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30 January 2010

Snow Snow Snow! I know for those of you in colder climes this would be no big deal, but we have 6" (15cm) of snow so far, and it's still coming down...

post by: Stewriffic at: 09:31 | 29 comments

Yeah, snow day here too! Dogs are all sacked out around the house after roughhousing in it since the wee hours.

posted by Wolfdog 30 January | 09:33

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I may not have to go to work on Monday, considering how bad the infrastructure is down here for dealing with winter precipitation. Crossing fingers though, that the power doesn't go out. It's turned to sleet/ice/freezing rain at this point, which is bad.

posted by Stewriffic 30 January | 09:33

"it" meaning the snow, not the house.

posted by Wolfdog 30 January | 09:33

I live in Stew's neck of the woods. The snow is pretty darned impressive. The dog is hugely ambivalent (mood swing-type ambivalent) about the powdery white stuff. At first she wouldn't even leave the porch to step into the snow. Then she spent about ten minutes bounding around like a gazelle (I think she was trying to keep it from touching her underside). Then she bounded back on the porch. Then she freaked out and jumped back into the snow, shoving her face into it, huffing and snorting, followed by sneezing and hacking. Then she took it up a notch and started jumping around in circles and drooling. That's when I decided it was probably time that we went back inside and had a little bit of quiet time. Now the dog is passed out, but I am going to insist upon a command performance later on, because that was quite a funny performance.
Few things on my "gosh I wish I would have bought that yesterday" list: cheese, wine, sauerkraut.

posted by msali 30 January | 10:00

My list: eggs. I have three left is all, which is only enough for one more pan of Dutch Babies.

Note the tastiness:

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posted by Stewriffic 30 January | 10:16

We have eight and a half inches here. Whooo. I'd be more into it if we hadn't just done this in December. Two big snows in one winter is unheard of.

posted by mygothlaundry 30 January | 10:21

We had a very light dusting of snow here today, most of which has now melted.

posted by essexjan 30 January | 10:44

Huh. We barely have any snow at all in Toronto - just a bit dusted in patches here and there. Kind of surreal, no?

posted by Orange Swan 30 January | 10:53

Yay for NC snow! I work on the weekend and have snowdays for today and tomorrow. Of course I'll be bummed when my paychecks come, but for now I'm enjoying watching kids sledding down the street while I'm tucked up under an afghan watching Flight of the Concords and rereading Harry Potter!

posted by leesh 30 January | 10:56

Glad y'all are having fun! Even though we get a lot of it, I still think snow is beautiful and a real treat. Enjoy cozying up inside and playing outside!

posted by Miko 30 January | 11:01

Incredible! We're not all that far away and yet we just got a little rain. (Not that I'm complaining.) My brother lives two hours north of here in Tennessee, and got a lot of snow, as well.

posted by BoringPostcards 30 January | 11:04

I tried to make a snowman, but it's too cold outside. It's not packing snow yet.

posted by Stewriffic 30 January | 11:10

Snow.

posted by mygothlaundry 30 January | 11:49

I'm in Stewriffic's neck of the woods also. I'm very happy I had nothing planned today. Sitting around, digging through some old boxes of comics. I may stick my nose outside and go for a little walk in a bit and then get started on cooking some chicken stew.

posted by Marxchivist 30 January | 11:57

ummmmmmm could you email some of that snow to me ? we have the olympics coming up in 2 weeks and theres no snow on the local mountains where a couple of the events are happening

posted by rollick 30 January | 12:02

I can upload it. But it's turned into sleet here.

MGL: Awesome photos! I especially like tree on ridgelawn.

posted by Stewriffic 30 January | 12:04

Snow day here in Arkansas too--second day in a row the library's closed due to weather. I'm dogsitting for a coworker, and haven't left her house since Thursday night. I should've bought more food, beer, and books.

posted by box 30 January | 12:14

This is why, even though I live in the middle of a major city with excellent clean-up crews and I am mere STEPS from not one, not two, but THREE delis/markets/major stores - I still shop as if I'm expecting a siege at any moment.

I blame zombie movies.

posted by The Whelk 30 January | 12:38

Meanwhile, it was 40°F and lightly raining at my house in Alaska. Bought eggs and made Dutch Babies following Stew's recipe. Yum!

posted by D.C. 30 January | 13:29

Yay, snow! We've got about five or six inches of fine, dry powder. I got to wear my seldom-needed snowpants, and trekked five (!) miles down and back to a shuttered town today, walking in the tire ruts in the road. It was glorious! My eyelashes and month's worth of beard froze up, and I pretended I was MacReady in The Thing. I'm gonna bring road flares, next time.

posted by steef 30 January | 15:59

A foot of snow here. Thank goodness it's light - if we get snow at all, it tends to be wet and heavy.

It's really fun and pretty, but my show tonight and tomorrow are cancelled, which means I don't get paid.

Still snowing!

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 16:51

Also, I need to get down to a Raleigh/RTP/Durham meetup one day. It's only three hours.

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 16:52

Stewriffic - amazing to see that the English Yorkshire Pudding recipe (traditionally served with roast beef) has transformed into Dutch Babies over here! Apparently, the recipe is now the subject of scientific research, as the Colorado mountain air seems to make the recipe fail.
And yes, it's snowing in Philadelphia as well ... only an inch or two here as yet, but looks like it is setting in.

posted by Susurration 30 January | 17:27

Just looked outside. I haven't checked in about two hours or so, but yep, we got snow, too. Looks like just an inch so far, but it's still coming down. Damn. Need milk.

posted by redvixen 30 January | 20:36

rainbaby: mi casa es tu casa if you ever decide to come down!

susurration: yeah, basically substitute butter for the beef fat and it's the same thing, but served sweet. Also see popovers.

posted by Stewriffic 30 January | 20:50

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posted by msali 31 January | 17:27

hee!

posted by Stewriffic 31 January | 17:33

Thanks, Stewriffic! That would be a fun quick overnight! We shall see.

posted by rainbaby 31 January | 17:59

Man, between broken computer and no internet at home and being snowed out from work I've been actually having internet withdrawal.

Our snow

posted by lysdexic 01 February | 11:18

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