Snowing here again, 2 below and lots more coming in this weekend.
Stay safe all of you.

was snowing hard here this am. turned to freezing rain for about 3 hours. Roads are terrible. Hate this weather when it gets icey.

My son just emailed me to say he was only kidding. "Of course it's snowing here!"

We got about 5 inches last night. DS shoveled everything this morning. He thinks it is fun.

Susan, Do you have to go to work this evening? If so please be real careful...with the low temps there is sure to be ice too.

Take care,
~Susan

Hi Susan - I worked 12 days out of the past 14, but I'm happy to say I started the winter break today. I'm off until January 12. No pay, but I sure need some time to catch up with housework and a bunch of other things . . . including CHRISTMAS!!

Yes, snowing here also. Started at about 2:30 this afternoon. It looks nice but I hope it stops soon.

sooey

Awwww....stop ya whining about a little bit'o the white stuff!! (j/k - I'm soooo envious of those of you that get a white Christmas) I bet Santa is grateful to have somewhere soft to land tho!!

It's 25°C (77F) here and humidity in the 90's so it's HOT - I just HAD to eat a bowl of ice-cream to cool down!

Stay safe everyone ... you're right Susan, it would be awful having to drive when the conditions are so bad.

By the time it stopped snowing at about 10am this morning, it had piled up 11 inches and deeper in places of minor drifitng and of course, the snow plow "gifts" on the sidewalk. The snow was too deep in many places for my 2-stage snow blower - it came over the top of the auger housing. That meant I had to a lot of backing up and making double passes. I should have gone out last night in the middle of the storm and made a first pass. The reason I did not was that I waited until the street plows had made their passes because they always cover the sidewalk with street gloop. Well, how short my memory from last year - should have made a first pass last night. It would have kept the depth down to a manageable height.

I had to dig out the mail box and newspaper tube - found today's paper buried in the tube.

Ah! We get a rest, and then we will get hit again Saturday night with an Alberta Clipper that teams up with another low pressure system, and then the bottom drops out of the temperature. Yes, Virginia, we will have an abundace of snow for Christmas.

kiwidj....Where do you live?

Don't tell people to stop whining about snow and cold temperatures, ice,etc. until you have gone through it all.

I grew up in the prairies and talk about cold weather and freezing, they didn't have all the warm clothing we do nowadays to wear.

Its not fun to be snowed in, have to get driveway not only plowed which costs you but also sanded too.

Putting your pets outside and your dog freezes his ears in seconds of goign outside to do his stuff. He comes in crying in pain. Its awful.

And how about power outages and sitting in freezing temperatures and you have no water useage, can't flush toilets because you are on a well.

and yes, go outside no matter to give food to the birds who are so desperate and some do not make it through those times.

And the icy roads and sliding and sliding and no control at all and will I make it home or wherever you are going in one piece?

Having to walk up a long windy driveway in the dark because you can't drive your car up or down.

Don't talk about stop whining until you live what many of us have lived through.

We moved to southern California to get away from winters. I remember all the scraping the car windows, trying to get iced over door locks to open, and then trying to get a cold engine to start. We don't miss it at all. We do miss that special morning when you wake up and there has been a thick snowfall during the night and the world looks like a magical fairyland--till you have to go to work or shovel the walk.