Hey. Anyone else have bad weather coming in?

[leftyladyfrommo]

It's cold and dry in KC right now but it is just about to change. Darn, double darn. I really am not a cold weather person. I hate this stuff.

Freezing rain today and bunches of snow by tonite.

Everybody be safe out there.

[REP]

1. That's just normal winter weather for Missouri.

And one reason I don't live there anymore.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. True.

Every December we get a whole pile of white stuff. And it always is followed by terrible cold with a 25 mph wind behind it.

I just hate it.

[RC]

15. I have lived in Kansas City for a little over 3 years, after moving from North Dakota

What I have noticed, is that there is a Spring after each snow fall. The snow melts. In North Dakota, usually, the first snow in the Fall, is the last to melt in the spring, i.e., March or sometimes even April.
A few years ago, the temperature in Fargo never got above -20°F for six weeks. The first winter here, I shoveled snow in my shirt sleeves in +20° temperatures and was sweating a bit. I refer to this area as the tropics or semi-tropics.

I have a button that says "-43 degrees keeps out the riffraff"
Be glad you live where it is warm.

[PDJane]

3. Toronto here. It's raining and 0°C or 32°F today.

Tomorrow, the temperature is dropping; -18°C overnight, or -0.4°F, and sleet. This will make a lovely skating rink of the highways for Monday Morning!

I don't mind the cold; I am almost always too warm. I do mind the ice, which will make it difficult to get around for those of us who are, the common jargon has it, mobility impaired.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Everyone is mobility impaired on ice.

It's the great leveler.

It's so hard when you can't even walk. One woman I knew fell on the ice and broke both wrists. You can't do anything with two broken wrists.

[RebelOne]

9. I cracked a hip bone when I slipped on ice.

I had just moved here to North Georgia from South Florida and had never dealt with ice, so didn't know to watch my step.

[Scuba]

13. Two broken wrists will leave you majorly indebted to someone.

[murielm99]

30. My daughter was supposed to go to Toronto yesterday.

I don't know if she got out of O'Hare. Today is her birthday, and she wanted to celebrate with her husband. She cannot move there until late February, because they are working on her resident legal alien status.

Be careful on the ice. We have it here in Northern Illinois, too. It scares me, and snow does not. Stay safe!

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

4. Thunder in Houston

I love these massive Gulf Coast rain storms with giant raindrops that go sideways.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Better than a massive ice storm.

We haven't had a really bad ice storm here for several years. Thank God. Or Thank the Green Man. Or whoever watches out over that stuff.

Looks like we are going to get just enough ice to make the roads bad. And then comes the snow. 4-7 inches for us.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Not today... Houston, and the entirety of SE Texas is under a tornado watch.

Neighbor across the street just lost several shingles. Scary stuff out there.

[maddezmom]

14. We are?

I need to turn on the TV?

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Hehehe

Yes, we are. I posted the watch in the Texas forum.

[maddezmom]

19. Thanks

Was raining earlier but it has since stopped. Just put on the weather channel and got nothing so went to the KHOU page. Hopefully it just stays a watch. Heading home to my folks in MI tomorrow so will enjoy the last of my TX weather even if it's a tornado watch.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. It's been really nice and warm lately..

We did the trek to Michigan for holidays with the family last year and got blasted by the winter storm. I will keep you in my thoughts and hope you have nice weather.

[RebelOne]

7. Storms due to roll in here in North Georgia tonight. n/t

[brer cat]

17. Sounds like rain and high wind.

At least the temps will be high. I would love some snow but I hate ice!!

[MineralMan]

8. I hate ice storms. We're going to miss this big storm, but

snow's coming tomorrow from another one. Uff da!, as we say here in Minnesota.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Tornado watches in Harris County (Houston), TX

The only thing I miss about "Up North" is a basement.

[Scuba]

12. We've got a forecast of 28 degrees and a foot of snow. I'm damned worried about my trees.

Last winter they took a beating when we got the wet, heavy stuff. Lost one tree entirely and major branches off half a dozen others (all pines of various type).

I think I'll spend the night outside shaking the snow off of them.

[hfojvt]

20. that's what I have done several times

although my maple, which I have raised from a pup, is now already too big to shake, but with a six foot pole I can smack some of the lower, sagging branches and thus knock the snow off of them.

[HereSince1628]

22. It's hard to call what's coming into SE WI anything but seasonal...now that ice the other day...

that was a bit unusual and a bit bad. I'm sorta hoping it turns out to be more in the 6 inch range.

Even so at 6 inches, until we get an extended thaw, getting to work will mean an 800 ft walk through snow down the lane in order to keep working on the interior of our house project I want to finish by mid-May. My old escort wagon's front wheel drive is actually pretty good on light snow, mud and tall wet grass but the highway tires are too slick to drag the undercarriage through high snow.

The drifts from that 3/4 inch snowfall stopped me halfway in the other day, and I found out that a bucket style grain shovel makes passing good sled for a 2 gallon paint can.

[Scuba]

23. The grain shovel is my favorite.

[hfojvt]

18. yeah

but I live in an ex-urb of Missouri, so I have about the same weather as you, except when the good old Tonganoxie split saves me.

[xmas74]

24. My windshield is a sheet of ice.

I'm an hour SE of you.

[distantearlywarning]

25. 86 degrees today in sunny Orlando, FL

[darkangel218]

26. My phone says 80

[distantearlywarning]

28. My bad.

I was talking about the expected high for today.

[HipChick]

27. It's pretty bad here..91F

and breezy on the beaches...although i did catch some lobster...

[Squinch]

29. In NY it's going to be in the 60's tomorrow!

[PDJane]

31. Well, we got the sleet; the streets are a mess. It's also going to freeze overnight;

The roads are going to be a rink tomorrow.

I took our Agnes out shopping today. She was doing better with her walker than I was with the cane! I thought I was going to break my neck, and she just kept trucking along. We bought the necessary stuff, ate out, and I brought her home. She's yacking to my son at the moment; good day, and she's relaxed, but sleepy. Going to feed her tea and biscuits and put her bed.

[winter is coming]

32. I'm expecting a sharknado.

Vibes for all our DUers, trying to deal with winter storms.