topic Re: Snow Snow and more Snow in Community Chat

Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:00:09 GMT

This is yesterday morning. We got about 6 - 8" and same amount at least coming again today.

More snow Friday into Saturday whew roads will be a mess!

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

Estellee — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:01:48 GMT

@rockygems123 What a beautiful pic, what part of the country do you live in?

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:03:17 GMT

@Estellee

We are up against the foothills of the Rockies in the metro Denver area.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

Estellee — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:20:52 GMT

@rockygems123 wrote:
@Estellee

We are up against the foothills of the Rockies in the metro Denver area.

@rockygems123 How nice it must be beautiful. I live in So Florida and there is a hurricane churning out in the caribbean again. Unreal, isn't it.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

chrystaltree — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:24:27 GMT

People who don't get snow like that always think it's oh so beautiful. It's no beautiful if you have to drive in it, shovel, clean off the cars and get them out, walk the dogs, take public transportation. And then you have to do it all over again when you get more snow a week later. I'm in MA and I hate snow now. A light sprinkling on Christmas is all I need. Snow was a part of winter until a few years ago when weirdly we just stopped getting big snow. We haven't had a snow blizzard in years. We just get a couple of inches but not often. I haven't had to wear snow boots in two years. Sounds crazy but last winter hubby and son in law took the kids up to a park in NH to sled and play in the snow. Just hour away. I suppose we are do for some serious snow but I am dreading it.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

Kachina624 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:30:24 GMT

@Estellee wrote:
@rockygems123 wrote:
@Estellee

We are up against the foothills of the Rockies in the metro Denver area.
@rockygems123 How nice it must be beautiful. I live in So Florida and there is a hurricane churning out in the caribbean again. Unreal, isn't it.

@rockygems123. Same here in the Albuquerque area. I awoke to a winter wonderland with 5-6" on my block wall fence. Very fine, dry flakes started yesterday afternoon and will continue through tomorrow. Windy and bitterly cold.

So much for the predicted "warmer and drier than normal".

Meanwhile my sister in PA. Says she could sunbathe in her yard today. Crazy.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

haddon9 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:34:58 GMT

Here in SE PA it was up to 80 yesterday! Very unusual and we have had no rain for almost 2 months!

Things are starting to get brown and most of the trees have turned and lost their leaves.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

shoesnbags — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:38:07 GMT

@rockygems123

Very pretty! But truth be told, I'd rather admire snow from afar than live with it. I did that for 2 1/2 years and that was enough.

It was 80 degrees here in NOLA yesterday and I'd prefer temps to be about 15 to 20 degrees lower. But I'm ok with that if the alternative is ice and snow.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

BlueFinch — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:51:53 GMT

I've seen snow in my S central TX area only about five times in my life. After the last event, a real snowzilla, with days of power outages and the city coming to a halt, I hope to never see it again.

People lost lives. It's such a foreign occurrence here, that the authorities and citizens don't know how to be resourceful and safe. Plus, our power structure stinks. They've known this for a long time and have done little to rectify the problem, except argue about funds needed for improvements.

They claim service is better. Well, with most little thunderstorms, I lose power. Just happened two days ago. So, call me skeptical.

But, I sure love to see the photos of such gorgeous, snowy landscapes. It's why I love (even crummy) Christmas movies. The settings are downright dreamy.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

SilleeMee — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:15:39 GMT

We're getting a lot of snow here in Colorado Springs, too. At least a FOOT so far, maybe more, which is quite a bit for us. More is coming today, tonight and tomorrow. Schools and many businesses are closed. Roads and highways are also closed. News people are saying: "STAY HOME."

These numbers are from yesterday. More snow has fallen since then.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

Goodie2shoes — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:15:52 GMT

Here in the St.Louis and surrounding mid Missouri area we have had an abundance of rain and severe flooding with several fatalities. In some areas it's been reported by the news that up to 16" of rain has fallen and some rivers are still rising. Up until we started getting heavy rains within the last week we were almost bone dry with I think the weather reports said about 2" total rainfall for the month of October. More rain is expected this weekend but today it's sunny and about 60 degrees. I'm not looking forward to snow

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:22:20 GMT

@Estellee wrote:
@rockygems123 wrote:
@Estellee

We are up against the foothills of the Rockies in the metro Denver area.
@rockygems123 How nice it must be beautiful. I live in So Florida and there is a hurricane churning out in the caribbean again. Unreal, isn't it.

@Estellee

It is truly beautiful here as well as your state. It is unreal with the dangers, take care and hopefully won't be a bad one.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

HLP — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:24:32 GMT

@rockygems123 wrote:
This is yesterday morning. We got about 6 - 8" and same amount at least coming again today.

More snow Friday into Saturday whew roads will be a mess!

Just beautiful! I live in WV where we get 4 seasons and my favorite is winter. Lived in it all my life, school, work. the whole bit, but nothing like a big snow fall on a cold evening.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:26:05 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
People who don't get snow like that always think it's oh so beautiful. It's no beautiful if you have to drive in it, shovel, clean off the cars and get them out, walk the dogs, take public transportation. And then you have to do it all over again when you get more snow a week later. I'm in MA and I hate snow now. A light sprinkling on Christmas is all I need. Snow was a part of winter until a few years ago when weirdly we just stopped getting big snow. We haven't had a snow blizzard in years. We just get a couple of inches but not often. I haven't had to wear snow boots in two years. Sounds crazy but last winter hubby and son in law took the kids up to a park in NH to sled and play in the snow. Just hour away. I suppose we are do for some serious snow but I am dreading it.

@chrystaltree

We moved from the Bay Area to Denver almost 30 yrs ago and have never looked back. Only snow we had was on trips to Tahoe and loved it.

Snow is definitely manageable here in Denver metro. It is pretty and sun will be out soon with guys in their shorts.

They're definitely outdoor crazies out here lol.

You may get your local snow this year and sounds like the kids would love it.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:29:03 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Estellee wrote:
@rockygems123 wrote:
@Estellee

We are up against the foothills of the Rockies in the metro Denver area.
@rockygems123 How nice it must be beautiful. I live in So Florida and there is a hurricane churning out in the caribbean again. Unreal, isn't it.
@rockygems123. Same here in the Albuquerque area. I awoke to a winter wonderland with 5-6" on my block wall fence. Very fine, dry flakes started yesterday afternoon and will continue through tomorrow. Windy and bitterly cold.

So much for the predicted "warmer and drier than normal".

Meanwhile my sister in PA. Says she could sunbathe in her yard today. Crazy.

@Kachina624

Oh yay you got your needed precipitation!

Send a pic if you can. We're loading up on snow for the next 2 days then we'll most likely have a dry spell.

Crazy about the PA weather, unbelievable.

We (CO & NM) had our share of warm weather up until a couple weeks ago?!

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:30:06 GMT

@haddon9 wrote:
Here in SE PA it was up to 80 yesterday! Very unusual and we have had no rain for almost 2 months!

Things are starting to get brown and most of the trees have turned and lost their leaves.

@haddon9

Did you have to deep water your trees? We were short on rain too here in Denver and the pines weren't looking great.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

Kachina624 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:32:21 GMT

@SilleeMee wrote:
We're getting a lot of snow here in Colorado Springs, too. At least a FOOT so far, maybe more, which is quite a bit for us. More is coming today, tonight and tomorrow. Schools and many businesses are closed. Roads and highways are also closed. News people are saying: "STAY HOME."

These numbers are from yesterday. More snow has fallen since then.

@SilleeMee. Poor kids here can't catch a break with an old fashioned "snow day". They have to do "remote learning" now when the weather is bad.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:33:24 GMT

@BlueFinch wrote:
I've seen snow in my S central TX area only about five times in my life. After the last event, a real snowzilla, with days of power outages and the city coming to a halt, I hope to never see it again.

People lost lives. It's such a foreign occurrence here, that the authorities and citizens don't know how to be resourceful and safe. Plus, our power structure stinks. They've known this for a long time and have done little to rectify the problem, except argue about funds needed for improvements.

They claim service is better. Well, with most little thunderstorms, I lose power. Just happened two days ago. So, call me skeptical.

But, I sure love to see the photos of such gorgeous, snowy landscapes. It's why I love (even crummy) Christmas movies. The settings are downright dreamy.

@BlueFinch

We had Denver friends go to Texas to "warm up" that winter, had their giant 5 wheel RV or whatever you call it, big enough to carry a car inside.

They had plenty of room but as you say power was out so they were without heat.

Not a great vacation but as you say that should be a once in a lifetime occurrence.

And same here, sweltering in July & August I enjoy a good "snowy" Christmas movie lol. And most other months of the year

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:37:27 GMT

@SilleeMee wrote:
We're getting a lot of snow here in Colorado Springs, too. At least a FOOT so far, maybe more, which is quite a bit for us. More is coming today, tonight and tomorrow. Schools and many businesses are closed. Roads and highways are also closed. News people are saying: "STAY HOME."

These numbers are from yesterday. More snow has fallen since then.

Yikes @SilleeMee you have about the same numbers as up here.

Stay warm and safe, looks like we're not going anywhere!

BTW, do you use grocery delivery? I have a King Sooper a couple miles away and found didn't need delivery. Did try Amazon Fresh however recently because they had something I needed and it was great! Special $4.95 delivery charge + $5 tip.

I don't like to spend the money on delivery but the produce and everything else was so good may go to a subscription. I'm already a Prime member.

Re: Snow Snow and more Snow

rockygems123 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:40:27 GMT

@HLP wrote:
@rockygems123 wrote:
This is yesterday morning. We got about 6 - 8" and same amount at least coming again today.

More snow Friday into Saturday whew roads will be a mess!

Just beautiful! I live in WV where we get 4 seasons and my favorite is winter. Lived in it all my life, school, work. the whole bit, but nothing like a big snow fall on a cold evening.

@HLP wrote:
@rockygems123 wrote:
This is yesterday morning. We got about 6 - 8" and same amount at least coming again today.

More snow Friday into Saturday whew roads will be a mess!

Just beautiful! I live in WV where we get 4 seasons and my favorite is winter. Lived in it all my life, school, work. the whole bit, but nothing like a big snow fall on a cold evening.

@HLP

I agree love 4 seasons and big snow fall on a cold evening with great food lol!

Making a nice beef stew today can't wait.