"Crippling and potentially historic" blizzard

[Helene2013]

Thinking of all of you who will be affected by that storm. Hoping your employer will be understanding if you stay home.

I am glad Montreal will not be touched by this one, except for a few cms by end of week.

[azfiddle]

Sending good thoughts to everyone as you hunker down. This is why I live in Arizona....

[Crankin]

NY, that sign was photoshopped. It was all over Facebook today. The state put little dumb reminders to "use yah blinkahs" on those electronic signs a few months ago. It was a take off on that.
Helene, everything is shut down. No one can go to work. There's a state of emergency, declared around noon, and everyone has to be off of the roads by midnight. Public transportation is shutting down then, too. All businesses except hospitals are closed, and the National Guard or police may end up taking the doctors and nurses to work, if they don't have a place to stay near or in the hospital. The state learned their lesson in the Blizzard of 78, when thousands were stranded on the highway. I was in AZ then, I remember well, the stories my aunt and uncle told of the National Guard bringing them groceries that were considered essential:milk, bread, cookies, and cigarettes.
There's only about an inch of snow, but it was sleeting when I came home at 4:30.

[Jolt]

We've gotten over 20 inches so far and are supposed to get another 5-8. I walked to work (only 0.6 mile) carrying my snowshoes, then snowshoed home! Unfortunately the snow is so deep and fluffy that I was sinking knee deep in some spots despite the snowshoes (and they are rated for weights WELL above what I weigh)...kind of took the fun out of it. Then, when I was moving my car so that my landlord could plow my part of the driveway, I think the water pump went (he saw and heard it happen and thinks that's what it was...definitely something in the cooling system since it resulted in antifreeze pouring out). UGH. So now I get to deal with having the car towed to my mechanic in the next day or two so it can get fixed before a trip I have planned next week. At least it happened at home and I don't need the car to get to work, but still a pain!

[Crankin]

Sorry about your car, Jolt.
We have close to 3 feet of snow and it's still snowing. We have a plow guy do our access driveway, which is a big f'n hill and when he got to the top, he got stuck for about 5 minutes! He did get out on his own. DH spent 3 hours snowblowing in front of the house, but, it will have to be done again tomorrow morning. The rate of snowfall has lessened, but I imagine there will be another 4-6 inches since he blew the snow. I don't normally work on Wednesdays, so nothing but some paperwork and then a snow shoe planned for the afternoon, with a friend. All of the schools around here are closed tomorrow, too, as the sidewalks are not cleared and some of the secondary roads are not plowed. My street is clear, but narrowed. Not sure if myf riend will drive over here to snowshoe, so I may end up going alone. About 5-6 inches predicted for Friday and another "big storm" for Sunday night-Monday.

[Helene2013]

Watching CNN now and its bad. Take care and don't risk anything.

I'm glad we're just dealing with cold and just a few flakes right now vs what some of you are going through.

[OakLeaf]

Yikes. Be safe, all.