We are supposed to get a storm this afternoon…we have been getting WAY too much snow lately.

im 2 miles NW of Chicago’s O’Hare airport (closed again today). On the 6th floor and our balcony faces NE so the wind was roaring.
even though the main system has moved off, we’re still getting eake-effect snow. the normally busy business park behind us is abandoned. no employee cars, fedex, ups, post office, or delivery trucks of any sort. its a snow day. even the few plows that were out last night neem to have given up.

im glad the first floor of our building is a heated garage (not like i plan on going anywhere today), the cars of the people living at the apartments next to us aren’t going anywhere either, but that’s not by choice.

I’m mad at our local groundhog …he just predicted 6 more weeks of this crap!

I don’t tend to believe our groundhog being that he’s stuffed.

Oh man!! I have only seen snow once when we went to Portland Oregon it was solid from melting and refreezing so it want much to look at lol! I am a true Floridian! Im cold just looking at that! lol its 75 degrees here! not to rub it in or anything! lol

That snow is insane. In Cleveland, we don’t have all that, we got a bit yesterday, but then it was sleeting/hailing all night, so we’re covered in a sheet of ice. Fortunately, school called off for both me and Michael!

PuddleJumper, we had the same amazing 75-degree weather here until yesterday…now it’s 18 degrees outside and I’m noooot happy at having to trudge around campus. Worst part is that it’s completely dry, so no chance of ice or snow to cancel classes!

Ringo is in Valparaiso, IN, about an hour from Chicago and he has his fingers crossed that Mom & Dad get to stay home from law school again tomorrow!

Posted By PuddleJumper on 02/02/2011 08:29 AM
Oh man!! I have only seen snow once when we went to Portland Oregon it was solid from melting and refreezing so it want much to look at lol! I am a true Floridian! Im cold just looking at that! lol its 75 degrees here! not to rub it in or anything! lol

Really? In the years I have been here, snow has only ever stuck around a day maybe.. and there was barely a dusting

Monkeybun it was on a mountain I cant remember for the life of me what the lodge was called or the stinkin mountain! lol………. OH Mt Hood!! and it was at Timberline lodge!

It was snow from the previous winter they said that never melted away, it was cold and rainy and really pretty! Some of those sights took my breath away! canyons with water falls spilling out while driving down a high way! *gasp*

BIG change in scenery from flat hill-less FL! lol

That was my family’s first flight to anywhere so it was a hilarious adventure! lol we had never flown before and only been a few states away from FL so going across the country was… interesting! hehehe

OH we went to Multnomah falls too! that was a amazing sight!
 

Okay, maybe never mind on the whole not paying attention to the stuffed groundhog thing. He supposedly didn’t see his shadow today!

Omg! Snow would be so lovely! It reached 113 degrees f here this week, last year it was over 113 degrees formore than 2 weeks straight! It’s only 86f here today but it’s humid from all the storms going around. I want to jump in a pile of snow!!!!!!

Mt Hood isn’t portland silly

Here in central Illinois, we got between 13-20 inches of snow. Apparently the news station doesn’t have any exact figures online. lol And the windchill is between -7 to -13 degrees. So we’re trying to dig out and everything. I hope things get cleared off tomorrow. Enough to where I can get out and get a few groceries. Lolli and I are out of food. lol

Thank God the electricity never even flickered for me. I was so worried about what to do especially with Lolli. My dad was like “you stay put and wear layers and lots of blankets”. lol I did end up lighting a few candles cause my lamp was glaring on my tv and I kept tripping over stuff with no lights. LOL That was probably the most excited me and Lolli had. Me stubbing my toe and cursing. haha Lolli ended up spending a lot of time in her box which she hasn’t been lately. So I don’t know if she’s done with me sleeping on the floor or the weather or she just felt like being in her box. lol

this was an awesome picture of all the abandoned cars left on Lake Shore drive from last night. they had 20 foot waves crashing onto the highway.

someone was nice enough to tunnel a path to the front entrance of our building. this was the first time i went downstairs since last nite.

Sorry guys…I think the lower 48 (and some of Canada) has gotten all OUR nasty weather! 0_o
From the way our temps are going, I’m thinking it’s going to be early spring up here. I wish I could send some of that towards you poor folks back there. I don’t think I’ve seen wind blowing snow like that since I last saw pictures of Nome and Barrow!
What is up with how you guys get thunder and lightning with your snow? That never happens here. 0_o

just like thunderstorms, the thundersnow requires strong warm front clashing with the arctic one.. due to the humidity present in the warm front, the sudden takeover of the cold front can produce precip drop of 4+ inches of snow per HOUR.. you obviously dont have tropical gulf moisture in alaska, but in the midwest those fronts can travel quickly up and down the flat land between the rockies and the appalachians and hit each other with tremendous speed, and thats where you have your tornado alley in the summertime. 

That sounds really scary. 0_0 I saw one shot of the lightning striking over the tops of some of the tall buildings in Chicago, I think, and it looked like the end of the world.
I’ve been in the path of a tornado once, I would not want to repeat that experience. We actually have dust devils here that can lift a mattress off the top of a truck and throw it across the parking lot at Sam’s (happened to us), and our summers are usually a mix of dry (we’ve supposedly been in drought conditions for some years now) and humid (once all that snow starts melting and evaporating, here comes the deluge!) and laden with thunderstorms that spark some of the worst wildfires I’ve ever seen in my life. Some of these begin with embers that have been lurking under the forest floor since last summer.
I don’t know which is worse. That or the blizzards.

My rabbit room is on the main floor of my house and I can’t see out the window at all because the snow is so high. The poor bunnies have no sunlight.

Everyone’s pictures are crazy!! I’m so glad I’m not in the midwest.

We did get bad weather in CT though – I worked from home Tuesday and Wednesday (great to have a job where I can do that!). We actually tried going into work on Wednesday and it was such slow going (because there were a couple inches of snow on the highway, not because of traffic) that we decided we were crazy and turned around to go home. We probably only got 12″ or less, but that was on top of the 3′ already on the ground. We can’t see around corners at intersections anymore – it’s nuts. I went to college in upstate NY and I don’t remember seeing anything like this.

The weather here is crazy too! It’s so cold that that the same frozen puddles I see on the street in the morning are still there by afternoon! I know it’s nothing compared to what most of you folks are getting recently, but in the 15 years that I’ve lived in the area, I don’t think I’ve seem temperatures this low (~18F) for this long (3 days or so).  Usually, when it freezes over, the ice only lasts until mid-day, but the whole city shuts down anyways because we don’t have the facilities or infrastructure to deal with sub-freezing temperatures, lol.