Waiting for the snow
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanni...not nearly as amusing as waiting for Godet, but we take what we can get.
The first Big! Storm! of the season is moving upcoast (it's snowing in Lewiston! in Leeds! in Greene and in Brunswick!), and everybody's a little jazzed. I understand that ozone contributes to Storm Joy in some folks (I'm one of them) but I wonder what it is about a snowstorm that gets everybody perking.
The early call from the weatherbeans is 10 to 14 inches before we're all done, sometime early tomorrow morning. Listening to the radio coming into work; it sounds like every public school in the state and pretty much all the colleges have preemptively canceled classes. The day-job never cancels classes, because it's a residential college, and Admin rarely sends staff home, which is precisely why Rolanni purchased the little green Subaru. I hope I'll be able to get into my driveway when I do get home.
How's the weather where you are?
11:10 a.m. Edited to add: Steve reports cars off the road on the way home -- including one person who went through the barbed wire into a cow pasture; and another who had taken out a phone pole. As of this writing, he is home and in for the Duration.
The first Big! Storm! of the season is moving upcoast (it's snowing in Lewiston! in Leeds! in Greene and in Brunswick!), and everybody's a little jazzed. I understand that ozone contributes to Storm Joy in some folks (I'm one of them) but I wonder what it is about a snowstorm that gets everybody perking.
The early call from the weatherbeans is 10 to 14 inches before we're all done, sometime early tomorrow morning. Listening to the radio coming into work; it sounds like every public school in the state and pretty much all the colleges have preemptively canceled classes. The day-job never cancels classes, because it's a residential college, and Admin rarely sends staff home, which is precisely why Rolanni purchased the little green Subaru. I hope I'll be able to get into my driveway when I do get home.
How's the weather where you are?
11:10 a.m. Edited to add: Steve reports cars off the road on the way home -- including one person who went through the barbed wire into a cow pasture; and another who had taken out a phone pole. As of this writing, he is home and in for the Duration.
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:13 pm (UTC)Perhaps it's because you're all a bunch of Mainiacs? (by choice if not by birth)
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:20 pm (UTC)Good news, supposed to reach a high of 20°F -- with sun.
By the way, i wish i had a Subaru. My truck is 9 years old (not 4 wheel drive). I remember looking at the Subaru back then, but the truck was much cheaper. When the truck dies on me (not any time soon i hope.) then it is a AWD for me.
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 06:52 pm (UTC)Snow
Date: 2009-12-09 03:02 pm (UTC)Cris
Brrrrrrrrrr.....
Date: 2009-12-09 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 04:05 pm (UTC)Low last night around 67 F and expecting near record highs of 83 F today. However a cold front with rain and winds is headed our way with temperatures Thursday expected to be low of 65 F and high of 67 F. Friday is expected to be a low of 50 F and a high of 70 F.
Susan
Orlando
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Date: 2009-12-09 04:17 pm (UTC)Fortunately, I don't have to leave the house today except to shovel and take out the garbage.
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Date: 2009-12-09 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 05:14 pm (UTC)Cleveland reporting in -
Date: 2009-12-09 05:31 pm (UTC)Mary
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Date: 2009-12-09 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 06:06 pm (UTC)70's at sea level, feels a bit chilly at night so maybe as low as low 60's? (Snowed on the mountains a couple of weeks ago though) Honolulu is always tepid... I want weather!!!
~Lizah C
Not good...
Date: 2009-12-09 06:39 pm (UTC)Next week the HIGH will be -28 C
O.o I wish I could telecommute to work. Its that cold & block heater doesn't always cut it. :)
Great weather!
Date: 2009-12-09 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 07:54 pm (UTC)The nice thing about chilly weather is that formerly stand-off-ish cats WANT to come curl in your lap for hours. Once we have negotiated cat-space vs laptap-space, this is nice.
Abigail
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Date: 2009-12-09 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 09:21 pm (UTC)It's -3C (26F) in Montreal currently with blowing drifting snow. You have patches of bare ground along with car stopping 18cm (7.5 inch) high snowdrifts. Most cars bottoms out at about 15cm (6 inch) of drift snow, doesn't matter even if you have 4WD or AWD. Oh what fun.
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
Date: 2009-12-09 09:50 pm (UTC)Today high winds and flurries all day. Lots of slop to shovel. But if you were 5 miles west or 10 miles north you got 12-15" of snow and no rain or sleet. (Lake effect rain) The sun is setting now so the temps are starting to drop. Down to 0º tonight and only single digits tomorrow. Pretty much all schools outside of the Milwaukee Public School district were closed today. And all of the major colleges and universities shut down shortly after noon today because it was just too slippery outside. Road accidents everywhere.
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Date: 2009-12-10 11:28 am (UTC)