Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic Snow Storm in the Midwest

Well, I finally made it home, with an assist from Elisabeth.

Normally, it takes me just under 35 minutes to get home. I left at 4:40 and got home at 7:40!

Though to be honest, part of that was waiting for Elisabeth to come pick me up. My car was running rough and so we decided to drop it off at the dealership, in the middle of this ice storm we are in.

It was shuddering when it was idle, unless you shifted into neutral.

The weirdest part of the storm? The fact that the commute was bad because there was such a small amount of snow. The Department of Transportation felt there was too little to plow without removing the salt and dulling the plow blades.

Wow, that sucks. Glad I live on campus and don't have to go anywhere

I'm in Chicago, and the weather has been terrible here all afternoon and night. I went out once and my car slid all over the place (and I have an SUV).

Snow day tomorrow? *crosses fingers*

Wow! We had all ice here in SW MO. Well, mostly. I heard that one area not too far from here had thunder snow for a while this morning. DD6's school was canceled today and tomorrow. The college DH and I both teach at was canceled all day today and tomorrow too. He did go to work for a while today but it wasn't too bad. He waited until the roads were warmed up a bit and were scraped and came home before it all refroze. He was only gone from 1030-3 or so. He will not have to go to his 7am class tomorrow morning or his 530-815 class tomorrow night.

We're supposed to get hit again Th. night and Fri. We're supposed to go to Tulsa and back on Fri, but that's not going to happen I don't think. Fortunately, Dad [who's getting married] has already called to say he's okay if we don't come [which is good because we wouldn't have if the roads are nasty]. I'm kind of glad b/c I really don't want to go... Not that I don't want to be at his wedding [very small - we're half the guest list], but I don't relish over 6 hours in the car with 4 kids including DS who eats every hour or so during the day...

Hope tomorrow's better, James and Elisabeth!

Carol [whose internet is down at 930 CT... will see how long it will take to actually post this... posted: 416am]

I just want to rebuild our fort.


Some mean kids in our apartment building knocked it down. We've been getting snow, but the wind keeps blowing it away....

TEEEEJ

I've been working in West Sussex for the past week - that's SE England - and we're having the most gorgeous weather here. Sunshine, no clouds, no wind, really mild. It's beautiful!

Maybe someone's trying to make up for the washout that was supposed to be last summer!

I live in Houston, TX so all this snow and ice sounds so foreign to me. It was in the high 60's yesterday and I was wearing flip flops. It kinda sucks not having an actual winter. We have 'cold fronts', not winter. So it warms up after the cold front, you get used to the nice weather and then it's rainy again and about 40 degrees for 2 days, then you're back in the 70s. It really does a number on your sinuses... We're supposed to have a nice big storm today with possible hail and then it will be cold later today. That's just super cause I didn't know and came to work in short sleeves and flip flops.

BTW Teej, your fort looks awesome!!

Fantastic fort, TEEEJ!!!

And I hope all winter storms in parts of the U.S.A. are going to let up soon. Here in southern Sweden, we haven't had any winter or snow at all this winter season. That is unusual but not remarkable, but it is very unusual that there's hardly any ice in the narrow northern part of the Baltic Sea, separating northern Sweden and Finland. I'm not sure it has happened at all during the last one hundred years.

Ann

Loved the fort.

It's snowing here....

I think we've set a record for snow here this winter - yet more last night - it's been a colder winter , too. Can't see past the snow banks at the end of the driveway when I drive my car out. The whole town look like a snow fort.

And then I remember the extremely hard winter they're having in Afghanistan this year, and I feel extremely lucky. I have modern heating and electricity and water. Plus I don't have to worry about being dug out.

Plus no tornados.

c.