Winter rearing it's ugly head yet again

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:12 pm

This is what I, and some other Chiffers, have in store for tomorrow through Thursday morning. Blizzard conditions, along with almost 2 feet of snow. The amount of snow isn't bad for me (although I'm not fond of 2 feet at a time), but for those near the lakes, I know it's very unwelcome.

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:15 pm

Ouch!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:30 pm

We got a smattering today and are expecting freezing rain overnight. Sufficient to convince my 16 year old that she could sleep over at a friends with the odds favoring their not having to get up at 6 am to get ready for school. Is she right? Time will tell.

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:33 pm

Ugly?! It's BEAUTIFUL!!

Sure, snow can be a pain (I'll be shoveling for hours tomorrow along with everyone else), especially if you have to travel or commute, but man, I'd have a hard time living anywhere where it didn't snow in winter.

Winter is wonderful, get out and enjoy it!

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:39 pm

Thank goodness! Here I was getting all set to shovel a mound of snow, and then Izz's map showed me that the snow line will conveniently stop at the border. What a wonderfully considerate snowstorm! What a greatly accurate map!

djm

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:42 pm

All of which explains my relocation 14 years ago from the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts to the pine-covered Piedmont of North Carolina. Good luck and best wishes!!!

Buckeye67 · Post by **Buckeye67** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:10 pm

We're getting an ice storm here in Cincinnati. This just came down about 10 minutes ago. Fortunately I wasn't taking the dog out. I'm also glad it didn't hit the house.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:16 pm

djm wrote:Thank goodness! Here I was getting all set to shovel a mound of snow, and then Izz's map showed me that the snow line will conveniently stop at the border. What a wonderfully considerate snowstorm! What a greatly accurate map!

djm

I'm glad that I could help you with that, Deej

missy · Post by **missy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:16 pm

Buckeye - were about are you? We're in College Hill. So far, we haven't lost electric, but I hear on the radio a lot of the west side has.

Buckeye67 · Post by **Buckeye67** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:22 pm

I'm in Clifton, I live right near the university (I work there). We lost power this afternoon for about 10 minutes and the power has flickered a few times this evening.

I get to walk in to work in about two and a half hours too.

Edit: My folks live in Cheviot - so far it hasn't been too bad over there. They've not lost power or anything.

Caj · Post by **Caj** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:54 pm

We've been waiting for the hammer to fall here in B'ton, and I decided not to trek out to Ithaca for the session because of this.

So far there's only a tiny speck of a glimmer of a smattering of maybe snow. We're projected to see about a foot and a half, eventually, but apparently not yet.

I think the snow is going to wait for me to fall asleep and then drop all at once.

Caj

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:03 pm

Anyone who lives in New York State on the east side of Lake Ontario has no room to ever complain about snow.
It's the world capitol of "lake effect". Heck I thought WE got it bad.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:09 pm

We were under a storm watch last night and were told it would come down this morning. Instead, this morning we were no longer under a watch, and it didn't snow all day. Now its coming down, but its very small flakes due to the plunging temperature. There's not much accumulation, but the wind is picking it up and making things look worse than they are. My hope now is that it will all blow over through the night and I'll only have a few inches to shovel tomorrow morning. Then again ....

djm

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:02 pm

I thought of several of you northerners when I heard the forcast this evening. I'm hoping we don't get much down here.

And maybe our spring is just around the bend. I saw two polecats(skunks) tonight as I was driving home from band practice. If their stirrin' then maybe, just maybe......

daveboling · Post by **daveboling** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:04 am

If any of youse guys get tired of shoveling snow, we could use some more ITM players around here:

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HUNTSVILLE

City of Huntsville Population - 171,707
Entire Madison County Population - 260,583
City Altitude - 624 feet above sea level
County Area - 806 square miles
City Area - 154 square miles
Annual Average Precipitation - 57.18"
Average Annual Temperature - 60.3 degrees F
July Average Temperature - 71.0 degrees F
January Average Temperature - 49.6 degrees F
Annual Snowfall - Negligible

dave boling