Snowpocalypse 2011 - show your snow
 

It's starting to hit Chicago. Take a pic and show your snow.

Well, when we get it I might, but so far its only been ice pellets since last night. I'm seriously bummed.

Nothing yet (except what's already on the ground). But we just took the decision to cancel swim practice. The wind is strong and cold....

Here's downtown Chicago. Not much on the ground yet. But despite the crappy phone camera, you can see the snow coming down pretty hard.

Yeah. All that grey is not smudgy windows.

Started off as a freezing mist, and now it's honest rain. :) I'm happy. As much as a cold rain sucks, I'd much rather have it than ice. It might hit 50 tomorrow!

I'll drive in snow. It can be fun, even. But I will never voluntarily drive when it's icy.

So just about everything is closing here and anouncing closing tomorrow, except Ann Arbor Public Schools. Srsly, it's a given, why can't they just announce it and be done? grrr.

An hour after we cancelled swim practice (in a different school district), the school it's held in decided to announce closure -a mere half hour before practice was due to start. Thanks. Not. Good job we didn't wait.

At last, they cancelled school.

and it's snowing

Snowpocalypse may turn into Icetastrophy 2011... we're right on the edge of losing our beautiful snow.:(

This is a blizzard? I'm not terribly impressed....

It certainly is a blizzard here! There is probably a foot of snow by now. Not going outside. The wind is howling like a demon. :eek: I have filled the oil lanterns...

Maybe a photo in the morning

Well we're over 6 inches, I'd say, and it's whirling in different directions, but it's not overly dramatic.... but I did decide not to go out and shovel right now.

Well we're over 6 inches

Got a Guest Over ???

6 of them -one inch each.

Yeaaa Haaawww !!!!

I'm glad we don't have snow, but it's cold...brrrrrrrrrr

alas! but it's in our forecast for thursday/friday....

Those northerners don't call what we have as snow... :p:

true true but it sure is funny watching the city shutdown from a light dusting!!:D

Last time I checked it was -18°F here, but it's supposed to get cold later.

Pathetic. A little drifting, but nowhere near a foot average I would say. about to go out and shovel. not worth a photo (plus I don't have a working camera)

I only got an inch of freezing rain and ice.

That's the good news. The bad news is, my water lines are only buried a few inches deep and they've frozen. No water for me until things warm up again on Saturday. :(

ETA: I am going to go warm up my camper and use the water there for washing and, ahem, personal needs. The cost of that is, no TV and no internet or phone.

I thought you were joking, until I saw the post of a FB friend in Colorado. Picture of her thermometer reading -23. That's just insane.

Brian, you may be one of the "lucky" if your water lines are buried.
Then it's only a matter of digging to find the leak.

When we lived in Dallas it was crazy how many of the older houses
were built with the water lines running across (unheated) attic spaces.

You guys having power outages over there today? None here at the house (obviously, as I am online) but tons in the rest of the city. And now they're announcing rolling blackouts across Texas for at least two more days while they try to balance the problem. You think they're going to have magically fixed the electrical problem just before it begins to snow? I'm not betting on it. Faaahhk....

Hm it was less pathetic while I was shovelling it. Ann Arbor is a ghost town today -it was great! The roads were empty and the open stores too. My Windstar is great in the snow, i had fun driving about (My figure skating class is never cancelled -it's a Winter sport, as they always tell us :lol:)

Now we're going to go and join the rest of Thor's hockey team on someone's backyard rink :D

We're getting sublimation here today. Really foggy.

yeah....they're doing rolling blackouts. we were off for 45 minutes yesterday and expect the same today and tomorrow. yesterday it went off at around 1 pm here in friendswood and came back on at 1:45. uh oh! it's one now. gonna shut down the puter for a bit.....and pick up a cussler novel.

Interesting--my mom commented that her home power had been on and off repeatedly, but her office (which is right across the highway from a hospital) hasn't had a single flicker, and she doesn't think that's coincidence. It does make sense that they wouldn't subject hospitals to rolling blackouts if they could avoid it. And my house, too, which hasn't had any problems yet, is also within a mile of a hospital. Sweet!

snow day here today-- No power or running water at work. not all that much snow, but very, very cold, strong winds, ice. Rolling blackouts and water shortages. We're being asked to "curtail" power usage as much as possible. 13/feels like O; even colder tomorrow morning.

Not as severe as some other places in the country, but we're just not set up for this. I don't even have any snow boots or an ice scraper.

ICE here, no snow. Maybe on Friday. Classes are canceled through tomorrow at least. My boss tricked me into driving into work this morning, called and told me the roads were fine. He's a big fat liar. They were awful, I slid down a hill! Fuck him. Asshole. I'm pretty mad. Took me an hour to get to work (usually 20min) and the motherfucking idiots on the road were flying past at 50mph! I didn't dare go over 35. Yes, I'm kinda a wimp, OK.

There's a trick to that, MTP. Ever pick up a cold ice cube? Notice it sticks to your hand? The same thing happens to warm tires. They tend to stick to the ice and give traction where none would usually be found. I learned that from a Canadian trucker. Just don't do anything sudden or you will lose it all in a flash!

Brian

So you're saying I should light my wheels on fire and then I can just go barrelling down the road at full speed? Awesome!

And as predicted, we wake to the 2 foot icewall at the bottom of the drive left by the plows. Yes, it's lovely that we can now drive even the little cars on the road..... if only we could get them the fuck out of the driveway.

We got six inches of snow here is east Texas. And they said it couldn't happen!

I remember when I had my wifi link installed. The guy doing the install was hanging the cable with a couple of zip ties and I asked him if that would hold up under the weight of snow and ice. Yes, I *am* from up north, why do you ask?

His answer: "Snow? You ain't from 'round here. are ya?" Done in his best Jeff Foxworthy impression. Guess I had a point. Good thing I tied the cable up with heavy twine later.

Pics later, when I find my camera.

My power was out for two days. Ice one inch thick - power lines down, tree limbs down and a couple who bought the farm using a generator to heat the house.

power back up since last night and the sun - she shineth! :)

I shot these thru the Kitchen window , its around 8F right now

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snow birds 2011-1 by zippyt, on Flickr

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snow birds -2 by zippyt, on Flickr

Yesterday, Feb. 9. It was 5 degrees this morning.