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Rob & Harley (GA)

Rob & Harley (GA)

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Have you guys heard about the storm that's blowing through the mid west? I've never seen anything quite like it before. They are saying it is equivalent to a category 3 hurricane without the water.

Trees are down, power outages, the roads are like parking lots because alot of the traffic lights are out. Wind gusts up to 80 mph and now it's snowing and cold.

When I got to work half of the power to the building is out, the phones don't work and there is NO HEAT. Burrrrrr!

Yesterday afternoon as I was walking into the clinic the woman ahead of me pulled on the door when a gust of wind hit and whipped her and the door around, I grabbed her arm so she wouldn't fall but if I hadn't I would have gone down, they had to pull us into the building.

Just crazy.
 
Yep, we had tornadoes here in Indy yesterday - was woken up by the air raid sirens. Very blustery and actin' like it wants to really let lose again today.
 
That's scary! Good thing you were there to help that woman from falling.
We had snow in the mountains and rain on the front range with high winds.
Winter is here!
 
WOW! Guess I'll have to stop 'plaining 'bout how it's so cold here in Cali that it dropped below 60! Brrrrrrrrrrrr. Thanks for the reminder why I moved West. :mrgreen:

Hope everyone is keeping safe & warm, and get that heat turned back on, yowza!!!
 
Tomorrow I'm wearing my winter boots to work in case the heat still isn't working.

Tonight we are getting our first official freeze (below 32 degrees).

Can someone tell me why I don't have the good sense to move west? Oh yah, grandkids.
 
@ Donna - I didn't know you were in GA, or I forgot! It is sooo muggy here, just when we were getting used to crisp Fall days in the 60's, it hits 80 and WET. Cant complain about the rain though - its been a drought again this summer.

All you in the storms- PLEASE stay safe!
 
Wow. Rob, Grandkids are a great reason to be anyplace! Wear fleece undies to work! Here it is rainy and very muggy. No wind (yet). But this is scarey weather. This summer we had 2 tornadoes here---simply unheard of. Trees and power lines were down all over. It was a miracle only 1 person died (a woman in her car hit by a tree).
 
well if we're gonna talk weather...it's 1:30 thurs. afternoon on a bright sunny so. cal. day and temp is checking in at 80 degrees. why am i inside on the computor when i could be out at the pool or beach? or walking in the canyons or in town? i keep feeling like it's supposed to be winter and these shorts and tank i'm wearing feel funny.
i've only lived here 30 years so it takes a long while to adjust to the fact that we have no real seasons here. just willy nilly temps regardless of the time of year. could have a 90 degree christmas or a 68 degree day in august (god forbid) it's just whichever way the wind is blowing.
 
Lori, you're making me uber home sick. uggg Your canyon walkin' talkn' is makin' my heart about stopin'. I'm about to go nutzo nailbite_smile - I need to get back there like yesterday. Meanwhile I try to pretend I'm home by watching LA Kings games on cruddy Internets streams. The highest point in Indiana is 1,275 feet and I just hiked to 10,068 feet [the highest point in LA county] the week before I left. :YMSIGH: I need to go find a building here with a lot of stairs or something.
 
Rob & Harley said:
Have you guys heard about the storm that's blowing through the mid west? I've never seen anything quite like it before. They are saying it is equivalent to a category 3 hurricane without the water.

Trees are down, power outages, the roads are like parking lots because alot of the traffic lights are out. Wind gusts up to 80 mph and now it's snowing and cold.

When I got to work half of the power to the building is out, the phones don't work and there is NO HEAT. Burrrrrr!

Yesterday afternoon as I was walking into the clinic the woman ahead of me pulled on the door when a gust of wind hit and whipped her and the door around, I grabbed her arm so she wouldn't fall but if I hadn't I would have gone down, they had to pull us into the building.

Just crazy.
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I didn't realize you were in Minneapolis area. My best friend works there but lives in Le Sueur.

I almost squealed when she said it was snowing. I would like to see that kind of snow ya'll have in a season just once in my lifetime (I am in the south)
 
yes christina it is fun...for a day,,,maybe 3 if your skiing. i lived in n.y. for 21 years and you have to be made of hardy stuff to live thru the winters. i mean, not only is it cold but it's a lot of work! all those clothes, the gloves, the boots, then your indoors then outdoors, then shoveling your way out of a parking spot, clearing snow and ice off your windsheild. when your used to it it's one thing...and i was..now 30 years in the warm climate i'm not that hardy anymore! :lol:
 
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yes christina it is fun...for a day,,,maybe 3 if your skiing. i lived in n.y. for 21 years and you have to be made of hardy stuff to live thru the winters. i mean, not only is it cold but it's a lot of work! all those clothes, the gloves, the boots, then your indoors then outdoors, then shoveling your way out of a parking spot, clearing snow and ice off your windsheild. when your used to it it's one thing...and i was..now 30 years in the warm climate i'm not that hardy anymore! :lol:
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So Lori here is where I am rather embarrassed to admit. This is a true story.

Last year while talking to my bestest friend in MN, she mentioned and grumbled on the phone she had to go dig out her walkway and driveway again from the snow.

I was confounded.

I said, "Well, duh didn't you lay down salt and sand?"

She said, "Of course I did."

I said, "Huh. You must not have laid down enough or something. Weird."

There was a long pause and then she asked.

"Wait, maybe we are not on the same page?"

I said all cocky and confidently, "You must not have put down enough or you wouldn't have to be shoveling again. Has it been raining at all?"

She said incredulously, "What are you talking about?"

I said, "Here, we lay down salt and sand once at home-- although they do the roads more often since it may get scraped up or rained away. So it seems odd you would have to shovel again if you already put down all of that on your drive way and walk way."

She then started to cackle. I didn't realize that with the amount of snow that would be received up north that no amount of sand or salt would prevent having to shovel more than once in a season. *LOL*
 
Ugggh. Thanks for the reminder, scraping the snow and ice off the car isn't the worst part, it's the bitter cold wind whipping around blowing the snow back in your face while you're doing it.

Christina you're too cute. Shoveling more than once in a season :lol: When it's snowing hard we have to shovel more than 3 or 4 times in a day to keep up with it.

On Halloween day in 1991 they were predicting 3 to 4 inches of snow, on my way home from work I heard on the radio that they were saying we could get 12 inches of snow and I thought to myself "they shouldn't joke around like that, people might take them seriously". It started to snow hard. When we woke up in the morning there was almost 3 feet of snow on the ground. It took us days to move all that snow so we could get out of the house, we had just moved into the house and didn't own a shovel, heck I had just bought a rake.

Wow, Le Seur to Minneapolis is a heck of a commute, I'm not sure I would do it.
 
cute story christina...ok, when i was like 12 or something nyc was closed town with like 15 feet of snow...the only way out of my house was to jump out of a 2nd story window.
true story!
it's not unusual to not even be able to dig your car out...especially in the city where they cleared the roads and your parked car gets buried in the clean up.
robin, will you vouch for this??
 
I can vouch for your description of winters in the northeast! In Cleveland we get tons of snow, PLUS lake effect snow. As a child we made snow-mazes in the yard that had passage walls taller than me. We get 100-200 inches, reliably, every season...which can last as long as 6 months. But I wouldn't trade it! I love the changing seasons!
 
hilarious story!!!! we had a big "STORMWATCH" tv news excitement last weekend - yep, we had some sprinkles and like 2 MPH winds, oh my!!!! it's pretty funny out here in NorCal (though not as funny as SoCal, which is HILARIOUS) - I have a friend who hunkers down for winter from as she calls it all the "cold biting winds", etc. (she's a native) and I have to stifle the laughs - winter here is not summer, but it certainly ain't "winter" ... there's only a handful of days I don't feel comfortable in a t-shirt at least by afternoon.... though I do miss SoCal winter days at the beach.... that's the life :)

definitely can't say I miss the Eastern shoveling & scraping of the car, ugh, though I do miss walking through gently falling snow at night when there is that beautiful peaceful hush in the air, and the world lit up from the snow... and waking up after a sound night's sleep to a couple feet of snow, and knowing you get the day off!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen:
 
joanna i'm glad you told the 'storm watch' story becuase i thing i talked to robin about that and i always think folks back east won't believe it. it's true. so desperate are the weatherman for a weather report that rain and gusts up to 10-20 mph warrent a STORM WATCH ALERT like something is really happening. i still laugh at what folks consider 'dangerous' driving weather, like 'oh no, drive carefully, it's raining! haha, could these native even concieve driving on icy roads with blizzards of snow falling on your windshield. i remember when it was an acceptable way to stop your car by skidding and lightly bouncing off another car!!! in the city!!! :lol:
 
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