Snow

[Towel_Rail]

We got the freezing drizzle here in Cedar Rapids. It was warm enough at one point that I could scrape the ice off my car, but the stuff kept coming all day. Gimme plain ol' snow, please.

 

[kc8adu]

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php...Field2=-84.4003
notice thunderstorms sunday.
weird weather.
reminds me of the pattern we had in 1978.

 

[GeaugaFletcher]

Drizzle yesterday...overcast and vigorously windy today, around 64 degrees at the warmest...should get cold tomorrow as the front marches through, but no precipitation...

 

[Benzadmiral]

Nasty, sticky, and slimy in New Orleans. Gonna hit 82 today (in flippin' December!!!), and the humidity this morning was nearly 100%. The streets are damp, and yet it hasn't rained. Disgusting.

Driving back from breakfast this morning, I felt a sensation James Lee Burke describes in one of his novels -- that the sweat ran down my sides like trails of ants.

The idea of a little freezing drizzle or snow sounds so good to me right now. . . .

 

[Pablo]

Our power just came back on. HUGE snow dump and still snowing!

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

Originally Posted By: Pablo
Our power just came back on. HUGE snow dump and still snowing!


Better you then me. Positive side effect of being in the middle of a 100 year drought..

 

[Matt_S]

We got about 1/2" of snow Saturday night in Detroit. Wifey and I were partying hard at a hotel, planning to spend the night anyway and the kiddo was with Grandma and Grandpa, so all was well.

Yesterday was MISERABLE all day. Fog, sleet and lots of rain. Good for washing the snow away at least. Today is better, but not much.

 

[Pablo]

building an arc now....

http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/roads/roadalert/

http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sew&wwa=flood warning

 

[Pablo]

Bummer - I saw this tree

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/weather/12/03/storms.northwest.ap/index.html

 

[sprintman]

Were getting some rain and some massive thenderstorms. Dams are going up for a change 43% and rising. Nice

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

Dry, dry, dry, and more dry..... Windy and 59 today. Trace of rain Sat. .1" rain last week. 15" below normal. Forcast is for more dry....

 

[Pablo]

The street crew came and fixed the washed out portion of the road below us. I've never seen geysers like that (4-5' high) come out of the storm drains........the main fault wasn't so much the HUGE rain and tons of melting snow, but lack of maintenance downstream.

 

[Pablo]

Could have used a little edit time........

Anyhow yesterday AM when we took that picture it was about 9 AM and about 31°F. This AM it was 52°F. That snowball was the size of a volleyball this afternoon.

 

[moribundman]

Bury that snowball in your backyard.

 

[Pablo]

You should have seen us rolling that pig.

Here's our river, the Snoqualmie

 

[Shannow]

Pablo,
the town where I spent most of my formative years had hotmix roads...repairs were to grind off the top, and redo the hot mix.

About 18 years ago, they changed their "maintenance" to spraying on some bitumen, then rolling some gravel into it...broken windscreens everywhere.

Did that for a few years, then it rained hevily. drains couldn't cope. Why ?

They were full of gravel.

 

[Towel_Rail]

We've gotten a little more snow and ice since my last post. I haven't always been able to resist the urge to find empty (or minimally populated) parking lots and slide around in my AWD Subaru.

 

[Pablo]

In OR back counties they use gravel job....once I broke 3 WS's in a year. County paid for them! Not here though, mostly potato sized rocks and organic debris.

It was about 60°F yesterday. Seemed really warm!!

This sums up the last 2 days:
http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,2812,00.html#9_220