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[AKLRULZ]

What can you build in your backyard? Woke up to just over 5 inches of snow on the ground with it still coming down around 5:15 am - 45 minutes later and it's switched over to sleet and ice and they're forcasting about another inch or so of ice accumulations! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

All I have to say is that if we lose power and I can't watch Survivor tonight I'm not going to be happy! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]

Seriously - everyone affected stay safe - basically all of Richmond is closed - all schools, city and state offices, malls, corporations (even where I used to work - Philip Morris, which typically takes an act of God to close down!). Accidents are already all over the place. [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]

For all ya'll in the North - don't laugh to hard at how us Southerner's react to snow! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[DVC_Don]

For all ya'll in the North - don't laugh to hard at how us Southerner's react to snow!

<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Oooooh! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] Me? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[iloverags2]

Originally posted by Dadtojbj:
For all ya'll in the North - don't laugh to hard at how us Southerner's react to snow! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">I'm not north of you now, but I am from the city that clears it's streets a mere hours after a major blizzard. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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[TINKN]

For us it's snow forts followed by snow balls. Although this storm missed us, we still have several inches on the ground from 2 previous storms.

Stay safe Steve (and all the others who aren't used to this type of weather).

A snow day is a gift from Mother Nature. She's telling you to make hot chocolate and popcorn. Get out the board games and spend time with your families. You can even do this with the power out if you add a few candles. We've had power outages that lasted for days and as a kid they were always kinda magical. With no power, everything is so quiet. You get to use a flashlight to go to the bathroom. Board games and reading by lantern light. Of course as a kid, you don't mind skipping a bath for a couple of days if you have an electric water heater! If the power was out too long, Mom would heat water in big stock pots on the stove, so we could have a bath.

[Perky2sol]

Neither at the moment, but its coming this way! Reports are that Plymouth is likely to get 6+ inches. Guess I'll be canceling choir rehearsal tonight, huh?

Be thankful if you have power. That could change very fast. My sister and her family in Salisbury, NC are without power, and who knows for how long. Those folks just aren't prepared for this stuff. You all are in our thoughts and prayers.

My folks live in Maine, and about 5 years ago, they had a very severe ice storm there. People were without power for weeks! At least most of them have a fire place and/or wood stove. Most southerners don't. My mother always has oil lanterns full and ready to go, too.

So this is one girl who will NOT be poking fun at you all. Tides can turn so soon!

Here's to things getting better for you all real soon......with some pixie dust thrown in for good measure. [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]

[*Pixie*Dust*]

We have a trace on the ground right now, but should have 6" before it is over. Yuck

[Dumbo]

It's snowing at my house. The fine powdery kind. We have about 5 inches on the ground from other storms. None of it is snowman snow. Just the fine blowerble snow.

Stay safe everyone in the path of this. I'm to far west to get much.

[luvnwdwgal]

We've got enough on the ground to build forts, but it's not the good packing snow. Up North here we know our snow!! Packing snow is good to build with but terrible to have to shovel!! We haven't gotten any additional snow in a couple of days now but it sure is cold!! It was 7 out yesterday morning when I got up but today we're having a heat wave....it's 19!!

[Bozrah_Disney_Fan]

5 Inches. We are expecting a foot all of the sudden. And we leave for Disney tomorrow. I have already added a night away from home by booking the Hotel at the Airport. Now I can only hope that my plane arrives tonight.

Steve, who up here in the north would pick on the southerners for overreacting to snow and say closing cities. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

In answer to your question. It's snowmen. We make snowmen in a line and then have snowball wars using them as cover.

[ 12-05-2002, 09:39 AM: Message edited by: Bozrah_Disney_Fan ]

[DreaminDisney]

We already built a snowman in our yard. Could have built a fort a couple days ago though. [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img]

[Kruggie]

SPLAT&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;THWOMP.....I am throwing snowballs! My kids have no school and I am watching them out there throwing snow as we speak....it is a mere 25 degrees here in the burgh! BRRR!

Pa turnpike is basically closed, hubby reported a hellish journey to work this morning, what normally takes him 20minutes took him an hour, he said he was gripping the wheel for dear life whilst he gritted his teeth.

Being that I have boys...we definatly build forts over here...of course there have been snowmen gracing my lawn as well!

[AKLRULZ]

We're getting ready to head out for our snowball fight here ourselves! Looks like the worst is now over and underneath the icy crust is fluffy snow!

Of course the dog just messed up a small patch of the yard since "nature called" and the kids are very upset. My youngest asked me if I marked the spot where she did her business with an "x" - I told him to look for the yellow patch and steer clear of it! LOL!

[DisneyDude]

We had our big snow fall on Monday(about 4"), but you can't pack it so the kids are upset. The two older boy's understand why they can't build a snowman or have snowball fights, but the girls think It's my fault and that I'm just being mean to them. I tried to explain it to them, but you know how women can be [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]

[GoofyMom]

I'm not laughing at you, I laughing with .... Actually, no I'm not laughing at all. Even in Winnipeg that kind of weather hits us hard, and we're "used" to it. I hope you can all make the best of an ugly weather situation.

If it's too cold for snowmen and snowfort building, do what we do every year. Build a quinzee. Basically it's: pile as much snow as possible into a huge pile 5 or 6 feet high (use a snowblower if you have one to save time). Let it settle for an hour or longer. Stick a broomstick or something down from the center so that you'll know where the middle is when you tunnel inside. Then you randomly stick branches about 18 inches long into the snow pile so that they are almost all the way into the snow and it looks like a short spiky porcupine. That's an important step because you need the walls to be about 18" thick. At ground level, dig a little tunnel into the center (broomstick) and then tunnel out the inside and stop digging when you get to the ends of the sticks! Be careful, that much snow can suffocate you if it caves in - that's why we have 2 adults building - one can pull the other one out in an emergency. It takes a few hours, but the kids really have fun. Wiggle the broomstick around to enlarge that hole a bit for ventilation. Once you're finished, you can eventually take off your coats and mittens inside (because the snow is a great insulator) and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. We have built a bench on one side so you have a place to sit.

Check this out for a little more info: Quinzee

[ 12-05-2002, 10:34 AM: Message edited by: GoofyMom ]

[Kruggie]

You are way to productive for me Goofymom!
Though it sounds incredibly fun....I am afraid mine would colapse!