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So, here we sit waiting for the blizzard of 2011. Looks like it will affect 1/3 of the USA, plus a good portion of Canada will be really really cold. The east coast is gonna get it again
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3484 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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Rick...we've been following it on TV and internet. I'll be calling friends and relatives in Ontario tomorrow to see how they are faring. I am sure that our friends and my brother will have gone shopping and stocked up on essentials like beer and whiskey and wine!!!!
Glad we're not there now. 93F here today and gentle south winds.
Stay safe Rick!!
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11 inches of snow and 40 mph winds. The snow is even sticking to the windows. Then we get sub zeros next. Not exactly weather to go out and paint showroom winders.
Holed up with Gracie, the pup and a big stack of firewood. Replaced the kitchen faucet, repainted some cabinets, banged out some design work for upcoming projects and even managed to get another 20 16x48 coreplast signs painted for windshields. Now the Kansas Jayhawks are decimating Texas Tech. Good day to stay in! Leave for St. Martens soon, so some warm weather is definitely in my plan.
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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Northeast New Jersey has had a snow storm every week for seven weeks in a row. The first snowfall is still on the ground. Now it is all coated with ice. As a skiier I have always liked snow, but this is too much. Snow is plowed up 3 and 4 feet high along the roads. Bill
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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I made it to town at 6am. It's like a ghost town. 12-14 inches of snow everywhere. Most businesses and all schools are closed. It is still snowing and now the bitter north winds have started. Guess I'll be staying in the studio today. n
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3484 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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Wow Rick, were on the north edge here in TC. Only about 6" if your not counting the 3' drifts.
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1356 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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Haven't ventured out to far yet....but we have about 12" here with lots of drifting. Rick....what were you doing out at 6 am? They keep saying all the businesses are closed and to stay off the roads!
-------------------- Patricia A. Raap Raap Signs 2615 Arthur Coopersville, MI 49404 616-677-0158 pat@raapsigns.com Posts: 575 | From: Coopersville, MI 49404 | Registered: Nov 2003
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We have ice...and lots of it. It's quite possible we could ice skate on our parking lot today... might be a little bumpy though. Its pretty windy to boot... haven't seen much snow at all!
Stay Warm!
-------------------- Theresa N. Hoying Visual Concepts 130 South Lester Avenue Sidney, Ohio 45365 937.492.2110 Posts: 176 | From: Sidney, Ohio | Registered: Feb 2007
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While that's a regular occurance around here, we have adapted and have the abilities to deal with the winds and snow. It sure has an effect on those places that aren't used to it. I feel bad for them....well all of them except Neil, who has tormented me all winter with his "beautiful day" stories.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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So far our part of Texas has just been cold and windy but no moisture. Right now it is 16F with a wind chill of 0...but dry. We've lost power a few times but all is up and running right now.
I can't imagine what you folks further north are experiencing. It must be tragic.
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I don't know how much we got. We already had snow on the ground. I'm guessing somewhere between 1-2 ft. The drifts are extreme. At least the winds have died down. They were scary -- and what's with the lightning and thunder!!! I thought that came with rain only.
I had to shovel out a path for my little weiner dog so she could go potty. We took the day off and are resceduling work for this weekend. Jane and I are about ready for a movie and I'll do some home designing later. We quit about 3 yesterday afternoon and made it across town to our home.
Jane said there was a nut on a motorcyle across the street last night. I thought he deserves to get wacked by a snow plow.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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It's freezing rain here, and frankly it's upsetting. I'd rather it be cold and snow, at this point I'd like to see how high the snow banks can get In reality snow is making roofs collaps, There was a death in our town Monday where a roof collapsed when a man was shoveling off the snow. I took approx 20 some inches off the back roof of my shop I'm guessing, Monday night. So this weeks warm up will be a relief. As long as we don't get 3 days of rain in a row
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My son decided to visit friends last night and took off from my daughter's (his sister;s) house where he has been staying temporarily. He recently moved back from Florida and wasn't realizing getting stuck in the deep drifts.
He did about midnight and I had been tracking him on his cell phone for my mother's intuition kicked in all day and night visualizing him getting caught in a certain stretch of the road at the entrance of my daughter's neighborhood.
He did get stuck and finally he reached a friend who owns a plow, and fortunately the friend traveled almost 18 miles through the blizzard; they plowed the entire 1/2 mile of road to my daughter's house and her driveway. The drifts made the snow to her house 5 feet high, so there was no way for him to get from his car to her house on foot.
Thank God, and now I guess I can go back to sleep. I think he is a bit wise for the experience.
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-------------------- Deb Fowler
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Bill, I was looking at the weather graphic on Google Earth last night and saw a thunderstorm cloud icon over Pontiac. I wondered what was up with that. There was one over Des Moines too.
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You all should move the Newfoundland, so far all we have on the ground is a few inches... but.. looks like we'll get another storm tonight,, the remnants of the biggie up in Ontario.
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SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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See! There he goes again....You'll get yours!
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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I just dropped my brother off at the airport. He's flying Alaska Air and his flight was canceled yesterday. I figured they'd know how to fly in this stuff--they sure claim to know how to drive in it.
We did see folks with Packer and Steeler jerseys coming into the airport. In our good ol' Texas hospitality, we greeted them with the same weather they were fleeing up north--snow, ice, wind, 13 degrees, wind chills well below zero. The only snow plow in our area is at DFW airport and I'm sure it was put to use the last couple days.
Since we just don't see snow blowers in front of Walmart around here, I think the franchise will be wide open if one of you frozen Yankees wants a business opportunity.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've had the good fortune of Visiting Texas 3 times about 14 years ago, one time, when I was in San Antonio, it was the coldest I've experienced, honestly, it was Freezing, this was on Jan9Th. My Birthday, I remember we were suppose to play Golf and it was cancelled.. but a few days later, back up into the low 70's... how weird is that?
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SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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Neil - that's the way it works here. Monday it was 71 and sunny and yesterday the temperature dropped to 27. Today it is 16 with a wind chill of 0.
They are predicting 60F for Saturday.
We have a saying..."If you don't like the weather in Texas, just wait...it will change tomorrow".
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Have about 8 inches on the ground from this one, it's still coming down at a pretty steady clip of about 1/2"/ hour and there's 3 feet of the white stuff on my back porch.
Suppose to keep snowing throughout the night.
I HATE SNOW!!!! Rapid
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We got about another foot today. Drifting, big flakes. All the roads all the way up the Bruce Penninsula are closed.(About an hour and a half) My one daughter is about an hour and a half south of here and her University (Waterloo) is closed. The other daughter is southwest two hours and they still have college (London). But they deserve a break. Last month she drove home, parked her car. Storm came up and completely covered her car. It was four feet deep. She drives a Sunfire. Parked beside a hedge hoping she wouldn't have to sweep off as much and the wind changed direction. So now she went out and bought a shovel like her Mom told her to. So yeah, we got snow. But we been lucky so far, storms only once a week or so and nothing has lasted more than maybe a day and a half. There has not been any major power outages or anything. No freezing rain, thank you Lord.
If I could post a pic I would. But right now I am not going through that. Anyway they are calling for more tonight, but I don't think we really got it too bad. Not any worse than the last month or so.
edited to add "There, there now Kelly, does that make you feel better? The rest of Canada is not in BALMY Nfld!
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-------------------- Deri Russell Wildwood Signs Hanover, Ontario
You're just jealous 'cause the little voices only talk to me. Posts: 1904 | From: Hanover, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Dec 1998
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We got about 2 feet of snow with wind gusts up to nearly 60 mph at times....made for quite the night. I tried to open my front door at about 10 pm last night....now I know why it wouldn't open. For tonight we get to enjoy some -25 to -35 F wind chills.
I remember our place looking like that, as I am sure it is looking tonight to the new owners.
"Thanks for the memories"!!!
Three years snow free and in shorts here. (It's the price of old age but it is working for us!!!)LOL
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3484 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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sorry everyone...I love it! It looks really puuurty outside and the sun is shining. I will be playing in the snow for at least a little while today! Hope everyone survives okay...we do in live in snow country.
-------------------- Karyn Bush Simply Not Ordinary, LLC Bartlett, NH 603-383-9955 www.snosigns.com info@snosigns.com Posts: 3516 | From: Bartlett, NH USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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State of Emergency in Newfoundland this morning....not... seems like the storms of all storms was nothing more than a whimper... about 3 or 4inches of soft fluffy powder last night, and No wind at all.. there's only about a ft on the ground total....works for me.
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