Its Snowing! :(

[Sister Havana]

It started snowing here about an hour or so ago and it's really blowing and coming down fast. We're supposed to get 3-6 inches by tonight.

This is one of those times I am really glad I take the train and that my bus stop (for the bus to the train) is on lower Michigan Avenue, where I'm basically sheltered from the elements.

But I have a meeting tonight that I can't miss, since we're having elections and we need to make sure there's a quorum. (we were supposed to have them last month but there wasn't a quorum.)

[AGDee]

They've upped our prediction and it's now 5-8 inches. That could be enough for the kids to have a snow day.. we'll see. I'm going to try to make it into work no matter what.

[Tom Earp]

Typical of Kansas City.

Maybe 1-2 inches.

OOPs, Maybe 2-4. 4-6.

Oh, Hell No!

10-12 inches.

People playing bumper cars on the Streets of course!

Schools all closed to day along with Govt. and Courts. Still Bumper Cars. Got to work and back paking lot wasnt plowed! Customer Parking left much to be desired and

was snowing so damn much, couldnt keep up with it.

Plowing was major streets early. Got home and of course made one pass at street. Parked on the Street and tried to start Snow Blower. It basically said, nope, I am not going to start

Been single digits for many nights and just barely double digits during the day!

Global Warming WHERE?

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally posted by AGDee
They've upped our prediction and it's now 5-8 inches. That could be enough for the kids to have a snow day.....

I'm WISHING and PRAYING for that.
I could use a day to get my own work done.

[bluefish81]

It snowed all day today. It must have started sometime last night. Apparently the City of West Des Moines was afraid to get their snow plows dirty or something because they sure as heck weren't using them. It wasn't until I was coming home from work that the streets were finally cleared off.

[aephi alum]

We're slated for 4-8" over tonight and tomorrow. Guess who's telecommuting.

[AOX81]

Originally posted by aephi alum
We're slated for 4-8" over tonight and tomorrow.

That sucks!!!

[PM_Mama00]

It's snowing like a biatch here. I think we've got a lil more than 3 inches so far but that's just looking at my footprints in the driveway. Driving wasn't toooo bad, but we were in a Jeep Liberty which I must say is excellent in crappy conditions.

[KatieKate1244]

It's slightly too warm for the 2-4 inches we were promised, but it's been raining slush. It's gonna freeze right before dawn, and that's going to cause some major ice issues tomorrow.

[_Opi_]

Originally posted by PM_Mama00
It's snowing like a biatch here. I think we've got a lil more than 3 inches so far but that's just looking at my footprints in the driveway. Driving wasn't toooo bad, but we were in a Jeep Liberty which I must say is excellent in crappy conditions.

Yeah when I got in at 12:30am, it was about 3-4 inc already on the ground. The roads were PRETTY bad..no plowers out or anything. So its 6-8 inches before 8am. I'm hoping that school is cancelled tomorrow morning cuz i have this exam to write.

[Xylochick216]

We've got a few inches on the ground, but we've had a lot of ice overnight. I left my house at 3:05 this morning for work, and my usual 18-minute drive took over 40 minutes. I slid off the road once, and I never broke 20 mph. I love snow, but ice is no fun

[DolphinChicaDDD]

WE GOT OUT OF SCHOOL
NO MORE SCHOOL TODAY!!!!!

[AGDee]

So, my kids have a school day and the News 4 team just said they were reporting from Woodhaven and I looked to see where he was and he's at the entrance to my subdivision! Looks like the main roads are rough, but once I get to the freeway, work won't be a problem.

There's one of those interesting things about lots of snow... there is sometimes too much snow to get to work, but there is NEVER too much snow to get home..LOL.

I'll be working today.

ETA: The drive in to work wasn't bad once I was on the freeway. BUT, News 4 filmed me driving the down the street. It could be my 2 seconds of fame!

[Sister Havana]

Oh, was it a nightmare on the roads yesterday. I am grateful to the public transit gods that I didn't have to drive all the way into the city! The train ride was fine, no problems there. But I caught a ride with a friend of mine from the Belmont train station and it took us an hour and a half to get back to town! (This trip normally takes 15 minutes if that.) It took my sister two hours to get home from her job two towns over. My mom had a two and a half hour commute.

My friend's husband had the biggest nightmare. He left Mundelein (way up north) at 4pm. By 7pm he was only about halfway home. (It took him two hours to get from Army Trail Road on I-355 to North Avenue on I-355, and that's the next exit!) As of 9pm he had only made it two exits closer. I have no idea when he eventually made it home. (We passed over the expressway on the way back from Belmont and it was a giant parking lot - no one was moving.)

And at Midway Airport, a jet skidded off the runway, broke through a barrier and ended up in the middle of Central Avenue at 55th Street, hitting a couple cars in the process.

[jharb]

Originally posted by PM_Mama00
Driving wasn't toooo bad, but we were in a Jeep Liberty which I must say is excellent in crappy conditions.

I drive a Jeep Liberty and this morning it was AWESOME. My house only has street or alley parking, and both of my roommates are still stuck. I had to come into work and was able to just pull right out of where the plows had piled up all the snow. The hardest part was scraping my windows as I'm way too short and so is my ice scraper. I just had to crank up the heat and let that defrost my windshield.

Hooray for 4wd, I just got the Jeep in November and it's been a godsend compared to the VW Beetle I was driving.