Thank you for the laugh, honeychile!

On a softer note, sending prayers to all affected family, GCers and friends in New England.

Stay safe everyone!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

It was a beautiful sunny snow day here...with about a foot of snow in the driveway left from the deluge that ended at dawn. My husband was a conference and I told him he needed to get the mail and the snowblower out when he got home, because we were literally trapped. My dog loves the snow. We've made trenches for him in the backyard and he likes to run through them.

I just can't see anyone in Michigan naming a snowstorm with a human name. Not going to happen. And I did live through the Blizzard of 78...we had to dig a cave in front of the front door to let our dog out.

Haha, you and everyone else!

My cousin's wife just sent me a pic of her back deck in Coventry, RI. Already over a foot of snow, and they still have so much more to go.. blizzard conditions until 5am, and snow all day tomorrow. Crazy.

Same here in NE Ohio. However, someone did make the comment that we do in fact name storms that drop 2+ feet of snow: WINTER.

I was born in 1983 so I wasn't around to see that on the news, but I saw the Blizzard of 78' on the History Channel a couple of years ago, and I thought it just hit New York. It got Michigan, too?

That's ok-you can get me back this summer when it is 110 degrees here and no one will want to go outside:D.

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Nah, aggie you have it so good. I mean, as long as it's not "humid hot", I love the heat. It just feels SO good. :)

It hit the entire northeast.....

:eek: Yikes!

So far this year, we've gotten more snow than normal. I mean, that's what they said on the news.

LOL..exactly!

Absolutely. But we didn't name it then, either. ;) Schools were closed for a week. I had a big school project due on the first snow day, which I was staying up late to finish. We were so sure it was going to be a snow day, I asked my mom if I could go to bed. She said I'd better get it done, just in case. It was very bad...the roads were closed for a few days, and some people died because ambulances couldn't get to them. We did not lose power, though. My father-in-law took his snowmobile to Meijer to get food. There were employees who were stuck there and they remained open.

Here's a link to more info:
http://blogs.woodtv.com/2013/01/26/t...zzard-of-1978/

Thanks for posting this, and thank you for the link. I'm going to read it now. I had no idea... :(

Looks like the Great Lakes storm of 78 and the one that hit New York were two separate storms, two weeks apart. That, I didn't know! I always thought the Blizzard of 78 was one big storm.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...045623,00.html