Thanks for your concern, Jessy. Isn't that something about the dome roof collapse? Yikes!

I am safe but I am COLD! We got somewhere between 8-11 inches on Saturday. Hard to tell exactly how much because of the blowing and drifting.

Hope everyone else is safe and warm.

Linda

Just south of the "big snow belt'....but squarely in the blow and cold area.
My feet are cold...I have re-learned the "Iowa shuffle" my car has fender bergs and Latte has learned to do a fast peepee.
SNAF...in Military language...for mid December.
Thanjks for asking Jessie...people just a little north or west of me had it much worse.
Linda C

We got about 20" on top of the 6"-8" a week or so ago. A wonderful neighbor and his son-in-law blew out my driveway and I hired a guy (who did the driveway last storm) to finish the sidewalk. I'm mobile again but staying in. -2ðF (-19ðC) right now and going to be chilly the next couple days.

Not the first time the dome collapsed so it wasn't a surprise to me. But now there'll be a chant for a new stadium.

We only had an inch of snow after predictions of 6 to 12, but it is a tad cool here now. Temps were 6 this morning with gusty winds.

Indiana is getting hit with lake effect snow from Lake Michigan. Many counties are under a state of emergency and they are getting socked with 20 inches of snow.

I just heard from Teresa_mn.
She's having trouble posting on this forum since yesterday. When she tries to preview her post it takes her to the GW main page.
Can anyone help her?

She asked me to post this: "Here I spent the weekend digging out from under 22". Cross-country skied to a fabric store yesterday which was 2 miles away. I take the bus to work and the driver left me off in the middle of the street and I climbed over a 5 ft snow bank to get to my building.
I can handle the snow. It's the subzero temps I hate.......especially while I'm waiting for the bus after work".
Teresa - aka Nanook of the North

Wow - what a storm!! I thought it was kind of exciting. I think we got about 15 inches and had drifts around 4 feet high. I'm in St. Paul. This was a good old fashioned storm like I remember when I was a kid - or like we had on Halloween in 1991.

I stocked up on everything I needed Friday and just hunkered down and cooked and we watched streaming Netflix movies on Saturday. After too much sitting around we thought we'd see if we could take a short drive around the neighborhood. Our driveway had been plowed but even after shoveling the drift out from in front of our garage door we didn't get far. So we bagged the drive and walked down to the end of the driveway - very, very windy. On Sunday the driveway and roads were clear so we bundled up and shoveled the walk and then took a long walk. It was clear and refreshing - no problem as long as you're dressed for it. Today I'm at work - drive was a bit slow at rush hour but not too bad.

I'm back in the South now, but gibby, we lived in Duluth in 1991 for the storm you mentioned and had 39 inches of snow. All the jack o lanterns and leaf bags were found in the spring thaw. :)

All we got in KC was a dusting, but it turned bracingly cold on Saturday! We got lucky and missed the worst of it. I'm sorry for those you that are snowed under.

Ah...I remember the Halloween Blizzard of 1991 very well. I was taking college courses south of the Twin Cities and I lived north of the Twin Cities. It took me nearly 4 hours to drive 45 miles home that night. We got 48 inches of snow in less than 24 hours.

In hindsight it was kind of exciting!

Linda

It ended up a non-event here. I think we may have gotten about 4" of new snow. They were forecasting that we would get 12-14" ... Blizzard Warning and the whole nine yards.

There were places not far away that got hit pretty bad and I think every school in Northern Michigan was closed today.

Nancy

Well it was windy here in Florida today ............

We're just fine here. More cold, and blowing and drifting snow, the snow blowing around made visibility pretty bad. We got a total of about 8 inches of snow, with a nice slick of ice under that so there were a lot of power outages I think about 30,000 people are still without power, and a lot of car accidents.

Winds at Ludington are still gale force at 35 knots, but those will die down tonight, hopefully. It will still be cold all week.

I picked up Amanda's beef today, the back roads are slick and everything is covered with ice and snow but it's just beautiful. Makayla says the trees "have hands, dripping with diamonds". The downside of that is that trees are coming down and breaking off from the weight of the ice. The windchill is cold enough that the tank heater can't keep the water tank at the farm clear, we've been breaking the layer of ice off the top a couple of times a day and that usually doesn't happen until January. It did take me 4 1/2 hours to go 150 miles yesterday when I drove home from Elery's, but all in all, it was pretty mild compared to what some other areas got hit with.

Yup, I shoveled, part of my "exercise plan". (grin)

Annie

Safe and sober. Closed up the bar last night and almost buried my truck after seeing the bartender home. Factory is open but only half the workforce is making it in. I'm having to cover jobs for people that didn't come in so I'm having fun making up employees that don't really exist.... Felix Silvesterus did a tool change and G. Gordon Liddy and Anna Karenina. I have to fill out paperwork for who did the work so I'm having fun with it. If people don't show tomorrow I think Nicolo Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Pliny the Elder will be working on the machines.

I can't call in... working the weekends so don't want to mess up my overtime pay.

Dolly is loving the snow in very short doses. She races around outside playing but comes back to the door after a couple minutes... a balmy 11 degrees at the moment.

: )
lyra

So far we're ok... But, apparently, there was enough humidity in the air to give the trees and bushes a really good coat of ice on all the branches and the north sides of the trunks...

Christmas Hugs,
Rita

LOL, Michael, don't forget Thomas Jefferson, he'd probably work on machines. Or Michaelangelo. Oh, he's already there! (grin)

Glad you're safe, your side of the state got hit a bit harder than ours, I think.

Annie

Thanks for asking about us. My brother-in-law works for the dome and they spent hours up on that thing taking snow off in the freezing cold. Schools are closed here (Mpls) for the second day in a row since bus can not get through many of the streets due to snow.

We hunkered down, made a big pot roast and baked some cookies. Dug a path across our deck to the grill to make chicken. We had a 5 foot drift over our driveway so it took some digging to get out. Can hardly lift my arms over my head yesterday or today. More snow coming tomorrow so I'd better limber up!

Glad to hear from everyone.

Lyra, loved your coworkers, don't forget Scarpia and Iago.

Another panel on the dome fell in last night about 5pm. More snow, albeit nothing like last time, will be coming the next day or two.

Reminds me of the winters as a kid. We've had it pretty soft for a lot of years. Last year was icy and cold with some snow but this year is cold and snowy so far. Not TOO bad ice-wise at least.

I have groceries but can get out and about. I'll finish up my week's work today (Thursday) and off through the weekend.

Jasdip, suggest to Teresa_mn that she try clearing out the cache and cookies in the browser. If that doesn't work, try a different browser. So many people are having trouble lately. I use Opera and nothing like these problems here. It's really the best browser out there in so many ways.

Big decision to make here... should I go out and have a big old country style breakfast from a great little restaurant I like, or wait and belly-up to the hog trough later on? Decisions, decisions! Can only handle one of them in a day...

We had somewhere between 12 & 16 inches of snow. Hard to know because of the drifting. Very, very cold but warmed up enough yesterday that we finally got the patio cleared off. Need to pull some drifts off of the roof today and clear the patio off all over again.

Our car got backed into on Sunday. Finally got a rental car yesterday. (Rentals in short supply due to all the weather related collisions.) Dog1's staples came out and he had to go back to the vet on Tuesday and do it all over again. (Cozy trip w/ 2 people plus a large Sheltie in a DSII's S-10 pickup.) Nasty gash from a collision w/ wire fencing. He's slowed down w/ the dreaded V-collar which he has decided that he actually likes. Because Dog2 doesn't have one, I guess. Except that Dog2 ripped the V-collar right off of him yesterday & was running wild. V-collar rescued, patched up & re-installed.

And here I thought that the circus went south in the winter...

ci_lantro, I know it's not funny, but I could just see those two dogs, one jealous because the other has a collar he doesn't have, LOL.

I haven't gotten the deck cleared yet. No more snow but it's cold, even for me. It's 10F right now, and the meteorologists had predicted a low of 21F, so they're kind of....well....wrong. It's supposed to warm up into the teens next week though, so Santa shouldn't be too iced up.

Chase, if you are out there, check in. I see Toronto and Sarnia got whacked, hundreds of people stranded, the military is out in helicopters, saying some people are buried 4 or 5 feet deep in stranded vehicles.

Annie

Annie, it's OK to laugh. We thought it was hilarious!

Should be warming up over your way. Yesterday felt almost balmy on this side of the pond, as is today. It's a whole 20F, mostly sunny & no wind.

Not to rub it in because I have way too much respect for you folks who deal with this weather on many levels, but today while doing our Off-Site Christmas Shopping in *Estero, it was BEAUTIFUL to the point where I had to shed my light weight jacket and it was still too warm. Of course we just came off 2 - 28 degree nights that killed all my plants.

You all please stay safe!!

*OT-it broke my heart to see this beautiful mall (set up like a Mediterranean village with cafes, seating areas, huge fountains, fish ponds, and palm trees surrounding the 140 name-brand shops) with nearly half the shops closed. We spent the night thinking we would do two days there but we did the whole mall in about an hour.

Last night we got another sprinkling of snow and then it turned to sleet. Not much on the ground this afternoon, but a pretty coating of ice on the tree limbs. "Looks like a winter wonderland" said a co-worker a while ago.

Teresa

It has been he!! here in upstate NY, to say the least. Sometime earlier week we had received 42 inches of snow in 4 days. That was two snow delay school days ago. I think most people have stopped measuring. My guess is we're around 60+ inches since it really began to come down last Sunday.

I am snowed out, and it is only mid Dec.

Jo

I know how to make shih-tzus disappear! Just take them outside. LOL!

I'm in Jo's neighborhood (literally, same town in upstate NY). We're breaking snow records here. We need another 5 inches to break the snow fall record for December. We've broken the snow fall record for fall. We're only in the middle of December! It's not even winter yet. I think the official snow fall has been 67" (that's a little over 4" a day).

I've had to get rides into work from the DH because he has 4 wheel drive. Thank goodness I had the forsight to tell him to get a 4 wheel drive! He bought a Toyota Tundra, which is a gas guzzler, but it can drive through 6" of snow!