If you were flying or out in a boat?

[jcarter]

Just imagine flying in these conditions, and the rain and snow hasnt hit us yet, or out in a fishing boat.
Wait an hour or so, and you cant see a darn thing, we headed back for home, this is
not for me, I wont even drive in these conditions, and we had some nasty ice too.
We shop between snow, and walk all the time as its fine as long as you have boots on.
Cape Cod is really not getting the whole blast that New England is, but here is the picture at our harbor, we have been lucky getting rain between all our storms.
We stick out into the ocean and get the east wind as well as the ocean warmth.

[gunug]

Larryville, 1Feb2011 (hour off on time)
They're closing the interstates and declaring blizzards in Kansas and Missouri!

[RNKIII]

All I can say is "Better you than me"...
Main portion of this storm went south of us.. "ALL" we got was about 3" more of 'light and fluffy'... of course, that was on top of the over 60" we've received so far this season...  over 50 of the last 60 days have had 'something' falling from the sky and I don't mean sunshine....

Our son in Chicago, left work at 2:30 and didn't get home until shortly after 5, usually a 15 - 20 minute drive.  He says that HUGE waves from Lake Michigan are washing up on Lake Shore Drive and freezing there.

Wonder how Kris is getting along in NJ, with her long driveway???


Just think in less than 6 months we can all be complaining about the heat..

Take care all,
BOb K.   rnkiii

[Paddy]

Environment Canada is predicting "near blizzard" conditions for Toronto - 30cm of snow in the next 12 hours or so. We'll see if it actually materializes! It will be the most snow in one snowfall in the last 3 years if it happens.

[krissel]

I'm home this aft from my folks' to shovel my roof.  Yup, that's what I said.

Last week's storm (number 7) dumped 18" when they predicted 6-8.  

But miracle of miracles I managed to fix my snowblower and while it struggled, the driveway is passable.    Our area is like living in Alaska with huge piles of snow in all the parking lots and at intersections.  Very risky just pulling out onto main streets. Of course my street only got plowed the width of one truck so we have to hope no none is coming when we go out.

However, tonight's storm is supposed to be mostly ice in the form of freezing rain. They were warning people with flat roofs to clear them before all the liquid falls and is absorbed by the snow.  I had well over a foot still on my flat roofs and an ice dam that could have caused leakage or even a collapse. Got most of the snow off but couldn't break the ice dam. UGH.
Felt guilty about leaving Mom and Dad but they promised not to do anything stupid. Fortunately they have a generator so they are OK if the power goes out.  I'm readying my bottles of water, flashlights and wood pile and hoping for the best.

If you don't hear from me for a while, you'll know why.  

[Highmac]

Boy, you folks are having it rough at the moment. Makes me feel (almost!) guilty that our forecast for today is max 48F with sunny intervals, min tonight of 36 and a 14mph wind from the south-west.

All of you, please take care and we hope it soon clears for you.

[kimmer]

I feel for all of you. I lived in a suburb of Chicago during the 1967 blizzard and I understand what is to hit Chicago will equal that or beat it. I have vivid memories of that horrible trudge home from school in waist deep snow and the wind and the snow kept falling, and my eyelashes and eyebrows were icicles -- and that was when I began to hate the snow. Stay indoors if you can. Stay warm. Stay dry. Stay safe.

[jcarter]

Cape Cod lucked out again, its rain here again. Even our dog didnt want to run around after her yard toys this morning.

But check this out, a classmate who lives near Rockhampton, Australia sent this picture to me this morning. They are bracing for more rain and high winds.
If we hear about this on our local Martha's Vineyard radio station(they dont do national or world news), then it must be really bad.
Looking at their blogs about the previous flood was awful, and now they expect 2 to 3 feet of rain and a huge storm surge.
Jane

[Jack W]

QUOTE(jcarter @ Feb 2 2011, 08:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cape Cod lucked out again, its rain here again. Even our dog didnt want to run around after her yard toys this morning.

But check this out, a classmate who lives near Rockhampton, Australia sent this picture to me this morning. They are bracing for more rain and high winds.
If we hear about this on our local Martha's Vineyard radio station(they dont do national or world news), then it must be really bad.
Looking at their blogs about the previous flood was awful, and now they expect 2 to 3 feet of rain and a huge storm surge.
Jane

    That's a lot of rain on top of what they've already had!

We had around a half inch of freezing rain last evening and over night in the Akron area.

But it sounds like we were really lucky compared to some other places.

Best of luck to all you others who are less fortunate.

Jack

[chriskleeman]

Wow

We're used to all this snow up heah in VT, but it's getting pretty old, even though we dodged the last big one that hit the East Coast.

Our vent pipe iced over with the last big storm, which I was lucky enough to diagnose before we had real problems with the plumbing. There was a perfect 1/4" thick circle of ice blocking it. Shoveled that part of the roof (20 ft. in the air...) while I was up there, and judging by what's coming today and over the weekend, I'll be up there again doing both the porch roof and the upper dormer again   real soon... And it ain't flat by any means!

So much snow that we might have to rake the garage roof, and that would be a first in the 8 or so years since it was built. Usually the north side sheds the snow and the south side melts, but I've never seen ice dams like ones we've had this winter on the garage. And it hasn't warmed up enough for the snow to slide off the north side.

Some sleet might mix in, but no ice thank God! Total from this one could be 18" around here, we're in the snow belt for this one!

Yucky weather in New Jersey Kris! Hope everything works out for both you and your parents! I'm sure you've got 'em stocked up for the storm, they'll probably be fine until you get over to dig them out!

I'm a skier, but this is getting ridiculous!

After we shovel off some snow today, I might edit this post with a picture.

Chris  

[jcarter]

I think I shall open up the catch basins, hopefully the ice has melted from them. My husband will have to use that huge metal chisel thing if they arent.
We have our coal stove cranking in the cellar, and plenty of wood for our wood stove, so if the power goes off, we will be OK. And our neighbours can come over if it gets bad. We have beer and beef stew.
Jane

[kcourt]

- stay safe everyone!

I am glad I live in California today - the temp is a bit cooler than usual - about 66 degrees.

Some good news for you....Punxsutawney Phil Predicts Spring Is on Its Way

                 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/02/punxs.../#ixzz1CojlumOp

Kathy

[Xairbusdriver]

Looks like the local officials got the message after the last snow we had, they managed to keep it all well to our west. But that didn't stop the warm air from scrambling toward the south! Yesterday at Noon it was ~64°F by 10pm it was 29 and falling! But the 50+mph gusts blew the rest of anything warm completely away. At least the sun is visible today and it is supposed to "warm" up to 30. Sorry I can't share the grief of you Yanks! Yeah, sure, right!

Reminds me of a very interesting but tragic story of a storm in 1888:

QUOTE("The Children's Blizzard")

January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent. By Friday morning, January 13, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled. With the storm as its dramatic, heartbreaking focal point, The Children's Blizzard captures this pivotal moment in American history by tracing the stories of five families who were forever changed that day.

Now, we understand these things and plan as if we might even control them...

[jcarter]

Somewhere I have that book!  I dont remember what it was called, but its the story of that entire storm and what it did to people across the USA.
My aunt gave it to me before she went into the nursing home. It was published in the 1920s I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1888
My grandparents had stories about New England and what an impact it had.
I also have some pictures that my dad took during the 1938 hurricane which hit here too.
Jane

[Xairbusdriver]

The whole "quote" is a link to a synopsis at AbeBooks.com. The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin, HarperCollins, 2004 <HarperCollins page on the book.>