<p>You all are getting what we just had, except ours was ice. And we’re supposed to get more tomorrow in the form of snow, up to 8 inches, just in time for my S to drive in from Oklahoma City, this storm will probably be dumping more on you in a couple of days!</p>
<p>D decided today was the day she was going to drive on I95. She got her license in Sept. and hasn’t been on a highway yet. School was canceled so it seemed like a good idea. She had to pick up her skis about 10 miles away. No problem going there; she did just fine. While we were waiting for the skis, the snow started…and didn’t stop. Within minutes about 100ft visibility. The car has a manual transmission. I’m a little rusty so asked her if she could do it. She said yes. Ten miles and 45 minutes later…WHEW! We made it! Baptism by fire!</p>
<p>At our home in Greater Boston the snow is winding down–probably got about 10 inches. S#2 is waiting expectantly to see if his school will have a snow day tomorrow. S#1 is in the midst of finals north of here and they did not get much of this snowstorm</p>
<p>How are you all doing? The morning news here in Seattle showed some footage from New England - wow, what a mess!</p>
<p>Could ya’ll please send some of that snow to Alaska 
- it’s cold and dark here! The x-country ski season is a bust so far - just a glaze of ice on the trails. We are experiencing one of the warmest winters on record. </p>
<p>Safe travels to all.</p>
<p>****. I’m flying home to Cali from JFK the day before christmas. Unless my flight is miraculously on time, I’m not going home that day. And it’s not like I can go rent a car and drive home.</p>
<p>It really sucks because it’s the last Virgin America flight to SFO and if it gets cancelled for any reason they’re probably gonna put me on another airline, and you know how well they handle luggage and stuff.</p>
<p>Terribly sorry for all the weather. It was between 71 and 79 yesterday in Kauai. I expect it to be the same today and tomorrow. Sun just came out. We’re going to move over to the timeshare portion of the resort in a few hours then we’ll get our rental car and drive around for a while.</p>
<p>The downside? There is none unless you consider that I have to go back to Wisconsin in a week.</p>
<p>Aloha.</p>
<p>And you didn’t take all of us?</p>
<p>BETHIEVT - sending you some good ole hot chocolate and a couple of good dry logs for the weekend LOL - you just might need it… enjoy the hot tub tho - need some Brandy to warm you up?? Looks like you folks are gonna get it good again :D</p>
<p>My gal is moving back to New England after being in NC for 4+ years - will be heading to Maine for several months - she can’t wait to see and folick in the white stuff - setting up her car for the winter - and all the emergency supplies she could need :)</p>
<p>I love it when it snows - it is just sooo peaceful and quiet - and beautiful. My palm tree was all lit up last nigt - in the winter wonderland LOL</p>
<p>Thanks JeepMOM, </p>
<p>But she might want to equip her car for a mouse infestation. I love living here but EWWW!</p>
<p>I’ll happily accept your hot chocolate though.</p>
<p>Well, hotel rooms were sold out, so my husband finally headed home around 10pm.</p>
<p>The trip was uneventful until he got to our street. It is an uphill road and he couldn’t make it. On first getting stuck, he used the small shovel in his trunk to shovel sand and moved on up to almost the top of the hill. At this point, he came into the house so I knew he was home. We both went out and shoveled for another 45 minutes until he could get his car into the driveway.</p>
<p>Finally made it to bed around 12:30am – then I was up as usual before 6am, as school was open and the kids had to get to the bus by 6:45…</p>
<p>We estimate we had 13 inches of snow.</p>
<p>A police officer stopped to investigate when my husband was stuck and said some people took up to 7 hours to get home.</p>
<p>H finally left work at 10:30 last night. He could see Rt.128 from his building and waited until it was moving pretty well and did well. The school had a delayed opening, so it was nice to sleep in a little. It took my son three hours to shovel our driveway and he was none to happy about it. I usually don’t pay him, but gave him a nice “tip” for his trouble.
Corranged, I’m so glad that you are at home in the loving arms of your family while you recover! Mono can really knock you on your butt! I had it a few years ago and it was really scary. I’d never been so tired in all my life. I could hardly lift my head out of the bed. Take good care of yourself!</p>
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<p>You must have a pretty big tub :)</p>
<p>BETHIE - a part of me misses VT 
- but at least I get to visit - and NH and ME LOL - will be a buzy winter for us :D</p>
<p>Just gonna get my gal some nice mousey food LOL</p>
<p>Took my husband seven hours, for a usual 45 minute trip. Total gridlock, spinouts, accidents galore. People gave up on trying to drive and just abandoned their cars in the middle of city streets and starting walking.</p>
<p>And there were NO plows to be seen, and no police officers trying to make order from this mayhem.</p>
<p>Lovely! NOT!</p>
<p>That is unbelievable, Allmusic! Absolutely ridiculous. We’ll see what this upcoming storm brings. I think my area will turn out to be mostly rain–something that I’m not happy about (melt all the pretty snow!)–but sleet and snow are expected in other areas.</p>
<p>Thanks, Andi! Sarahsmom, I am so happy I’m home so that my mom and family can take care of me. I really don’t know what I’d do without them. I’ve been in an extreme amount of pain (also have infections in both ears that couldn’t be treated at first), so I haven’t been able to sleep more than 3-5 hours a night. So far I can still walk short distances from my bed to the couch or bathroom, albeit very slowly!, but my energy levels seem to be falling every day. I can’t imagine not being able to even lift my head out of bed… It sounds so depressing. I hope that I don’t get to that point.</p>
<p>My husband and daughter are getting ready to drive from upstate NY, through Pennsylvania and Virginia to home. My husband had no trouble driving through NY state on Thursday during the snow as the interstate was kept clear, but I am worried about this new storm. They will be driving with a packed car as my daughter is going abroad spring semester, and my husband wants to get back home so he can be at work early Monday morning. He wants to drive as far as he can get tonight to avoid any icy road tomorrow; this is assuming they can get through those areas today.</p>
<p>I will be near my computer watching the weather channel and the PA and VA DOT sites to keep them updated!</p>
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<p>I totally missed that you’re sick. So glad you made it home to be taken care of by family!!</p>
<p>Not to pile on with my own ‘woe is me’, but…
The temperature here is beautifully warm, however we’ve got our own problem that keeps us from enjoying the outdoors- red tide! :(</p>
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<p>Uck. S is so disappointed- he’s got a new board and wants so bad to get out in the water. Surfers are coming up from the beach and washing out their eyes with MILK. It’s really nasty stuff. You go outside and feel like you’re going to cough up a hairball. Might as well be in a snowstorm, at least we could go out skiing after it was all over. darn it all.</p>
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<p>JFK sometimes has “issues.” If they offer to put you on another airline, TAKE IT because if a late night flight gets cancelled they sometimes just say you have to wait until OUR next airline flight out, which could be the following morning. Sometimes the cancellation announcements come on so late it’s too late to get to a motel that night, which might be full at Christmas. I’m sounding like Debbie Downer. When we got cancelled (after being strung along) at JFK by JetBlue, we just toughed it out and stayed put all night. sleeping on chairs, to get the first a.m. flight of the day. Warn your folks about this, since they might have Christmas morning visions that differ from this scenario. If everyone’s prepared for the worst case, if it’s not so bad you’ll all feel lucky. IF/when they announce a cancellation, have your cell phone ready because they also give a phone number to call to rearrange your flights. That’s when all the experienced travellers phone it in, so you want to do that and get out on the next available, not two or three flights after that.</p>
<p>Hopefully it will alll go smoothly. Our S just flew cross-country and landed in Buffalo, origination in Santa Ana/Orange CA a few hours ago, as scheduled, despite many snowstorms and needing to use 3 planes and 2 layovers. He was just plain lucky. He brought his own pillow which he said let him sleep, as compared to the teeny airport pillows, in case there were wretched problems, which there might be later tonight… He didn’t mind how how looked to others. </p>
<p>He also was wearing a Nixon/Lodge button! The antique dealer would only sell it to him if he could name the year of the election. Lots of good conversation ensued. He’s a humorous person and friendly. He extrapolated 1960 because he’d heard of Agnew and knew they had won, so working backwards figured it must have been the time Nixon lost to JFK, so 1960. The dealer was testing him because they say they want memorabilia to go to collectors, not “kids,” unless the buyer is knowledgeable. </p>
<p>On winter flights, it can also work out just fine. Or anything in between. Try not to stress inbetween; there’s not much you can do except adopt an attitude. Don’t let it wreck you and your family; warn them it might go awry is what I’m suggesting. Keep holiday meals on flex-time, etc.</p>