Here comes the first big snow storm of 2016!

When we moved down to Florida from Michigan, friends would ask "how are you going to be able to stand all that heat and humidity???" Some of them still do.

My answer now is: "I've never had to dig two feet of heat and humidity out of my driveway, I've never had to chip an inch of heat and humidity off my windshield so I can see to drive to work, I've never skidded on a layer of heat and humidity and ended up nose-down in a ditch and I've sure never slipped on a sidewalk covered with heat and humidity and broke my tailbone!"

I'll take the heat and humidity any day.
 

Danged cats I'm gonna send them out on the corner to earn their keep. No dry food in the house. Where is it? In hubby's truck of course. I remember being a kid and playing out in the backyard until I got too cold. Then I'd stand there and cry until she carried me back in. It was like that...from the front door, across the lawn, cat food bag and back again. I used a broom as a walking stick. Wooooof hyper-ventilated just on that short walk. I'm not going back out there until the Spring thaw.
 
One snowy day a few years ago, as I look over my balcony.
 

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Cookie - now THAT is snow!

We're up to 4"-6" now, still coming down. Had two separate knocks on the door, asking if we wanted our sidewalks shoveled. At least some kids these days are entrepreneurial ..

According to the local weather station -

Accumulations: storm totals of 10 to 15 inches, with locally higher amounts possible, across southern Luzerne and Southern Pike counties by early evening .
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Yep, we get snow here, quite often, except this year not so much.

Kids can take this as good business opportunities.
 
SifuPhil said:
Cookie - now THAT is snow!

We're up to 4"-6" now, still coming down. Had two separate knocks on the door, asking if we wanted our sidewalks shoveled. At least some kids these days are entrepreneurial ..

According to the local weather station -
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Phil----Where do you live? Here in Hershey we have over 2 feet of this white stuff. Glad that I don't have turnpike duty.
 
We get those kids offering to shovel, and if you don't come to the door they steal your shovel too. Probably reselling them for small change.
 
fureverywhere said:
We get those kids offering to shovel, and if you don't come to the door they steal your shovel too. Probably reselling them for small change.
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LOL - I wouldn't put it past them. Aluminum brings a good price at the recycle yards.

No, the first ones were 2 older teenage boys, and the second was a girl about 11 or 12, with Daddy hovering on the sidewalk watching. Good to see.

Our maintenance guy finally showed up, all grumpy and moaning, and did the deed. Hey, that's part of the rent. Suck it up, hammer boy! He was probably hung over - he usually is. :(
 
It was a light and fluffy six inches here so the amount didn't matter much as you could almost blow it away. The condo association's hired help did the "blowing" and I got a good Spanish lesson...
 
A couple of pictures of my neighborhood post blizzard. The weatherman said we had a blizzard, but when I lived on the east side of Cleveland, I think it was in 1975 or 76 that we had a real white out for several hours, which was a real blizzard. The first picture is my wife using the snowblower. The man that normally does our driveway could not get to us because the township hadn't plowed our street open. The pictures were taken on Sunday and they didn't open our road until Tuesday. I had taken a break to get a cup of Joe and she decided to give it a go.

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