Post # 1
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Sugar bee
This is our first winter in our new townhouse — so far, snow removal has been pretty awesome (and with how much we pay in monthly association fees, I’d expect it to be awesome). Today though, I woke up at 7am to find 6-8 new inches of snow. Three hours later…..and no snow removal yet. Nobody has even showed up at this point, and our unit is third from the end in an L-shaped driveway. Normally I wouldn’t care this much, but we were supposed to leave at 10am for my in-laws Christmas party the next state over. Sooo….I guess at this point we’re probably snowed in for the rest of the day. Anybody else snowed in?
Post # 3
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Sugar bee
- Wedding: September 2015 - Ketchum, ID
@cmbr: Nope. high of 88 degrees today. 🙁
Post # 4
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Busy bee
@cmbr: Yep. Our city snowplows haven’t come yet and it started snowing around midnight here and it’s now 10:30am! We had no plans anyway!
Post # 5
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Helper bee
I wish !! Here in SE PA it is very wet, warm day of 70 degrees. I love where I live and that I get to experience all the seasons. Last week we were getting a few inches of snow and it was 30 degrees. Today, rain and 70. 70 !!!! 1 day after the Winter Solstice !! Tuesday’s forcast ?? a high of 32. OI !
Post # 6
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Bumble Beekeeper
Nope. It’s the second day of winter here and it’s going to be like 67 degrees!!
Post # 7
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Helper bee
We are rained in in the Blue Ridge Mountains. There was plans to go four-wheeling and clay-pigeon shooting with the fam, but there is a 100% chance of rain all day! Looks like it’s a movie and Scrabble day.
Post # 8
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Helper bee
Not snowed in, but it’s really icy outside so I’m staying in. Even the grass is covered in ice…
Post # 9
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Busy bee
We were supposed to have killer rain here in central VA, but the rain stopped about two hours ago, the sun came out, and it’s humid with a high of 74. This is the wackiest winter weather I’ve ever seen here.
Post # 10
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Buzzing Beekeeper
- Wedding: August 2013 - Rocky Mountains USA
Nope, we’re having pretty dry weather in Wyoming right now. Lame! I want snow!!
Question @cmbr:, can your car literally not make it out of 6-8″ of snow? That seems weird to me, but maybe you don’t get a lot of snow and don’t have 4WD? We’ll get two feet overnight here and still need to charge through it to get to work…
Post # 11
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Busy Beekeeper
Uh no but why don’t you just dig yourself out? If you want to be out and about. We have a fine snow coming down and I already been out and about in it.
Post # 12
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Sugar bee
@lolot: here, 6-8″ of snow would shut down the city and work/school would be cancelled for at least two days lol. We dont drive in that lol.
Post # 13
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Sugar bee
@Sassygrn: If we dug ourselves out, we’d be digging out 22 units worth of driveway — we live in a complex with 24 units and we’re second from the end on a driveway that only has one exit. We’re driving a 2WD Toyota right now, so we don’t get great snow traction. Even better, our city itself does a shitty job of plowing, so getting to an on-ramp is still pretty hazardous right now, even five hours after the snow stopped.
Post # 14
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Helper bee
@cmbr: Wait, 6-8 inches of snow is snowed in? Is this adding to more snow that you originally had on the ground? Where I’m from, we don’t get “snowed in” unless it’s >3 feet and you can’t physically maneuver a car through it. Nothing shuts down for 6-8 inches.
Post # 15
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Buzzing bee
If we were at home, we’d be enjoying heavy snowfall right now… However, we drove 14 hours yesterday to my parents house and experienced a 55 degree temp shift on the way. The high here in southeast Virginia is supposed to be 78 today!
Post # 16
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Sugar bee
@wideeyes: I’m sure we can physically leave our house, but I’m not really wanting to drive through 8 inches of unplowed snow all the way to the freeway on-ramp in my 2 wheel drive Toyota Camry. The drive to the in-laws is four hours even when there isn’t snow on the ground. I’d rather wait until the roads are better. Here even the freeways aren’t plowed well — it’s pretty bad out there right now. Apparently our city will only compensate plow drivers up to a certain number of hours per week, so once they reach that, they head home and nothing gets plowed. It’s a mess — I’ve never lived anywhere that does so badly with snow. Nothing is shut down here, we’re just playing it safe right now.