Arrgh the eastern US weather

[nitpicker]

Blizzard warning

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Blizzard%20Warning

Winter storm warnings

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Winter%20Storm%20Warning

[FalloutShelter]

1. Snowing like crazy right now in

Bucks Cty, PA. Earlier this morning it was sheet rain. Yesterday it was in the 60’s. March comes in like a lion.

Stay safe out there.

[robbob]

2. Yay! Ski season isn't over!

And yes, people around here hate me. 😁

(Although, seriously, looking forward to skiing tomorrow!)

[cilla4progress]

11. We are big skiers

Love skiing, love winter. We live in the inland Pacific NW.

At 66, we still buy seasons passes - even better now we are retired and can go during the week. Husband usually skis 25 times a winter. Plus XC and snowshoeing! He used to be a professional ski patroller.

Well, our season came to a crashing halt (literally) two weeks ago when he hit a tree. 😢 Conditions have been low snow and icy all year. He hit a stump in new powder alongside a double black diamond off piste run and ended up crashing into tree. Broke his sternum and dislocated his neck. But he's alive and not paralyzed. Emergency cervical spine fusion surgery and 3 months in a neck brace.

No moral to the story. Shit happens.

Maybe no more tree skiing for him!

We are hoping for a return to fullish function..we are active outdoor folks.

Sad... take a run for us, would ya?

[robbob]

17. Ouch! Sorry to hear that!

Here in eastern Ontario the hills are so small I deliberately go looking for wooded trails to spice things up. Maybe I should rethink that strategy? Went to Sunpeaks (BC) just before all this Covid thing started to visit cousins. Now THAT’S a mountain!

Wish your husband a speedy recovery!

[cilla4progress]

18. Love BC skiing.

Thanks!

[robbob]

19. What's your favourite local hill?

I see video from Jacksons Hole (?) and hear great things about the US Rockies. Maybe I’ll win the lottery some day…

[cilla4progress]

20. Montana - Big Sky,

Bridger Bowl

Washington - Mission Ridge

😃

[gab13by13]

3. Wife got up complaining,

I told her, we don't have to go anywhere, it's beautiful. I then took my leaf blower and blew the gusting snow off my front porch which will stay clean for 2 minutes.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. My DIL was just caught in a tornado in Ocala Fl

Not hurt, thankfully, but very shook.

[nitpicker]

5. And meanwhile many golf fans may be annoyed

At the potential of the TPC being extended until Tuesday.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. lol

and there is "that"

[SheilaAnn]

12. We had a lot of wind from that in West Palm Beach.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

7. Six inches on the ground...

here in Eastern TN.

[DFW]

8. Reminds me of exactly 40 years ago.

My brother and I were getting married in a double wedding in northern Virginia. We figured it was acompromise location, since our wives were from Germany and Japan.

My father in law had not been on an airplane since being evacuated from a field hospital in the Ukraine after losing a leg at Stalingrad. My mother in law had never been on an airplane in her life, and was terrified. Our first stop was Boston, where my work was located (we moved to Dallas at the end of that year). They asked what the weather was like. I said in April, it would be very spring-like compared to the cold and sleet of northern Germany, where they were from. My wife-to-be and I went up there to make the trip with them. Bremen to London, and then London to Boston. My mom-in-law gripped her seat, white with fear, at take-off. Then we leveled out, smooth flight, and would you like something to drink ma'am? She asked, and that's it? That's it, we confirmed. She said, wow, I was terrified for all these years for nothing!

So, we got to Boston. A little cooler and windier that usual, but nothing out of the ordinary. Dinner, and to bed. The next morning, we woke up to a huge blizzard. About ten inches of snow on the ground.

"You were saying about that mild spring weather?" they reminded me.

But five days later, in Washington, it WAS mild spring weather. The only thing that is for sure about spring east coast weather is that nothing is for sure.

[Hortensis]

9. :) Great story, including that you all got the spring weather for your weddings. nt

[Hortensis]

10. Supposed to be 38 high in Atlanta today. I'm sad for all the spring

gardens with plants coaxed up by warmer weather around the nation. Here in central Florida we woke up warm, but with heavy wind-driven rain, and temps will drop through the day and over the weekend to eventually below freezing, hopefully not so long it takes out our spring bloom -- a second time in 2022. Nice for snuggling inside, no snow angels.

[Demsrule86]

15. When I lived in Georgia, we didn't have but two snow storms in 12 years but we occasionally got

really cold weather...and our pipes in the upper regions of the garage (why put them there?) froze. We moved them to the basement eventually. We lived in Wyngate in Town Lake... a lovely subdivision. But the point is, sometimes it was after a what I call false spring...and I worried that we would lose the flowers and plants but somehow they made it usually. As Malcolm said in the first Jurassic Park,'Life finds a way'.

[Hortensis]

16. :) I bet you remember ice storms from your time in GA.

Life finds a way, but gardens get devastated. We're about to go tie coverings around our neighbor's young fruit trees. She did it before leaving yesterday but high winds tore them off last night. I'll try to do something for our Meyer lemon, newly covered with flower buds for its second try at procreating this spring.

[Demsrule86]

21. I don't remember many ice storms...I do remember a spell of tornados for a couple of year...scary.

My middle daughter started screaming if she saw rain.

[Hortensis]

22. Oh, poor little thing. Friends of ours

in CA had to invent “the earthquake game” with their preschooler after she was traumatized by one.

Our friend had put a large tarp over several young trees, and it was trying to take off like a parasail when we went over. Turned out to be quite a job. No to giant tarps for that. Also turned out we had a tornado here, but safely out of our neighborhood and no one killed. The emergency warning system was down for repairs, so it hit others the old-fashioned way. Surprise!

The master gardeners gardening festival is still on today though, so off we go.

Happy Sunday.

[Demsrule86]

24. That sounds lovely. I am up this early with a sick dog...hopefully I can get into the vet

today. Hubs goes back for his two-week checkup after surgery...Yeah the tornadoes were scary, I was so thankful we bought a house with a basement...we spent much time down there with our neighbors who did not have a basement...basements were not easy to come by then.

[Hortensis]

25. Hope you can all's better today. :) Including hubs.

[Demsrule86]

26. Thanks...enjoy your garden show.

[Deminpenn]

13. Got an inch or so of snow

in northern Beaver Cnty, PA. Storm all over before 8AM. Sun's out, the roads are completely clear and snow on driveways and walkways is melting, then pavement drying out.

It's supposed to be 70 by Friday.

[Demsrule86]

14. We had snow last night...four inches in Bedford Ohio. More snow predicted on Sunday.

[mnhtnbb]

23. Most of my beautiful blooming tulips are bent over this morning.

after high winds all day yesterday and an overnight temp of 21 degrees.



I'm going to go out in a little bit--after it's warmed up to see if the blooms will straighten up in the warmth--and decide whether to cut some and bring them in.