<p>Snowball you’ve got an appropriate name but I’m puzzled why you chose that if you live in VA! Good luck to your dh and d on their drive- sounds like they have a chance to make the timing work in their favor.</p>
<p>Adding to the storm’s travel woes stories, one of my s’s had to take a bus ride which is normally 20 minutes. He had to stand, packed in like a sardine, for two hours! </p>
<p>paying3tuitions I’ve got an amusing image of your s walking through the airport with his pillow under his arm- all he needed was his blanky.</p>
<p>Well if the flight gets cancelled, I’ll throw a hissy fit. JFK’s notorious for harassment passing as “security” and I don’t want to have to go through it more than once. I’ll transit in Tokyo if I have to.</p>
<p>Doubleplay: Spoke to my mom yesterday in Cocoa Beach and it sounds bad. She’s kind of trapped inside because she already has allergy-respiratory problems. The scary part is we want her to sell her condo on the Banana River and move out here to CA. But how can you put something on the market — it’s across the street from the beach — with the air conditions what they are right now? What a disaster for all the businesses along the beach too.</p>
<p>Jazzymom, you’ve helped me so much over the past year. Am not sure you want advice, or were making a good point about the difficulties in Florida sympathetically to another poster. In case you want a thought re: your mom’s real estate, I did observe while living in the Catskills, where senior citizens held properties far too long because they were insulted at the price or realized what it “could have gone for” years ago…we saw lots of senior holding on to properties too long over pride-of-price. If you sharpen you pencil, show Mom how much she’s paying on taxes each year to hold the property, how much the flights cost between you. Every cost that is incurred because you are separated is meaningful, including a host of small-change things like she buys dinner at the 4 p.m. special when you could be feeding her around your table. She’s from THe Greatest Generation and they see money differently. They hate to see their costs go down on property values, but tend to isolate that from all other monies. The proof-down against this thinking might be a different ledger with dollar amounts on all she’s losing by staying put. Just a thought. They can also drive you bonkers with their independence and unwillingness to leave friends who start to die off. Moving to Florida is more fun at the beginning than as the decades wear on, I’m told (if she was a transplant from elsewhere). The cost of medical or assisted living care will begin to be a factor that far outweighs a drop in her real estate value on a condo. I’m not great on money, I just see family dynamics aplay… ignore if you’ve already been through this in your mind; you’re a smart gal.</p>
<p>Hey BETHIE - just got back from xmas shopping - got my gal a retractable shovel and scraper for her car - since she has been down south for 4 years - she is not equiped for the northern conditions of ME/NH/VT LOL ooooo and some cool mitties too LOL - I am thinking of getting her a gift card for an auto parts store too ROFL.</p>
<p>Beer can chicken in the oven here - just waiting for this darned storm to hit - tho we will probably get mostly rain/sleet/wind out of it - it will wash all our white stuff away - and I sooooo wanted a white Christmas this year - with both kiddos coming home Will keep fingers xxx’d tho - there is still another week before xmas to snow haha.</p>
<p>You stay tucked in tonite and tomorrow - sure looks like you will get the wallop dose of white stuff - or need I send the St. Bernard with a keg of good cheer???</p>
<p>jazzymom, the red tide will go away, eventually. I remember a similar time, during the 80’s. Between the hackling cough and the dead marine life washing up and smelling sooo bad… it wasn’t pretty, but it cleared up.</p>
<p>Stay snug, all you people bracing for the storm, and please bring a little of the cold weather down here? Please?</p>
<pre><code>I ran into the stubborn independence about four years ago when I was trying to get them to move out here while my dad was still alive. It was just too much for them to handle considering that dad’s health was deteriorating and they had all their doctors there and very lovely neighbors who helped them. But since he died in Sept, mom has taken her first solo flight here to visit and I think she is ready to make the move. Actually, I wanted her to put the condo up for sale almost immediately, but that was too much too soon. She’ll be ready in a month or two, and the red tide will have moved on by then, I hope.
Since this is a thread about weather, it was N.Y. winters that drove my parents to Florida after WW2. Mom loved the warm weather, even the summers. Just recently, though, hurricane season has become rather daunting. A few years back, when four hurricanes hit one after the other, she evacuated once with my 80-year-old father, but then refused to clear out when the next evacuation order came a few weeks later. Dad was in the hospital for tests, so she just put her shutters down and spent the night in the bathtub listening to the wind howl and the rain batter the windows. She’s a tough old lady from the Bronx, but I think she’s ready to move to the suburbs of La-La land. We had gorgeous weather today.
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<p>My hubby had to evacuate his aging parents away from a hurricane a few years back. No fun. Actually VT weather isn’t so catastrophic compared to some states. We just like to whine.</p>
<p>corranged - I just read that you are home sick. I’m sorry to hear that, but I’m so glad you are home with your family, and that they are taking such good care of you. I loved the scene you set - you on the couch, enjoying your view of the Christmas tree and the snow outside - it sounds very homey. I have to admit that I’m a little jealous as we cannot fit a 10-ft tree in our house with our 9-ft ceilings…lol. </p>
<p>Wishing you a speedy recovery…and hoping you have enough energy to enjoy your Christmas.</p>
<p>Well my husband decided to stop in Harrisonburg, VA and not go on to Roanoke. There has been some freezing rain and he is tired of driving. Since tomorrows weather should be better, they figured they will make better time in the daylight.</p>
<p>Now, I can stop looking at the weather channel online and go to be shortly!</p>
<p>I have 2 friends with kids who were supposed to fly in last night–hope they made it. It is really snowing up a storm here this morning. We’ve had about 4 inches so far and will probably get a foot or more. If we just keep our electricity I’ll be very happy. If not I’ll have some VT cheddar with my whine.</p>
<p>Bethie, it let up here too but if you look at the weather maps…it looks like a wave of snow passed through and then nothing over VT at the moment but another wave still coming. I think we will see more.</p>
<p>Hey, no fair! NW of Boston we got about 10 inches of snow and now freezing rain to crust over it. Ugh!!! Thought you VT’ers were supposed to get more!!</p>
- and I sooooo wanted a white Christmas this year - with both kiddos coming home 
Will keep fingers xxx’d tho - there is still another week before xmas to snow haha.</p>