Edit 7:30pm Wednesday – Finally got on to my own laptop to edit and upload the snow pics, have been glued to the work one for a large part of the day, got a lot done, I like snow days!! These are from just before lunch when Andrew fired up the beastie, aka the snow blower, and I dug out his car on the driveway and the path to the front door:
Wind driven snow 6ft up a Spruce!
A little hard to see but a good 10″ at the top of the driveway and waist deep piled up snow from the snow blower behind.
The big beastie that helped with the grunt work, I love using the snow blower but today I shoveled a bit! Andrew has also cleared out in to the road behind him so I hope to get to work in the morning.
The view from the inside with snow splattered windows from the high winds.
Edit 8am Wednesday: WOW – I haven’t checked the radar yet to see what happened, but quite amazingly we dodged the bullet!! It was as windy as hell during the night and woke us up a couple of times, and each time I thought “snow doesn’t make a noise when it hits the house”, but fell back to sleep. We seem to have no more than a few inches of snow but it did turn to freezing rain for a while overnight, making conditions treacherous, that’s what I heard each time I woke up. There’s hardly no-one on the road at all that I can see, the schools are shut, as is where I work, but I have my work laptop at home and will be working form home for a few hours. It’s still very windy, and there’ll be a few more inches of snow today, maybe 1″ – 3″, but 18″ – 24″??? Not in this lifetime! At least not here anyway.
Lol, I know it’s Wednesday and I’m supposed to show you my desk, but what’s going on outside right now is just so much more interesting than my desk, which has had very little use this past week!
Crafting has taken a back seat since last Wednesday, and I’m sorry I didn’t get round to many of you last week, just the folks that visited me. I was super busy at work and coming home quite tired. On the home front we’re finishing off the re-decorating of our bathroom by putting new lights up and bathroom accessories, at the same time as doing a little touch up in other parts of the house! The family room has had some serious attention and painting and we took delivery of our first flat screen tv and some new pieces of furniture, just small pieces for dvd storage and a tv plinth and two bookcases, so the house is a bit upside down right now!
My car has been a bit sickly too! Hesitating and missing quite badly, but very intermittently, to the point where I lost all acceleration at the end of last week and had to pull off the road! Luckily it restarted and I got it to the dealer this morning. Amazingly it turned out to be a badly fitted air filter that the previous owner had put on that was allowing cold, moist air into the engine and freaking out the engine sensors, you couldn’t believe the behavior of the car and all the dash warming lights it was throwing at me! Even the dealer was surprised at the amount of trouble caused by a flimsy paper filter! All fixed now though although my wallet is $121 lighter.
And then there’s this…. they’re calling it the Storm of 2011 and the Blizzard of the Century among other things!! It sounds like typical American sensationalism reporting, but what’s quite staggering about it is it’s proving them all correct so far!!
That storm cell is 2,100 miles long and that’s just the part that’s dropping a foot or more of snow, South of the pink is severe ice storms and South of that are thunderstorms and possible tornados. I’m writing this Tuesday night and will be scheduling the post for early Wednesday morning, when I hope to be able to update with real photos. Currently we’re under a blizzard warning with 3″ of snow an hour and 40mph winds starting around midnight for about 6 hours, but continuing to snow most of Wednesday too. We were looking at total accumulations of 10″ – 15″ but around 5pm Tuesday they upgraded us to 18″ – 24″. It’s 10pm Tuesday night right now and I can hear the wind picking up, we’ve only had about 2″ of snow so far. It’ll be interesting to see what is outside my windows Wednesday morning, is it all hype? Or is it Armageddon??!!
Monday morning at a local grocery store when Andrew popped in at 9am, they already had five checkout’s open, the place was packed and he had to wait 20 minutes in line to pay for his items! People are buying everything in sight like we’re going to be marooned for weeks!
But it is very serious, Oklahoma has already seen in excess of 20″of snow in parts and six feet high drifts, they’ve immobilized The National Guard, as have the State of Missouri were they also have 500 power company workers on standby and have called in another 800 from other states, as their main problem will be an inch of ice and freezing rain, so they will likely have severe power problems. There have already been a number of fatal crashes from Minnesota to Ohio, and thousands of people are stranded at airports around the country. This was Oklahoma earlier today, and this is what’s heading our way…
One wag posted a picture of Tulsa Airport on The Weather Channel, with the comment that the only thing arriving at the airport today was the snow! But it’s the poor people in the NE States that I feel sorry for, they’ve been pummeled so far this winter and have already had two or three massive storms before this one reaches them. One of the videos on The Weather Channel today was of an official from a little town in New Hampshire who said they just didn’t know where to put the snow anymore, they couldn’t clear it and pile it up because the existing piles were already as big as houses! And he wasn’t joking either.
And in Poughkeepsie, Upstate New York even the Baptist Church was looking elsewhere for an answer…
So, after all this rambling about the weather, and we all know how us Brits love our weather, I hope we have more than the current 3″ of snow on the ground in the morning, otherwise I’ll have rather a lot of egg on my face AND I’ll have to go in to work too when I’m really looking forward to a Snow Day!!
And one final thing. Last week on WOYWW, I said to Sue Allen in a comment on her blog that we’d got off really lightly this winter so far! Obviously I really need to learn to keep my mouth shut!!
If you want to see the real crafting desks of the world, head on over to Julia’s pad, but if you’d like to have more reporting on the US weather, end of the world as we know it, then check back in again soon!
There’s a lot of folks on WOYWW from different parts of America now, so if this storm is affecting you, stay safe and warm and visit the folks in Australia and the Phillipines for a little sunshine!!
Helen said:
Poor you! I hope you don’t get too badly affected – I am glad I am still in the UK then…. not sure I fancy Australia at the moment with all the floods and now more problems headed their way..
Keep safe.
angie said:
OMG …that is some snow ….please can you keep it on your side of the pond …we have had enough here of late xx
S said:
Thanks for sharing the pics – I chuckled at the church sign.
lovethosecupcakes said:
Well at least you got to stay at home. Stay cosy!
deb said:
wow, glad you didn’t get too much snow, mind you I think freezing rain is much worse than snow! It is sunny here but soooo cold, – 15F early this morning! It looks beautiful until you are out there! hugs Debx
Pam said:
Stay in doors if you can hon and keep warm Hugs PAm
ANDRIA SIMPSON said:
When it snows it certainly snows dosn’t matter which part of the world your in, the weather has gone crazy lately, Australia on Cyclone alert and here in the Lake District Cumbria (UK) we are on flood alert! happy woyww, thanks for sharing 🙂
crafty hugs – Andria (42).
Sarpreet said:
makes an interesting read – i was fed up of the snow here, seeing this – it was nothing in comparison, happy woyww, thank you for sharing, #9
Linby said:
TYFS the photos. Someone at that church obviously has a sense of humour!
neet said:
Oh My Goodness that is some snow – saw it on the new last night from Chicago and my heart went out to everyone who is goiung to be stranded. Bet the kids enjoy the extra day off though.
Just loved the Baptist message.
Stay safe.
Tracey White said:
Goodness I don’t think I will moan about our few inches of snow when we get it ever again! Very interesting photographs, I hope that you are able to stay tucked up safe and warm. Tracey x
Minnie Mac said:
Hope you’ve managed to keep warm and get those inks and stamps out.
Marilyn
Starla said:
It is weather like this that just confirms that I moved to So Cal for a reason! LOL! Star 125
Harmony Sweetpea said:
Awww, most of the photos did not work on my screen but the last 2 did. Whoa! Crazy weather in your end of the world too. Ours is the worst in history for QLD Australia. Floods, now cyclone. Mother nature is not very happy this year! Stay warm.
Rhonda said:
Thanks so much for the update on the storm! Over here in the Pacific Northwest, there’s not much about the storm on the news, so it’s good to hear a first hand report. We had your weather a few years ago. At one point we had 5 feet of snow in our yard and nowhere to put it. Our roof vents got covered by all the snow and the sewer smells were coming in the house. What a nightmare. Our roads became so narrow only one car could get by on a two lane road. So I feel for you. Love the sign at the church! Stay safe. Also glad to hear your immigration renewal went well and you get to stay! Thanks for visiting my desk. Happy WOYWW! #15
Carola Bartz said:
Wow Brenda, you got some serious snow here! I hope you have enough to eat and drink (did you stock up on the wine? … if you’re a wine drinker) and that you don’t lose electricity! This always seems to be the first to go… That sign of the First Baptist Church gave me a good laugh, at least they have a sense of humor!!!
Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr) said:
Okay, if the Baptist Church wants me to stop praying for snow, I guess I will. I’m a transplanted Texan so I loooove snowstorms. ‘Course from the inside of a warm house, that is. So we were supposed to get snow with this storm but it was only a wintry mix and, yes, that’s scary when it comes with ice but the trees did look beautiful this morning. Glad you were able to get work done anyway (no “snow day” for someone who isn’t in school, huh?) It looks like they’re predicting more for Saturday. Yay! Lol.
Thx for visiting me!
#26
Sue from Oregon said:
Great post! I love reading all the scoop on the snow…as long as you keep it there. So far, our weather here in Oregon has been extremely mild! A lucky year for us! Take care and stay warm!
Voodoo Vixen said:
Love the church sign, made me giggle!! You have quite a bit of snow there my dear!! (Typical British understatement eh?) I hope you enjoyed your enforced stay at home – and I am super jealous of that snow blower… I could do with one of them!! Hope things calm down for you and you get some good crafting time in. Annette #4
AmberInk said:
Oh, I hope you get a snow day tomorrow too, that is if that person stops praying for snow. I’d much rather see what’s going on in some world’s than look at a messy desk anyway. Thanks for the peek.
#44
*Chrissie* said:
I hope you get through this dreadful spell of weather unscathed! The whole of the North American continent seems to be being hit hard!
Great pictures.
Stay warm and safe!
Chrissie #22
Okienurse said:
Beautiful pictures. We got about 8 inches of snow and about 1/3 in of ice. I hate the road conditions! My husband went out for a couple hours today and he said going about is not as treacherous as I was afraid of. Stay warm. Try and find so time to do your crafting.
Vickie #80
sue said:
Hi hun
wow brill piccies i can’t imagine that much snow, we come to a grinding halt when we get a few inches! lol, hope the car is soon better, keep safe & warm, have great day, happy WOYWW, sue,x (36)
Kate said:
I have been so consumed with today’s snow day with my son that I hadn’t seen pics for anywhere else in the country. thanks for sharing them.
Cardarian said:
I always love to look at your desk but this post read like a Hollywood disaster film! Ha, ha you must have caught on to the American sensationalism! Well to be honest I think it is quite bad in some states! We had quite a bit of snow earlier in the year but haven’t had any for a while, but that doesn’t mean the winter is over! Glad you got your car fixed but if it is so icey outside you better stay in! You were recommending Australia for the warmth – looks like they are having a big tropical storm too with expected waves of 7 meters! All in all if you look at what is going on in the world you think what is this?? The Apocalips??
Lets look on the bright side – dream about lovely spring with flowers blooming and birds singing!
Good luck with all the decorating! I will be doing that in the spring (new bathroom)
Lots of hugs – stay warm and safe!
Cardarian
P.S Sorry this almost turned into an email!
Bernie said:
What amazing pictures. When I think of how long it took to clear our front path at Christmas (2 inches of ice and 4 of snow), I don’t envy you the job of digging out, although the big beast machine looks like fun. Hope you stay warm and safe, and get lots done on your snow days.
Bernie x
Morti said:
Can’t say much more than WOW. I wish this country wouldn’t grind to a halt when we get half an inch of snow – we need to take lessons from you guys, but I guess even you are having problems at the mo! Thanks for stopping by earlier!
Karen said:
I hope you are okay and not too snowed in! There certainly is strange weather all over the place this winter! Love the sign outside the church!
Thanks for visiting me and leaving the lovely comment!
xoxo Karen
Vicky said:
love the sign on the baptist church – cannot believe the amount of snow that you have, thank you so much for visiting my blog happy woyww
Susan Allan said:
Oh, I can’t believe your pictures…it is scary yet at the same time amazing. It is really beautiful to look at, but a slight mightmare to live through.
You will be staying at home for a few days, then??
Take care and thanks for showing your incredible snowy pictures.
Sue xxxxxx
Julia Dunnit said:
I’m late enough to see your update….I hope it hasn’t become any worse. Seriously, the weather is defnitely an issue in global terms, huh. Stay safe, stay warm.
Sue said:
We dodged a bullet, too. Kids here only got one snow day out this blizzard! Thanks for stopping by my WOYWW and leaving a comment! Do you attend Mega Meet in May? I’m counting down the days!
Shari said:
Loved all your pics of the storm. We got hammered here in Kansas as well with both snow and freezing rain. My two favorite pics are of Andrew and snowblower and of course the church sign. That is too funny. TFS!
Shari #103
MaggieC said:
When America sneezes, Britain catches a cold, so they say. So I do hope all that lot does not make it over the Atlantic to us. You are certainly having a lot of weather over there, and Australia seems to be suffering so badly too. I hope everyone comes out of this lot safely and happily. Meanwhile, get crafting.
Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving such a lovely comment. Stay warm and safe.
Jingle said:
This is all so familiar!!!
Mrs A. said:
Thats a lotta snow. Smiled when I saw the message from the baptist church.Someone is keeping their sense of humour.
Hope you stay safe and warm. Am trying for the second night to post this comment. Hugs Mrs A. #82
jennyff said:
Can I make it clear that it wasn’t me praying for snow, I’d never do that. Great photos.
peggy aplSEEDS said:
wow, looking at those pictures gives me the shivers! brrrrr! and i had a laugh at the sign in front of the church. amazing how it can be so hot in some places and so cold in others!
Susan~Killam Creative said:
That is extraordinary snow! I can’t even imagine.
Cheers,
Susan #114
Marjo said:
I am freezing just looking at all the pics! Thanks for the peek and sharing, hugs Marjo lucky #1
florrie said:
Good grief……some of those piccies could be scenes out of the film Day After Tomorow………..lucky you managed to avoid the worst of it.
keep warm,
florrie x
Anne Tindall said:
Stay safe and warm
Anne xxx
caroline said:
Brenda
Here was me grumbling about the cold (3-8 degrees). After i read your blog i take it all back.
Hope you all manage to stay warm and safe. caroline #112
Kathy said:
Oh my goodness! what amazing photos. I did hear on the radio about the snow in the US and I must admit a “I hope they’ll keep it to themselves” thought came into my head! Please take care of yourself and stay safe.
Love that church sign! Having seen your pics and heard all about the poor Queeenslanders in Oz I’m not going to moan about the windy weather we’ve been having here…..at least for a few hours!
Nicky said:
Wow what brilliant photos – love how all the car wiper blades I sticking out of the snow – hope you stay warm and get some crafting done – oh and please keep you snow your side of the pond we dont have snow blowers here and I dont think my heat gun would make much of an impact ~ Nicky no.12
Ciara said:
Brrrr! We’ve got howling gales at the moment and it feels like the whole house is moving! Stupid weather. Hope it hasn’t got any worse where you are.
I have to ask – do you drive a Toyota?!!
Kathryn said:
Wow! We had about 15 inches in December, but your snow beats that! What’s really fun is that you have things like snowblowers and you just go ahead and get your car out, we are paralysed for weeks in the UK! Keep warm, K #90
Terry Blais said:
I love the snow photos! Wish we had just a little here…. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Terry #16
paula said:
I know i’m late (poorly people in my house), but WOW – and you left the rubbish weather in the UK for better weather??? I hope it wasn’t really that reason and it was a less superficial one than I could think of.
I’m working towards your newer posts – but I hope you have been keeping safe throughout all of this?
big warm, snow-melting hugs
Paula x x x