Topic awaiting preservation: Anyone else snowed in?

Here I am sitting in Columbus, Ohio in 14 inches of snow. Couldn't even get out of my apartment complex to go to work today. The maintenance crew came by and tried to clear the sidewalks this morning. They now look like bobsled tracks. People around here have gotten spoiled because the past several years have been snow light so alot of people are freaking. Anyone else stuck inside today?

Does "iced in" count?
*waves hands*

Just about. Looking at about a foot, and it's supposed to keep on going through tomorrow morning here in CT.

My company closed at noon today and everyone went home. Probably won't be open tomorrow either =)



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Yup, snowed in.

*waves back*
Jeni- Iced in counts

Nope, sunny and 70s, here, I'm afraid...

Yep - although it is a little chilly here on the other side of the Pond there is no snow

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Well, my wife and I was just talking about it. We came to live here in the US for two years and we wanted to know the winter, the snow, etc (among a lot of other things). Now we know, and certainly this year it's been a very strong winter here in Boston, compared to the average. Although this is not good for many people, for us it's being interesting to see how americans deal with such a situation, to see the beauty of such a landscape (cityscape, to be more precise). Right now, I just got out the apartment to record the white landscape, the Charles River completely frozen (at least what we can see of it), completely white. Very beautiful. Actually, I'd like to take a picture of me in the middle of the river but I don't have the guts to take the risk.
It wouldn't be the same if this winter and the next (the two we'll experience) were just regular winters (like 2001, as we were told). I don't want to see a blizzard like the one of '78, of course, for this brings too much damage, to properties and humans, but I wanted to see the snow. Now, there is plenty of it out there. I feel sorry for the people iced in and snowed in (two unknown ways to use known verbs that I have just learned).

Viol--

Until 10 or 15 years ago, *this* is what we called a normal winter. Charles River frozen over? Coming from Brazil, I'm sure it's a wonderful thing to see for the first time. But that's nothing compared to the rare times Lake Ontario has frozen over (40 miles across, nearly 200 long). You could walk (or more likely snowmobile) across to Canada. They don't call this the north coast for nothing!

Be careful though. You may learn to like it. A friend came here from Nicaragua on a two-year student visa to do his masters in CS/IT at RIT. He went back to Nicaragua five years ago this coming May. He's told me several times that he missed the winters here.

He surprised me last week by writing that he's hoping to hear from the Canadian Embassy this week about his application to emigrate to Toronto. <shakes head> Personally, I think he's nuts moving to this climate. But what the heck, maybe some cold winter I'll walk across the lake to visit. I'd rather jet to Nicaragua though...

Hey viol!
~Steve waves~

it's pretty awesome here in Bean-town, isn't it!

I had the day off today for President's Day, but I went in to work this morning to finish up some stuff before the snow started 'cause it looks pretty much like I'm going to be home tomorrow! Eighteen inches predicted by Tuesday - that's unusual for Boston! We get snow, but this close to the coast the brunt of the effect is usually reduced. Not this time ...

I'd stay off the Charles myself, but if you are anywhere near the Public Garden, take a hike out to the little island in the middle of the Duck Pond. I remember that fondly from my college days ...

I've shoveled three times today; wife has shoveled three times; kids spent the day in front of the tube with the 4-DVD Lord of the Rings.

Kids. They miss all the fun.

I think I was born liking extreme weather. Maybe not to live, but to have the experience, although I could live here in Boston, or Montreal or another cold city with no problems. I like to experience these hostile situations, as when I visited Death Valley, and it was very hot (not as hot as it can be, though), I really liked the experience. Of course that in both cases, Death Valley and here in Boston, I can watch or feel the experience in a comfortable situation, inside a car with air conditioning or inside my heated apartment (sometimes getting out to get the feel).
But due to the circumstances, I don't plan at all to move from Brazil. I was born there, there is my country, my culture, I have strong roots there and so there I must die !!
I just would like to have enough money to get to know so many different and beautiful places there are in this world... as a tourist or a temporary visitor.

I shoveled 12 inches today and just did another 6 inches. I am tired and going to bed.

CRO8

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yep, I'm right along with Jeni. Iced in. It's kind of weird. Where I used to live we would get snow like you Moth. Now, in the Carolina's we get Ice storms. Very uncool. Lost a couple of trees the last time that we had an ice storm.

Here is a pic of one of my trees in the back of my house. Nice and icy.

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Nice indeed.
Here where I live, I don't have to shovel because there is a bunch of guys responsible for it. It's a big apartment complex, from the University.
But when I was in Brazil, we didn't know in what sort of place we would be going to live and my wife always told me: "be prepared to clean the front of whatever place we will live because in the US you're supposed to keep your sidewalk walkable and safe" (I guess it's even a law, isn't it?).
Well, unfortunately or fortunately, I don't have to shovel. But I used to reply to my wife: "I can't wait"

Steve: do you know if ever Charles River were allowed to be walked upon when it got frozen in some strong winter, in the past? Or it's never allowed to walk over its frozen waters due to eternal risk of death?

I really would like to take with me, back to Brazil, a nice picture of me, in the middle of that frozen big river... Alive, of course.

Having lived a large portion of my life in Alaska (will move back this summer, after finishing school), I have managed to learn a thing or two about snow.

1) shovel as little of it as possible, the rest will eventually melt anyway.

2) snow sure beats rain. I have yet to figure out how to carve turns in the rain. If I spend another winter in Seattle, I may need to invent the "RainBoard".

Actually my family tells me that it has been raining for the last 3 weeks around Anchorage. With no snow for boarding, and no ice for climbing, I'm not missing much of a winter.

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yeah, they said that washington has been covered with snow.

viol:
first, I'm not aware that it's illegal to walk on the frozen Charles. In fact, I noticed LOTS of footprints on it when I drove past last Friday!

As to the past - I didn't grow up here, but my boss did. He mentioned that in his mom's generaton it was common to ice skate on the Charles. Doesn't that paint a romantic vision in your mind? It's his sense that some thermal "pollution" from power plants and industry upstream is why the Charles doesn't freeze as hard as it did back then. Sounds plausible, but I can't say for sure.

When everything finally does thaw and you're tempted to swim in it, you will no doubt start to hear about the nasty, experimental horrors MIT oozes into the river from the Cambridge side. That's the stuff of urban legends, but still I wouldn't eat any fish I caught in the Charles.

did I mention that I went to the beach with my girlfriend yesterday?
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was snowed in on Sunday .. but the crews in StL picked up at night and cleaned up the roads for Monday .. DOH .. but we have more snow today .. go fig

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[This message has been edited by RammStein (edited 02-18-2003).]

Let's see...snowed in...in the middle of an Australian Summer?

Sure I am!

Mmm, fun fun fun.

About 2-1/2 feet in the flat spots, about 3-1/2 feet drifts, and about waste high where the asshole driving the plow truck threw a nice big furrow up behind my car...

About 1-1/2 hours to get clear of my driveway so I could get to work.

YAY.

So yeah...I don't feel guilty surfing the net now that I'm here

In a certain sense, I'm snowed in.
My class and section for today were both cancelled.
So, I don't have a reason to go out.
Shite!

**Waves to Jeni**

Got ice down here Georgia also.

I'm flued in....

...It's been around 50-60 degress outside (In the Pacific Northwest, it's a great change from the torential downpours that we usually receive), but I'm stuck inside with a 104 degree temperature, throwing up all over the place...

The last couple of weeks it has been around 0 C.
Some snow is left but the roads are bumby and icy as hell.

I 'almost' drove into an rock face two days ago. I was hurrying home
becaues I had 2 warm pizzas in the car. I was just coming out of a curve and
pushed down the accelerator finding out that i had the second gear in. The
tires were in a spin. The car went straight towards the rock face.
I released the accelerator and steered away...puh!

OlssonE - I just *have* to ask - where did the pizzas wind up at the end of the episode?

Or did you have the seat belt around them ?

hehe... In my stomach where else?

And at the end of almost driving into a big piece of rock, where did your stomach end up?

got snowed in? then do it like me:

Skarjj.
I had my seatbelt around it!

Yup, this week we were snowed in and we missed Monday of classes...

We didn't go hungry though, my roomates girlfriend got snowed in with us, and can she cook!



Maskkkk

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It finally hit up here.... just finished shoveling a foot of this white flurry stuff for now - blech. Snowbanks in the driveway are taller then me. Guess I have to look at the brightside of things -> all this free excercise.

oh well, such is life ....

sib