Anybody Else Snowed in?

[carnation]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

Anybody else starting to get a little cabin fever?

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

[Tulip86]

Hang in there everyone and stay safe!

[LXA SE285]

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

[AlwaysSAI]

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.

[WCsweet<3]

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.

[OHNOITSJESS]

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.

[DreamfulSpirit]

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.

[carnation]

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.

[unarose]

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.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

Anybody else starting to get a little cabin fever?

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).

Originally Posted by unarose

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.

No snow = just fine with me!

[amanda6035]

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

[Xidelt]

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

[Sister Havana]

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!

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

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.

[AGDee]

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.