We woke up to about 6 inches of fresh snow this morning. A very wet, heavy snow; the kind that clings to every surface and every branch, weighing down the limbs. A Bradford pear tree across the street has split down the center. But for the downed limbs, it looks lovely outside. Now I have to get ready for work and get out in this stuff. Hubby had to leave at 5:00 am because he's in charge of maintenance for an office building, so he's probably shoveling the sidewalks right now.

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

[ November 24, 2004, 07:19 AM: Message edited by: maxallen ]

You just keep all that snow out there. I hereby declare the East Coast a snow-free zone. So let it be written, so let it be done! wink

Snow? What the hell is that? :confused:

NJ

Snow is not allowed within 100 miles of me! Especially when I am flying this Christmas.

There's no snow in the forecast here in Minneapolis, MN.

Woo hoo!!

Thank Gawd for that! Trying to fly through MSP during snow sucks.

I know that for a fact.

Hey Allen, I am not sure where you get your weather, but NPR was forcasting flurries for Turkey Day night here in the home of the "World Famous Mayo Clinic". It sure is going to be cold enough for snow. ICK...I so am getting tired of MinneSOOOOta winters. :mad:

Have a Happy

Jeffrey

It thundered and lightninged during the snowstorm last night. The weatherwonk on one channel described it as a "downpour of snow". My neighborhood seems to have gotten the brunt of the downpour, with lots of downed limbs and trees on my way into work this morning. I measured 9 inches on my patio table, but at my office eight miles away there's only 4 or 5.

They do a very good job of clearing the roads in this area, and it only took me a minute or two extra to get to work, but most of the people in the office are using this as an excuse to take a 5-day holiday weekend.

Personally, I don't mind snow, in fact I would rather have snow then rain most of the time. Thats why I live on the eastern side of Wash. wink

I'd love snow too. My family spent the past two Thanksgivings in FL, and I'm glad we're not doing that this year. Snow would be awesome.

I measured a little under 9 inches last night...but not on my patio table. Mind in the gutter...mind in the gutter.

From NJ: NJ, it's a fictious white powdery substance that people claim to get in the wintertime. Some people and their imaginations.



[ November 24, 2004, 08:18 AM: Message edited by: Aubie in Bham ]

I get my weather here.

Yeah, I'm sick of Minnesota weather too, but Thanksgving and Christmas is fun around here. I get to see people that moved away and find out what's new w/ them.

Other than that, yeah ... MN weather sucks!!

Here's a small picture of my neighbhorhood this morning from the Kansas City Star's website . The picture was taken about a mile from my house.

[ November 24, 2004, 08:28 AM: Message edited by: maxallen ]

So, in your dreams, then?

This is a picture of hell. :mad:

It really does look like some sort of a wasteland or something when the snow clings to every little branch and twig, and makes the trees droop like that. When I looked in my back yard this morning there were tall white cylinders in my garden area, and it took me a minute to realize that the snow had clung to the tomato cages and built up a good 6 or 8 inches on top of each each little wire, until it formed a complete enclosure around each dead tomato plant.

Yeah, yeah, I know. I need to clean out the darn garden and put away the tomato cages for the winter.

Gee I kind of think the snow looks beautiful. Snow on Thanksgiving and snow on Christmas Eve/Morning can really make the holiday even more special for me. So long as it's not too much that it screws up people's travel plans it's a-ok with me!

Nice pic, yes, and pictures are mainly how I like to see snow now! I grew up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and when you're a kid of course snow is wonderful. Snow forts, cross country skiing on the local golf course, snow days from school, camping out in the living room by the fireplace when the power would go out for a day or two. Great memories. And we lived at the top of a hill so my brothers and cousins and I had some "amazing races" on sleds where the winner was the first to touch the last apple tree in the orchard. Ah, I really loved it. But now I'm not sure I'd like to live in snow. I swear there was a conspiracy with snow plow drivers, they always came by right when you finished shoveling the driveway and pushed all the snow back into it. And if I never put chains on a car again it will be too soon! Of course, I guess everyone has four-wheel drive SUV's now.

Now my folks live in the foothills (under 1,000 feet) so I don't have to deal with snow when driving home for T'giving. But I do get to see awesome fall colors and there is just enough crispness in the air to make it feel like the season.

Have a wonderful and peaceful Thanksgiving everybody!

Hey maxallen were you in the KC area about 3years ago when the ice storm came through? That picture looked a whole lot like it looked then. It was fun to watch the fireworks of the transformers blowing up. If it any consultation our snow is already melting out here southcentral Kansas

Snow is nice in theory, but hey, I'm going swimming outdoors in a couple of hours, then I'm meeting up with a friend at an outdoors cafe to chat and sip iced tea. If snow could happen only on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, that'd be fine, but otherwise, wearing shorts and t-shirt in late November is fine with me!

Maxallen, GREAT PIC and thanks for a neat thread. Don't let Jim Cantore hear you talk about thundersnow; that's what really turns him on on Weather Channel! We had snow in the high deserts and above 2500' in SoCal last weekend, so I'm looking forward to some nice vistas on tomorrow's drive up to LA. On a clear day, when it's ringed by las cumbres,* LA could be in the Alps! :cool:
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*Tr. "snow-capped peaks."

I'm right there with ya Jim Al!!

Snow is good for only 2 reasons: One is to close school or work, the other involves being in front of a fire place!

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What's wrong with you people?
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James J. Hill built the Great Northern Railway across Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. For this, he became known as "the Empire Builder," and the GN's premier passenger train was named after him. Though I can't find the reference now, I recall the quote attributed to him: "no man amounts to a damn upon whom the snow does not fall."

Let the record show that on Sunday afternoon I was cleaning, lubing, and adjusting the bindings on a pair of downhill skis, just as I had been doing on the previous afternoon.

On the other hand, I've been in Bismarck in February, and I have to say that might get tired after a while. "Tired" in the sense that you would be clawing at the cabin walls in no time. I mean, that is bleak.

Still, no snow = no fun.

I missed that ice storm, because I was in Okla visiting a sick grandmother. Buy my partner was here and spent 4 days with friends while the power was out. One friend had major damage to his house when a tree split and fell on it. The first year we lived in KC, 1996, we had 8 inches of wet snow on October 21! Lost power for 5 days that time. Now they do a better job of keeping the limbs cut away from the power lines.

The sun is coming out and it's suppose to be 50 tomorrow, so this won't last long.

lesbnatc, Wow, Pratt KS really is out there in the middle of, well, very little. Out there you get the weather extremes -- heavy snows, super-hot summers, not to mention the tornadoes.

The snow looks very pretty in pictures: just the way I like it! Give me 80 degrees any day!! Happy Thanksgiving, and be careful driving in that white stuff.

Over on the other side of the state here in St. Louis we got 1-2" of snow here, it started out as rain in the morning, and when I mentioned to someone that my parents up in N. IL were getting snow ... .BOOM! within 15 mins, we were gettin it. Most of it was gone that night even with it being so wet and all the rain we'd gotten before.