Did you get the snowstorm yet?

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:41 pm

We have 8 feet at our house. I have 2, my wife has 2, and Lucky, our dog has 4.

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:32 pm

A few flakes have just appeared.
And the flakes are... my husband and kid

No but seriously, The storm just arrived a few minutes ago. Everyone here is in a tizzy.
Folks in the DC area treat snowstorms like the end of the world.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:58 pm

Oooh! A SNOWSTORM! When will it be here???? When will it be here????

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:38 am

I made a snow angle last week. Hard to see now, time to make another.

missy · Post by **missy** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:36 am

IT'S THE WHITE DEATH!!!!!!!!!

Seriously - we have about an inch of fluffy stuff on the cars, but the roads look clear right now. Noah has to leave for work in a few minutes, I'll have him text me when he gets there (we live on the top of one of Cincinnati's hills, he's got to go down to the valley of downtown) and see if it's even worth worrying about.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:04 am

Yes, as Caroluna says, the Balto-Washington metro area goes into a spiraling panic in the day preceding the fall.
Yesterday, the groceries were packed with people thinking they'd have to stock the larders through the new year.
But, they calm down, once they're good and snowed in, and begin the resolute and intermittently jolly process of
digging out, helping neighbors, etc.

We're looking at maybe 8 inches at the moment, but the most is slated to fall this afternoon and tonight. I guess my
next door neighbor, who started shoveling his driveway at 7am, is just getting a head start.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:08 am

I.D.10-t wrote:I made a snow angle last week. Hard to see now, time to make another.

Angle?

The first recorded of this pun is attributed to Pope Gregory the great in AD 573. According to the venerable Bede, the pontif saw a group of blond-haired english (ie, Angles, as in Anglo-saxon) boys, captives who'd been brought to Rome to be sold as slaves. Moved by their beauty, he exclaimed "Non Angli, sed Angeli!" (Not angles, but Angels!).

I guess he liked blonds. If this story came to any sort of sticky end, Bede tactfully left that out of his account.

Sliabh Luachra · Post by **Sliabh Luachra** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:33 am

15 inches so far. Max the scottie says he'd rather hold it than go outside.

I am reminded of the reason I decided not to move back to Vermont.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:39 am

I don't believe that Lucky, our new dog, had ever seen a blanket of snow. She stepped carefully. Dot, our old dog, loved snow. It was the only kind of weather you could eat.

It looks like we got about 4 inches. I take the neighbor grocery shopping every Saturday. Amazingly, in West Virginia, this will all be on flat ground. I'm anxious to see how that goes.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:15 am

We was suppose to leave for Wisconsin tomrrow, I don't think it will happen, not with twenty feet alone just inside the car. I was in western North Carolina yesterday and I was able to stay about sixty seconds ahead of the eastern edge of the storm back to Virginia. No snow here yet just a large class 2 river in the back yard, the young puppy thinks it's the greatest thing in the world. Have to go, need to wash and dry some more dog towels.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:18 am

s1m0n wrote:
I.D.10-t wrote:I made a snow angle last week. Hard to see now, time to make another.
Angle?

The first recorded of this pun is attributed to Pope Gregory the great in AD 573. According to the venerable Bede, the pontif saw a group of blond-haired english (ie, Angles, as in Anglo-saxon) boys, captives who'd been brought to Rome to be sold as slaves. Moved by their beauty, he exclaimed "Non Angli, sed Angeli!" (Not angles, but Angels!).

I guess he liked blonds. If this story came to any sort of sticky end, Bede tactfully left that out of his account.

BTW a snow angle is what ya use to ice fish, I have no idea what all that Pope Gregory stuff is, the Chruch has always taken care of it's youth.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:28 am

mutepointe wrote: Dot, our old dog, loved snow. It was the only kind of weather you could eat.

Freddi the terrier/shep mix, loves it. You can bound around, stick your nose in it, bark until someone comes out and throws it at you. Good stuff.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:33 am

It was below freezing for a couple of days earlier in the week.

Thomaston · Post by **Thomaston** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:42 am

Please send some to Alabama!

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:33 am

s1m0n wrote:It was below freezing for a couple of days earlier in the week.

below freezing for over a week down here

the snow was before that

youse guys are so behind on the weather

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