Originally Posted By RoadTrip Yesterday and today SW Missouri picked up 8-10" of snow. In Minnesota that would have been no problem... just an average winter storm. Down here it is crippling. Snow removal here usually consists of waiting a couple of days for warm weather to melt 1 or 2 inches. No such luck this time... lots of snow with no warm weather in sight. Hopefully plows will get out to our neighborhood by Monday.
Originally Posted By Pollyana Sorry to hear that...looks like that part of our nation is getting it bad. We are having unusually cool weather here in AZ with some freezing temps at night.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes This is no fun. Here in sunny Sacramento, California it was 25 degrees when I walked to the train station this a.m. Yesterday was the same. I've been wearing my ski jacket and gloves, but it is still cutting through.
Originally Posted By mawnck Here in sunny Southern California it's 59 degrees in the middle of the afternoon - brrrrrr! We're expecting rain all day tomorrow.
Originally Posted By seafairy1622 Wow that's alot of snow. I live in Shasta Lake CA and we don't get snow every year and when we do it's not alot. But it is snowing today.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Here in Morva we're just getting lots of rain and thunder. Some times it snows a little bit, too, but mostly it's just gloomy and over-cast. Whenever it's too cold for the frogs to come out you can bet a certain nasty old biddy I'm forced to live with is gonna' be even harder to get along with than usual...
Originally Posted By dagobert Living in Austria means that we get a lot of snow. So I can only laugh about your snow problems, sorry. When I lived in Ohio I found it very interesting that the public life disappeared when it snowed. Roads were closed, schools didn't open and that's because of 10 to 20cm of snow. Over here school was onced closed, but that was because of 1 meter of snow. Usually the trucks are out to get the snow off the streets as soon as it starts to snow. So there aren't any problems. And we have to use winter tyres from November to March.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros We got some snow yesterday, and ice overnight. The local school district has cancelled school for the day, but my (non-school-related) office is still open. I feel like there's some unwritten rule that says when school is cancelled, other places need to be closed too Growing up, we lived in the south where it only snowed a couple times a year. Financially, it didn't make sense for the city to own a bunch of salt trucks and plows, so any snow typically meant that everything shut down for a day or two until it melted on its own. There was one year where there were a few storms spaced a few days apart, and we had 18 days straight without a full day of school (lots of 1 and 2 hour delays, several cancelled)
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Growing up, we lived in the south where it only snowed a couple times a year. Financially, it didn't make sense for the city to own a bunch of salt trucks and plows, so any snow typically meant that everything shut down for a day or two until it melted on its own.<< <-----lived in a coastal city in NC for a time, where the average yearly snowfall is zero. One year, ON DEC. 23, we had a veritable blizzard. Over a foot of snow on the ground by Christmas Eve, and not a single snowplow or snow tire for hundreds of miles. Nobody moved for about a week. I understand meteorologists are still studying the snot out of it. I was at work when it started, at a job that I couldn't just go home from, and on the morning of the 24th I had the most awful drive home I've ever experienced. I got stuck right after I turned into our neighborhood, and had to ditch the car about half a mile from the house, where it sat for another several hours. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nccoast.org/Article.aspx?k=33fb2373-3ac9-40eb-a8a6-11607bdfbcb4">http://www.nccoast.org/Article...7bdfbcb4</a> <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/EventReviews/19891223/19891223.php">http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/Ev...1223.php</a>
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: When are you ducklings ever gonna' learn to invest in a broom stick? You NEVER get stuck in the snow with one of those!!!
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>When I lived in Ohio I found it very interesting that the public life disappeared when it snowed. Roads were closed, schools didn't open and that's because of 10 to 20cm of snow<< dagobert - Here in Colorado we laugh at 10-20 cm of snow.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>dagobert - Here in Colorado we laugh at 10-20 cm of snow.<<< Here in Austria we laugh as well when we only get 10 - 20 cm. Unfortunately this years we didn't get any snow until now.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Yup, we got 8 inches here over two days, and everything was closed for about 4 days because Portland doesn't own plows.
Originally Posted By LuvsDsnyTrips WDW.....wait...what? I live in the Portland/Vancouver area....and that snow was horrible... This area does not know anything about plows...let alone own one. My car was stranded at my job for 5 days...because of side streets BTW....welcome!
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Yup, my mom arrived Thursday night and it was almost a miracle her flight landed and we got her safely. She didn't get to see much other than our apartment. We were going to go out Sunday and there was a layer of ice on all the compacted snow. We're in the SW and planning to buy a house maybe in Garden Home? Let me know if you ever want to do anything Disneyish together.
Originally Posted By fkurucz We usually get the bulk of our snow in March and April, so far there has been very little. We did get some in Jan and Feb, but I'm guessing we are below average this year.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Rumor has it we'll be getting an El Nino next rainy season, so the Western states should be getting more precipitation as both rain and snow, hopefully alleviating the drought situation. And maybe, hopefully, those east of the Rockies might have a milder Winter (although I have nothing sciency to back that up).
