Psst…I know. I’m just being silly, since, apparently, it is in my nature… 
Man, it was like 50 degrees in San Diego this morning. I think I might sleep with my shirt on tonight. 
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Today we have a high of 69*F.
I’m not saying anything about looking forward to snow because I get told off 
Seriously, it is getting pretty cold here too. Not like double figures below, but still cold. My house is a 19th century cottage with VERY poorly fitting windows - you can see a cm of daylight between window and frame in some places. And the wind belts across the fields unhindered until it hits said windows.
Even with central heating, log fire, stove and electric convector heaters all going, it is a struggle to keep warm. I have the choice of freezing or increasing the global temperature by 2 degrees single handedly.
I have made secondary glazing out of wood and polytheneish stuff (which has helped a wee bit), but my landlord will not make significant improvements to the windows. He claims that such work would damage the character of the house.
I, on the other hand, claim that he is an idiot.
The stove and convection heaters I imagine you pay for directly but what about the central heat?
I had new thermal pane windows put in all my buildings last year. I think that improvement alone helped me sell most of my buildings this winter.
Granted my buildings were all era early 1900s and made out of brick. They make thermal pane windows where the parts that are traditionally wood are actually wood. I chose vinyl for ease of up keep and the lesser costs.
Perhaps you might want to get your landlord some product brochures.
IT’S THE WHITE DEATH!!!
It started snowing at noon. Tom emailed me about 1 to say it was really coming down hard at home (I live about 20 miles south of where I work). I packed up and left work about 1:30.
It took me about an hour and a half to get home - 3 times the usual if there’s no traffic or wrecks. I 75 southbound was totally stopped. I bailed out and took back roads, but no one was stopping for traffic lights, etc. and it was still bad.
We’re supposed to get 3 - 5 inches, which will totally stop this town.
No snow expected in Boston this week — too cold. And the arctic high forces all the bad weather out to sea to our south.
High of 9 dgrees today and then this afternoon got about 6 " of snow.
Neighborhood kids came by and asked if I wanted my drive shoveled. At first I said no, but then as they walked away I called out “How much?” Kid calls back “2 dollars? One dollar?”
I responded “A buck? Go for it!”
I may be frugal but I’m not stupid!
Did you sweeten it with a tip when they were finished?
Missy, it hit us about 1:30. It took me almost double the normal time to do the last hour of my route. By the time I got back to the office at a little after 4 it was too durn slick.
Tomorrow’s not going to be fun. 
It’s “colder’n blue blazes” here.
Hmm, should I have?
LOL…I’m frugal, not cruel. Yes, I did. I gave them both hot chocolate. Also, they only had one snow shovel, an old flat aluminum one. Earlier this year I bought a large pusher shovel to replace a smaller one, so I loaned them both and then told them to keep the smaller of the two when they were through.
They were having so much fun they also cleaned off my neighbors drive which adjoins mine, and helped another neighbor shovel his neighbors. So I gave 9 dollars which was all the cash I had one me at the time.
Ours is due tonight and tomorrow. The weather forecaster lady on tv mentioned something about expecting the worst snow for years over much of the UK…
Going to stock up on food and coal…
I don’t mind getting snowed out of the office for a day, but I’m supposed to be going to a John Otway gig tomorrow night…
Ooh, the conflicting emotions… 
To be more accurate, it’s going to be over England and Wales. We’re just getting the same light dusting we’ve had over the last couple of days.
The 12 year old boy that’s still hidden somewhere inside me is disappointed. The adult me is glad.
I agree. A bit of snow on the ground is beautiful. We’ve barely been able to keep 2" all month. Snow is a good insulator. Without that insulating layer the cold penetrates much deeper into the ground, so we’ve had lots of water supply pipes bursting with the current cold spell. I’m not greedy. A foot of snow in doses of 5" at a time is entirely doable. 
djm
Yeh, but you hardy north-of-the-border peeps call 6 ft drifts a “light dusting”. In England we call three flakes “heavy snow”.
That language barrier again…
It really depends on what the area is ready for. In Washington DC a dusting and some cold would stop the city two to three days out of the year. But they do not have salt trucks and plows to take care of it due to the fact that it doesn’t shut down the city that often and it would not be worth it to invest in the equipment to do so. It is easy to make fun of those people for spinning out in that weather when you live up north because we have the equipment to deal with it and both on a personal level (jackets gloves, etc.) and on a state level. In D.C. that light dusting is dangerous. If Minnesota was hit by the same snow that Buffalo New York gets, I doubt that we could do as well as they could and they could laugh at us for panicking over a few feet of snow, while I doubt that they could take the same level of cold.
ID - I agree, but Ohio DOES get at least one fairly significant snow a year. And the cities can’t cope, the drivers can’t cope, the schools can’t cope, etc. Happens every year, hense my “White Death”.
Apparently the UK Met Office website crashed under the load today as so many people tried to access it just at the mere mention of snow. It hasn’t even started yet and already they’re not coping.
My son lives in Denver. He claims they don’t plow the roads there like they do here in the Midwest. At the most they might sprinkle some sand at the intersections. I was visiting there a couple Feb.s back when they had an 8 inch snow fall. The next day I saw a few guys out in T shirts shoveling but, for the most part, the stuff had evaporated by the end of the day.
And I do mean evaporated.
I saw no puddles.
It doesn’t stay real cold and its very dry there.
I’m not saying snow doesn’t close Denver down. It does at least once a year, but the snow goes away in short time.
That’s very unlike the Midwest. We might have a snow fall stick around for weeks and weeks. After a day the snow gets dirty from pollution and can be mistaken for piles of dirt sitting around.
When my son visits us during the winter he gets pretty disgusted by the sight of the filthy piles of snow here in Chicago. I’d lived here all my life so I didn’t have a clue it wasn’t the norm for winter.
Another winter phenomena I’d also taken for granted were the shrines to the Goddess Squat (some call her the Goddess Asphalta). After people dig their cars out they set out old kitchen chairs or lawn chairs with brooms strung between them to guard their parking space when the go to work. In some neightborhoods I’ve actually seen novena candles set burning on the chairs.
Any usurper who moves the shrine out of the way to park their own car in that shoveled out parking spot on the street risks damage to their vehicle.