Blizzard 05 - whiteout

Terri Ficenec · 01-23-2005, 10:42 AM

Views out my window this morning a lot of wierd, wild drifting and still coming down strong. . . . Gotta love New England weather...
but what do we do when the dog's gotta go out?

Michele Rushworth · 01-23-2005, 12:48 PM

A winter wonderland! Send some snow out our way. The Northwest ski resorts have all closed down. It's been so warm here that whatever snow they had all melted. Nice for us in town (it feels like spring) but the skiers are all heading out your way!

Garth Herrick · 01-23-2005, 02:07 PM

The view down my urban driveway towards the street at 2:12 p.m. yesterday (otherwise normally not a picturesque view).

Only about a foot of snow here in Philly with no place to park a car or pile snow. How are things for you, Terri?

Garth

October Reader · 01-23-2005, 02:51 PM

Terri and Garth, not to rub it in, but it is 70F and radiant sunshine at 10:45am in San Diego.... urrr, glad I am not where you are

Garth Herrick · 01-23-2005, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by October Reader

Terri and Garth, not to rub it in, but it is 70F and radiant sunshine at 10:45am in San Diego.... urrr, glad I am not where you are

Radiant sunshine (brightness enhanced by the snow) here as well at 1:45 pm in Philadelphia, on this frigid January day, October!

(great name you have)

Garth

October Reader · 01-23-2005, 03:40 PM

Thanks Garth

Frigid weather no more! Unless we go up the mountains though by choice. New England with all its beauty and history was not enough for us to tolerate the shivers in the winter. Strangely, I also lived in deep snow banks up in Alaska, but somehow it was exhilarating and wonderful.

Hum, I hope I am not offending any die-hard New Englanders here on the forum

Sharon Knettell · 01-23-2005, 05:14 PM

Hi all!

My husband and I have just spent the last two hours shoveling. I have five cats so I had to make a path for them too!

Now for some hot chai!

Terri Ficenec · 01-23-2005, 05:53 PM

Hi Michele-- You're welcome to some snow, if you can figure a way to get it there... we've got umm more than enough! I couldn't tell from your post if you're missing the snow... or preferring the warmth, or maybe a little of both?? For me, only like the Spring once there's been enough snow to really feel like it's been winter. Not going to be a problem this year!

Garth, great picture! Snow looks like it's finally stopped here... but we did have a few spells where it looked impenetrable, like that. Wow. We're in the suburbs so there's plenty of places to put the stuff if the plows can just get around to clearing all the streets. The complications of a big storm like this are really magnified being in the city, huh? They were saying on the 11:00 news last night that Boston already had 4' drifts and that was BEFORE the real blizzard part of the storm hit.

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Originally Posted by October Reader

Terri and Garth, not to rub it in, but it is 70F and radiant sunshine at 10:45am in San Diego.... urrr, glad I am not where you are

Hi October!... Y'know I wouldn't trade places with you. I'm one of those crazy people who love wild weather like this... (though it does help to have the driveway plowed!! --we pay for every 3 inches of snow so don't even want to think what this storm is going to cost!) The past 24 hours has been a blast... and the kids'll remember it the rest of their lives.

Hi Sharon, you must be socked in down there in RI! Surprised your cats even want to go out in this... mine are content to watch it from the window and purr! We just got back in from a couple of hours of shoveling too... the plow does the main driveway, but we've still got to dig out the garage doors, front walk and mailbox (ugh!) ourselves. I'd guess we had about 2 feet --but the wind and drifts make it pretty impossible to tell for sure. Lucky for our dog, the wind hollowed at a little area 15'x3' behind the garage where there's actual grass poking through, everywhere else she's swimming in the snow and does NOT like it! Is it still snowing by you?

Sharon Knettell · 01-23-2005, 06:01 PM

Terry,

Actually we saw the sun at about 2:00 PM, and except for a brief flurry it stopped. The sun is still out though it is setting.

My cats do not show any desire to go out, but they all hate each other and get cranky if forced to remain together too long. I may fling one or two of them out if they start fighting!

Garth Herrick · 01-23-2005, 06:16 PM

So that October can become better aquainted with January

, I've added a few pics to show that it's radiant and sunny here too!

Here's the view down to my corner of the alley. The mountainous lump in the center is my old Peugeot, after the drifts and neighborhood kids had their fun with it.

Currently at 5:00 pm it's a toasty 16 degrees F afternoon high, fast dropping to 5 (and 59 inside). I'm sure things are more severe for Terri and Sharon.

Keep warm,

Garth