Blizzard people. Check in.

[Skidmore]

Are you ready? The snow came all day and now we're waiting for the winds and frigid temperatures behind it followed by more snow here in SE Iowa. We shovelled while it was warmer to clear as much as we could. I'm sure we'll need to work on drifts tomorrow.

Get ready to hunker down. Stay warm, friends.

[williesgirl]

1. Stay safe and warm. Not too much heavy shoveling at once.

[rurallib]

2. Over by Iowa City

just got the walks cleared. It was warm and fairly calm yet. 'Sposed to get bad soon.
Had some trouble with my corn stove, but I got it up and running. So with the wood burner and the corn stove, we should be very snuggly tonight.

[Skidmore]

3. Howdy, neighbor.

Were about 20 mi. west of you. My husband may be driving into work late tomorrow, if at all. Depending on how bad the blowing snow is. SOme of the rural roads can drift shut very quickly.

[Skittles]

4. ah, Iowa

I still remember walking home at midnight in January and my shoelace broke - my foot was frozen solid when I got home :o

[Skidmore]

5. LOL! Only your foot?!

Yep, nothing like January in Iowa. Is there?

[Skittles]

6. I was cold all over but my foot was numb

between that and using an outhouse in Minnesota right across the border in the middle of the night in January - well, I know cold, believe me :o

[Sal Minella]

7. 6:12 p. Wind is howling down the street, carrying lots of snow. We had a foot or so of fluffy

stuff on the ground and it will be all rearranged and packed into tight
drifts by morning, I'm sure. (I'm in northwest Iowa, near the lakes.)

I would guess visibility out on the highways to be zilch. It's four degrees (above zero) and I don't even want to know what the wind chill is. Will have to find an excuse tomorrow to run the oven again.

[4 t 4]

8. Yea you guys stay warm and stay in

if you can. More snow and extreme cold coming. Wish I had a fireplace I'd get in it if I could.

[Skidmore]

10. Temperature is dropping here but the wids havent started yet.

Stay warm. A good book or movie and a couple of afghans sound good to me.

[rzemanfl]

16. Bake cookies and listen to the Moody Blues or something. eom

[Sal Minella]

31. Funny you should mention. I've been really into the Moody Blues lately, and the 'sixties albums

still have that pelvic-rumblinq quality that turned the marrow of my bones to butter back in the day. Just love that sound. Interspersed with a little Dylan and a little Joe Cocker here and there, whenever listening to the news on NPR or reading DU has sent me plummeting into a deep black mope.

Moody Blues is highly recommended as weltschmerz antidote. Or "antimope," I guess.

[madrchsod]

25. anywhere near storm lake?

all my mom`s kin lived and some still lives out there within a 40 mile radius of storm lake.

[Sal Minella]

29. North of Storm Lake, almost in Minn. This is the "red" end of the state but I have managed to

find some compatible souls locally. The county Democrats have their meetings on this one guy's front porch when the weather allows.

Although the caucus when we came up with Obama as our candidate --- that was a much, much, much larger Dem crowd than usual. That was a glorious Dem crowd. Two of my Republican neighbors changed their party registration so they could be in that crowd, and they were there to caucus for Obama.

[madrchsod]

33. i`ve been up there when i was a kid...

ya it`s really conservative out there in northwestern iowa....:hi:

[Tashca]

9. I'm in CR

The wind isn't blowing here yet and did get the walk scooped. I am guessing we have about 9 inches of fluff on the ground. I can't even imagine what it is going to look like in the morning.
I am thinking of staying home.....now if I can talk my wife into it....

[Skidmore]

11. Until this blizzard warning, I had been thinking how lucky we have

been to have had so much fluffy snow this year. Shovelling has sure been easier. Now I'm thinking a layer of the denser stuff on top right now would have been good. I have a drift in my front yard already that is unbelievable. A couple of feet more and my lilac bush will be buried.

[Tashca]

12. Yes

If we could have had a small melt in between these last two snows....it would have been much better.
I just hope no one gets trapped in it. I would imagine in the first two hours or so of this high wind you would hardly be able to see more then a few feet....

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

13. Our forecast Thur is 3 below for the high, 21 below for low.

That is with out wind chill. Near 100 inches of snow so far. We are ready.

[Skidmore]

14. Where are you?

My daughter is north of Chicago and they have been getting hammered for weeks.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

19. North Michigan. The UP.

[madmom]

15. NW Ohioan here, we have blizzard warnings out, I guess we're supposed to get

hammered tonight through Wednesday.Good luck everybody, stay warm!

[CatholicEdHead]

17. Windy with 4 fresh inches of snow but not a blizzard here

Next round comes in tomorrow night with even more refreshing Canadian air.

[Sal Minella]

27. "Refreshing Canadian air" indeed. Sixty mph straight from the tundra -- blows them cobwebs right

out of the barn, it does.....

[myrna minx]

32. Ah yes, that refreshingly delightful Canadian air.

:D At least our snow was the fluffy, easy to shovel stuff. I'll take that any day over the buckets of shush that'll break you back. Stay warm.

[Mind_your_head]

18. Shoveling heavy/wet snow is/was known as the "widow maker" n/t

[MineralMan]

23. Fortunately, the snow that fell in this storm

is pretty dry and light.

[MineralMan]

20. In Saint Paul, we got between 3-4" of fluffy dry snow.

Now the wind is coming up, which is going to make drifting snow a problem. The snow ended about 4 PM, so the evening commute was a disaster. Gridlock everywhere.

I went out and shoveled the house walks, but it was dark before the snow stopped, so I didn't run the snowblower on the driveway and city sidewalks. Tomorrow, after 9 A.M., when the wind is supposed to die down, I'll do that. It'll still be around 5 or 6 degrees below zero, but without wind it's not so bad if you're dressed properly.

I'm worried about the folks south of us, in Iowa and South Dakota, though. They got more snow, and the winds are forecast to be worse. For us, it's just a nuisance.

[Mari333]

21. Its about to hit Michigan

Im all ready.

its a big mofo. hunkering down here with the cats and dog and parrot. we no drive anywhere. we stay home. we haz macaroni.

[MineralMan]

22. That'll do it, but where are the li'l smokies?

Our snow has passed on its way toward you. Tomorrow is clean-up day in the Twin Cities.

[madrchsod]

24. nothing yet in the middle of northern illinois

my wife schedules second and third shift and people started calling off at noon...
i`m figuring about 2-3 tomorrow morning it will start rattling my windows. i live on the edge of town and my street is facing an open field to the west...if the wind blows i feel it.

[Sal Minella]

26. If it's the wind that just got finished here, you may find yourself somewhat further south-southeast

when it's over.

Edit: 9:15 p.m., the wind has gone quiet and this HUGE moon has risen above my neighbor's roof, with a bright halo around it, and it seems to have gotten stuck in the bony branches of the big oak tree in their front yard.

Very Caspar David Friedrich.

[marmar]

28. ENOUGH.....Winter's not even a month old and I'm sick of it.

:hurts:

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. It's been snowing more or less non-stop since Friday

What the motherfuck?

[Number23]

34. It was 41 degrees celsius in my little city today

(That's 106 degrees Farenheit.)

You mention snow and I think that sounds lovely right about now...