OT-cant find my driveway!!

[claybill]

it's out there somewhere!!

bill in northern illins.

[Plymouthy Adams]

just looking at that picture made me go get a hot cup of coffee...

[bobjob55]

MAN,,, snow must be a bummer.... it's 70 today out here...think it will cool off to a chilly 60's by mid week..but come summer,,, 117 for over a month,, nites will average 95.. we are grateful for winter... only seen 3 1/2 " of rain out of a average of 6 " for hole year..

[Plymouthy Adams]

we got 6 + inches (rain) in just shy of two days..lot of nthe northe east got hit pretty hard with snow yesterday..lots of folks I know ae without electricity plus the thread of no water due to inactive pumps including the main city water supplies..just no fun at all...my aunt is running on home generator, auto cut in..it is running now, 16KW nautral gas fired..

Edited December 20, 2009 by Tim Adams

[Joe Flanagan]

We got 22 inches in Alexandria, VA. I just finished shoveling what I could. Got all sweaty doing it. The sun is out and things are melting a bit but it won't get above freezing today. I need to get into my garage, for obvious reasons. I'll tackle that this afternoon. That'll be an hour's worth of shoveling at least, just to get the doors open and enough space to go between garage and house.

[1940plymouth]

All we got here was a dusting, enough to get called to work this morning to scrape and sand the roads

[wldavis3]

Bill,

That is a beautiful photo. You should be sitting out on

the "sun porch" enjoying it !!

Shel,

Better bring J. Edgar inside. He looks like he could use a cup

of hot chocolate.

[Norm's Coupe]

we got 6 + inches (rain) in just shy of two days..lot of nthe northe east got hit pretty hard with snow yesterday..lots of folks I know ae without electricity plus the thread of no water due to inactive pumps including the main city water supplies..just no fun at all...my aunt is running on home generator, auto cut in..it is running now, 16KW nautral gas fired..

Tim, you could consider yourself lucky. One inch of rain will usually equal 8 to 10 inches of snow. So........if you had that much rain and it could have been about 60 inches of snow if it had been cold enough.

All we had was a slight dusting last night.

Disclaimer: The rain/snow conversion I used comes from the weather man here, not me.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Trust me Norm...I am thankful..if that had converted to snow..the whole area would be totally shut down..we are equipped here in this area for snow removable, at best if it get cold enough to freeze/ice over..only the overpasses and bridges get sanded..usually right after the pile up is removed...

[greg g]

Hey All you old guys!!!!! Be carefull, that shoveling can be hazardous to you health for those not used to it. Take it slow and easy, don't want anybody ending up inthe cardiac unit cause they thought they were kids who could just blast through it.

[Norm's Coupe]

For those who aren't use to getting one or two feet of snow piled up at once, you should also think about raking the snow off the roof, at least about 3 feet from the edge up, down to the gutter. Then put some ice melter in the gutter to keep it from freezing up. If it freezes and has all the snow on the roof, it will form an ice dam, then back up under you shingles and leak into your house as the snow melts.

If you don't have a snow roof rake, you can carefully use a snow shovel. Just don't dig into the shingles and damage those.