snow fun!

[harrigan]

I know it's not good news for everyone but can you imagine my delight?....  First day back at school today and we woke to several inches of snow.  The LEA have just posted that school are all shut tomorrow too!  I have nothing to do but stay warm and enjoy the view.

Susie (14) and her friends are amazed as they have never played out in the snow at home, we have had to venture to Wales of Yorkshire (Hi Kathy!) to find snow.  I'm sure in a couple of days we will all have had enough but for the moment, Warrington is a magical place to be.

Hope you are all staying warm and safe XX Ailsa

[Joy Cox]

Hey Over That Way...Way Over That Way       Just heard the snow plow go through and clear the road in front of our home.      Now know I could go to water aerobic class at Wellness Ctr. BUT who wants to go SWIMMING in 15-degree weather??? NOT ME, love to watch it from this side of bay window by the fireside Even the birds are slow to come out this morning, cats are asleep on rug. Only critters busy are the squirrels that usually indicates more of the same to come. 

Snow wet enough to build snowman? Make some snow cream!!!  Have fun...past memories with my kids and me on snowy days warm my heart...thanks for awakening these memories in me, Sweet Lady Ailsa. For 25 years, I was the school secretary at my children?s' primary school and stayed long enough to see them all finish college and then... I finally gave in to SS and retired! Love being home    

[Bucky]

Ailsa - how much snow do you have?  It is cold, cold, cold here Central Illinois.  It was a brisk -4  (-20 Celsius) when we were waiting for the school bus this morning.  After the bus left, I had to run to the grocery store and then pump gasoline.  BRRRRRRRR  Glad to be back home in my warm house - where I am staying until later this afternoon when I have to pick up son at school.  We're suppose to get 4-5" of snow tomorrow night into Thursday.  

My Dad lives in Ohio and they have 29 inches of snow on the ground since Sunday!!!    Where he lives they get a lot of lake effect snow from Lake Erie.

Hope you have a supply of hot chocolate ready for Susie when she comes in.  I'm sure the kids will have fun playing in the snow.

Stay warm.

Bucky

[Scottietottie]

Hi 

I can imagine your delight Ailsa! Wishing for the same to happen here! We have snow - but not enough to be closed. The kids are running round like lunatics and throwing snowballs inside the building - never mind outside.

It's meant to snow more tonight and would be great not to have to go to work this week! Love looking at snow but hate driving in it. They keep saying the north of England has it bad - but their north is south of us!!

Enjoy while you can!

Take care - Scottie 

[Katybarstool]

Hi

We had a couple of inches of snow here - on top of the stuff that hasn't cleared from before Christmas. The journey to work was a nightmare, and all that clutch control driving in first gear wreaked havoc on my poor 'undercarriage'. Took two hours to travel 11 miles, and the office was like the Marie Celeste! LUckily, the journey home was a bit easier. I'm sat on a swimming ring now

Mentioning playing in the snow, the BBC had a family of snowmen on their home page. It looked really cute.

Enjoy the white stuff!

Kathyx 

[jaygee]

I'm not far from Warrington, UK, and we had around 7" of snow overnight on top of the horrid ice left over from the Christmas snow.  I had to go to London today on the train, and the normal 15 min car ride to the station took 50 minutes, and there were so many abandoned buses, trucks and cars on the way there.  When I finally got to the station, just in time, I found my train had been cancelled but fortunately could use an alternative route and managed to get there  - but brrrrrrrrrrrr it's cold and horrid.

My poor horses had to stand in their stables all day (hubby was able to work from home so took care of them for me), as it wasn't safe to let them go out, but it isn't good for them not to be able to move around.  So I'm hoping that the snow stops overnight and they can go out for a wander in the small paddock tomorrow.   Doggies thought it was great to zoom around, trying to eat all that snow!!!   Stay safe and warm, everyone, and enjoy the views     xx

[irish]

My goodness, all you people in England are having such bad weather. It must be a global thing. What happened to global warming. In Minnesota we are having a mini blizzard today. Had a couple of inches of snow but the wind id 20-30 miles per hour and may go higher. It has been up to 20 below off and on the past week. The highest temp was 11 degrees on Monday.

We have not had snow like this for many years. In our yard(we live in the country) they used the big tractor snow blower and we have banks 4-5 feet. My grandkids had a great time during Christmas vacation --out with their sleds on the big drift outside my kitchen window.

We had really bad winters back in the late 70's and through the 80's and the winters became warmer the past 15 years or so. People have forgotten how to deal with the snow and have forgotten how to drive in it.The weather men on TV are amazed at the number of cars in the ditches. Good business for the towing truck business. Irish

[Bernice]

Whew! If I ain't tired of our local weatherpeople! Yet again they had everybody running around loading up on "survival" items for snowed in days. This is on the verge of being a crime, at least it needs to be. People are starting to believe they are in cohoots with the grogery stores or something.

For over four years now they have been giving these false warnings of snow, even dare to throw out the word Blizzard only to have nothing happen or so little it really ain't worth mentioning! Like today! I had myself all set to stay home both today AND tomorrow cuz they PROMISED 1 to 3 inches., ALL things lined up! I darn neared stayed up ALL night waiting to see if it was going to snow, after all I could do that right? Because if it snows enough to make a snowball everything's closed around here so no need in sleeping the night away, I ain't got to get up early in the morning Excuse me, but I am literally rolling my eyes at those nuts!!!

Shoot many of us were bragging saying how we were not even going to set our alarms, we were just going to sleep in and get up when we felt like it!

Well at some point I finally passed out watching late night (early morning) tv in between running to window trusting that it would be snow out there, if not now then surly by morning after all they were so sure this time and everybody believed them this time!

Well guess what? Guess how my morning started?I awoke 15 minutes past time I was to be at work, jumped up happily looking out the window and knew I was in trouble then when I saw a yard full of green grass!

I wouldn't care if they spotted Jesus' second coming, they need not report it! I'll just wait to see it for myself!
I don't trust NOTHING they say, NOTHING!

[harrigan]

Oh Bernice - we could happily share ours with you - we have snow and ice aplenty!  School is still shut so I have had an extra 4 days holiday.  Feeling a bit guilty about it, but I am so relaxed!!

Actually, I thought about you and your 'mister' yesterday when I went and bought 2 pairs of longjohns!  What a difference they make!  I agree, it's not a good look though.  My girls have said if I fall and break my leg and they have to cut my jeans off, they will claim not to know me!

Hoping you get enough to make a snowball and have a lie in too XX Ailsa

[harlin]

I would like to have a weathermans job. They never have to be right and no one complains. We were suppost to get 8 inches and we got about 1-2. Although we have about 10 on the ground. Enough all ready!!
Come on Spring. I am anxious to get into the flower beds.
Guess I will get my house in order so I will be ready to get outside when Spring does come.
harlin

[Bucky]

Bernice - better prepared than caught in the middle of a snowstorm with no milk or bread. 

Maybe the weather person needs a new coin to flip . . .  . . . . it some times seems like that's what they do!!  LOL   Guess it all depends on the jet stream and which way Mother Nature decides to turn.  Better to be forwarned and NOT get snow, than to have no warning and wake up to snow!!   

We've stayed up late at night just "knowing" school would be closed the next day due to snow or drifts.  Only to wake up to no announcement of a closure and being tired.  Last night being a perfect example!!    

Bucky

[Bernice]

Yeah your right, but the biggest problem here is you never really know how to dress. O.K when it''s cold like it is now you know to have a coat on, but I can't count the times I have been out over dressed in long sleeves when I should only have a tee shirt or shorts on. We have to keep clothes in our cars to change up in.

Here, our weather can switch so from day to day depending on cold and warm fronts in ALL directions, kind of right in middle of USA, I thinks it's said 200 or so miles from exact center. Most places KNOW they will need coats or just a shirt. It's hard to find a thick weather coat here so we may have to layer for our coldest days because most only have leather, not enough cold days for you to need big thick coat and even if you do you need to know when it's needed before you leave home.

Most homes are not weatherized for freezing temp. we may need to do certain things so that we will not be in such a bind. I have already awoke to frozen pipes because the temp. changed over night from wearing sleeveless (Christmas Eve to waking up to cold needing a coat on Christmas Day!

Guess what I'm saying is, we really depend alot on them giving us heads up this time of year! The rest of the time we only need them for tornado warnings which is usually what we get this time of year!