Pedestrians shovel a sidewalk during the season's first snowstorm Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Pedestrians shovel a sidewalk during the season's first snowstorm Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
I'm in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, and I stayed home from work today (thank goodness I had a few extra vacation days). It just wasn't worth the bother.
This is excellent news for individuals to evaluate their emergency preparedness state. Hopefully all will learn lessons from this. And quit whining - "Where is the government to give me stuff!!!" - of course.
Mid-Missouri got plenty (maybe as much as 10 inches; drifts to maybe
a 18 to 24 inches deep).
All of the six major state highways that radiate out of Jefferson City
were marked "impassible" as of 9AM.
Interstate 70 was even shut down for most of it's western half in MO.
It was a true snow/sleet storm for sure.
Thank God for logs, beer and my Laptop with battery and Sprint Broadband card...
Can I get a grammar cop's opinion on this?
I have always thought that "closure" was a noun referring to the device by which entry to something was denied. The twisted wire on the end of a loaf of bread is a "closure."
When one wishes to describe the act of closing a school (or military base, for that matter) he must use the gerund form of the verb, "to close." That form is, "closing."
Therefore, one must speak of the weather's forcing a school's closing, not a school's [?]closure[?].
Just thought you all might like to know that :-)
I heart Global Warming.
Really don't see the big deal though.
Its winter.
It snowed.
My house has heat and power, along with the most of the Midwest.
I went into work today, along with a whole bunch of other Midwesterners.
I'll spend about an hour shoveling out my front/side walk and my driveway.
I'll dress appropriately.
Oh, and here's my own personal public service announcement:
People who don't know how to drive in snow, people who just HAVE to ride your a$$ and drive at or 5 over the speed limit when the snow inhibits your vision to 3 feet in front of you, people who don't brush the snow off there car and seem to always want to change lanes and cut someone off, and people with SUVs that seem to believe that they CAN drive 50mph safely on a arterial road with 3+ inches of unplowed snow...please...by all means...STAY HOME!
That is all. Have a great day! :)
About 1992 it snowed 10' over the winter because of the volcano. Everybody bought stick blades for their pickup trucks and snow-blowers to clean off flat roofs. Everybody has been waiting for it to snow again. Waiting. Waiting.
I love these annual reminders of why I live in the South West. We've been complaining all week of temps in the 50s and 60s.
I am one of millions. As usual.
It was 70+ here in Kansas City on Tuesday. Then Wednesday the temp kept dropping until we got ice in the evening and snow on top of that the next day. Crazy!
Millions without power... A baby boom around next Labor Day?
I'm SOOOOOO GLAD that we left Chi-town and headed back south LAST week.
Lief is blaming Bush's weather machine.
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What is FEMA doing about this?