They are forecasting another arctic blast by the weekend. Do you think it will be drivable from east coast to west next week?
These two are not starving. They are the biggest, fattest labs you’ve ever seen. I could get food for them by walking across the street but it was cold. My brother came home at about 11 pm so they were fed. I actually offered some soup from a can I made for myself but they were uninterested.
I do not want an ice storm tomorrow. Even if it should all start melting on Wednesday. So many without power already here. Ugh.
A dorm on my daughter’s campus just had pipes burst and rooms are now flooding. Shortly b/f seeing this posted in a parents’ FB group, D and I were texting and she told me the water pressure was very low when she took a shower. She is in a different dorm, but I responded back that I hoped the pipes weren’t freezing so it was disheartening to see it was happening in another dorm!
Ironically, here is a description of the dorm where the flooding occurred:
" Home to our Institute of Environmental Sustainability , which focuses on sustainability, San Francisco Hall is a LEED certified building. It is connected to a local foods café, the EcoDome (green house), and clean energy lab. Eco-friendly features regulate heat and air control keeping the building between 70-72 degrees and programming often focuses on environmental concerns."
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I hope the kids have renters’ insurance. My dorm room flooded during Christmas break one year. I hardly lost anything, but my roommate did. We had never heard of renters’ insurance and were shocked when the dorm informed us they wouldn’t cover any of the loss.
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Just saw this random tweet:
“ My phone got an “extreme cold” alert that said to check on the elderly, and like 5 minutes later the kids next door checked on me. Brutal.”
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This is our current state of conditions. The “storm” finished around 1-2pm. It’s in the upper 30s and the low tonight will be around 32. No more precipitation is forecasted.
Schools are two hours late tomorrow. I am not kidding!!!
I’m officially over this storm. Other than going to a friend’s for dinner last night, I haven’t been out of the house since Thurs. It’s cold, hardly anyone has shoveled the 1-3" we’ve gotten several times and which has just blown around. I’m too lazy to even go to Safeway to pick up a prescription that I don’t need right now…just bored.
I do have excitement tomorrow as I’m having lunch with a friend.
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We endured a couple of days of unseasonable weather as the storm passed over us to our friends in the Midwest and northeast. We had hail here on Sunday:
But, never fear, AZ is getting back to normal now:
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Well…we didn’t get a lot of snow but it is still lightly snowing and it must be very slippery…all the schools are closed!
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Our schools are closed because the wind chill is below zero. My elementary school self is a bit jealous. We had to walk to school, home for lunch, back to school after lunch, and home at the end of the day. No one’s parents drove them to school. I remember putting on my big, thick snow pants under my dress, and when the temperature was especially cold, we were actually allowed to wear pants instead of dresses. Amazing that we survived. 
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K-12 are having an “e learning day” by me too. -2/-26WC. I can see my breath inside my sunporch. Warm up supposed to start tomorrow at noon.
Now if we can only keep our furnace going. It kicked off last night and we woke up at 3:30 am with our bedroom down to 54 degrees. We were able to restart it and it’s working now but we’re worried it’s going to happen again.
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LOL! My mom used to give me Wonder Bread plastic bags to put over my socks before I put my boots on…hillbilly Gore-Tex.
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I wore them, too. But not Wonder Bread - we only got store brand bread!
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And remember, you walked 3 miles each way to school…uphill. Actually NO you didn’t, but that’s what you told your kids!
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So are ours!!! HAHAHA!!! It did rain a little this morning and was 32 at it’s lowest… I’m not kidding.
And yes, H did call to gloat… Grumble.
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We’re supposed to get about 5" of snow today, not a big deal for Maine. But everything is closing up at noon! Schools, town offices, my gym… I don’t get it. My husband and I worked in downtown Portland for years, and we got exactly one afternoon off, during a real blizzard. Crews plow the roads so quickly up here that there’s no reason for closures today.
My friend who lives in Saskatchewan, in a truly brutal climate, said they NEVER close school, even if the temperature gets down to -40 or there’s a blizzard. Sometimes school buses don’t run, but parents are expected to get their kids to school. I’m glad it’s not like that here, but I think closures do happen too frequently.
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@MaineLonghorn i totally get it. The schools here are closed. The roads are like a skating rink. There are lots of hills. It’s supposed to snow until about 2 this afternoon. School buses are big sliders on slick roads…glad the schools are closed today.
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Sometimes I wonder if businesses and stuff close up (like at noon above) because WE are more conditioned to stay home and not go anywhere if the weather is inclement - so not worth it for stores to stay open (?)
We are in a “routine” where there is an inch of snow every morning. Just enough to have to do snow removal if you’re obsessive about keeping your driveway clean - i/we are! It’s light and fluffy though so H will just use the leaf blower - works like a charm!
Still frigid cold though. Schools are closed. Between the below zero wind chills, the ice on the side streets/sidewalks, the additional snow, I think it’s the right call.
A co-worker and I were having a conversation this morning though about “snow days” and still trying to make our kids have a nice day but with some productivity. He said he had already texted his high school aged boys and said “enjoy your day but do take care of our driveway/walks and your grandparents down the road”. I said that I used this tactic for snow days AND summer vacation days… “you’ve got a whole free day ahead of you! Think of 3 things you want to accomplish by the end of the day” - it might be regular chores, reading 3 chapters in a book, cleaning up their room or whatever - but I’d have them write it down so at the end of the day they could see (along with the fun relaxing day) some productivity, somewhere!
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