…and everyone is excited about it! There’s nothing like a good snowstorm to put everyone here in a holiday mood and to give everyone practice driving in snow for the rest of the season. Many people, as usual, were out today getting food, batteries, and water in case the electricity goes out, but the large crowds at the grocery store didn’t bother me as much as usual, because this is the first snowstorm my son and I will experience in our new home. Loving that!
The whole state is expecting to receive twelve inches starting tonight at midnight, but where I live, which is more inland but near the New Hampshire border and is in a mountainous region, might get as much as twenty inches or more. Woohoo! I hope so. I worked today instead of tomorrow so I could be home with my son to enjoy it.
(MAINEFEM POSTED THE MAINE WEATHER SERVICE’S STORM WARNING HERE)Â
Jasper playing in a snowstorm last year…
Tomorrow morning when I wake up I’ll take a picture of the snow. Hopefully there will be quite a bit on the ground then. If not, I’ll update this post later on.
It’s actually supposed to snow until Tuesday morning. Woohoo!
Never been in real snow. On rare occasions in my home state, Mississippi, we’d have some slushy stuff fall. Not real snow. I read that Eskimoes identify over thirty different types of snow. Down here in Louisiana, we could describe that many types of mud. We’ve got plenty of that! Have a nice snow day with your boy, Kay.
P.S. – I guess when that snow melts you’ll have plenty of mud too. Watch out for the alligators. They like to sink down in that mud to cool off. They can get the jump on you if you aren’t watching for them.
LOL Alligators? None here in Maine, thankfully Gage!
The ground is now frozen here, so if the snow melts, there won’t be any mud. Come spring, however, total different story. Extremely muddy.
We’ll have fun tomorrow, Gage, until the power goes out, because then it will be an endless, “Nothing to do” rant all day. I can put up with that for the first hour. After that, I’m tearing my hair out. When he was little we’d play board games, but now that he’s older, all of his fun is electronic. He might go outside, though. He still loves to do that.
Teach him how to play blackjack.
yeah.. 10-14 inches here in searsport. yay.
i hate winter already. lol
Still 70 degrees here at midnight with a high today of 79, so finding it hard to relate to winter, but everyone’s houses are covered with lights so it does seem a bit like Christmas is near. Hanukkah starts this Tuesday at sundown, a bit early this year.
Spent many Christmases in South Bend until my mother passed in 1998 so I miss having a snowy home to go to anymore. South Bend often gets heavy “lake effect” snows being only about 40 miles SE of Lake Michigan. But with plows, even a 16-inch storm often didn’t keep anyone from going to work or to school. I cannot remember one “snow day” growing up there. When John L. Lewis threatened a coal strike after WWII, my school would shut down the boiler mid-morning to conserve coal and by after noon, we were seated at our desks in coats, needing to slip off our mittens to quickly jot something down….but even with steam before our breaths, there was NO letting out school. We just had to shiver at our desks and take it! Today there would be lawsuits.
However, these days back up home they seem to call off school often as some mothers cannot get out their unshoveled driveways in order to pick up their kids. But, “back in the day” our mother’s sent us out wrapped from head-to-toe in snowsuits, boots, and mittens to WALK to school. How cruel of them!
I live a few blocks from an elementary school and every afternoon around 3 p.m., even on sunny warm days, there is a traffic jam four blocks long down the street with SUV’s idling to pick up little darlings so they won’t have to walk a few blocks home! The world is now full of bogeymen and we should be always afraid. I am so glad I grew up in more innocent times when we only had Hitler and Tojo to worry about.
Kay, your pup, Jasper, seems to like the snow. We have a dacshund. I guess she’d disappear in 14″ of snow. She’d love tunneling in it though. Daschunds are good tunnelers. Get that mut of yours a sweater! It looks cold out there.
Peace.
Our laughable local weathermen are issuing a SEVERE weather warning for tonight because it MAY get down to 32 degrees (for two hours at dawn) in our far northern and western suburbs….”bone-chilling cold” in their words. They love to give us our “4-P warning”, to protect plants, pipes, and pets. Since we aren’t to get colder than 40 or so next to Galveston Bay where I live, I am not worried about my many tropical plants in the ground. Plus we are back in the 60’s for lows and highs in the 70’s throughout next week.
Our weather gets so boring and predictable for most of the year, you should see the local TV yokels get excited whenever there is a tropical depression forming off the coast of Africa. We hear the “sky is falling” so often, that many turn them a deaf ear after while which someday could be fatal.