Is this a part of the Global warming??

Overhere it's drizzle, 10 degrees Celsius.

So what ARE you doing?? Anything you need help with? :D

(I'm off from work too. Though I think I'm got a cold or something. I posibly wouldn't have gone in anyway.)

We got 1-2 inches last night. My neighborhood streets were a bit slippery, but once I got out, it was smooth.

Well she's already said she got 8".....

:D

I'm playing around on the computer, doing casual housework, looking in my cupboards for things to eat and assigning chores to my son.

I should be reading about "nulls" and "fails to reject the null" and how is Poe's Dupin like a monster? and sign language.

I'm going to run around campus today and take some shots of the snow/ice/sleet.
I'll get back to ya'll later.

Yes, nearly identical I think.

Here's our street.

Sundae Girl, the main difference I notice with snow here (apart from the obvious more/more often) is that it's so cold it just doesn't melt on the roads from the heat and dirt of the traffic, even on the motorways. It can be rush-hour and the stuff still sticks to the tarmac -cars going over it just churn it up rather than melt it. It has to be ploughed/plowed.

Our street is the only entrance to a residential neignborhood with about 500 households = lots of cars. The snow started to fall 24 hours ago and it's still deep and white on the street -just a little churned. We're low down on the plowing priority list.

Also worth noting that it's hard for us to take meaningful "before" pics, as there is snow on the ground all winter. It doesn't usually start to melt until March, so whilst this is the first almost-big snow of the season, the ground (apart from streets and sidewalks) was already covered with about 3" of the old stuff.

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In an effort to be nice to UT's bandwidth for once, I've just published some of today's photos to my photo site in my signature.. check em out!

We probably got about 4 inches, but that was compressed by the sleet and freezing rain. My 9 year old didn't break through the top crust, in some places. Shovelling was a BITCH. Especially for an overweight, sedentary 47 year old man. :o

You people who get to take off work just because it snows really annoy me. Along with folks who get to take a lunch. And don't have to avoid spit and feces.

Hmmm. These should probably go in the "Shit that Annoys me" thread.

That being said, I'm not at work tonight only because I am prepping to go to a conference tomorrow. I will be in Baltimore for the weekend, and without internet access, unless I can convince someone with a laptop to let me weasel some time from them in the wireless lounge.

I get to swing an extra shift when the schools close for snow...

Why do you think I am switching? Health care employees are treated in an inhumane way.

I'll bet there's lots of health care employees stuck at the various hospitals, catching snatches of sleep in crappy beds and gulping bits of bad food because 3/4 of the replacement staff can't get into work. Oh, sure, they'll send a 4x4 out for some employees, but the ones stuck there are STUCK there until a replacement gets in. If you work 12 hour shifts and are forced to stay...it's just ugly.

I always wanted the National Guard to come and take me to work, but we haven't hit a situation where our ambulance couldn't get at least one vehicle on the road.

Come on, Wolf! Take responsibility for your own situation. Demand lunch! Strike if you are forced to go to work in the snow! Insist on a HAZMAT suit to protect yourself from any substance that has been in someone else's body! Or just get a different job that doesn't involve all those things. Don't just be a victim - go postal, or something! :D