WTF is all that white stuff in my yard?

[Jamastiene]

:wow:

If you don't hear from me, it means we lost power and I'm going out of my mind without my computer. :scared: :(

[elleng]

1. SORRY! WHERE are you?

.

[Jamastiene]

2. Rockingham, North Carolina.

Snowflakes the size of notebook paper. We don't normally get this stuff. I'm :scared: we'll lose power. We got no other form of heat than electric. :(

[elleng]

3. O GEE!

Stay in touch!!!

[Jamastiene]

5. Is snow supposed to make those crunching noises?

It just won't stoppppp. It's, like, EVERYWHERE. Is it supposed to do that? I mean, like, we've had snow before, but this sticking around and just laying all over everything isn't normal for us. Usually, it melts and goes away. This time, it's not. :yoiks: :scared:

[elleng]

7. Yes, 'crunching' is normal!

.

[Jamastiene]

9. I yelled at it and told it to get off my lawn.

That didn't work. It sounds funny out there, like muffled. I know I parked my car at the end of the handicapped ramp and it didn't have a hat on. Now, it's got a white hat on it. It has been a long time since we've had snow. :crazy:

[elleng]

11. That 'muffled' sound

is one of the neat things about snow, I think; lays a silent blanket on the neighborhood. And puts hats on all sorts of things!

[Two Americas]

22. lol

Don't panic. It is all normal. Hope you don't lose power, though.

[Jamastiene]

26. So far so good on the power.

I took a little nap and woke up when my aunt asked to get out of bed. The power has stayed on so far. I'm hoping it will stay on too. I don't want to have to go get a Kerosene heater and Kerosene. The highway patrol has told people to stop trying to drive in it. In my county and the two counties to the west of us, there were 60+ traffic accidents, including one truck that turned over and it all happened before 8 o'clock. We really shouldn't try to drive in it. The Highway Patrol is right. :rofl:

[Two Americas]

34. we need music for this...

"Don't be such a whiner when it snows in Carolina, in the morning..."

"Carolina snow, keep falling, falling on my roof and in my yard..."

[Jamastiene]

36. I'll do whatever the state cops tell me to do.

Er...maybe, I should re-phrase that. I'll stay home and not go wreck my old car. Yogi is here in the recliner next to me. I guess he's seen the snow enough that he knows it's not going anywhere for now. He had looked out the windows for about 5 hours straight today though.

[Rhythm]

46. OMG,... i used to live in Norwood!

Just a little ways down the road from you on US 52.

Yeah, it's hell when the Carolinas get snow... everything shuts down like it's the apocalypse.

Last bad snow i remember before i left: in Charlotte, i walked down the middle of Independence Boulevard (an 8-lane divided highway through the middle of the city, for whose who don't know) from the Eastway overpass to 7th Street (a good couple of miles, anyway) without seeing a single car.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. North Carolina.... you can hope it's cotton?

:spray:Don't worry * will be gone and if you miss your computer, you can celebrate in Abe Lincoln style and catch up on you-tube when it passes. Snuggle in and know we are safer now. :woohoo: :patriot:

[Jamastiene]

37. I fell asleep with the television on.

I heard them introduce Rick Warren, then turned the channel to the Preview TV Guide channel. I fell asleep and missed the whole thing. When I woke up, I turned it back to CBS and say the plane leaving taking Bush to whatever portal to hell he came from. I sighed and turned over to sleep peacefully knowing he is GONE from our White House now. :)

[The Wielding Truth]

45. That's so funny. I fell asleep for the parade. Oh well, we have to

sleep sometime.

Good bye, Psyco *. Hello, intelligent leader Obama!:hug: :fistbump:

[Jamastiene]

6. Hey, Snow People:

Is snow supposed to make funky noises on the roof? Like *crunch, crunch, thbt, thbt*?

[elleng]

8. On the ROOF?

Yes, when its walked on; you got someone walking around on your roof???

[Jamastiene]

10. Oh dear.

That's not normal, is it? :wow:

Daylight isn't for another hour. :tinfoilhat:

[a la izquierda]

12. perhaps ice?

we get a lot of that in Okieland. not a heck of a lot of snow, but ice, ice, ice. and it does make funky noises.
good luck :) and enjoy it (well, as long as your heat stays on)

[Two Americas]

40. reindeer?

Maybe Santa was waiting for snow down there before he showed up...

[HillbillyBob]

13. Hello Neighbor. We are in rural Caswell County about 7 mile south of

Yanceyville NC.
So far it looks like we have almost 2 inches out there and more coming down fast and fine.
We have 3 furkids the eldest Dora is my aide dog, snow is old hat, number 2 Ashley does not care about cold she will sit there in it for hours but not too thrilled this is the second time she has seen snow. Our youngest Callie though thinks its unnacheral get it off me!
To those out in the world there really is a town called Yanceyville.
It's not quite as imaginary as oh Hooterville, Podunk, or Green Acres.
The people are nice, it is a pretty place.. and we live up a 2/10 mile dirt driveway on our little start up ecofarm.
I am staying right here at home husbear is getting the car warmed up to go to work the car is front wheel drive. Our pickup is regular 2 wheel drive, he is staying parked right there.
We have a kerosene heater it works when the first generation heat pump does not, it has emergency electric heat back up that spins the meter like a top.
After getting past Hurricane Andrew I started keeping kerosene lamps too.
OOPs here is husbear, car went off the road, its slick out there. At least hes ok and the car is ok...he got it back in the road and came home and it is started to snow harder here

[Jamastiene]

33. It's slick underneath it where it rained then froze.

I've driven in just snow before, but when it rains the day before, doesn't dry out, then freezes like that, I won't drive in it. I live on a hilly area in my county. Just going down my driveway would land me in the road when I hit the brakes no matter how much I tried that pumping method to slow down. It's a pretty steep drop off from my driveway to the road.

[dsc]

14. my dog was so funny today

we have snow in Raleigh too.

[Jamastiene]

25. Yogi, my boy cat, looks out the window every morning.

I read a book one time, called The Fur Person, where the author said that was a cat's version of "reading the newspaper." Yogi reads the newspaper every morning no matter what. This morning, he kept looking out the window then looking at me. I kept telling him it was snow. So, when my aunt got up, she wanted to look out the door to see how many inches we got. We got around 4 inches here in Rockingham.

Then, Yogi wanted to look. Normally, he won't go near the door, but today, he stretched his body out in that "I'm scared but interested" type posture and looked at the snow then looked up at me, then did it again and again. I thought for a second there he was going to go outside in it, but when I scooped a handful up and let him smell it, it melted a little in my hand and dripped on him. That took care of that. He is now back to going from window to window looking at it, although he is a lot calmer about it now. It's like he is in awe and wonder of it or something. It is very rare down here in Rockingham too. We get it maybe once a year or once every other year here, just like Raleigh.

[bluedawg12]

15. Awwwww.......

:nopity:

:rofl:

No to brag, but, we have like three feet of it right outside this here window, staring back at me, day after day, mocking me, falling slowly, falling fast, covering everything except my spirit, yes my spirit laughs back at the stuff, even while my back shovels it. It's the American way.

p.s.

I hope your power doesn't tank. I know folks not used to it tend to see it as the ENNNNNDDDDDD.

muhhaahhhwhhhawhhhhaaaaa...ha...hah..ha...*cough*...heh

stay warm Jama. :hi:

[gaspee]

20. Yeah

We've got about a foot and a half on the ground right now. It sucks because I deliver newspapers and I am always out before the plows and I have a rear wheel drive pick up. It's funny when people who aren't used to it get snow, isn't it?

[Jamastiene]

38. We don't have plows here.

The mud driving people (the ones who have 4 wheel drive and like to drive their trucks in mud for fun on weekends) go out and drive over it until either it breaks up and melts or it doesn't. They are the adventurous ones who like to prove their l33t driving skills in this stuff.

I think there is some sort of truck the local cops borrow from Charlotte that puts salt on the roads, but that's rare.

[bluedawg12]

42. You just need more of the white stuff

then they'll get that plow!

Actually, I'm just jealous, because your climate is milder than mine. :eyes:

[Jamastiene]

28. I'm a little more used to it now that I have seen it

in what has passed for daylight here today. It's so bright. Yogi is still looking out the window. He normally looks out the window a little in the morning, then goes on his way and naps and does all his normal cat stuff plus plays his "pirate game." Today, though, he has stayed in the windows most of the day. He hasn't stopped for very long at all except when I helped my aunt get out of bed and fed her. He came to "help" me do that then right back to the window he went.

I cannot imagine 3 feet of it. How do you get the door open when there is that much? We got about 4 or 5 inches here and it was hard to open the door to look out.

[NorthCarolina]

16. I know, we got that white stuff here in Charlotte too

:scared: :(

[relayerbob]

17. Yes, I am also in NC stuck in a hotel

I came down here to Raleigh/Durham for a job interview, and am now stuck, unable to drive back to Virginia. Watching the inauguration on TV and talking to the wife on the phone. Beautiful, but frustrating. And the worst part is the little snow that had at home has now melted off.

Enjoy your day!

[foxfeet]

18. Hope you stay warm!

We've got pea-soup fog and unhealthy air quality thanks to our annual winter thermal inversion. If you go up into the Cascades or Olympics, it's sunny and actually warmer than down here in the Puget Sound basin. At least the fog has been burning off by afternoon, giving us some sun (a coveted commodity here). I'll be glad when the rain returns and clears out the stagnant air.

[gaspee]

19. Wait

You're unable to drive because there's two inches of snow?

I had to deliver Sunday newspapers in a foot of it this past Sunday. It sucked.

Have fun on your snowday!

[Two Americas]

23. heh

They have no idea what to do in this. I was stuck in Cary for three days once because they got a little dusting of snow and everyone panicked.

[Jamastiene]

29. Close the schools and buy ALL the bread and milk.

Why bread and milk, I still don't know. I usually get some cans of beans and cans of soup. Just about every school in North Carolina was closed today.

[Jamastiene]

24. OMG

You drive in it? I've driven in snow before, but only because my step dad insisted I learn how. Other than that, just about every school in North Carolina was closed today and the NC Highway Patrol is telling us to stay home and not drive. There were 60+ accidents before 8 o'clock this morning in just three counties. The Highway Patrol told us to stop trying to drive in it. Their resources were maxed. I shit you not. They actually said, please stop trying to drive in it. :rofl:

[MNBrewer]

48. If I didn't drive in snow, then I wouldn't drive between Christmas and the end of April

Minnesota....

[Jamastiene]

31. Ours has not melted yet at all.

Down here in Rockingham, the temperature never made it above the freezing mark. So, it's still here. Have there been a lot of wrecks up in Raleigh? I know down here in my county and the two to the west of us, there were more than 60 traffic accidents before 8 o'clock this morning. The NC Highway Patrol told us to stop it, told us to stay home. :rofl:

[Two Americas]

35. OMG!!!

It's still here!!!

60 accidents. Wow. Hope no one gets hurt out there.

[gaspee]

21. hehehehehe

I love it when people who aren't used to it get snow, LOL!

We've gotten hit pretty bad this winter. We normally only get about 3 feet all winter and we've gotten almost 4 feet already. I wouldn't mind, but I deliver newspapers and driving in it before the plows are out really sucks.

[Jamastiene]

27. I can imagine, but I wouldn't want to do it.

Our paper was delivered this morning early. I still haven't crunched my way out there to get it either. It is beautiful, but freaks me out every time. I don't know why. I always get this urge to yell out the door, "You snowflakes get off my lawn." :rofl:

You are right. We really aren't used to it and it turns into this horrible sludgy slick mess underneath. I would for once like to get snow that doesn't have that layer of melted then refrozen ice under it.

[HillbillyBob]

30. We have more need for rain tread tires than snow.

I have no problem driving in snow, I grew up in Northern WV where we got plenty of it. My problem is the other folks who don't know what the h_ll they are doing and might hit me.
Besides that I plan ahead, got the kero heater and lamps, food laid in, firewood stacked up.
My partner went to go to work this morning and we live out in the boondocks and his car is front wheel drive but as I said has rain tires for there is hardly ever enough snow to warrant 700$ worth of tires for once every other year or so, he found the black ice under the snow and slipped off the road on to the shoulder, so he turned around and came back home.

[Jamastiene]

32. That black ice will make you slip and slide a lot.

Were you watching the news this morning when they said the Highway Patrol told us to stop trying to drive in it? They told us to stay home. Ok, no problem here. I don't like going out in rain, much less snow and that slick layer of ice under it.

[HillbillyBob]

41. His boss does not really care what the highway patrol says.

He expects him to show up at work, he called them and told them nope not coming in today, they were alright with that. Make it up tomorrow. The boss is actually pretty nice, but really does not think too far out on these things I think.

[Jamastiene]

39. OMG, I think I may be blinded for life!

The Sun just came out. So, I peeked out the window. My eyes! It's so bright reflecting off the snow.

[thrift_store_angel]

43. ...

My roommate here in Maryland called me this morning at 6:00 AM to tell me they had 2 or 3 inches of snow in Charlotte (she has a house down there too). I laughed and said it was cold up here but entirely snow-free. I told her she was going to lose power and that they were going to close everything. She said they had already closed everything and that she thought they might lose power too. I haven't heard from her since then. Maybe they lost power? LOL

[Rhythm]

47. Charlotte's funny that way...

I grew up there, and yeah, 2" of snow will start the shut-down mode for non-essential businesses.

6", and the place is a ghost-town.

There's a simple explanation for it, too... Snow happens far to infrequently in most of the state for the highway department to do any real investment in removal equipment and road treatments (salt, cinders, etc...). So, when the occasional snow DOES arrive, the state and the counties dispatch their meager resources to the main roads and interstates, which leaves the residential areas in a lurch.

If there's more than 6" (which i only saw maybe 4-5 times in 30 years), the whole region shuts down. You could walk down the interstate without encountering vehicle traffic.

[mtnester]

44. Southern weenie

sheesh

it was -8 this morning, a darn heat wave compared to the -18 the other morning. We don't stop jogging outside unless it drops below 20, then even some fools still run (I did see some idiots running OUTSIDE in -11 degree air temp, wind chill -40, on Saturday mid morning..fools even for here)

Not to mention the sitting 6 inches of perma-snow we have on the ground until we get the "thaw"

Dang lightweights.

:)