Comments on: Shovels and rakes

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:19:26 +0000

NOAA reported the following amounts of snow cover:

Friday – 14 inches.
Saturday – 10 inches.
Today – the numbers won’t be out until midnight. I’m guessing 5 inches.

By: Fishersville Mike

Fishersville Mike — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:16:21 +0000

Frosty Morning Jog Rattles Alabama…

Dustbury had a bit more of a white Christmas than he wanted……

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:05:31 +0000

Well, I’ve cleared the front walk and about 24 feet (out of 30) of the driveway. Temperatures unexpectedly climbed above freezing today, which helped; there will be some refreeze tonight, no doubt, but the worst is over.

By: Kay Dennison

Kay Dennison — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:52:16 +0000

Don’t panic! It will melt — probably sooner than you think. Funny because we haven’t had much snow at all in Ohio!!!!! It’s one of Mother Nature’s practical jokes. My snow shovel is collecting dust!

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:23:12 +0000

Sis said she saw on the news that OK doesn’t have laws against driving on a recommended closed road, as opposed to the more draconian measures to the north.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:16:38 +0000

I’m not sure we even have gates to shut and padlock.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:09:15 +0000

My sister lives near 122nd and I35 – I managed to get here before 7pm last night. I came in from Kingfisher on 33 – but I kept hearing about all the metro area interstates being closed. I figured I35 from Guthrie to 122nd was right out. So, I came down 74 to the Kilpatrick (the ‘pikes were open, go figure), ran over to I35 and made it in.

The whole experience was – interesting. The older I get, the less tolerance I have for such inconveniences. If I had to do it all over again, I’d have gotten a room in Kingfisher!

And “Roads Closed” in Oklahoma means something different than Colorado, Wyoming or any other “northern” state (even NW KS) – y’all just have a trooper on the shoulder with his lights on, watching the “forbidden” traffic drive by. Anywhere else, the gates are shut and padlocked.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:00:41 +0000

This is not an unusual amount of snow for an Oklahoma winter.

What’s different is that instead of falling over a period of twelve weeks, it fell over a period of twelve hours.

By: canadienne

canadienne — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:55:33 +0000

You can sing “Mon Pays” (the Gilles Vigneault version – “mon pays, c’est ne pas un pays, c’est l’hiver”) instead of “l’amour c’est comme l’ete…”) My sympathies for your snow, I know it is not fun for people not accustomed to it.

Ici, c’est hiver.

Joyeaux Noel!

By: Sheri

Sheri — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:27:07 +0000

It’s so purty. SO purty.