Comments on: In like a lion…

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:31:40 +0000

HA!!!!!! I thought I was the only one that named things. I gotta move further north. We got about 3 inches that last all of maybe one day!!!!! Geesh.

By: Denny in the land on snow

Denny in the land on snow — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:57:25 +0000

We have had 2 snow storms this week in Toronto. Although I was only there for one of them. Someone up above likes me because in between the 2 storms the family and I got the heck out of doge. Thats right folks, we have escaped to the snowy ski hills of the Rocky Mountains.
I’m sitting in my jammies(it’s 3pm.)spinning in a very posh hotel room.
Spinning some crazy handpainted B.F.L. while I overlook the line up of skiers at the gondola. My boys are hurling themselves off the side of a VERY large mountain,and I am drinking cider. Life is very good, and I would like to thank all the rich people who hired my hubby to build
up scale gardens last year. It’s because of them , we are here. That and the fact I don’t let the family get cable T.V. during the year so we can save our pennies for good times. Everyone enjoy the weather with some spinning and knitting. Or the hurling of ones self of high snowy mountains.

By: Janet

Janet — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:21:34 +0000

Well, if not an epic storm, it’s coming close. I hear you folks in southern Ohio are in a blizzard. We here in the north “just” have a freakin’ lot of snow! I’ve seen worse. Heck, I lived up here during the Great Blizzard of 1978, so anything less pales by comparison!

I will say that the snow is tummy-high on the retrievers. Poor fellas…they’re really struggling to attend to bathroom duties…guess if I was a good mom, I’d be out there clearing a potty patch!

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:48:56 +0000

I’ve been hearing about predictions for your epic blizzard! It promises to be here as rain, with flood warnings updated twice a day for the last two days.

By: Meg

Meg — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:17:07 +0000

Fifteen years ago this weekend was the big snowstorm that closed I-65 from mid-Kentucky all the way down to the Gulf. We had moved to Alabama from Michigan a month earlier, and were astounded that 7″ of snow could close down a city the size of Huntsville. The kids were disappointed that the snow arrived on Saturday morning, so they missed no school. Hope you got your beer!

By: Charlene

Charlene — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:57:32 +0000

Heh. A foot in eastern Missouri is about the same. We woke up to nuttin’, and by afternoon there was a foot and they didn’t plough until 5 or so, at which point I couldn’t get out of my (unshovelled) driveway anyway…

By: wednesday

wednesday — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:25:39 +0000

Yeah, I was working from home this morning on account of sick? And got a call from my colleague, who was out in the field, asking how the weather was.

And that’s how I found out we’re due for about twenty inches and that’s The Worst Ever Since 1971 up here.

Neo-Citran and pomegranate juice. Lamest hoarding ever.

By: Em

Em — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:23:18 +0000

I understand the scoffing — I remember being “the Canadian kid” in Richmond VA scoffing at the lousy 4″ of “snow” that cancelled school for days — but the weather reports are in alignment from the middle US to Northern Quebec… We may actually be in for a big one! Thanks for the “stock up on beer” tip!

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:43:05 +0000

How, HOW can you be low on beer? What about the kegerator? You’re smart to go get the essentials. I hope you stocked up on ice cream too.

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:55:15 +0000

from a former Marylander (who scoffed at the grocery stores shortages resulting from such weather forcasts): dont forget toilet paper and chocolate chips (for cookies, of course)!
though, if one needs an emergency run for TP – there are serious organizational skills lacking.
stay warm!