Weather Check in....

[PrincessNancy96]

Hey All,

Well, it's a big weather change around here...and headed east.. how is everyone doing?

I think YodasMom is getting hit pretty hard with snow from what I have seen.. Which means there are several other swappers upper there that are getting hit too...
Today we are only expecting less than an inch of snow here...but right now the wind is sustaining at 20 miles and gusting even more.. there isn't a single leave to be found on the trees any more, I think my leaves may be in AlexWyattMommy's yard or even near Mickster! Our trees are all tall and old and when the wind blows I worry...

How is everyone else fairing and what are you all expecting over the weekend?
Hope everyone has a safe and warm weekend!!!

 

[Mickster]

Hey! I noticed some new leaves this morning!!

It is over 70 degrees right now. And the wind is starting to pick up a bit. We are supposed to get a lot of rain and wind this afternoon (just in time to get DS from school! ) and then tomorrow it will be 40 with wind chills in the 30s! Talk about getting sick! Yikes. No snow in our forecast, yet.

But our local weather guy predicts 30 to 40 inches this winter. All in Jan and Feb. Just in time for our trip to WDW. As my MIL said: As long as it is clear to leave, it can snow as long as it wants after. Wouldn't it be too bad to be stuck in Disney?

Hopefully everyone will not get too much snow, wind and/or rain.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Well, let me tell ya.. It's coming your way... The winds are horrible.. I have branches (luckily small) down all over the yard.. I had a runaway snowman leaving my house by force not by choice. I had to run out in my pj's to retrieve him.. Needless to say, my neighbor (cute elderly man) called and asked if it was cold outside! Well, yes but I had on my flannels thank you! He just laughed!

30 to 40 inches.. oh my! I'll have to see what we are expecting.. WE haven't had a good snow in years.. we are about due.. as long as I've been to the grocery...I'll be okay!

 

[Mickster]

The funny thing about the grocery stuff around here - if there is even a mention of the word snow, people will go get TP, bread, milk and eggs. Stock up. Like more than you could ever eat. Those things always sell out. Very strange.

I'm hoping my stuff doesn't blow away too.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Same here..and what am I out of ??? and it's grocery day anyway... Help me later!!! I won't even take the kids out in this... it was bad enough picking DS5 up from kindergarten.. I'd be afraid they'd blow away...

 

[Downrivermama]

It has been raining here all night. And the winds are really picking up. We are having problems with flooding. The train ride my dd and I were to go on near Cleveland has been canceled. I guess there is flooding in OH too.

Our local people said will dodge the bullet, just 1-2 inches of snow. Roads are flooded here too.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

I'm so sorry your train ride got cancelled!!! Any other plans to make up for that? A mall trip, movie?
We had rain all night too.. No flooding in our area of town but we live on the hill however, I know there is flooding for most of our rivers and streams..

 

[ddavis860]

We are getting the BIG WIND right now (was just looking outside at the poor flag shredding in the wind, and thinking I guess not having the decorations out yet is a plus right now) , and they say the storm front will cross over my house around 4-5pm. Then we are in for cooler temps...good, cause I'm not enjoying the humidity/heat today.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

We've had these winds about 8 hours now..and it's awful!!!
I sure hope it gets a little nicer even if it's cold this weekend... We had spitting snow earlier but nothing to even stress over.. it melted as soon as it hit hte ground.. While DH was on my home depot run for paint cans he said that the temp was already 29.. and we started out at 50 this morning at 7am...

 

[Mickster]

I just got back from Target and saw at least one person in shorts! So strange for Dec 1! Well, it has started to rain, just not a lot yet. Wind is picking up a bit though. We shall see. It will probably be really bad at 3:40, right at pick up time!

 

[PrincessNancy96]

I just got back from Target and saw at least one person in shorts! So strange for Dec 1! Well, it has started to rain, just not a lot yet. Wind is picking up a bit though. We shall see. It will probably be really bad at 3:40, right at pick up time!

Isn't that the way it always goes.. nothing most of the day until the kids need to get out of school.. The wind was so bad when we had pick up that the parents went inside so the kids couldn't get out...which was nice but going back to the cars were were fighting the wind..

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

It's warm here but the winds and rain are starting to pick up. We recovered the bulk head door so hopefully I won't wake up to water in the basement again. I hope the rain holds off a bit until our Holiday workshop is over at school tonight. The kids are going to make crafts.
We are supposed to get a bit of snow on Monday but I can tell you it will snow on the 16th or 17th in N.E. We have a family party that we go to and every time we go we have a blizzard. No lie!!! I dish out the $65 to go and we get snowed in.

This weekend is supposed to be nice so we'll see if I can get a tree and the decorations up outside. DH is going out of town for 2 weeks so if we don't get a tree this weekend we just won't have one I guess.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

It's warm here but the winds and rain are starting to pick up. We recovered the bulk head door so hopefully I won't wake up to water in the basement again. I hope the rain holds off a bit until our Holiday workshop is over at school tonight. The kids are going to make crafts.
We are supposed to get a bit of snow on Monday but I can tell you it will snow on the 16th or 17th in N.E. We have a family party that we go to and every time we go we have a blizzard. No lie!!! I dish out the $65 to go and we get snowed in.

This weekend is supposed to be nice so we'll see if I can get a tree and the decorations up outside. DH is going out of town for 2 weeks so if we don't get a tree this weekend we just won't have one I guess.

2 week trip again.. out West? I sure hope you are able to get the tree up this weekend.. .I pulled mine out from under the basement steps.. I can't have a real tree with DS10s allergies...Although we had one when he was 6 months old.. he toppled the darn thing down on himself w/ the assistance of DD!
I sure hope it doesn't snow again on you all.. We always have snow the weekend of basketball sectionals.. never fails.. You can almost mark it on your calendar.. alot like what you deal with.. (not blizzard though).. We did get a freak storm one year that hit with a wholp..went into a basketball game with flurries..came out with 2 inches of snow...and the roads were horrible.. it took us 2 hours to get home on a 40 minute drive..

 

[ksjayhawks]

We have been off school yesterday and today. Yesterday was ice and temps, today was for snow. We got anywhere from 6-10 inches, on top of the ice that was already there. I live close to a Lowe's that has a berm so kids are out sledding! They were there at 2 a.m.!

I am working on cleaning bedrooms today. This weekend we are tackling the basement! Want to get our clean sweep done by next weekend as dh has double bunyon surgery on the 13th and will be useless after that!

 

[PrincessNancy96]

2AM sledding.. oh to be young again!!!
I was complaining at 2AM because the darn cat wanted out..than wouldn't go because it was raining..
ksjayhawks, do you have built in snowdays? We do.. and have not used them in 4 years... we haven't even had a 2 hour delay in 2 years even when we really should have.. I did notice today though that some of our northern schools were closing early.. not ours..but that is okay.. we just have the cold and nothing else on the ground yet..but there could be some "black ice" due to the rain and falling temps..

 

[vanyel]

The news was full of dire predictions for the Chicago area and NWIndiana. I guess they got hit west and north of Chicago but we had very little snow here. It rained instead then some sleet. We do have high winds - supposedly up to 40 mph. I was driving and had to hang on to the wheel so it may have been true.

I want one of those gentle snows where you can go outside and go for a walk and make the first snowprints on the trail.

Speaking of stocking up - the local paper had reports of runs on grocery stores in the area - I didn't even think of it!

Stay warm and dry all!

 

[PrincessNancy96]

The news was full of dire predictions for the Chicago area and NWIndiana. I guess they got hit west and north of Chicago but we had very little snow here. It rained instead then some sleet. We do have high winds - supposedly up to 40 mph. I was driving and had to hang on to the wheel so it may have been true.

I want one of those gentle snows where you can go outside and go for a walk and make the first snowprints on the trail.

Speaking of stocking up - the local paper had reports of runs on grocery stores in the area - I didn't even think of it!

Stay warm and dry all!

I wondered about you!!! I knew you were in the NW Indiana area.. Glad to hear it's not too bad for you all..
I have to raid the grocery soon..but it's grocery day any way at our house.. Usually around here they don't freak at an inch..but they might have this time because it's my grocery day!
Okay, off to make meatloaf for dinner! yeah!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

2 week trip again.. out West? I sure hope you are able to get the tree up this weekend.. .I pulled mine out from under the basement steps.. I can't have a real tree with DS10s allergies...Although we had one when he was 6 months old.. he toppled the darn thing down on himself w/ the assistance of DD!
I sure hope it doesn't snow again on you all.. We always have snow the weekend of basketball sectionals.. never fails.. You can almost mark it on your calendar.. alot like what you deal with.. (not blizzard though).. We did get a freak storm one year that hit with a wholp..went into a basketball game with flurries..came out with 2 inches of snow...and the roads were horrible.. it took us 2 hours to get home on a 40 minute drive..

Yep he's going to CA from Monday to Wednesday and the leaves Sunday for the week. I hope we don't get snow while he's gone.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Yep he's going to CA from Monday to Wednesday and the leaves Sunday for the week. I hope we don't get snow while he's gone.

Crossing fingers!!! Maybe he can get snowed in at home before the second week of work!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Crossing fingers!!! Maybe he can get snowed in at home before the second week of work!!

I wish, although that is one benefit to living in N.E.