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#1 joiei

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 11:56 PM

The weather has been everything the weather man promised and more and less. The freezing rain was last night, today since very very early it has been steady sleet and just now when I was out I was seeing snowflakes. It was too cold for the freezing rain to last all day, the thermometer in the I think it has been worse over by where Jaymes' Dad lives, remember the Colonel from the fabulous cruise we got to go along on in web cams? If this is headed your way, you guys on the east coast, it will be fierce when it gets to you.

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:11 AM

QUOTE(joiei @ Jan 27 2009, 07:56 PM)

I have wine, soup makings, pizza toppings and 5 Minute Artisan dough in the fridge... And, I have my shovels at the ready....Sigh.....

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#3 GG Mora

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:21 AM

I'm psyched. We're due for a good dumping. The conservative forecast calls for 8 - 14". I'm hoping it's more like 2 ft.

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:39 AM

NYC is supposed to get our usual icky mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain.

It's always something.

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#5 GalPalJoan

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 04:33 AM

Unrelenting sunshine for the next 7 to 10 days. No rain in sight until into the first week of February. Freezing over night. Highs in the 50's and 60's during the day. We could really, really use the rain. If I heard right this morning we're at under 50% of normal right now.

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#6 joiei

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 10:01 AM

QUOTE(GalPalJoan @ Jan 27 2009, 10:33 PM)

We were glad to get any moisture we could, currently we are in the middle of a winter drought. Just glad that we didn't have as much ice as they had originally predicted. Yesterday afternoon I noticed a couple of the tree cleanup trucks and power company trucks located out in the neighborhoods waiting to go into action.

The weather channel was just talking about Cincinnati getting ice on top of snow, ugh.

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 12:06 PM

QUOTE(GG Mora @ Jan 26 2009, 12:21 AM)

I'm psyched. We're due for a good dumping. The conservative forecast calls for 8 - 14". I'm hoping it's more like 2 ft.

Not that I'm stalking, or anything, but maybe a new snap of Macy in the snow would be in order. If you have the time, of course of course.

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:01 PM

QUOTE(joiei @ Jan 27 2009, 06:56 PM)

If this is headed your way, you guys on the east coast, it will be fierce when it gets to you.

Started here around midnight, but after about 2 inches of accumulation, changed to freezing rain in my little corner of the Jersey Shore. Now it's pouring. But they closed the school. Town is one square mile, flat as a pancake and the kids walk to school rather than taking a school bus. And they close the school.

Tsss, these kids today.

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#9 Ron Johnson

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:12 PM

5 inches of snow, then 12 hours of freezing rain, now snowing again, probably another six inches.

the roads are absolute mayhem, civil society has broken down, grocery stores are picked clean, the cable is out, anarchy and chaos have taken hold.

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:22 PM

Started snowing yesterday morning. Got about 1 inch of nice fluffy stuff. At about 7 PM it turned into sleet and freezing rain.
Walked out to see if the paper came this morning to find that the street was a skating rink -- about half an inch of smooth ice. Was resigned to walking to work, about to jump in the shower when the plows came down my street with sand.

Last winter trying to get in my car after an ice storm I broke the handle off my driver side door. This left only a little stub that I can dig my fingers under to open the door. Lacking good leverage on this I tried the passenger side. Alas, this handle broke. A pot of boiling water loosened things up enough to get me into the driver's door. Was chipping ice off the windshield and my scraper broke. Finished the job with a credit card.

Forecast is 35-40 degrees and rain today and another freeze tonight.

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:24 PM

QUOTE(Ron Johnson @ Jan 28 2009, 09:12 AM)

I was in Akron, Ohio once on a snowy day. Some kids threw a block of ice off a bridge onto the hood of our rented car. Happy memories.

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#12 JPW

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 03:10 PM

Mrs JPW just called - her ice scraper broke.

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 03:16 PM

About four inches of snow in northern NJ. Followed by light, freezing rain. I understand that the heavy rain comes later.

I'm delighted to be home, tucked in my house.

Building a fire in the fireplace, and likely to make some quarter rye bread later today.

My only complaint was that if they need to charge me $30 because they're robbing the duck to pay the boar they might as well give me a more substantial portion of flour, water, and bits of meat.

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