Keep safe, Proudtobe Catholic!

The Weather Channel here in Canada is warning the public of potential heavy snowfall, winds, and wind chills. It is suppose to hit southern Ontario, then move on to my neck of the woods, Prince Edward Island.

Is this kind of weather normal for Illinois? It's pretty normal for Canada, but is never fun, nonetheless.

So far we have had about 5 inches of snow.  We are in a holding pattern at the moment awaiting the worst of the storm which should be moving into our area by this evening.  No winds yet.  We live on the NY/PA border and we are still not sure if we will get all snow or if we will get that ice.  We are all hunkered down.  Most everything is closed or is going to close early.

We haven't received that much snow this year.  NYC has been clobbered, but the storms have missed us.  This will be the largest amount of snow we have received this year. Expecting 6 inches today 6 inches tonight and 8-12 tomorrow.

Everyone stay safe.  It looks like a whopper of a storm for everyone in the lower 48.

We're not getting it in Tennessee, but my SIL works for a small college in Wisconsin and they have all ready cancelled classes for tomorrow.  But they are still asking “essential” staff to work or take a vacation day if they deemed it too dangerous to travel in to work–which I think is crap.  Sixty percent of their students live on campus and they cancel classes, but for the people who don't live on campus they're supposed to travel in to work or take a vacation day?  That doesn't even begin to make sense to me.

Well we missed the big snow here.  Last night we had some, but it was mostly a rain, sleet mix, with 20mh winds. As far as I know, no one has lost power.  Things are frozen today, but it is warm enough that it will melt.  Schools were closed again today. Lucky devils.  Meg, I have a friend who works for our university.  The kids, who live on campus, got the day off, but she had to drive in.

I think ProudtobeCatholic may have lost power in Illinois.  They got hit with the blizzard.  Hope she is okay.

Anyanka, batten down the hatches.  Stay safe.

Anyanka said:

I heard there's supposed to be thundersnow happening too.

This is our weather guy, Jim Cantore experiencing thundersnow yesterday. 

http://www.weather.com/outlook…..snow-19541

Thanks for the link.

So far we have about 4 inches. Still not sure about schools tomorrow.

When I was out I noticed that the hardware shop in town was out of snowshovels. I bought mine in December after I managed to run one over.

Thanks. If it's too bad, I'll just call and reschedule. Like if I fall a couple of times and decide it's not worth it. This is such solid ice that they've shown people on the local news using hammers and chisels to break it if they don't have one of those ice breaking thingies that looks like a hoe with the blade straightened out. Hmm, wonder if a hoe might work on the sidewalk? The side streets are a little slick and major roads are pretty good. The big thing will be getting out of my apartment complex.

ETA: Yes, that cyclone looked enormous on the satellite picture! And on top of the flooding recently… that's just nuts. I loved your pics, too, PTBC! Especially that first one with all the wonderful snow falling.

I forgot to mention, the ice covering everything is so bad that the Fire Department has had to do several animal and people rescues of people who slid down a slope and couldn't get back up again. One lady let her dogs out to piddle and they slid down the yard to the edge of the frozen retention pond. She went after them and got stuck herself. The Fire Dept. had to lay down extension ladders so they'd have something to climb back up. And even then, they were all having trouble getting back up the slope. That's insane.