Storm #3 (Kayla)

[smurfy]

14 minutes ago, Juneau4 said:

I'm in trouble, I've eaten and drank up all my storm supplies and my wife says it may become to hazardous to go get more.

well get a move on it. not snowing yet.

where's reb??????????????? neighbor ladies again I suppose!!!!!!!!

[nofishfisherman]

20 minutes ago, Juneau4 said:

I'm in trouble, I've eaten and drank up all my storm supplies and my wife says it may become to hazardous to go get more.

When you drink up all your "Winter Storm Stash" don't you have your "Summer Storm Stash" as a back up? What about your "Apocalypse Stash", or the "Meat Smoking Stash" you keep near your smoker?  Are those gone as well?  If all of those are gone you can always fall back to your "Mother In-Law is Visiting Stash". Please tell me you still have your "Mother In-Law Stash".

I know falling back to your reserve stashes may mean you are drinking something that is out of season but in times of need sacrifices must be made.

 

[RebelSS]

Here I am, Smurf!!!  8-12" here with blizzard conditions. Heard TWC may be in town, as we are the epicenter. If ya see Mike Seidel broadcasting, look in the background; that'll  be me on the snowpile giving him rabbit ears. 

 

The latest:  (and it just started snowing...)

1 TO 2 INCH PER HOUR SNOWFALL RATES WILL BE COMMON IN THE HEAVY
SNOW. SOUTH OF I-90...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND EVEN RAIN WILL
MIX IN FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN SNOW
BAND PULLS OUT OVERNIGHT...BUT ANOTHER AREA OF SNOW LOOKS TO MOVE
ACROSS NORTHEAST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN OVERNIGHT. THAT
COULD BRING AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW TO THAT AREA.

STORM TOTAL SNOWS OF 8 TO 12 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...MORE ACROSS
THE FAR SOUTH WHERE A WINTRY MIX WILL OCCUR. ICING UP TO 1/10 OF
AN INCH IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN THOSE AREAS.

IN ADDITION...GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING
AND DRIFTING SNOW...ESPECIALLY OVER THE OPEN AREAS OF SOUTHEAST
MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA. IN THESE SPOTS...AS WELL AS ALONG
THE RIDGE TOPS...WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WILL PRODUCE
BLIZZARD-LIKE CONDITIONS AT TIMES.

TRAVEL WILL BECOME TREACHEROUS WITHIN 1 TO 2 HOURS OF THE START OF
THE HEAVY SNOW. ROADS WILL BECOME IMPASSABLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND NIGHT. NO TRAVEL ADVISED.

 

Edited February 2, 2016 by RebelSS

[smurfy]

GOOD LUCK DOWN THERE BUD!!!!!!!!! stay safe!!!!!!! just checked the radar and looks like it is just starting to move in!!!

14 hours ago, RebelSS said:

Looks like Mr. Leechlake just cracked 1,000 likes...I demand a recount!! Congrats! Yer buying the goodies!  

 

As far as the storm....

 

congrats to Mr. LL on the 1000 likes!!!!!!!!!!!

[RebelSS]

[leech~~]

Wa, Wa Wa, what a bunch of puzzies we have become here in MinneSnowda! We may get 3" to 8" of snow!!

 

 

In too deep: The craziest snow depths and drifts from Snowzilla

 

By Jason Samenow January 27

[RebelSS]

I'm gonna go out and build a snow fort. Lay in wait for the neighbor kiddies. 

[ThunderLund78]

Just got notice that they're closing New Prague Public Schools at 11:00.  No snow has fallen yet - at least not outside of my Richfield office window.  Maybe it's starting back at home.  When i was a kid, they didn't let us out early until the snow had been flying for at least 2 hours. I suppose it's best that they get the buses off the roads before it gets too nasty.

Everything's digital now, I just got a robo-call to my desk phone, my cell phone as well as an e-mail that school has been called-off for the day.  I'm bummed that my kids will never really get to experience listening to a crackling kitchen radio tuned to WCCO while eating their bowl of cereal - hoping with fingers-crossed as the towns are read in alphabetical order that their school makes the list.  Or when your school is 2-hrs late and you prayed they'd announce it on the delayed-to-closed list.  The companies that paid for advertising really got their money's worth on snow days.

I feel bad for not remembering, but who was the familiar voice of school closings on 'CCO back in the 80's? Was it Charlie Boone or Roger Ericson?  Or did someone else read the closings?  Funny how we're so nostalgic to such trivial things!

[BobT]

Closing schools before the snow even begins to fall???? Sheesh!  Is this Minnesota or South Carolina? About 15 years ago I was in South Carolina installing a machine when the forecast predicted up to 4" of snow overnight. By noon the place I was working at was empty because everyone left. School closings were already announced for the next day. I asked why everyone was leaving early and was told, "To stock up on groceries, winter coats, and boots." It was 45 degrees and sunny outside at that moment. I couldn't believe it. They thought they would be snowed in for weeks. I figured it would probably be melted by noon the next day and I figured pretty accurately. I remember telling the ladies I was working with that in MN we aren't even told when a 4" snowfall was forecast. I guess that was then and this is now.

To their credit, that particular storm started as rain and changed to freezing rain and then snow. The next morning there was about 1" of ice on everything with snow on top which made for very treacherous driving.

Back in the day when most of us were in school, the bus routes were plowed first so the buses could run and we could get to school on time. Snow days were almost unheard of. I remember days after a major storm walking down the center of the streets through snow up to mid thigh to get to the bus stop and because the wind chill was pushing -60 I had to walk with my back to the wind.

We prayed for snow days so we could get outside and play in it. Didn't matter how cold it was. More times than I can count I remember coming in from outside with fingers and wrists so numb I couldn't grip anything well enough to unzip my coat or untie my boots. And that was fun!!

 

[nofishfisherman]

12 minutes ago, ThunderLund78 said:

 I'm bummed that my kids will never really get to experience listening to a crackling kitchen radio tuned to WCCO while eating their bowl of cereal - hoping with fingers-crossed as the towns are read in alphabetical order that their school makes the list.  

Those were some of the best and worst mornings.  Nothing was as exciting as hearing your schools name being read over the radio but also nothing was more crushing or depressing to a young kid than to hear the voice on the radio skip over the name you were dying to hear.  I can remember getting so excited as they were reading through the H's, I's, J's, and K's... and then getting to the L's the anticipation would be almost unbearable.  It be holding my breath and then....they'd skip right over Lakeville and the realization that I had to go to school was a crushing blow.  Those were the LONGEST days of school, knowing you were a 1/2" more of snow from having the day off.

On the other hand while in high school I was living in Moorhead in mid 90's. I forget the year but it was the winter that caused all the record flooding, maybe 1996 or 97.  We had a month straight were we didn't have more than 3 days of school due to all of the storms.  We'd go to school M-W and a storm would roll in on Wednesday night and school would be closed Thursday and Friday. After the first 2 weeks of that we were getting SOOO bored being snowed in that i preferred to go back to school.  We also had to make up those snow days so I think we were in class until mid June.

[RebelSS]

I couldn't believe that at 6:00 PM last nite they closed all schools AND churches, AND public functions in the area for today. Incredible! Isn't this Minnysnowda?! Waiting for those school closings while listening to the AM radio, while munching Cap'n Crunch was rare in the 60's...usually you were just in school, and slogged home through it no matter how bad it was. Wasn't that when recess was a blast? Everyone came back in all soggy, and sat and steamed up the classroom, looking out the window and too revved up to learn much of anything. That was before the sissyfication of the nation started. 

[smurfy]

2 minutes ago, RebelSS said:

I couldn't believe that at 6:00 PM last nite they closed all schools AND churches, AND public functions in the area for today. Incredible! Isn't this Minnysnowda?! Waiting for those school closings while listening to the AM radio, while munching Cap'n Crunch was rare in the 60's...usually you were just in school, and slogged home through it no matter how bad it was. Wasn't that when recess was a blast? Everyone came back in all soggy, and sat and steamed up the classroom, looking out the window and too revved up to learn much of anything. That was before the sissyfication of the nation started. 

yep and there where a lot of school closings!

[leechlake]

 school was awesome.  Remember the day of Halloween the "room mother" would bring cupcakes and the teacher would put the "Headless Horseman" on the record player?  There was little LL in his batman costume that you bought at the dime store ready for the festivities to commence.  Seemed every night the batman costume would get ditched because it was too cold to only wear that and it was snowing.  I think I was a "snowmobiler" most Halloweens.  

I remember two school closing in the terrible town of Edina.  Superintendent must not have ice fished.

[Dotch]

Started in here about 8:30 and there are conservatively 4" - 5" accumulated. Went to town and farted around for an hour or so then decided that perhaps it was best to pull the pin. It's a little different animal in outstate MN in open country than in town even in in a place like metropolitan Bugtussle, which BTW is not far from West Overshoe. Coming home it wasn't bad but visibility on east-west roads where there was shelter or a building page on the north side was dicey. If they had decide to have school today, getting the kids home might've been a challenge on some routes and if something happened to them given our litigious society, well I sorta understand where they're coming from. Having said that and being from the generation who walked uphill through chest high snow both ways to school after doing chores for 4 hours every morning, I still think today's kids are wimps. 

[RebelSS]

They are. Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy. Started about 2 hours ago, already a good 4" by my yardstick. Turn sound off on this; don't know what was wrong with vid cam, zoom was noisy.

 

https://youtu.be/FBoiZ4fGT10

Edited February 2, 2016 by RebelSS

[smurfy]

6 minutes ago, RebelSS said:

They are. Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy. Started about 2 hours ago, already a good 4" by my yardstick. Turn sound off on this; don't know what was wrong with vid cam, zoom was noisy.

 

https://youtu.be/FBoiZ4fGT10

holy moly Reb! not a single snow flake yet here in ramsey.

[gunner55]

Close to 6" here by noon, snow didn't really start until 9. Lots of wind too.

[RebelSS]

I love it. Just had to go out and stand in it for a bit. So quiet; everything is silent, white, and muffled. I really miss what I would have been doing in this years ago....out in some hilly woods with the XC skis on.....blasting that new unbroken fluff. 

[chasineyes]

1 hour ago, nofishfisherman said:

Those were some of the best and worst mornings.  Nothing was as exciting as hearing your schools name being read over the radio but also nothing was more crushing or depressing to a young kid than to hear the voice on the radio skip over the name you were dying to hear.  I can remember getting so excited as they were reading through the H's, I's, J's, and K's... and then getting to the L's the anticipation would be almost unbearable.  It be holding my breath and then....they'd skip right over Lakeville and the realization that I had to go to school was a crushing blow.  Those were the LONGEST days of school, knowing you were a 1/2" more of snow from having the day off.

On the other hand while in high school I was living in Moorhead in mid 90's. I forget the year but it was the winter that caused all the record flooding, maybe 1996 or 97.  We had a month straight were we didn't have more than 3 days of school due to all of the storms.  We'd go to school M-W and a storm would roll in on Wednesday night and school would be closed Thursday and Friday. After the first 2 weeks of that we were getting SOOO bored being snowed in that i preferred to go back to school.  We also had to make up those snow days so I think we were in class until mid June.

Did you grow up in the metro.  See us outstate folks rode the sleds and atv's NON STOP!!!

[smurfy]

Wow!!! It went from nothing to snowing hard in minutes.

[nofishfisherman]

18 minutes ago, chasineyes said:

Did you grow up in the metro.  See us outstate folks rode the sleds and atv's NON STOP!!!

I spent my younger years divided between Duluth, the Metro Area, and Moorhead.  However each place we lived was in town and we didn't have the money for snowmobiles and ATV's.   Also during that stretch of storms no one was out riding anywhere.  The wind was blowing steady at 30+ mph with temps well below zero.  I remember my dad and I out shoveling the driveway with windchills around -60.  You could only be out for a short time before having to go back inside.  On one occasion my eyes starter to water from the wind and between the tears, blowing snow, and cold my eye lid actually froze shut.  I had to go inside and hold a warm washcloth on it to melt the ice.

[RebelSS]

19 minutes ago, smurfy said:

Wow!!! It went from nothing to snowing hard in minutes.

I told the storm you were getting lonely up there. Pull that scarf tight, Smurfy, and don't lick any flagpoles. 

Edited February 2, 2016 by RebelSS

[smurfy]

well thanks!!! the parking lot here went completely white in like 10 minutes!

cant wait for that drive home!!!!!!!

[leechlake]

weatherman wins, so that makes it 1 for 3.  I can only compliment all handling of this except yesterday at 9am they sprayed our streets with that fluid.  That's not the weatherman's fault.

Wayzata HS closed 15 minutes early today.  I'd like to make fun of that but they did it to keep the later buses on time, excellent move.  Now if they just cancel my son's hockey game tonight all will be perfect.

[gunner55]

Just got back in from digging out, the 1st round. Everything is canceled here, not much moving on the highway a block over either. It sounded & felt more like sleet pellets when we started shoveling.