.

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='INRavensgirl' timestamp='1356720387' post='1281040']
Read that again...up one hill and down the other....my house sits near the bottom of a hill. Nice in the summer since we don't have to worry about a whole lot of storm flooding but in winter the suckitude is immense.

I'm praying again that it holds off again....might not get so lucky this time. *sigh* I hate the fact that I have to drive 18 miles back and forth to work. If I had a job in town, I wouldn't freak out so much.
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]I heard Speedway is looking for someone to make coffee. *snickers*[/i][/font]

[MsMarvel73]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1356720563' post='1281044']
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]I heard Speedway is looking for someone to make coffee. *snickers*[/i][/font]
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*smirk*

I'm sure 74 will be fine. If I get stuck anywhere will be in stinkin' Greensburg, no doubt.

I feel intense loathing growing. Very intense loathing.

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1356714887' post='1280941']
Only 1 foot here. [b]Up-state[/b] New Yorkers don't care.
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Fixed. In NYC, we've gotten only 2 or 3 blizzards in the past 4 years. It's only snowed twice this year and only stuck once.