Snow!
 

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Come on, guys! Let's see some snow! Bring some 2005 winter images to this Floridian that hasn't seen the cold stuff in years.

Certainly not snowing over here in West Palm either .... kinda miss the stuff however ... heard all my CT coworkers whining about the dusting they just got and the snow on the way tonight ... hehehehe

We got an inch or two so far here in DC. At least that's what it looks like from my walk home from the metro. The kids in Extended Day at the local elementary school must have been playing outside this afternoon. There were a good half a dozen partially completed snowmen scattered around the playground. They looked kind of funny. Big snow balls just randomly scattered around the school yard. One completed snowman looking at his malformed brethren.

I picked up 460 lbs of salt on the way home. Told the cashier, I pity the slug that gets in my way. :worm:

Having grown up in Atlanta, I'm used to seeing snow at least once a year, although some years we went without. That light dusting was enough to build a decent snowman if you were good enough at collection the stuff by rolling. You might use an entire front yard's worth of snow to build one snowman. Of course the grass, bermuda, dies in the winter so you end up with what looks more like a sasquatch. Ugliest snowmen I've ever seen come from the south!

Hah! We have an office in New York and the bitching and moaning is endless when a winter storm rolls through. Suddenly, all those storms we get down here...what do you call them, again? Well, they forget that we deal with those from six months out of the year.

We got our tree, today. It was 80F. Christmas? Doesn't feel it! :D

And here comes the world's biggest margarita iotd. :D

Is that message made from hurricane debris?

From my bedroom in DC:

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Sorry I cant help. Sweating my balls off here in Manila.

Some snow would be appreciated here right about now though.

CycleFrance--I don't see anything. Just a big, white block.

It's snowing a lot.

Not according to the weather report - it's the same there as here, about 6 degrees (approx 43 fahrenheit)...

Feels warm to me. Bring on the snow!

What a ripoff. We got almost nothing. I want my money back.

Why does Philadelphia always seem to have warmer temps than the rest of the area? Something to do with proximity to the ocean? A climate created by concrete? (microclimate created by large cities)

The latter. DC is the same. Never as much snow as the 'burbs.

We have had great winter weather so far. The Friday after thanksgiving was beautiful- the first good snowfall. We bundled up and hit the afternoon Wild game, then Saint Paul opened their city center outdoor rink. We walked around downtown with the holiday lights and magic snow. Last Saturday we got 4-6 inches of new powder- so feathery/fluffy that I could just blow on the car window to clear it all off. Found a good sledding hill. Sunday we put the skates on and hit the Rose Oval outdoor rink- the ponds still need another week or so to be safe.

We're getting fresh 1 inch dustings each day, and steady cold temps, just to keep it beautiful. Sure, its 2 degrees out there right now, but I love it!

Urban heat-island effect? We're gettin a decent amount here in NE Ohio.. bring on the extreme saucer sledding!!!

Pretty snowy in NEPA as well. 23 degrees F right now

We got snow last weekend, but it's starting to melt off.
Here's a picture from Sunday when we went out on the boat to collect cedar boughs.

What volcano is that, Seak?

Here in the Heartland, it is colder than a witch's titty. Brass monkeys have been seen crowding the malls in search of warmth, and welldiggers have been stocking up on electric longjohns. Yup...its cold.

Two to three inches of what will certainly be pulverschnee are forecast for Wednesday night into Thursday, when I have to drive 125 miles to pick up Mrs Elspode from her parents' house, where she is recuperating from gastric bypass surgery. Then it is another 100 miles on to Sedalia, where she'll have her followup appointment with her surgeon, and finally back home.

The heater fan isn't working in my Explorer, so I'm rather hoping the snow is just a rumor.

Elspode - that's Mt Edgecumbe, and it's a dormant volcano. It looks alot like Mt Fuji, and off of the top of my head - I think they are the same type of volcano.

Whoa, Mrs Elspode in down?
Give her our best and keep her warm... even if you have to slather the dashboard with Sterno. :flamer:

How many times duh we gotta tell youse? Philly's Hot! :lol2:

I must express my gratitude for both Monday night's snow, and Monday Night Football. I became temporarily insane on Monday night and decided to go to the Mall. It was a little freaky, actually, almost like that scene in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis comes up out of the manhole cover in front of City Hall and everythings covered in snow and there are no people at all? It was like that, sort of, only in a large retail space during the height of Christmas Shopping season ... I knew that something was not quite right when I had no trouble getting a parking space right near the door of one of the anchor stores. I wandered around the mall for a couple of hours, gawking at the lack of people, and ended up buying a Starbucks Cafe Mocha (shopping is very hard work and you need to keep your energy up), a couple of bathmats (mine needed replacing) and a Dollar Store Dreidel (the boss though t the holiday decorations at work were not multicultural enough. I still need to find a dirt cheap Kwanzalabra and perhaps a Menorah). I also picked up a couple of very nice sweatshirts with wintery scenes involving cardinals on them. I did get one actual Christmas gift for my Mom, who announced that she was in need of a nightlight.

I've been looking for that lampshade leg in a Christmas tree ornament since before Thanksgiving--Heirloom makes 'em, but they are always Sold Out.

I'm having a multi-cultural holiday, too. I bought a Hanukkah bear, complete with dreidel and kippa!

Suncoast Video (probably also in a mall near YOU) has the tabletop lamp, the ornament, the nightlights, the string of christmas tree lights, and the Ralphie in the bunny suit with the bbgun action figure. There was something else ... oh, teeshirt with "I triple dog dare you" written on it with a sketch of Flick with his tongue stuck to the flagpole. I think there was one more thing, I know it wasn't the dad with the lamp bobblehead, they were out of those ... there was basically a shrine at the front of the store.

Coolest thing I saw shopping, but I couldn't convince myself to cough up $40 for it ... an 18" Patrick Bateman Action Figure.

Suncoast. I'm there.

Mrs Elspode is recuperating nicely following (wait for it...) - gastric bypass surgery last Friday.

It was a big decision and it is going to be a major lifestyle change for her. I'm quite proud of her and we're both really excited about what the future will hold for her as she begins the process of recovering from ten years of chronic obesity.

Oh...and it has been snowing like a bitch for 12 hours now and is supposed to keep up for about eight more. We've got about five inches on the ground here now, and there could be 8 or more for me to drive through for 300+ miles tomorrow. Egad.

Hurricane Schwartz is predicting something like 12" in a storm that's to hit sometime between tomorrow and Friday.

Hurricane Schwartz is predicting something like, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, sometime between tomorrow and Friday. :lol:

Good for Mrs Spode. I hope it works out for her.

edit: we picked up a little last night. That big storm is supposed to track south but...

That is why I like him. Because of him I am never without fresh milk, eggs, and bread.

You think maybe he's paid off by the milk, egg, and bread companies?
:tinfoil:

Well. Am patiently waiting. We're supposed to be getting five inches (of snow, more's the pity) and so far--NOTHING!

I'm rather bummed about it.

Ah! Here it comes!!!

We ended up with nearly 10" of powder here, and I was really rather concerned about the long drive, but, as it turned out, it was really only bad within about a fifteen mile radius of my house. The accumulation dropped sharply away from Grandview, and the highways were perfectly driveable...everywhere except here.

Long day, mama's back home feeling plucky.

Plucky's good.....we can definitely live with plucky. :D