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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | 72" in DC? 60+" in Philly? These are incredible one-week totals. Snowfall records have been broken all along the east coast and there's more in the forecast. Makes Denver look like Phoenix. Hope all our OFC friends are doing o.k. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | It's been stunningly beautiful here in the hills... but, a lot of work getting out from under it. I'm still snowshoeing to my vehicle near the main road. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Beni's of living on the coast with the ocean influence...we only received 9" on the first round, 2" on the second and a dusting that's already disappearing yesterday. |
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Location: Vernon CT | I've had maybe 3" total all week in Northern Ct. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Had half an inch in the Albany, NY area. Grass is showing thru, no big deal. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | We've got a little over a foot, having missed out on the big blast last weekend. But, the drifting has made accumulations quite a bit deeper here and there. Still, not complaining--main roads were just passable when I crawled home from work yesterday afternoon (an hour to go about 20 miles, without a plow in sight on the main highway I need to take, though.)
Hope everyone else is doing o.k......
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | After a week of digging, 4 rounds and about 3 ft of snow in the last two days, I am tired. Since last night, the State plows haven't even come through yet.
But... at least we are dug out and melting. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | This just in!....
In a last minute change of heart, the International Olympic Committee has announced this years winter games will be moved to the American Eastern Seaboard due to the abundance of snow.
Planes are in the air moving competitors as an advance team looks for appropriate hills on which to hold events.
The entire country of Canada was heard the heave a sigh of relief as this will mean Celine Dion will not be returning to sing at the opening ceremonies. |
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Location: big island | ...and al gore will be the master of ceremonies! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OH that will be reeaaal speschul. |
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Location: NJ | lanaki
please no politics |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I believe Randy was inferring to Al Gore the 'scientist', not the pol.
Ummm, if AG played an Ovation, would he be known for his 'algorhythm'? |
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Location: Pennsylvania | We received 18 inches of snow in this last blast added to the 9 inches from last weekend.
Living in a mountain town with only about 2% of population having off-street parking, it's posed quite a challenge. Fortunately, I'm among the 2% with a garage in which to park. It will be another day or two before businesses will be fully back up and operational. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Here in Md just northeast of Baltimore City it's bad. Having just had back surgery, I can't shovel all this lovely white stuff and I feel bad for my SO. In the past week we have had almost 50 inches, I'll never see this again in my lifetime. As beautiful as it was/is, it was/is a bit scarey.
Anita |
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Location: Delaware | Answer to the "enough snow" question, YES YES, please make it stop ! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 16 - 18 inches in the first one...8 inches in the second...and 18 - 24 in this last blast...I have pictures of the drifting onto the front of my house...I have a huge drift on my back deck and another similar on my front deck...the folks who have lived here all their lives say they have not seen such snow in 35 yrs at least...and more coming Sat - Wed next week....the hospital where SWMBO works has been trucking the plowed snow to several sites outside the town...it reminds me of the midwest in '78, '79, '80...rumor is the state is running out of treatment for the highways...I plan to leave a day early and get a motel room so I will not have to drive at 5 am in the snow the day of my surgery....it's wild here in the SW VA mountains... |
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Location: Right now? | My front yard at 8 am, sticking one hand out the door:
Backyard:
Yikes! Power and/or cable lines down ... TRAPPED like rats ... broken trees, out of milk ... gonna have to cook the parrot for dinner ...
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Willa |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I Miss Snow!
I remember surviving the "Blizzard of '78"....
Back then our major concern was that we ran outta Beer!
And the radio was announcing Bars that were open when Hospitals were closed!
Boston mentality... I guess you had to be there. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Can't see any fences here... |
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Location: NJ | If I only had a nickle for every time I told a StateTrooper THAT one . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Ahh, yes... Jersey Troopers...
I now live in Virginia.
(...and bound to know THEIR "cousin") |
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Location: SoCal | 12 years on the shaky left-coast...
if we ever move back east, my winter ride will have to be something better than the old volvo station wagon...
I just can't decide if we'll go with a new european basic family model...
or a sporty two-seater :cool:
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Willa, you have a parrot, too?
Sorry, folks. Wish we had some snow. Supposed to be 58 degrees this weekend and my shoulder hurts too much to play golf. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | No, Willa USED to have a parrot. But she got hungry... |
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Location: NJ | I am tired of shoveling. I can't seem to get anything else accomplished I have a gig fri night and a guitar show on sunday and I am not looking forward to either |
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Location: SoCal | Can you even get out of your house? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Finally everyone's SUV's came in handy |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If you need fuel, burn the Taylors first. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Burn some Gibson tone-woods. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Burn some Gibson tone-woods. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Al, I am looking forward to them for ya...I can't get anywhere and I would love to go...so have a blast for me...
BTW: here is the house:
The front porch/deck:
One right out of Dr. Zhivago:
And finally, here is the famous Back Yard:
More on the way by the weekend...
Spring can't come too soon!!! |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Sounds like this is the general concensus...
They're predicting 1-2" for Atlanta tomorrow.
This should be Verrrry Interesting! |
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Location: Orange County, California | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
No, Willa USED to have a parrot. But she got hungry... You got it wrong. If things get that bad, the parrots eat US... |
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Location: Tennessee | I feel for you. Sort of. But the lovely Kimby-D and I had a wonderful dinner sitting outside in a sidewalk cafe this evening, here in the gaslamp area of San Diego. We didn't even need coats. But we did have rain, heavy at times, for a couple of days earlier this week. So all of you back east: Batten down the hatches, there's more on the way! |
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Location: Flahdaw | Here's how much I hate winter now....
my ski stuff
I have no desire to play in the snow anymore. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | One winter, oh maybe 7 or 8 years ago, we had a lot of snow in Connecticut. No, let me rephrase that, we had even MORE snow than usual. I was driving by a house on the way to work when I saw a set of legs with boots on, and just the blade and about a foot of the handle of a snow shovel sticking up out of a snowbank. They used a pair of sweatpants and must've had a bendable wire in with the stuffing because it looked like the "guy" was kicking. Very realistic looking and pretty funny. |
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Location: East Tennessee | This says it all.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Why we ever left the Savannas of Africa I'll never know..... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This is some kind of weird weather for sure. Some reports show Dallas receiving a foot of snow, and we're riding motorcycles in Denver. |
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Location: big island | 49 states have gotten snow so far this winter...i wonder which state is the holdout? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I would almost swear I saw sparrows w/mukluks on...and Ushanka's... |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Frostie killed himself?? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Yeah, he got so sick of hearing that song he finally lost it. |
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| Actually, where I'm at we're below the average amount of snowfall. Not that I'm really complaining though.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Snow No, more on the way tonight thru Wed. :eek: |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | As for the snowman who's been lynched, that's probably the winter equivalent of burning someone in effigy--most likely it's the weatherman... ;) :D
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Everybody back east had enough snow yet?