We got 7" of snow here yesterday, which was nice after nothing but freezing rain on Thursday. Luckily the heaviest freezing rain stayed a little south of me this time.

7 point..i'll take 20 below and four feet of snow rather than ice like that!..it's my one "home survival" issue..

we got 1/2 ice/sleet in cent ark but my wife is snowed in in NE ark with about 10" of snow on top of ice. Thankfully, plenty of power. They have chainsaw if need be.

Watching the news they said coastal Virginia, Virginia Beach Virginia, got 18" of snow. The area rarely gets snow. A light powdering once every three or four years. A couple of inches every decade or so but anything more than 6" is pretty much unheard of. This much is a historic high for the last fifty years or more.

Coastal Virginia is totally unprepared for that sort of snow. The good news is that there is a lot of military in the area and between the Army and Marines they have the vehicles that can get through to keep the main roads open and the vital services like hospitals running. Probably not enough resources to get to every house, or even subdivision, but enough to take the worse of the rough edges off.

Hang tough, stay warm, try to help any way you can.

Delighted to! We were on the Mall for over 3 hours. I'm still thawing. High temp today was 21 degrees.

Dagny, glad to see you and Gidget had a nice time.

Here, we ended up with maybe 8 to 12 inches of snow, hard to tell for sure. Power stayed on but gas was off this Sunday morning. Pull the plunger, let the house warm up, re-light the water heater. I am used to it but still plan to call the gas company again to get those old regulators replaced.

Shovelling snow was no fun and DS is out of school for now. That's the biggest problem with big snows here. Main roads get cleared pretty quickly but the side roads can take a while. Fortunately we live on a main road but as long as the side roads remain ice and/or snow covered, that means no school. DS has had maybe two full weeks of school since Christmas break. If they miss too many they have to make them up at the end of the year. That stinks, especially when trying to plan weekend campouts around his homework in June. Oh well, I ramble. Everyone is warm, cozy and comfortable. I cleaned my side of the bedroom and part of DWs. Took out trash, cans and glass to be recycled, shoveled sidewalk and driveway, cleared snow off the cars, cleaned up the mess of cardboard boxes to be recycled, and even had time left over for a couple transformer battles, a couple crossbow and catapult battles, and a firemaking lesson with DS. Couple of haircuts for DS and I today and DW is very happy. And that makes me very happy too.


And get your minds out of the gutter, that's not what I meant.

In the end, we didn't do too badly. In higher elevations there was some loss of power, but it sounds like they quickly restored service.