<p>^^ours has lost $$; we are on an annual contract; one price for the entire winter…</p>
<p>but I, for one, would have rather had an easier winter…</p>
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<p>Paraphrasing Jack White: Right place, wrong time, huh? Story of my life!</p>
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<p>My son wears them when he goes running. They really work!</p>
<p>Ladies, ladies - I just read an article that claims envisioning a snow storm can lessen your hot flashes by 68%. So take a real good look out your windows so you can recall the image at the appropriate times!</p>
<p>Well, this is a new one for me… I think I actually got frostbite from being out in the weather on Tuesday afternoon.</p>
<p>I do get cold sores, but usually get the tingling sensation for a few hours or a day prior to one popping up. Tuesday I was out running the snow thrower and the wind kept blowing the hood off of my head… it wouldn’t stay up. I’m pretty sure I kept licking my lips which were feeling very dry from all the wind. Within a half hour of coming in from outside, there was a blister on my lower lip. I figured I was getting another cold sore, but as time has passed, it occurred to me that this thing came on so fast it couldn’t be a cold sore. I may have made it worse by putting Abreva on it (I think Abreva dries out lips), but once I suspected the blister was not a cold sore, I began to use the Clinique medical grade lip moisturizer that I have. </p>
<p>Lesson learned.</p>
<p>Oldest D is experiencing her first winter. She could not get her car out of her parking space this morning due to the frozen hump of ice/snow behind her car. She doesn’t have a shovel. Had to walk to the bus stop only to find due to roadwork that bus was not running. Had to walk to another bus stop and was 45 minutes late to class. She is now trying to figure out the rest of her day. Class and meetings and bus schedules. Definitely an intro to living in a place that gets winter. She was born and raised on the west coast and has previously gone to school in the southeast so all this is new to her.</p>
<p>I sometimes carry a small shovel with me in the trunk of the car if I think that I might need it. If there’s serious ice, though, it would be useless as it’s just plastic. You need a metal-tipped shovel to have a chance at snow and ice mixtures.</p>
<p>I guess we’re glad that S’s security clearance is taking its time going through channels. Not sure how he’d manage with this chilly winter, as we’re not really used to very cool temps. LA was the coldest he’s lived in, but that doesn’t get nearly as cold as DC, especially this winter. It will be kinder if he can start his full-time job & settling into his new place when the temps are a bit warmer. I guess thank goodness for bureaucracy?!?!?!</p>
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But they’re illegal in many municipalities, particularly in commuter towns and in cities - they destroy the blacktop. And the potholes are ridiculous as it is!</p>
<p>D got her car out. She is happy. She called to tell me she went out to get in the car with wet hair and her hair froze.
HiMom- He should adjust to the cold. I am amazed at how quickly my D has acclimated to the cold. In late Oct, early Nov she was freezing wearing her long underwear under her clothes and shivering. Tonight she went out with a wet head in a tank top, long sleeve t shirt and jacket and sweatpants. While it is cold she said it is bearable. I would have never thought she would adjust so well.</p>
<p>mom60, when I was in school in Michigan, I had a long walk from my co-op the campus, and I’d go out with wet hair every morning. It would be clinking like bells by the time I got to class.</p>
<p>It took me 45 minutes to make what is normally a 12 minute drive this morning. The main roads were fine but the secondary roads were awful…snow covered and slick. All of the schools in this area BUT mine had a two hour delayed start. Our district went with a regular start and some buses were over an hour late arriving.</p>
<p>‘Chicagoland’ here - the roads were surprisingly bad today. Single lanes on heavy traffic state highway well into the afternoon, with plows trying to carve into the lane full of snow and leaving piles of snow behind. I got stuck trying to exit a lot onto the street through some remainders, and saw others get stuck too. Lots of snow on the roads - as in 2+ feet piles. It will be a while before they remove that!</p>
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Do you live in my town??? Exact same thing happened in my town… I drove D to school today because the bus didn’t show up. It apparently eventually got there close to an hour late.</p>
<p>It took me over an hour to get to work (8.5 miles, no highways) and an hour to get home tonight.</p>
<p>D’s car also got iced in this morning. It took her an hour to “free” it (with a little help from two other people). I ended up backing down one of the roads I use to get to work and pulling into someone’s driveway so that a school bus could get by (a tight fit normally, impossible today), on my way to work. I am not having any fun!</p>
<p>Treetopleaf - we got another automated phone call from our police department this afternoon, saying they expect it to take 7-10 days to get all of the roads cleared. While all the roads were open today, many of them had limited room, i.e., a four-lane road only had two lanes open - one in each direction.</p>
<p>Treetop and terriwitt- WOW! 7-10 days? Is that because of on-street parking?</p>
<p>We are on the other side of The Lake. Usually the lake effect goes the other way; we “only” got about a bit more than a foot of snow this time. I got stir crazy yesterday when I couldn’t get out for a few hours. I did get stuck this morning on my way to work, but that was my fault: overconfidence in my car.</p>
<p>Hubris, thy name is Audi</p>
<p>mafool - no, not because of on-street parking. I live in the burbs and on-street parking is not that widely used.</p>
<p>Teriwtt, are you able to get out?</p>
<p>Yea, H took care of the driveway yesterday and I’ve been out a couple of times, but no further than three miles from my house. But I saw a lot of people still trying to dig out their driveways today. We have a pretty good snow thrower. The intersections are still bad as you can’t necessarily see over the drifts at four-way stops, etc. H did not do our sidewalks and it will be spring before we see them again I’m afraid. I’m sure the deep cold froze them rock solid last night so the snow thrower wouldn’t work well now.</p>