Are you ready for the storm?

[CTyankee]

We are. We garaged the car, put the snow shovels in place, and stocked up on groceries.

How are you doing?

[TEB]

1. Ice here

Outside of mon alto pa in mountains Gettysburg area. Supposed be steady until Monday morning. How much will you all be getting stay warm and safe.

[CTyankee]

3. We haven't heard that dreaded word here. Being on the LI sound, I am fearful...

[AJT]

28. Stay safe my friend. I'm sure the golden and the Boog will help the best they can.

[TEB]

35. The furry boys cuddle

[femmocrat]

2. You sound well-prepared.

Fortunately it is supposed to miss us except for freezing rain (ugh).
Stay safe!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. NJ checking in.

Working til 9:30 tonight.

Plan A: I safely drive home (35 mins., 2 counties), or

Plan B: I drive 3 miles on the highway and rent a motel room.

Gas tank full. Added motor oil to engine.

Long underwear. Second set of dry clothes. Snow shovel in back seat.

If I make it home, plenty of turkey. I even cleaned the oven last night.

[CTyankee]

6. Oy. Keep safe.

[gab13by13]

5. Ice here,

Heard a crack and saw a big pine limb fall on the street. I had to go out and drag it.

[Croney]

7. Boston area here. Didn't see much panic when I went out to buy milk.

The biggest excitement is that the grandkids assume there will be no school tomorrow.

[csziggy]

8. North Florida - it's 75 and raining

Predicted precipitation will be about a tenth of an inch. Temps will drop down to 43 tonight. It is horrible.

[NightWatcher]

19. But that breeze though, right. Blowing pine straw all over the place

Hope to survive.

[csziggy]

22. All the rain has moved off

We did not get much breeze with this front, but it sure is dropping the temperature fast.

I couldn't live up north where there are real winters. After meeting in Hawaii at the end of WWII, my parents went to Hancock, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula so Dad could finish engineering school. I've got pictures of their rooming house:





Mom never went anywhere there was going to be significant snow again. She'd grown up in Alabama, served as a Navy Nurse at Camp Pendleton and in Hawaii. Going to UP MI was a shock!

[LeftInTX]

29. It was 66 around 5 pm in San Antonio

I went to an outdoor party and the temps dropped into the high 50s. I was cold.

But I'm going to Colorado over Christmas. I'm extremely anxious. I don't have winter gear and I've been shopping. I've got bad feed and boots are so foreign to me...grrh...

[csziggy]

30. I hope you will be OK in Colorado!

A tip - plan on layers. Just about everywhere I've been that it gets cold, there can be days that will be warmer even if the nights are very cold.

This time of year here, if I have to go out early, I wear layers. Tomorrow it will be really chilly, but will warm up during the day, then chill off in the late afternoon. If I were still working on the farm, I'd peal off a layer or two, leave the outer layers at the barn when I come back to the house for lunch, then put them back on for evening feeding.

As for boots, I've never really needed winter boots - just muck out boots. While we were in the UK this fall, I really needed some wellies, but we were never where we could shop for any while the weather was wet.

[LeftInTX]

31. I'm originally from Wisconsin

But I haven't been in their winter for 40 years.

Yes, layers.

We plan to stay inside most of the time. We're going with our kids and our grandchild. (He's 1 year old) Our kids plan to ski. We will babysit our grandson while they "do their thing". I think they invited us for the ride, babysitting and to help with the AirBnB rent.
We're driving up in hubby's truck.

[csziggy]

32. OK, so you know a LOT more about winter dressing than I do!

I've lived in Florida all my life, and have lived in North Florida since 1972. We actually have a bit of winter most years, with snow or sleet once or twice a decade.

Have fun with the grandkid and get some time to yourselves on the trip. It sounds like fun, other than Colorado winter!

[lastlib]

9. Kansas City, MO area--just sittin' here watchin' the wind blow......

Can't really do much else with a broken leg.........

[CTyankee]

10. Owie...sounds bad!

How did you do that?

[lastlib]

15. Fell off the back of a truck--(first of July).....

Almost a Joe Theisman-type injury, except it wasn't compound. Got a titanium rod in each bone of the lower leg. Healing, but slowly; still wearing a storm-trooper boot and using crutches.

Hope your life's going better!

[CTyankee]

16. OMG, take care of yourself!

[DFW]

11. Supposed to hover between 2 and 10 here all week

Same for most places I will have to be going (France, Belgium, Holland, Germany). That's about 36°-50° Fahrenheit.
Gray, windy, some rain. Typical north-central Europe. Yecch! At least I have to run down to Spain next week for a welcome break.

[CTyankee]

12. Not bad. At least you'll have Spain.

I gotta tell you I had a mystical experience going through the Pyrenees several years ago. I was imagining the Jews expelled from Spain traveling them to get to France and their descendants
crossing them again in the late 30s or early 40s last century to escape Hitler.

[DFW]

21. Not that Franco was overly accommodating

Although he didn't organize wholesale round-ups and transports to Auschwitz. Always looking over his shoulder, he saw quickly which way the wind was blowing, and soon after the disastrous "Blue Division" adventure, declares Spain "neutral," which would have earned him some serious penance if Hitler and Mussolini had won. He correctly calculated they wouldn't, and thus escaped with his regime intact.

This not being March, I usually just run down to Spain in the morning and back in the evening. It won't be an overnight stay.

[CTyankee]

23. IIRC, he pretty much had to let those Jews return since they were descendents of Spanish people.

It was some kind of bond that could reach across the centuries. And Franco had to honor it. He saved a lot of people (altho I know he doesn't get a medal for doing it).

At any rate, my memory of the Pyrenees is strong.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Just on the edge here in N-central KY. High wind and cold, though.

Rough days ahead for the school kids and commuters across a huge area of the East.

From a spot check of forecasts across the East, looks like central and upstate NY and parts of Mass. are getting the worst, with up to a foot of snow. In areas south of there like Scranton, PA, there's lots of forecasts for heavy ice which will bring widespread power outages. Large areas will be transitioning from rain to freezing rain and sleet, then snow.

Stay safe and have a backup plan, DUers!.........

[Raven]

14. Southwest NH here and we are due for 12-16". I can

see the first snow cloud crawling right over Mount Monadnock.

[sprinkleeninow]

33. Monadnock. Husband had summer fun at Camp Squanto.

I'm CT born and raised, yet while I have many fond memories of all of New England, do not miss the winter weather up there.

[LNM]

17. St. Paul here

The snowing should be finished soon but it looks kind of windy. We're going to bundle up and walk to our neighborhood Mexican restaurant tonight. A family tradition in blizzards.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. And now it's really slippery.

[Raftergirl]

18. Cap District of NYS

We’re going to get between 12”-18 inches. Started snowing about 3 hours ago and supposed to snow until Tuesday morning. H got gas yesterday for snow blower, and today covered up the outdoor faucets, brought in last hose and the tiki-torches.

I went yesterday to get more veggies to make Turkey soup tomorrow. My tennis game will definitely be cancelled because no one will want to drive in the snow. I might make choccie chip cookies, too.

[jpak]

20. I got my snowblower going - finally

Had a back-up propane heater installed Friday. Works when the power goes out and heats the whole house.

All solar lanterns, flashlights, radios, phone chargers charged.

Got 2 weeks worth of nonperishable food squirreled away.

Will fill the car tomorrow before it hits my part of Maine.

Winter is here!

[orleans]

24. what storm

in a chgo burb here and didn't watch the news/weather

we might get a dusting of snow. that's all i know.

if you have a storm coming i'm glad you're ready for it

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. I'm in Santa Fe, and so not getting the storm you're talking about.

But I must say, that earlier today when I was out and about, the temperature was in the low 40s and I swear it felt like the mid teens. Can't quite figure out why. It's not as though it was 75 degrees a couple of days ago. Our temps have been steadily, and appropriately declining, but gosh, did it feel cold today.

[AJT]

27. No storm here in Madison.

It looks like the rest of the week is going to be dry.
Take care you all that have storm worries.

[sprinkleeninow]

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