Anybody Else Snowed in?
 

Are any other GreekChatters snowed in? I think that maybe the entire states of Georgia and Alabama are. Hundreds of cars were abandoned on roads, even the interstates, yesterday. I think I would have died if I'd been stranded on top of Spaghetti Junction in Atlanta.

Yes, some Northerners will laugh at us but we don't get enough snow here to make it worth buying snowplows, etc. I think our last snow was in 2010?

Anyway, there are kids and teachers still stranded at schools. My husband said that several buses couldn't get to his school and finally, the out of town teachers volunteered to stay with the students overnight since they couldn't get out of town anyway.

Me? I'm hunkered down at home with my husband and 5 teenagers and some snow-loving animals. I have on my giant "Sig Ep mom" sweatshirt and plan to drink coffee and read all day.

And you?

Also, snow fell from the sky, but it became ice on the roads. A key fact.

A total mess in my town too. I think all the kids got home from school yesterday (no busses for us either) but everyone was reporting 3-5 hour commutes for what is normally 10-15 minutes of travel time.

We had some flurries and some ice for yesterday's morning commute, but that all cleared away by the evening.

yep. I'm in the columbus area, and my employer sent me home at lunch time yesterday so that we could make it home before the roads froze over.

My aunt is a school bus driver for cobb county. She got home at 3:30 this morning after leaving her car at the bus shop and hopping a ride with a friend who had a 4WD.

2 sorority sisters ended up in a hotel room on barrett pkwy. Both have babies under a year old at home, and they both live in Dallas.

Another sister is a kindergarten teacher. Tried to go home, but left her car abandoned 4 miles from school and went back. Some of the kids were still at school, so they had a sleepover in the gym and she was posting pics on FB this morning about making pancakes for the staff members after the kiddos had been fed.

Some friends were stranded at their office. It's a complete and utter mess. Very grateful my employer sent me home. I'm snug in my house, with a sheet of ice on my driveway. Our office is closed today.

Nope, but I live in CA. :p Stay warm.

My husband and I are snowed in over in Gwinnett. Glad everyone in our family made it home safely.

My family on the Florida panhandle isn't snowed in, but rather iced in due to the low bridges.

After living in the northeast for 15 years, I can't laugh at southerners for this. I've always lived in cities with snowplows and salt on hand; also, how are you going to learn to drive in this in Florida or Georgia? Ugh.

Be safe y'all!

Clemson finally cancelled school today after pushing the opening time back twice, so while I do have a car I'm not especially inclined to go anywhere since the roads are icy.

I feel everyone's pain since our winter has sucked too - we've had more snow this year than we did in the last two. My car hasn't been out of the driveway in almost two weeks (it's a RWD sports car and the tires make it impossible to drive in even a flake of snow) so I've been relying on buses to get to the train station to commute in. I hate winter but this one especially!

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Iced in here - highways and interstate closed. Not hardly enough snow to make a snow man but pretty icy

Wise move! Even though you may know what to do on snow/ice because you grew up in the northeast, about 99 out of 100 people around you most assuredly do not!

The snow missed us in middle TN, but it is bone chillingly cold. Feeling for all of my people in GA, AL, and the Carolinas.

Nope .. but then I live in So. Arizona .. but I feel your pain. In So. Arizona they close schools if there's even a forecast of snow. Be worm .. be safe.

Anybody else starting to get a little cabin fever?

Yep - holed in north of Atlanta. Was holed in before it started, but then had to go get a child from school and that was a nightmare. Left my car in a parking lot about 1.5 miles from my house and walked home. I figure it will be tomorrow before I can go get it. This whole thing has been unreal.

I'm snowed in with 5 teenagers! So you bet!

Hang in there everyone and stay safe!

Birmingham is a hot (well, actually, cold) mess. Luckily, I live one block from my office ...

I am working from home today. Luckily, my new school offers that option during inclement weather. I have yet to get dressed, but I have cleaned my kitchen and living room.

No, but like others in this thread, I live on the other side of the country. We'd kill to have some of that snow though. Our ski resorts have no snow. It's like skiing on glaciers.

It took me 4 hours to drive 40 miles on my commute yesterday. :( I ventured out to Target today. All the plants for my job are closed but Mr. OHNO has been working from home.

I live in a suburb of Raleigh, NC and we got about 2-3" here. DH and I just stayed in our house today. We just moved back to the Raleigh area from Atlanta a year ago, and I can't imagine being there in that mess! I understand they're not prepared as areas who are used to it (or even here!) but I'm still just amazed at how everything was handled down there! I feel bad for all my OPA sisters who got stuck or took them several hours to get home. My heart was just breaking at all the statuses on my FB news feed last night.

The snowball wars continue! Our youngest flung a snowball at one of our exchange students, who ducked, and it smacked BlazerCheer in the face!

Our yard looks like an army brigade has done battle in it. The yard across the street, owned by elderly people with grown grandchildren, is pristine and lovely.

We escaped the snow/ice madness here but I've got friends and such in other parts of the state who haven't been as lucky. I'm almost sad because usually when Alabama gets winter weather, it seems like we have the most problems instead of the least. ;)

YES!! I wanted to get out and run some errands, but was on sick grandbaby duty.
No snow or ice here, just the cold. Snow and ice all around our town, though (about an hour east of unarose).

No snow = just fine with me!

I guess big man upstairs didnt think I got my house clean enough today, because I have another day off work tomorrow. Good grief. I'm going to have so much crap to do when we are allowed to go back :(

I've just started climbing the walls. No, I don't need an exorcism.

Not at the moment, but we're supposed to get more snow tomorrow (1-2 inches), then two monster snows on Saturday and next Tuesday. Because we haven't had enough snow in Chicago already. This has been such a brutal winter!

I hope they are wrong about the snow predictions Saturday and Tuesday...very wrong. We didn't get any snow this round, but it's been single digits cold. Today was 15 and felt like a heatwave.

Nobody can drive on ice- northerner or not. I very narrowly missed being in an accident on Tuesday morning because of black ice. It was too cold for the salt to work. A car two cars in front of me on I-75 started spinning. I was able to brake- my ABS kicked in- and steer slightly to the shoulder so I had traction on the nasty icky snow stuff at the side of the road. That car spun all way across three lanes until it hit the cement barrier on the left side of the freeway and it took out 3 other cars (including a pick up truck) on its way. It was so cold (-12) that when it hit the pickup truck, the plastic part of the car that hit shattered- like an explosion- sending parts into the air and scattering everywhere. Not just cracked or crunched- shattered. It was the freakiest thing I ever saw. I was shaking the whole rest of the way to work because the ice would just show up out of nowhere.

Cabin fever? It's been too cold to do anything. The one day it got into the 20s, I went out and ran a bunch of errands because I can't stand the thought of leaving the house when it's below 0. This winter has really been awful. When it's not sub 0, it's snowing massive amounts. We're on the schedule for the snow Saturday and they said Wednesday here- we're usually a half day behind Chicago for their weather. They did say that Wednesday's snow might go south of us, which would be a blessing.

If I never had to leave the house all winter, I'd be fine. Going out in this crap is torturous.

A snow storm over three weeks ago, and the roads still aren't right. That's sad. At least some of the potholes are covered with snow for the time being. :rolleyes:

Day three and we are starting to get a little stir crazy
Road were still icy this morning but they are clearing up
I think we're all going to lose it if we can't go back to school tomorrow

Public schools here already closed for tomorrow. Yes. Day 4.

My kids are in private and I am praying that we are open. No word yet. It's just time to go back.

That is a northern driving technique that is so helpful. It's harder to do this year, because the snow banks are so high we're driving through tunnels over here...so there often isn't a shoulder.

That plastic story is wild! Like liquid nitrogen!

LOL...I've noticed that, too!

I didn't catch the "over three weeks ago" part. It has snowed like every other day. It wasn't one snow storm. Saturday when I had to drive my son to Farmington for his college interview, it was white out conditions and the roads were a mess. In the time we ate lunch, we got two inches of snow. Then the winds with that very light fluffy snow- you see the snow blowing over the road and it just glazes right over.

I'd like to know what they use on the roads in those colder states for real. I know salt doesn't work below 20 degree or so. Do they use another chemical of some sort?

It is supposed to snow more tonight in Colorado than it has all year. It is predicted to stop at about 3am and then pick up again in time for the morning commute.

So happy I don't live there anymore.

Right, it did snow every other day, but they won't plow. They wait until it stops snowing, then they plow and salt, and they do a poor job at it when they do (not just in Novi, but all over). When we had that really bad storm, they let it snow all freaking night, and did nothing until the next day. I'm like, really? In Minnesota and North Dakota, when I lived there, and when I go back to visit my mom, and my in-laws, with really bad snow storms, the trucks are out all night. They start salting when the snow starts. Then, the next morning the roads are just water after the plowing. Here, it's left over slush, and that stuff is hard to drive in. I am just so sick of it.

I don't know. I'm guessing, but I think so, because salt trucks in Minnesota carry a darker blue salt. It's so blue that if you have a white car, or lighter color car, it stains, and it's hard to clean off. My mom has that problem every year. Her SUV is silver. I've noticed in Michigan that the salt is either white or a really light blue. I think there's a different between what the two states are using. But I could be wrong.

We use straight rock salt. I looked it up and they use magnesium chloride when it's really cold in Minnesota. It costs about three times as much. Since we only get these kinds of crazy winters once in a while, I guess it's not worth them stocking up on the more expensive stuff. It sure is causing us issues this year though.

It is official- with 39.1 inches of snow in January '14, we have broken the record for the snowiest month in Michigan since they started tracking such things.

We're all sick of it. All of our municipalities are also facing huge budget crises because the state reduced their payments to them. At the same time, the state now has a 971 million dollar budget surplus. Go figure. And we suffer, because they're playing politics.

Well, that explains it. Michigan needs to get with the program, because this is a snowy, cold/icy state during the winter season, so to me, there is no excuse for the roads, parking lots, and sidewalks to be this terrible, several weeks after the fact.

And yep, that's politicians for ya --legal thieves. :)