Snowzilla. How are you affected?

I'm doing well. Only a couple of inches of snow here. Thank God. I couldn't have faced another winter like last winter. :eek:nthego:
 
Chicago is enjoying a very mild and dry winter... as in all El Nino years... I'm grateful as this is my last winter of commuting.. I'm not complaining at all..
 
Warrigal, I totally understand. We lived in Florida for several years. Winter time was when you had to wear a light jacket. Friends would send pictures of buried cars and buried steps n' it looked like a different planet.
 
I was just saying to my husband that last year by this time, we'd already had two or three HUUUGE snowfalls and so far we've got a total of 18" on the lawn (instead of the four feet last year) and the sun is shining, slight breeze from the west and we're doing okay(....but the winter isn't over yet so who knows, our turn may be coming). Hope all you folks who may face the deep and impassable drifts or flooding or power losses manage okay. We'll all squint our eyes, concentrate really hard and send good vibrations your way! How about that? .......Okay, well we're thinking about you! I guess that's the best we can do:rolleyes:.
 
I am not affected because here in Central California the only snow is the recently most welcome snow fall some 70 plus miles from here in the high Sierra mountain range. This snow fall as well as some nice recent rain will help our drought situation.
 
We missed the brunt of the storm. I have an extra supply of bread and milk if anybody needs some; otherwise, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch for a month...
 
We've been in Las Vegas the past 3 days, and the McCarran airport there was full, with aircraft parked in every available space. The airlines haven't been able to fly to destinations on the East Coast, so they have hundreds of aircraft grounded, all over the Western States, waiting for this snow to be cleared. The airport was clogged with people trying to get back home to the East coast, and the schedules were full of cancelled and delayed flights. Luckily, flights between LV and Kansas City had no problems, so our flights were right on schedule. Some of the folks from the Eastern part of the country may be days late getting home.
 
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Our drifts are double that size. Don't remember snow so deep the wrong step and it's a struggle to get out...as a kid sure, but as an adult it's pretty scary.
 
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Believe it or not that covering of snow will be much easier to get rid of that washed up sand after a hurricane or mud after a flood. Hope everyone came through it ok. Before and after picture in a few days?

Also I heard in Pennsylvania a women's college gymnastics team got stuck for a day? Should the people in charge of keeping the roads clear be blamed or the team/college for making their team travel right before or during a storm?
 
Need to prevent stranded vehicles in the future. If one of the worst snow storms in recent history is approaching you would think one would go out of their way to avoid it. Clogged roads make snow removal harder and even worse block emergency vehicles. If nothing else they should tell people get as much to the side as possible so a snow plow and emergency vehicle can go down the middle of a road. The college is not the only participant here. I'm surprised state highway officials don't strive to keep at least one lane open for emergency use only. And I saw estimates of 500 other cars stranded on that highway alone. I doubt this is the first time nor will it be the last.

Also note that Washington DC issued over 1 million dollars in parking tickets from the storm and towed over 500 cars. A bit extreme but the only way to get roads back open is plow them and they can't be plowed with cars in the way. One doesn't think of DC like Buffalo so I'm sure many simply didn't know what to do.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...366711341.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand
 

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