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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | To our friends out east, here's wishing you a safe and warm weekend in light of the predicted snow storm coming your way. Looks like your Christmas will be a white one this year. In whacky Colorado, the snow is gone and the motorcycles are back on the road this week, including mine today. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | They're talking 10 - 20" so far... they're ALWAYS wrong, so we'll have to see which side they err on.
Just got my Tak CD in the mail, so I'll have something new to listen to if I'm stranded. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Professor ... I'd move back to Colorado in a heartbeat, if I wasn't here looking after an aging parent. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Started snowing just after noon...4 inches so far and the heavy stuff is supposed to begin later tonight...I plan to drive the wife to work since I have 4 wheel drive...the mountain is already treacherous..calling for 18 to 24 inches... |
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Location: Vernon CT | As of mid afternoon I am hearing the storm may go south of us and we might get an inch or 2.
OR, if it come a bit further north we could get 12" plus!!! Will know better soon!! |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | They are calling for a foot, here; it's supposed to start in the early morning hours, and I have to work tomorrow morning (banks only close if a state of emergency has been declared--the state's definition and mine definitely do not agree!)
We shall see what the Subie and her studded snowtires are capable of; I've had to go to work in worse, but I lived much closer then.
"Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
other drivers aren't delightful;
they slither about, oh no,
in the snow, in the snow, in the snow.
But, my Subie is tried and steady,
studded tires at the ready,
and as long as I take it slow,
let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." ;)
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Location: Boise, Idaho | 44 and sunny here, with a couple of feet of snow 15 miles away on the mountain. I've got lift passes for 4 and daughters are coming home this weekend. I like it here. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Update: 12-18" in Southern Ct. 6-12" in Northern Ct where I live! Oh Joy!! Then I hear that Ct rates 50 out of 51 (inclds DC) on the happiest state list. Only N.Y is less happy!!
What agreat weekend allready! :eek: :mad: :p |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Karen, I love the lyrics...thanks for the smiles! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Karen, I love the lyrics...thanks for the smiles! I like the lyrics also. Mike I see you guys are getting hammered. Be safe on the roads. Dollywood closed early tonight. Not sure if it will open tomorrow. We have light accumulations right now. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | We just made TN tonight, and am looking forward to seeing Capo tomorrow and maybe some snow. Hopefully Music will be able to make it on Monday for a mini jam. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Jim,
We have light snow here right now. I know in the Smokey's there is a lot more. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 14 inches of heavy wet snow so far and calling for 6 more; roads are horrible, and everything is canceled including all the church services tomorrow...power so far is still on but w/temps near 20 tonight everything is possible...I bought a generator day before yesterday...I have a feeling I may need it before this winter is over...
If the roads are better by Monday we will rendezvous for a mini jam w/ TJ and Capo Guy Monday night. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | The story so far...
And it's still coming down at a good clip. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Welcome to MY world. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | 12:56, EST; the first flakes have just starting falling--they are spaced several feet apart, and coming down at a very leisurely pace. I suspect these are the fifth column, softening us up for the onslaught to follow. We shall see.....
--Karen |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Update @ 3:30 PM:
It's still going strong! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I just checked the weather report. It looks like Music Mike is in the worst part of the storm right now. Lots of power outages there too, so if we don't hear from him again today that's probably why. Here's hoping all of you stay safe and warm. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub |  |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Ok... enough snow! Here's something cheerier:
The lights and garland are up, but no decorations yet. Merry Christmas!
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Can you get any closer Jeff?? I can't quite make out the individual water molecules ;) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Sorry, had the camera set to "Electron Microscope"
(and it ain't over yet... woo hoo!) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | OK Jeff, you win! I think this pic sets an OFC record... No, not for snowfall... 
< C'on page 2!> |
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Location: Canada | cute, you guys measure snow in inches
talk to me when your passed 10'
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Location: Vernon CT | Ok Newf,
You win! :eek: :) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Tell Newf what he's won, Bob...
A new Toro Power Shovel Electric (12") 7.5-Amp Snow Blower !!! (Extension cords NOT included)
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Location: Canada | lol, that thing would be beyond useless out here. Most out this way are using either big honda's or at the very least a 10-11 hp blower. Anything less, forget it. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Newf:
lol, that thing would be beyond useless out here. NOOOoooooooo...!!! 
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Reminds me of my first winter in North Dakota. It's easy to get lost when the snow covers up the street signs and you can't see the houses from inside the car. At least someone plowed the roads, Newf. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I lived in the Colorado mountains for 10 years. After a really good snow, the plows would do a nice job on the road, but then I'd end up with a six foot high by five foot thick wall of compressed snow, ice blocks really, across the end of the driveway. Even an 11 horsepower Toro blower won't go through a wall of ice. Neither will a snow shovel. It takes a pick and shovel, or a neighbor with a big front-end plow. That's a lot of snow, Newf. I never saw it like that in Colorado except at the top of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park in May on opening day. |
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Location: Canada | right now we barely have any. This time next month....we will be covered. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | that looks really cold............... |
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Location: big island | i saw 13' of snow in breckenridge, colorado the winter of 1996. newf's first pic reminded me of the scenery there. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 1978 - Dubuque Iowa - 44" in two days...woke up to a wall of snow covering the apartment windows and most of the front door....drifts over my head...made for fun walking...but, got signed by ACA that night at the club so it wasn't a total loss... |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by BT717:
Ok Newf,
You win! :eek: :) Nuh-uh. Go back to page 1. It's clear that JeffW had nearly 19 feet of snow. You just gotta be patient and move the scroll bar around to see it. ;) |
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Christmas weather on its way back east