The Blizzard of 2011 Has Begun
As many of you know I live in Columbia, MO USA and we are under a blizzard winter storm warning. It first start to rain/ice yesterday and quit sometime in the afternoon. However it started up again at 6am, which quickly then turned into snow. So its official our winter storm is here, which gave me the idea for this thread.
They say the blizzard effects over 100 million people, and spans all across the Midwest, parts of the East coast on up to the northeast region. That's one third of the USA folks.
Here in Columbia we are already at an inch or two, and it's only been snowing for approx. an hour now. They say it is suppose to snow 1 to 2 inches every hour, until Wed.evening. I believe it will.
I'm originally from Butte, MT. Snow like this is common in Butte. However, here in MO it's a completely different story. For instance, I don't own a generator and my neighbors don't own on either, nor snow chains for our cars. It is illegal to drive with snowchains here in MO. Columbia is a small city of only 100,000 citizens/college students. The city of Columbia only owns 18 snowplow trucks to service a city of our size. Not only that, I would have to drive to Iowa if I wanted to buy a snowmobile off the showroom floor. So I'm kinda screwed if it really gets bad. Urg!
I'm sure quite a few of you hubbers are from one of these 29 states said to get hit by this blizzard. Or maybe you live somewhere, were blizzards are a common occurrence like Tibet. I would love it if we all could share our winter experiences, participate in winter weather updates and report on the happenings in your area, or even share pics and videos if you like. With 29 states being effected by this, I think it's safe to say it's going to be a snow fest!
Here are some shots of my neighborhood. It's Snow'Lliza out there!
Well, everybody look at that stone wall in my backyard. It was one of the first pictures I featured.
Look at it an hour ago,
This is how heavy it was snowing then.
And now look at the wall;
That's my sons car now, and that is new snow since my husband shoveled the drive way. I featured a picture of the car and my husband shoveling on page 2 of this thread.
And now this is how hard the snow has fallen in the past thirty minutes or so;
Well I'm off for the evening. I'll take pictures of my snow blizzard progress in the morning. It's snowing hard here, and isn't suppose to let up until tomorrow. They claim we have another 10 to 12 hours of heavy snow fall still to come. I cannot even begin to imagine...lol
- PrettyPantherposted 13 years ago
0 I am ten minutes away from center of Dallas and five minutes away from Dallas Cowboy Stadium where they are busy with the Superbowl on Sunday. I woke up this am and this is what I've seen. Sleet rain and snow. The heater is working properly though. We have a spare space heater just in case. Snow starting to build up, last year it was up to 15 in. Unusual but two years in a row, we have snow here.
She's married to you, Greeky. She must be quite adept with a shovel by now.
May I say - then you are losing your grip. Hold tight Greek, hold tight
talkin' bout cold!
Here in central Ohio we are under a sheet of ice, all the schools are closed and we're expecting to get hit with the next wave of icy rain and snow.
Summertime please come take me away!@Greek: Beware of the pay back....
The winter of 1993, we had almost 4 feet of snow on our house tops. Roofs were collapsing, and people were dying from climbing up and shoveling it off, falling off in the process. Our roof wasn't steep at all and was fairly easy to shovel, so I climbed up and started shoveling. It was one of the most grueling workouts I can remember. My son, 6 at the time climbed up and tried to help. Before long my 8 yr old daughter and wife at the time were also on the roof helping. On the ground we created snow banks against the house that were almost 8 feet high in places. My son yelled, "hey dad!" and he dove off the roof into the tallest snowbank and was buried about half way in. After nearly having a heart attack at that sight, scrambling down the ladder, he climbed out, on top and said, "COOL!!!" and did it again and again with my daughter, despite my yelling for them not to.
The only thing that scared me was when they were digging snow tunnels. That would have killed them if they had collapsed.
I guess you have to make lemonaide out of lemons.I'm in Connecticut where we've already got almost 60 inches on the ground from previous storms. It's been snowing since late last night, and we're supposed to get that same one-two punch -- snow followed by sleet and ice. I just have no idea where we're going to put this new snow!
Here's a shot from last week:
stock up on food and water.
Oh no, you weren't. Most of us Midwesterners are huge football fans anyways. Life without a Super Bowl, are you kidding me? I can see the headline now, "Riot turns into Largest Snowball fight in history!"
We gotta have a Super Bowl!
View from my backyard window after last snow storm
reverse picture.. FROM my backyard into my house.. when I forgot to close and lock the door the night before,,,
We're getting a bit right now here in Chicago but the real stuff is going to start dropping in an hour or 2. We're supposed to get between 16 and 22 inches over then next 24 hours. Just stocked up on some food and gas for the snow blower and cars.
I was 10 the last time we had a storm like this come through. At that time, the snow drifts were so high that I had to sled out the second story window of my bedroom so I could get to the front door and dig out an opening...lol
Bring on the Snow Days!Here's some updated photos. That's my sons car all covered up, and the other picture is my husband shoveling our driveway right now.
Wow! On the west coast of Canada, we've been experiencing sunny days and warm temperatures, only dropping slightly below freezing at night. The grass is quite green in my backyard.
About 70 degrees here today. Short sleeves weather. I do not envy you who live in, as Lewis Grizzard so aptly put it, "The Great Frozen North."
Just opened my front door, pushing 10 inches of snow out of the way in the process.
But, of course, the rest of the deck is clear. <-------D@mn 35 mph wind gusts! Well this is my final result of the blizzard storm that just blanketed Columbia, MO
These are my final pictures of my neighborhood, and of my homestead. We are really buried in here, and not sure what to do about it.
Remember the pictures of my back wall, well here it is now;
And, my son's car
The Univ.of MO closed for the second day running, that is only the second time in school history. Which began in 1839, so even though it has happened before, this weather is relatively new to us. They say I won't be able to leave my home and get to work until Monday. Columbia doesn't have enough snowplows to hit the residential areas until this weekend. Go figure.
But anywho, my family is safe and healthy. Nothing is damaged. We all had a great time staying at home, and making beef stew. The weather was so crazy last night, and the winds were so bad that nobody can give us an accurate snowfall (depth) numbers. They say that 18" fell. That's not as bad as our 1995 snow record of 22" in eight hours.
Have a great day!
I think we finally have a path to our mailbox. An all day event, but we survived.
Oh! That is way too cool. Thanks for the heads up.
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