My ex comes by with his plow, thankfully, but there's always alot of shoveling/snowblowing left where his blade is too big to hit certain angles.
Anyway, my son stopped by on his way home from work yesterday afternoon & was going to finish it up for me... wearing a light jacket, dress shoes & no gloves Lol I was like, can you stop by tomorrow on your way home after you've put boots, gloves & a warm coat in your car?
So, he's supposed to stop today on his way home to cut a path through 3' of snow & shovel the side of the house so the oil man will deliver & another path back to the shed. He makes it look so easy whereas something like that would wear me out for the rest of the day!
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6 o'clock with lots of wind blown snow, but accumulation is only about 2". ............... So far.
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9:30 still lots of wind blowing the snow around but doesn't seem like there is all that much snow. although it suppose to get heavy over night.
Well it's 7:30 in the morning and it did snow a bit overnight. We have about a foot an a half of snow. Roads are for all practical proposes impassable.
Opened door to let dogs go out in back. They took one look at the snow and said no way.
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I saw that the Dallas Ft. Worth airport was down due to rain that turned to ice from fast-dropping temps. I've been in Dallas in January after a rain, like a skating rink for sure on the roads.
It's icy here and been snowing lightly since yesterday in Colorado just a few inches so far. Last night was 8 degrees below zero, and today's high is around -2. Tonight they predict 17 below. My backyard is a definite slip and fall hazard, melted ice from the last snow under the new layer, and part of it is sloped.
Can't complain though, we haven't had much of a winter so far, and soon it'll be just a memory.
Yeyyyyyyyyyyyy!! The first I've seen other than the plow truck & sanders has just passed my house. Guess the roads are okayish. Iced in here, had to call into work this morning cause my driveway is like an iceskating rink.
's on & I think today's a good day to gather the paperwork to do my taxes..
Snowblowers don't work very well with icemixs. I had to go over the same spot at least 3 times before being able to move on. Ugh.. it took hours to do my driveway & sidewalk.
And then the junk the street plow dumped in front of my driveway was about knee high by 4' and the driveway is about 9'wide. The snowblower didn't do too well with that either, it just kinda plopped out instead of blowing over the 8' mounds.
When I was doing my sidewalk, the sun peeked through for a little bit. It was really pretty because the sun made the snow sparkle & the clouds going over were a lavender color. So get this, the mailman had marked on my mail one day last week, that my walkway wasn't 'cleared' (there was maybe 4").... i shovel it when i get home from work if it's snowing. I'm looking at the sparkles on the snow & notice his boot marks going through 3' of snow several times, cutting across my front yard to my next door neighbor's mailbox. hahahaha He must be blond
At first glance it looks like a graphic from a Discovery Channel programme about a distant ice age. But this astonishing picture shows the world as it is today - with half the Northern Hemisphere covered with snow and ice.
The image was released by the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Association (NOAA) on the day half of North America was in the grip of a severe winter storm.
The map was created using multiple satellites from government agencies and the US Air Force.
That Antarctica, the Arctic, Greenland and the frozen wastes of Siberia are covered in white comes as no surprise. But it is the extent to which the line dips down over the Northern Hemisphere that is so remarkable about the image. Scroll down for video report
A new satellite map by the government agency NOAA shows the extent of the snow blanketing a vast area from the west coast of Canada to eastern China
The shroud of white stretches down from Alaska and sweeps through the Midwest and along to the Eastern seaboard. The bitter cold has reached as far as Texas and northern Mexico where in Ciudad Juarez temperatures today were expected to dip to minus 15C.
In the U.S. tens of millions of people chose to stay at home rather than venture out. In Chicago, 20in of snow fell leading to authorities closing schools for the first time in 12 years. The newspaper for Tulsa, Okalahoma, was unable to publish its print edition for the first time in more than a century.
This particular storm is the result from two clashing air masses which, if not unprecedented, is extraordinarily rare for its size and ferocious strength.
'A storm that produces a swath of 20in snow is really something we'd see once every 50 years - maybe,' said a U.S. National Weather Service meteorologist.
Louis Uccellini, director of the government's National Centers for Environmental Prediction, said the U.S. storm also drew strength from the La Nina condition currently affecting the tropical Pacific Ocean.
La Nina is a periodic cooling of the surface temperatures of the tropical Pacific Ocean, the opposite of the better-known El Nino warming. Both can have significant impacts on weather around the world by changing the movement of winds and high and low pressure systems.
Hundreds of drivers on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, which was blasted by 20 inches of snow, abandoned their cars in an almost apocalyptic scene as authorities closed the road
Louis Uccellini, director of the government's National Centers for Environmental Prediction, said the U.S. storm also drew strength from the La Nina condition currently affecting the tropical Pacific Ocean
The NOAA image shows how the weather is affecting Scotland and begins in earnest from southern Germany, through Italy and down into Greece, Turkey and Iran. Northern areas of India and China are also affected.
The startling image was released on the same day Al Gore stepped up to defend his claim that global warming causes the bitterly cold weather. Thirty states in America are affected by a two-day blizzard.
Writing in his blog Al's Journal, he said: 'As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.'
His response came after Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly challenged the former Vice President to give his thoughts on 'why southern New York has turned into the tundra'. Generally, the view put forward on global warming is that it would lead to expanding deserts and rising temperatures.
Mother Nature's wrath is not confined to the top half of the world, of course.
Cyclone Yasi, with a destructive core of more than 20 miles wide, smashed into Queensland in north east Australian overnight with 186mph winds. Authorities are calling it the worst storm to hit the country for generations.
The inside of a pickup truck that was stranded and left open on Lake Shore Drive on Wednesday shows the full ferocity of the blast as the white stuff almost covers the steering wheel
A scene from sci-fi film The Day After Tomorrow? No, these are cars stuck in the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, after accidents and drifting snow stranded the drivers during last night's blizzard. As of late morning more than 20in of snow had fallen, making this snowstorm the third largest recorded in the city
Enlarge Eileen Black takes pictures inside of a Chicago Transit bus that was stranded overnight. The blizzard caused havoc in a city well used to dealing with big snowfalls
You waiting? I'm walking! While one man waits for a bus in Chicago, another decides to make his way on foot through a snowstorm. A woman, right, wades through a snow drift in the city that comes up to her waist
By foot is the sure way to get to where you want to as this woman (left) and these men found
Coming through: A snowplough clears a street in a suburban area of Chicago
From one end of the U.S. to the other the impact of the blizzard has been felt. Left, a woman makes her way along an icy pavement in New York while, right, ice covers a statue in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico
Enlarge Like bizarre creatures rising up out of the ground, these trees are clad in snow and ice after bitterly cold weather in northern Japan. Savouring the unique scenery skiers make their way downhill in at the Zao Onsen ski resort
The bitterly cold weather covering the northern hemisphere has meant that the Hei Longjiang river in north-east China has frozen so thickly that lorries can cross it from Russia leading to a boom in trade
The impact of extreme weather is being felt in north-east Australia where Cyclone Yasi has struck along the coast of Queensland. Here, outside Innisfail, motorists wait for water to subside over the Bruce Highway
Lordy! A heat wave of 39/40* due today, Thank You God!
Yesterday the sidewalk, car & car windows were all solid ice, so turned right around & crept back inside.
It would have taken me over an hour to chip all that ice off enuff to see out of the windows.
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I've seen other than the plow truck & sanders has just passed my house. Guess the roads are okayish. Iced in here, had to call into work this morning cause my driveway is like an iceskating rink. 
's on & I think today's a good day to gather the paperwork to do my taxes..
I had to go over the same spot at least 3 times before being able to move on. Ugh.. it took hours to do my driveway & sidewalk. 
A new satellite map by the government agency NOAA shows the extent of the snow blanketing a vast area from the west coast of Canada to eastern China 
Hundreds of drivers on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, which was blasted by 20 inches of snow, abandoned their cars in an almost apocalyptic scene as authorities closed the road
Louis Uccellini, director of the government's National Centers for Environmental Prediction, said the U.S. storm also drew strength from the La Nina condition currently affecting the tropical Pacific Ocean
The inside of a pickup truck that was stranded and left open on Lake Shore Drive on Wednesday shows the full ferocity of the blast as the white stuff almost covers the steering wheel
A scene from sci-fi film The Day After Tomorrow? No, these are cars stuck in the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, after accidents and drifting snow stranded the drivers during last night's blizzard. As of late morning more than 20in of snow had fallen, making this snowstorm the third largest recorded in the city
Coming through: A snowplough clears a street in a suburban area of Chicago
The bitterly cold weather covering the northern hemisphere has meant that the Hei Longjiang river in north-east China has frozen so thickly that lorries can cross it from Russia leading to a boom in trade
The impact of extreme weather is being felt in north-east Australia where Cyclone Yasi has struck along the coast of Queensland. Here, outside Innisfail, motorists wait for water to subside over the Bruce Highway
Heat wave expected for us today too @ 36* Yayyy!!!
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