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Snowmageddon!!!!
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We've had an unusually mild winter here in the great NW.
Spokane has only had snowfall 3 times so far and they ranged 1-3 inches.
In a normal year we'd have had at least double, if not triple that amount, and it would have stayed cold enough for us to have pretty much all of it still on the ground.
This year not only has the snowfall been light, the temps have been so consistently in the upper 30's-mid-40's that we have none on the ground - even though the last 1" fell in the middle of this last week.
It almost broke 40 again today.
Spokane has only had snowfall 3 times so far and they ranged 1-3 inches.
In a normal year we'd have had at least double, if not triple that amount, and it would have stayed cold enough for us to have pretty much all of it still on the ground.
This year not only has the snowfall been light, the temps have been so consistently in the upper 30's-mid-40's that we have none on the ground - even though the last 1" fell in the middle of this last week.
It almost broke 40 again today.
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Forecasts in Ohio are soooo accurate, I remember last winter saying when I made it to work, "Yep, we got all 7" of the 1-3" they predicted!".
Down in Birmingham years ago, one of the forecasters received a phone call and the gentleman went on to tell him,"I thought you might want to know that I have just finished shoveling 6" of 'party cloudy' off of my sidewalk."
This guy must have been a Seattlite...
BigBill
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The old timers remember when we got really deep snow it was stockup on grocery needs. You may laugh but my mom always said get bread and milk we were brought up this way. The blizzard of '78 we stocked up on everything even frozen stuff we could store in a cooler outside. The weatherman said, a dusting, then 1-2", 3-4", 6-8" ect. The weatherman said the storm has stalled and it was measured in many feet not inches. The snow drifts were over the peak of my ranch house. The state was shut down for three days.
In '79 I installed a woodstove. If we were caught with no power in 78. With small kids. I can make a full italian dinner on a woodstove.
bigwheelzip
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Hopefully you don't need to shovel snow indoors, the way these folks did yesterday.
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Took my wife a moment to get why I laughed when she said her
friend near Chicago was expecting 7 inches on the rear deck.
friend near Chicago was expecting 7 inches on the rear deck.
We do that all the time. [emoji46]Down in Birmingham years ago, one of the forecasters received a phone call and the gentleman went on to tell him,"I thought you might want to know that I have just finished shoveling 6" of 'party cloudy' off of my sidewalk."
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We got missed by this round. Caught a little sleet, but the rest of it went north. Today is setting up for cold rain, great day to stay in and watch Premiere League and NFL football, along with NCAA basketball . . .
Ole Joe Clark
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Down in Birmingham years ago, one of the forecasters received a phone call and the gentleman went on to tell him,"I thought you might want to know that I have just finished shoveling 6" of 'party cloudy' off of my sidewalk."
Do you remember James Spann? He is still the go to weather person in this area.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
My daughter is a cashier at Walmart. She typically handles 150 customers per shift. Yesterday she saw 350. Said it was the craziest day she had ever seen. It was a perfect storm of Friday, the students returning and dire weather warnings.
doublesharp
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Winters of 77 and 78 were proof positive that the ice age was back. Ohio River froze over enough to walk across in 77 and 78 the snow wouldn't quit.
I'd just bought a rural house and moved in in Oct so 78 was my first winter there. Long downhill driveway, probably 100 yds and I had no equipment to move snow. My neighbors helped and I had a Kubota by the next year.
Started snowing on Sunday morning early January and had about 20" by Monday morning. Temp stayed near zero for days and snow continued to fall. I had a 1969 Ford F600 w/14' box produce truck and I got around by being careful and cautious.
Louisville has had some bad winters but those 2 were extreme. Often it barely gets cold enough to kill the bugs but sometimes we get hammered. Last night we got about 3" and it's going up to 37 today w rain so it will be soon gone.
Be careful what you ask for. We still have another 8-10 hours worth forecast for us here in sw Iowa. Looks like we have 7-9" already.....and its headed your wayAll I can say is BRING IT!
500SNW
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Here in Cincinnati the weather folk were predicting 3"-5"...then it changed to 4" - 6"...then they presented a couple of "models"...one of which said we might not get anything at all...while the other model said we could get over 6." I decided at that point to adopt a "wait-and-see" model
I was right, there were no parking spots left at the grocery store, had to pick up a prescription, and thought I would get milk while I was there, about 2:30pm. drugs weren't ready told to wait 10 minutes, (25 min later got the drugs). Went to the milk shelf and there was only 3 gal jugs of white milk on the shelves. Never saw them so bare. Check out lines were 5-6 deep. Next time I'll just skip the drugs and stay home.
I went out this morning and hit the Food Lion store. Almost no one there. I got the obligatory bread, milk, and TP, but we really did NEED all three.
First time I've been in a grocery store in at least a year. I normally order mine online, stop by the Wal-Mart the next day and they load them in my car for me, but when there's a storm coming or a big holiday they use all their employees to stock the shelves in the brick/mortar store.
Really inconvenient for me.
First time I've been in a grocery store in at least a year. I normally order mine online, stop by the Wal-Mart the next day and they load them in my car for me, but when there's a storm coming or a big holiday they use all their employees to stock the shelves in the brick/mortar store.
Really inconvenient for me.
IIRC, it was Mike Royer who made the "partly cloudy" prediction.
At home in NW Iowa, no snow.
Where I am, Nashville, no snow.
Everywhere in between, snow.
Should be under control by the time I head home on Monday
Where I am, Nashville, no snow.
Everywhere in between, snow.
Should be under control by the time I head home on Monday
I honestly just got finished mowing my lawn.
70 and sunny today.
70 and sunny today.
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