Anyone else in the Midwest snowed-in?

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It's been snowing between 1-2 inches per hour since about 5AM. Looks like I get to stay home with mom and the kids today!
 
Not snowed in...I'm actually at work. Drove in at about 6 after shovelling 6 inches off the sidewalk & driveway. We have about 9 inches now in this bit so far, with another 2 expected by noon. You've got a way to go, though, out east of here ;) More's coming for us tomorrow, too. Kids are stoked. :)
 
We are getting a steady amount here. Not sure what the total so far is but milwaukee is really getting pounded right now. Luckily i am normally off on fridays so i can just sit tight here. Too bad that bible study was cancelled.
 
We've got a lot of snow, about 12 inches when it ends at 11PM. I'm scheduled for work at Noon. I'll be there.
 
Having a stinking heat wave! It was 73 degrees at 6:30 p.m. yesterday. There was a guy on our street washing his car in his bathing suit...without a shirt, and in bare feet.
 
Yep, we are warm, too. And, we are humid. We've had extremely dense fog for days. Fortunately it is burning off by mid day.
 
Sounds like you guys are getting what we just had.

It snowed 50 inches in three days here! I haven't been to work all week! Yesterday was the first time we were able to get out of the house since church! It even snowed in Vegas! I had to shovel my 50 yard dirt driveway three times! I thought I was going to lose my mind! GET CHAINS! EVEN IF YOU HAVE A 4X4! I have seen only 3 storms like this in all my life living in the mountains!
 
KMK said:
Sounds like you guys are getting what we just had.

It snowed 50 inches in three days here! I haven't been to work all week! Yesterday was the first time we were able to get out of the house since church! It even snowed in Vegas! I had to shovel my 50 yard dirt driveway three times! I thought I was going to lose my mind! GET CHAINS! EVEN IF YOU HAVE A 4X4! I have seen only 3 storms like this in all my life living in the mountains!
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Wow! That is a lot of snow.
 
If you will permit me, ladies and gentlemen, for your pleasure and warmth, I would like to show you a fine picture of my fair city, as it currently looks. Thank-you for your attention.

But seriously, I would deal with heaps of snow just to be able to worship at a good ol' Psalm-singing Reformed Presbyterian church again.

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Very nice Tim :). I decided to go into the lab... bad idea. We just bought a minivan with sto-n-go seating (drops the clearance by about an inch) - I made it to the lab, but my van only made it about half way!
 
We've got close to a foot of snow on the ground and it's still coming down pretty heavy. We can get around in my husband's Ranger. I kind of like it; it looks pretty! It's what the Lord decided to give us, and He does everything beautifully... At a church I used to attend, the pastor was newly here from a lifetime spent in Mississippi. Several years ago, we got about 14 inches of snow on a Saturday night, and only a few people showed up at church on Sunday. But there was our pastor, clomping around in big boots. When I asked him if he didn't regret a bit his decision to come here because of the snow, he said, "No! This is the way the Lord preserves life at this latitude, and I love it that He does that!" This changed my way of thinking about snowstorms, even though I've been here all my life.

Margaret
 
Da U.P. isn't doing too bad, at least not down here in the banana belt. We've had a few flurries, and are supposed to all week, last I heard.
 
Wannabee said:
Da U.P. isn't doing too bad, at least not down here in the banana belt. We've had a few flurries, and are supposed to all week, last I heard.
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New one on me, an L.P.'er, Joe: banana belt? Are you around Escanaba or somewhere? I love "da U.P." & I want/need to know what the banana belt is!
:D

Margaret
 
Wow. It's -37 C (-35 F) with the windchill out right now, but we don't have nearly as much snow as some of you. We have somewhere in the order of 6-9 inches on the ground right now.
 
Ours is a dreary fog. We live in the woods, and it is beautiful. This will be our first winter in this part of VA (further north than where we've lived the past two years) so I don't know what to expect. In our two years here, we've never had snow lay for more than five minutes, but I know the schools would be canceled because the area around where we live now would have snow--so I'm hoping to see a tiny bit. And when we would drive through Northern VA to go back to PA, we would see piles of snow--and we'd only be an hour and a half north of our sunny, snow-less home! VA is weird.

P.S. The high today is 56.
 
he beholds said:
Ours is a dreary fog. We live in the woods, and it is beautiful. This will be our first winter in this part of VA (further north than where we've lived the past two years) so I don't know what to expect. In our two years here, we've never had snow lay for more than five minutes, but I know the schools would be canceled because the area around where we live now would have snow--so I'm hoping to see a tiny bit. And when we would drive through Northern VA to go back to PA, we would see piles of snow--and we'd only be an hour and a half north of our sunny, snow-less home! VA is weird.

P.S. The high today is 56.
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Some years are better than others for snow in Virginia, and some parts of VA better than others. We've had some big snowfalls from time to time although I know VA doesn't compare to PA or parts to the north and west wrt snowfall amounts. I'll never forget one snow/ice storm when my wife and I drove around the Skyline Drive. It was a winter wonderland. I'm partial to places that have four seasons, with autumn being my favorite, and I love snow (I can never get enough), and I feel blessed to be here in VA for all those reasons.

Our high today is 49 and we are expecting rain/freezing rain today/tonight.
 
Snowed in is an understatement. When I opened the door to get the mail this AM there was a foot of snow resting against the front door- and my front door has 3 steps to get to it!
 
nleshelman said:
Snowed in is an understatement. When I opened the door to get the mail this AM there was a foot of snow resting against the front door- and my front door has 3 steps to get to it!
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Awesome. Out on the left coast of Canada, we have less than an inch or so on the deck, and yet people are talking about blizzard-like conditions...When it first started coming down, I was on my way home, and passed three accidents within a ten mile stretch.
 
VirginiaHuguenot said:
he beholds said:
Ours is a dreary fog. We live in the woods, and it is beautiful. This will be our first winter in this part of VA (further north than where we've lived the past two years) so I don't know what to expect. In our two years here, we've never had snow lay for more than five minutes, but I know the schools would be canceled because the area around where we live now would have snow--so I'm hoping to see a tiny bit. And when we would drive through Northern VA to go back to PA, we would see piles of snow--and we'd only be an hour and a half north of our sunny, snow-less home! VA is weird.

P.S. The high today is 56.
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Some years are better than others for snow in Virginia, and some parts of VA better than others. We've had some big snowfalls from time to time although I know VA doesn't compare to PA or parts to the north and west wrt snowfall amounts. I'll never forget one snow/ice storm when my wife and I drove around the Skyline Drive. It was a winter wonderland. I'm partial to places that have four seasons, with autumn being my favorite, and I love snow (I can never get enough), and I feel blessed to be here in VA for all those reasons.

Our high today is 49 and we are expecting rain/freezing rain today/tonight.
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I agree that autumn is the greatest season--and I am grateful that VA has all four seasons, with winter being it's shortest! But I like snow only when I'm snowed in, I think.

nleshelman said:
Snowed in is an understatement. When I opened the door to get the mail this AM there was a foot of snow resting against the front door- and my front door has 3 steps to get to it!
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Cherish these days!
 
VirginiaHuguenot said:
Galatians220 said:
Wannabee said:
Da U.P. isn't doing too bad, at least not down here in the banana belt. We've had a few flurries, and are supposed to all week, last I heard.
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New one on me, an L.P.'er, Joe: banana belt? Are you around Escanaba or somewhere? I love "da U.P." & I want/need to know what the banana belt is!
:D

Margaret
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:)

Banana belt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Looks like Andrew beat me to it. I was surprised to see that Escanaba was even mentioned in the definition.
 
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