Again...*sigh*

[uforgot]

Emily, we had ice that year in Virginia, too! We hardly ever get large amounts of snow, but because - I suppose - we're near the coast - we get lots of ice. Power was out for thousands of folks (my daughter and family included) for three weeks!
We've had a really easy winter so far, with temps more like spring than winter, but I think that's changing... temps in the teens and it's snowing now...

Everybody, be safe, it'll be over soon...

ps... has anyone noticed that the days are really getting longer?? I looked out yesterday afternoon and it was 5:15 and still very much light... not too long ago it was very dark by 5 p.m.!

ok ok I know I'm reaching here... but a little hope!

Oh, you RICHMOND people. I have a friend who moved there in September. Every day for the past week she has called and given me the temperature. On Monday while it was -5 windchill here, she had to tell me when the 66.8 temp changed by a tenth of a degree while we were catching up. Tuesday she indicated that it was a cold snap in the 40s. I told her what she could do with her cold snap. I'm not sure I would know how to handle it if the temp got above freezing...

[IFjane]

Claudia - don't be too upset with us in VA - this has been a VERY UNUSUAL winter! It's catching up with us now, though still not as bad as you have had it.

Stay warm!

[Geonz]

I was in Richmond that winter of the two major snowstorms... I remember them finding the frozen people when it finally melted Folks had gone out to their mailboxes andsuch, fallen... and didnt get up.

Looks like potential for some really messy stuff for the mid-atlantic coming up!! Collect those power bars and water...

[IFjane]

Yeah, I don't know what happens to people around here when it snows - many of them do things they shouldn't. The drivers are nuts - NUTS I tell you! And it seems, as soon as the first flake starts falling, they ALL want to get out on the road... Not to mention the run on the grocery store for toilet paper, milk & bread!

I am 90 miles northeast of Richmond - less traffic, but no fewer nutty drivers in the snow...