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How is it that I just found this thread tonight? I had no idea...

All of the schools are closed tomorrow, including the college where I work, so guess who gets to stay up half the night surfing WS?!
 
This is so cool!

I'll come get everyone and we can go on a chocolate run.....

[video=youtube;9Mme3WOxO1k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mme3WOxO1k[/video]
 
I'm looking at you guys with 6-36 inches... and we would TOTALLY take some of that from you! :snowflake:
We have everything we need to stay in the house for several days...
Yet we also have transportation if we don't want to stay home.
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We haven't even gotten half an inch of snow here since this storm started!
So, send some of that :snowflake: our way please and stay safe and warm in the meantime!
 
I'm still annoyed at the cold, and that I had to be out in it (-14 on my way home from work at 1 a.m.)...but at least we're not dealing with major snow. Although, my part-time retail job does close for really bad snowstorms, just not dangerous cold...

I am NOT looking forward to going to work tomorrow, especially as I work at an upscale outdoorsey retailer. I suspect I'll be spending a lot of time explaining that no, we *don't* have more long underwear or winter boots in the back, the really cold weather + a Packers playoff game today = we sold everything over the weekend. No, we're not going to be getting any more in, the vendors are out. No, I can't get it from another store--this time of year, our southern stores often pack up what they know they aren't going to sell and send it to us, but *they're* all out, too. Yes, I know it's January in Wisconsin, but other people planned ahead, sorry!
 
Flutterby80 said:
How is it that I just found this thread tonight? I had no idea...

All of the schools are closed tomorrow, including the college where I work, so guess who gets to stay up half the night surfing WS?!
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This forum is awesome! Everyone likes to talk about the weather :D
 
we got 11.5 inches on top of the five we already had on the ground with another two on the way, 40 mile an hour winds coming in oh and don't forget the polar vortex that is to bring 40 below zero temps for the next two days! :eek: Just sent Mr. nurse out for more salt (not that it will help but you never know)

off to shovel :escape:
 
11.5? We have 9", but here's the thing; the dog stands 8" tall at the shoulder!
 
I have no idea how much we ended up with, it's very deep. My landlady is Pres. of the HOA for this place (I live in a house, but it's condo's, actually 2 bedroom apts. that they sell as condo's in the back <eyeroll>, <ripoff>). Saturday, I told her the snowplowers should do the parking lot and sidewalk at LEAST 2 TIMES, since we were getting so much snow and a resident may need to get out in a emergency. She went on and on, blah, blah, blah they do it when it stops snowing, blah, blah. OOPSY, residents are MAD, they started calling her at 6:30 am this morning, plowing was not done, they couldn't get out to go to work and Nicoles car was stuck in the snow. Had they done it at some point late yesterday, they would have been able to get out and go to work. I know 1 works in a hospital. So now they lose a day's pay. If I paid into the HOA fund and couldn't get to work because property wasn't cleared, I'd be P*ssed too. And I did remind her of our conversation the other day. It was a very polite "I told ya so":facepalm: stepping off my soapbox rant.

Wind chill -8
 
Middle of Ohio here. It was 42 degrees at nine last night, 2 degrees at 9 this morning. Temps are still dropping and the wind is howling. We have plenty of coffee and cocoa as long as the power stays on!
 
I just looked and it -11 here with a wind chill of -36. I haven't and will not step outside.

We got well over a foot of snow plus what was already on the ground.

It was kind of comical last night when the snowplow was honking for the person down the street to move their parked car. He finally had to knock on the door to get them to come out. Then it took at least an hour. His car wasn't getting any traction at all. He finally got off the curb and then every few feet he was spinning out again. I went out and shoveled the huge pile the plow left at the end of my driveway and told the guy to park his car there so it would be off the street.

I'm not leaving today. In fact we may still have a snow emergency, I don't know. I have to get out tomorrow and hope the car will start in this cold.
 
It finally stopped snowing late last night but the wind picked up and caused significant blowing and drifting. The sun's trying to come out but it is d@#$ cold (6* with -13 wind chill). There is already a lengthy list of continued school closings through tomorrow as many districts that provide transportation won't be able to move buses through subdivisions. Our street is the main entrance to our sub and hasn't been plowed yet.

Thanks for your continued updates on local weather conditions. Stay warm.
 
anybody experience cryoseismic activity? Never heard of it but we had it here in IL, weatherman was on my FB feed explaining it this morning.

A cryoseism, also known as a frost quake,[1][2] may be caused by a sudden cracking action in frozen soil or rock saturated with water or ice.[3] As water drains into ground, it may eventually freeze and expand under colder temperatures, putting stress on its surroundings. This stress builds up until relieved explosively in the form of a cryoseism.[4]

Cryoseism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Right now, at this moment in north central MN it is -16° and "feels like" -40°~~and this is our 'high' for the day. :facepalm:
Tonight will be back down there to "feels likke" -50°. Can I snuggle down in my blankies and sleep until Thursday, please????????? :please:
Sun is shining though~! :loveyou:
 
Something I've never heard before...WZZM13 out of Grand Rapids has run out of room on its site for closings. I have the feeling that tomorrow is going to be much like today. My husband is on his way into work right now (into Grand Rapids via I96 and the "S-Curves"), a drive I don't even like to make in good weather. He manages a popular bar/restaurant, and I guess they expect to be fairly busy. I mean...really? The police don't appreciate having to deal with you in a ditch, just because you had to go out and get hammered during a blizzard! And a friend of mine from high school is a city mail carrier...feeling very sorry for all of the carriers on foot today. I wish they could have the day off. You know most of the sidewalks are not yet shoveled or plowed, leaving them trudging through snowdrifts in -20 degree temps all day.

We haven't gotten a ton of snow here (for us, anyway-we have maybe 16" total right now but a lot of that was already on the ground-I am guessing we've gotten maybe 8" with this storm) but what we do have is drifting and it's cold.

Here is the forecast for Grand Rapids, a half an hour or so Southeast of us. We are on the lakeshore in Muskegon, so we usually see more lake-effect snow but it's hard to tell what will happen.
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/116606/249/13-On-Target-Weather-Forecast

Stay safe, everyone!!
 
I can't stand it anymore. Freezing rain and 90 km wind gusts. Deep freeze tonight with windchill of -30

:pullhair:
 
Many schools here are announcing they're closed tomorrow, again due to just the cold (no snow here--it's too cold to snow!). I just called in to work, with a little fib--while it's true that my car didn't start, I also didn't actually *try* to start it :). I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have actually started (either now, or at 9:30 tonight), so I'm OK with it.

The store manager took my call, told me she'd tried *again* to get the regional manager to let her close the store (with no luck), and that she'd told other folks who live as far out as I do (it's a half-hour drive in for me) to stay home. I'm happy to let the folks who live closer, and are tougher than me, fill in.

I'm *really* looking forward to the weekend, when we're supposed to get up to 30--heat wave!
 
It's -17 now where I am in the Midwest. We didn't get any snow,, (too cold
for that). It's warm inside and I'm not going out. The pets are warm
and happy, no sneezing today. We are all snuggled in our jammies.

Be safe and stay warm.

Goz
 
WC -21 now. nice and warm inside, sitting online all day. My grandaughter was supposed to go back to school from the Christmas Holidays today, no school today or tomorrow, probably not Wednesday.

I remember ( showing my age here) when girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school ,only skirts, dresses, and we'd have to walk to school in very cold weather. The yr. I entered 10th grade, they finally changed the dress code. But many kids had to walk back then in the skirts and dresses. Maybe that's why I dislike winter so much.
 
Swirling 'Polar Vortex' Over Northern US Seen From Space

http://www.space.com/24177-polar-vortex-satellite-photo.html

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-East satellite snapped the telling photo today (Jan. 6) at 11:01 a.m. EST (1601 GMT). In the image, the polar vortex is pushing southward over western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota, blasting half of the continental United States with chilly Arctic air.
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Horrors! It looks like a snow hurricane.
 
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