We had our blizzard last year. Right now it’s just rain, and that is fine with me!
I won’t say what my wife just said when she saw that photo. We have to take I 270 Monday. The live cams on the PA Turnpike don’t look much better. Maybe the reduced friction will result in higher gas mileage?
I shouldn’t have been so snarky. It really does feel weirdly apocalyptic! 
We live right next to a main road. It’s eerily silent and the few cars that do drive by are going very slowly…Our aviary / greenhouse is about 50 feet from the house and right now the only way to get there is down a path that is exactly one snowshovel wide. The snow is so deep that it feels like I’m walking down a corridor.
Well, actually it’s only 2 feet deep (3 if you count the snow that was piled up from being shoveled), I have an overactive imagination 
But it is a weird feeling.
We didn’t go anywhere today except out to shovel snow. Provisions a bit low, but I found some dessicated looking leftover turkey in the basement freezer and made veg. soup with it. Husband made cinnamon rolls. 
We’re really quite lucky – all we get out of this is a mild feeling of oddness, some exercise, and cinnamon rolls 
It will make for good family memories. A lot of people lost power though! 
I’ve been watching the Weather Channel – the storm is oozing its way north like some immense amoeba. We’ll be on the trailing edge of the pseudopods by midnight. You folks in NY will be engulfed next!!! 
cross country skis
in a couple/three years you’ll get used to it!!
its aerobic
I am sooo enjoying reading this thread! It’s just like being there! 
but warmer
It’s finally warm enough for some snow to come…soon…eventually…
We’ve just gotten over a couple weeks of -30C weather (pushing -40 with the windchill). Not a heck of a lot works when it’s that cold, snow clouds included. All we’ve got is a bit of a skiff from late November/early December. If it’s going to be cold there may as well be some snow to enjoy!
I told you, it really was eerie and mysterious looking!
and the greenhouse looked very far away
(no, it’s not on fire, that’s a heatlamp)
picture taken during daylight was much less mysterious, but still impressive for here in the “tropics” 
We’re supposed to be gettin’ The Big One starting tonight. “24 inches! 24 inches!” the weatherdroids are warning. “Stock up yer food! Yer drinking water! Write yer wills!” Fercryinoutloud, is this Ninnysota? It’ll be only 2 feet, IF we get that much, and that spread out over the weekend. Storm of the century. Imagine me rolling my eyes. Not dissin’ the rest of you, for you don’t normally experience that sort of thing. Here, though, is another matter.
24 inches. Hell, I remember back in the day when it’d drop 24 feet of the stuff on us. Nobody complained back then. We had to tunnel like rats thru the snow to get where we had to go, with only a compass and dead reckoning and none of that fancy GPS malarkey that’s turned everyone these days into such delicate flowers.
But it’ll be a pretty view out my livingroom windows, especially at night lit by the streetlamp. And I’ve got a cache of pickled herring, eggnog, really garlicky cured Ukrainian sausages, and Drambuie to survive on. I’ll barely get by, I’m sure.
This is what we were dealing with last year. I’m glad it’s somebody else’s turn this year! http://photo2.walgreens.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=1360989006/a=631125006_631125006/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=walgreens/
We drove through Iowa from Texas on the 19th, and there was a lot of snow coming down with cars sideways in the ditch. It slacked off when we arrived in Minnesota. We are at my sisters house in St Paul, Minnesota now, and snow is coming down with more expected for several days. Made five pounds of Swedish potato sausage yesterday. I don’t think that will be enough.
Did you notice that it’s usually SUVs in the ditch? If they’re upside down as well as, the ratio’s close to 100%.
Around here, it’s trucks too. Unless the owners put weight in the back, they have no stability. Give me a good old sedan any day.
As a wise Canadian once remarked, all the cars on the road already have 4-wheel brakes Your new SUV has no more ‘stop’ than a grocery-getter, but it has twice the momentum…
Hmmmmmmm… now that you mention it, I did notice that SUVs always pass me in the lane that has not been plowed recently. I tend to drive slower, and stay a good distance behind someone else to mark where the road is.
Is there a Murphy’s law of snow someplace with information on things like. If the weather man says 4 to 5 inches… it looks more like 8 or 10 in the driveway.