Anybody else buried under a sheet of ice?

[CatWoman]

[Fenris]

1. You shouldn't operate a computer outside.

[CatWoman]

3. smart ass!!!!

good one!!!

[Fenris]

4. Athangew!

[Lex]

2. It's sleeting like mofo here

right now. Much more coming.

Central NC is where I am.

[CatWoman]

5. Atlanta here

I have skylights in my living room and I can hear the stuff coming down. It was pretty loud last night.

[Shopaholic]

6. Sleet & freezing rain for me here in South Carolina

Just waiting for the power to go--it always does when we have weather like this.

[eyepaddle]

26. I always love sleeping while listening to a powerful storm,

I suppose it draws my actual comfort into sharp focus! However it can be a bit of a drag if I know I have to go work outside in that stuff all the next day.

Oh well, life's not perfect....

[RebelOne]

27. But ice storms don't make any noise.

It rains and then the rain freezes and you don't even know that there was an ice storm until you step outside in the morning and slip and slide on the ice.

[CatWoman]

29. true, but this one did

it was literally raining ice.

[eyepaddle]

30. Hmmmmm, let's see,

first, rain makes noise--whether it turns to ice or not after it has fallen does not change that.

Next, persistent sleet can turn into sheets of ice--you can hera all the little kernels hitting the house. That ice can be kinda funny though, it's all dimpled. If the storm turns into snow partway through you can just never get all the snow off your car--it's buried in those little crenellations so that now matter how much you brush once you start driving it blows over your windshield and frosts it up. Those can be really noisy.

Hell, even snow falling can be noisy--if there is enough wind (and there often is.

[Mend]

7. 80 degrees here in south Florida

but we do get the occasional wind storm...

[Lex]

9. "Wind storm"

Is that what you guys are calling the hurricanes these days?

Denial, denial, denial.

[ulysses]

8. 1/8 inch on the mailbox.

[CatWoman]

12. Uly, Baby!!!!

I left my cigarettes in the truck, but it looks like I'm gonna have to work like crazy to pry the door open!!!!!

[CatholicEdHead]

10. 30 and dry in Minnesota

with a warm week this week and a artic week next week.

[Dr.Phool]

11. No, I'm buried under a pile of Dog

He weighs 130 pounds, and is sitting on my chest, licking my face.

[CatWoman]

13. awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

that's cute.

I think my cats weigh that combined.

Damn wimps -- they only pile up on me when its cold.

[Dr.Phool]

14. I only get up

When he decides I get up.

[Catbird]

15. Even the cat won't go out. Brrrrrr.

We got a light coating of ice from the first part of the ice storm and are waiting for the second part to hit.

By the way, the cat does not go outside if we can help it. We do let her out on a screened porch, which she has declined today.

[CatWoman]

16. another storm is going to hit???

where are you located?

[Catbird]

35. South Carolina midlands

There were a couple of bands of precipitation here with a lull in between. Not really two storms, just a break. The first one was pretty icy; the one hitting us now is rain, but could easily turn to ice. From the weather maps, it looks like some folks didn't get a break.

[NNadir]

17. Dear Sirs: I was buried under an ice sheet some 5,000 years ago

and grew after a few millenia to be quite comfortable with my situation.

Let me state in the strongest terms that I strongly object to your decision to remove me from my glacier and display me in a museum. Can I go home now?

Sincerely,
Otzi, the "Ice Man."
Glass box,
Balzano, Italy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/940751.stm

[CatWoman]

19. I'm just a caveman. Your world frightens and confuses me

[pookieblue]

18. My car was covered bumper to bumper with Ice

Trees were weighed down with ice too.. but the roads were good.

I live down in Columbus, Ga and the the storm stopped just north of us. Well did get some left overs however.

I heard that Atlanta was at a stand still for awhile... that's hard to imagine. I was watching The Weather Channel and they showeed one of the HWY's and there were NO cars.

Stay safe up there.

[JanMichael]

20. NC checking in!

I cannot WAIT for February to be over with! I hate this crap!

And yeah...I am a wimpy Southerner, and no, I don't give a damn about how well Northerners handle winter weather...

[pookieblue]

23. I agree

And yeah...I am a wimpy Southerner, and no, I don't give a damn about how well Northerners handle winter weather...

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[JanMichael]

32. Ingersoll???? I love that quote!

He's one of my favorite people to have been wiped off the "history" books.

BTW this is Michael. My wife, Stephanie, posted about being the Southerner who doesn't care about how well Northerners handle show. She posts under my ID quite a bit...

[oustemnow]

33. dude, I grew up in the Northeast, now live in Atlanta

and I only have had to deal with this sort of thing like, 2 or 3 times in my life.

I spent more than a half hour getting enough ice off my car to get to the grocery store.

[Dzimbowicz]

21. South Carolina here....

There is about a quarter inch of ice and snow in my yard right now. Tonight it is forecasted that another quarter inch will fall.

I took my steam cleaner out this morning and wrote my name, along with a note of apology about not being able to resist the temptation, into the snow/ice. Two of my neighbors have commented that I must be rather 'gifted'; I told one how I did this and it was suggested that I add some orange juice for added effect before the president of the homeowners association saw it.

[RebelOne]

22. Yes, I am in Woodstock, just northwest of Atlanta

Everything is iced over. In fact, the trees over my house are dangerously bent over. In Cherokee County they don't have the equipment to de-ice all the roads, so I don't dare drive. In fact, even if I could drive, I can't get my car doors open. They are iced shut.

My neighbor measured the ice and everything is covered with 3/4 of an inch

And now my dog wants to go for a walk, which means that I will be slipping and sliding down to the field where I take her.

On edit: Could not make it to the field. Kept slipping and sliding on ice. Dog not happy as she was able to walk just fine.

[n2mark]

25. Just came in

from planting some cacti and other plants before we dry out here. Sure hope everything grows. The ground was wet and easy to plant things. Now I'm itchy!

It rained this morning but the sky is clearing and the sun is trying to shine. Yes!

[Taxloss]

24. I'm buried under the mildest winter in living memory.

Global warming is getting busy on our asses here in the UK.

[name not needed]

28. HEZBOLLAH!!!!

[CatWoman]

31. fucking nut!!!

[NV Whino]

34. No ice

But it got reeeeal cold here last night. 32°