Posted on 01/22/2005 4:04:20 AM PST by SamAdams76
Shoot, Sam,
I live 2 hours south of Chicago - we got a little snow - enough for the plows to run. Haven't heard what Chi-town got. We're supposed to have pretty good winds today, which will make for dangerous driving out in the country around here - everything is flat (this is corn and soybean country) so folks out there will have a hard time finding the road, what with the snow that was already underground.
You guys are scheduled to get more white stuff than us, so I suggest you stock up on that excellent beer you represent, rent some great movies, throw the logs on the fire and have a great football weekend. Best of luck to our freeper buds in the northeast (ps: my sailboat's tucked away up in coastal Maine, so I guess a part of me lives in the northeast as well. She's all snugged in to her boat shed and can therefore weather anything.)
Best of luck, Sam. -- E
Oh, and by the way, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
Its 16 degrees here in Northern VA. No snow yet but they are calling for 6-8 inches now after saying 3-6 yesterday. I hope we get a foot.
Southern Tier NY/Northern Tier PA is expecting 10 to 20 inches. The good news is that it'll likely be the powdery stuff, which is easier to shovel. The bad news is that due to the wind chills expected, below zero, we may turn into popsicles trying.
How about them SeaDogs!!
...and it's Bush's fault.
South Central Mi at dawn..
11 degrees, snowing nicely, with about 3 or 4 inches on the ground..wind NNE 12-13 mph..
Blizzard??
no..
Oh, by the way, spent winter '82-'83 in Fairbanks....this is all child's play considering....
-2 here in Chappaqua..This is all Hillary's fault..She responded at the inaugural, when asked if she would run for the WH in 2008, "when hell freezes over"
Good heavens. I'm getting cold just thinking about that here in Oklahoma. I think I'll go turn my thermostat up!
I think about all the elderly people and the ill who can't afford heating oil or electricity. I hope they all have someone looking out for them.
Hey GRRRRR,
Down here in Champaign we've only got enough to run the plows once. S'posed to get a bit more today. You guys got hammered. I'm flying out of O'Hare on Monday. Hope they have it all under control by then. Which north suburb are you in?
Headline is incomplete..can we please add "Global Warming Alert"
Stay warm.
Outdoors. Here's a link to the story at ESPN:
I've noticed that Freepers from the Midwest rarely start urgent weather threads.
It's SNOW people. No school on Monday. Yippee!
-12 here in upstate NY, no snow yet...
Darlin',
Is that wind chill or actual temp? How far north of Bangor are you?
Southwest Ohio (Greater Cincinnati area) reporting in. Snow and drizzle were expected to start here in the early AM hours ... overcast and drab, low ceiling, but nothing in the way of percipitation, at least, not yet.
I had an apartment about 3 miles from the office and my car wouldn't budge. Our 'drop-dead-beautiful' receptionist had a Honda Civic and offered me a ride home.
Sheeit... we got to a package store and I told her to stop while I ran in and got a bottle of wine. By the time I got back, the Honda was 'bottoming-out' by the the quickly-accumulating snow... we barely made it to my apartment before it came to a dead stop.
The events that happened later were right out of a Penthouse Forum article. Budda-boom!
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