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LooseyMama · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 5541 Location: Bloomington, IN

Depending on which weatherman you listen to, we may get between 6-12" of snow overnight tonight. With that much snow (and ice, and wind), we often lose electricity due to icy powerlines and limbs weighted down, taking powerlines with them. If that happens, I won't be on Glitter much for the beginnings of our International Glitterdate/week ... but I hope y'all will jump in and carry on without me if you need to!
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Kendaljay · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 1493 Location: DFW, TX

Eek! I hope you don't lose power! We had huge thunderstorms last night with hail and lightning struck a tree in my dad & stepmom's yard. It rained all night and morning, turned into sleet around one, and snow by the time we were walking to Mom's. it'll all ice over tonight, but luckily I'm off all week!
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LooseyMama · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 5541 Location: Bloomington, IN

I'm guessing there's at least 8 inches of snow in my yard, and still more falling. Luckily, we've kept our electricity, though. Snow emergency declared in ours and several counties around ours -- no driving except for emergency vehicles. I'm gonna make a pot of chili and enjoy the view out my window ... and on the Internetz!

How's everybody else? I heard there were tornadoes down south. I hope all Glitterati are safe, warm, and happy!
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Nemesis · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 1584 Location: Alberta

I am jealous. I love love love it when it snows at Christmas time. I think Christmas is totally complete with loads of snow.

It's too cold here to snow. -26C. Boo!
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LooseyMama · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 5541 Location: Bloomington, IN

Too cold for snow? That bites.

If anybody wants to see more photos of my little city, the local newspaper has opened a gallery that you don't need a subscription to see.

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/gallery/
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pony j · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 2278 Location: the west

We were up in the mountains with my folks for Xmas eve and it snowed about 8". We had to drive down to see the mister's family on Christmas morning. The roads were plowed but I guess it was pretty slick because we had two spin outs, one at a hairpin turn (eeek!! but we recovered) and one at the bottom of the hill that resulted in us getting stuck in the ditch. Luckily 5 min later the guy who plows the neighborhood drove by and pulled us out. No one was hurt, and the car was fine, but it was quite a dramatic start to the day! Still, I was very happy to have a white Christmas.
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LooseyMama · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 5541 Location: Bloomington, IN

I am so happy not to be driving on the roads today or tonight. In fact, if tomorrow was still declared "emergency traffic only," I would be plenty happy.

A photo of my town hit the AP Wire today. I like it, so I thought I'd share it with y'all.

http://photos.mercurynews.com/2012/12/26/photos-powerful-storm-hits-nations-midsection-heads-northeast/
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LooseyMama · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 5541 Location: Bloomington, IN

And I didn't think to bring out a ruler or a yardstick, but I'm pretty sure we got 10" in my yard today.

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bookselves · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 2828

Wow!
We got our first big snow here (maybe 4" max) & that means I get to watch all the kids go sledding in the park that's outside my bedroom window. Yay!
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puck · Posted: Dec 27, 2012 2:37 pm Post subject:

i bet my indiana relatives are glad that they're currently here, prior to their trip to hawaii!
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Aryn · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 1389 Location: Astoria NY

I'm up here in Vermont and we got 18+ inches at my in-law's house. We are loving it and K is too, we've been out sledding everyday. And it's supposed to snow more this weekend!

I'd post a picture but I'm too lazy (on the iPad and it's a pain)...
ETA: flickr.com/orangejuicy
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checkersumthing · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 2942 Location: Montreal, Qc

checkersumthing · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 2942 Location: Montreal, Qc

We got home last night and couldn't get into our alley! A nice passerby helped give the car a push to get it unstuck. Then we paid 9$ for the privilege of parking on the (main, pay parking) ploughed street for 3 hours, and got to work! 2 hours later we had carved out enough space to land our car in it's spot, and scrapped a bit of the street/alley transition. D floored it when he turned into the alley, slowed down and slam dunked it into our spot. The car will be staying there for the time being, BMW all the way! (bus-metro-walk) I'll be going out every couple of days to start the car and try to shovel out the area around the car a bit at a time (because the temps are going to be around -20C overnight for the next couple of days).

We couldn't get our back door open, there was so much snow on the back fire escape balcony the sliding doors couldn't slide. Easily above my knees. We ended up shoveling from the outside, because I want to be able to get out in case of an emergency.
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