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Catmandoo, Todd, and the rest of you?

Catmandoo must be getting his equipment ready. Haven't seen him on here.

Guess up to an inch of ice farther south? Horrible stuff there.

Good time for those folks to stay home for a few days if they can. That's what I'd do.

Better stock up on whiskey, chew, and coffee.

Ken will be OK. He has roots close to Canada and thought he moved South.

The locals probably chew him out for bringing the snow with him!

I know a guy that lives about 130 miles South of Ken. They are saying 12"-24" at his place.

Ken told me that they were predicting 24"-36" for his area. He said he's got plenty of fuel for the generator and for the tractor so he's set.

When one considers that's only a 2-3" rain event, I'm surprised we don't have more big snow dumps like this more often. Lincoln had a couple 1-2" rains in December - if temps would not have been unseasonable warm, I'm guessing we'd have had over 40" snow in December. That would have shattered NE records by a wide margin.

Enjoy the blizzard, Ken - and break out the coon jerky!

I talked to Ken last night. Linda has abandoned him and gone to lower elevations in town.

"Better stock up on whiskey, chew, and coffee".
Now that's why I love rednecks!!!

Getting a bit of that blizzard down here in KY as well.

Only 4 people showed up to work at the factory this morning.

I'm sure you know TJ weather is more complicated than that. If it had been colder the storm track may not even have been up your way and not as much if any moisture. For those that dislike heavy snow events (not me) it's a good thing cold air is drier than warm air. It takes special conditions for the warmer moister air to feed into colder air to produce the bombogenisis we are seeing on the east coast.

I suspect the losers will be those farther south that will get heavy icing. Only takes 1/2 inch of ice to drop powerlines. They expecting up to an inch. That really sucks!

Dave,

Are they calling for any freezing rain at his location, or will it be all snow? What town is he near again?

Was going to post a picture of a redneck snowblower but was afraid I would offend our Kentucky members even though I was born in Kentucky and have relatives there.

You ever heard Guv speak?

I admit I'm a lot like a little kid when it comes to big snow events. I really enjoy them. Seems we always have enough warning to have time to lay in the provisions before hand so I build a nice fire in the fireplace and watch it snow!

They shut the factory down at 11:30am so who that showed up could get home before it got too bad. The town closed up pretty much as well about then.

I had to get some gas and such, and the closest place open was Walmart, 26 miles away in Danville.

I didn't think the driving was all that terrible, but they closed US-127 about the time I got back to the motel.

Hope to get out of here tomorrow morning, but they are not use to dealing with this much snow.

Not sure how much so far, but it's been drifting the past couple hours.

So what's yer plan for the evening man? Any restaurants open near by so you can at least get dinner?

Sunil, most native Texans talk that way. We are different than folks up North. We think fast but talk slow. That way, Yankees can understand us.

Dave, I knew I liked you, even though we have never met.

Tracy

Sunil got burnt.
TGW, Double D seems ta have that effect.

Well, here's the thing. We are taught early to talk slowly and enunciate clearly. It's unfair to take advantage of damyankees from Pennsylvania.

There is an elderly couple from Texas (near Dallas) in the next room, and I heard every one of his cuss words very clearly while he was digging his car out of a snow drift.

His car was covered with ice under the snow. I gave him an extra ice scraper I had. He had remote start on the car and I told him to start the car and let it run for a while to warm it up.

Success, he gets the door open. (after the car was running for a while)

Knock - knock on my door?

He reaches for his wallet to give me his insurance info... He hit my truck while trying to get his car out.

I go outside to check things out. Yep, there is a dent there behind the left rear tire, but that WAS there. Couldn't see any other damage, so no big deal.

Looked at his car and there is a nice gash about 3" high x 6" long from his right rear tail light into the quarter panel.

He caught the leading edge of my rear bumper just right and it peeled his car open like a tin can.

Edit: He took a spin down the road, came back, and they are going to hibernate in the motel till it melts!

Everything was closed down yesterday around here, that is why I drove to Danville. I got some microwave stuff from Walmart.

They are making some progress at cleaning up the snow in town here, but not doing it with much enthusiasm.

There is a gas station open and a CVS Pharmacy as well.

I doubt they will plow out the motel parking lot. They only opened it up a bit at the roads so you could see the entrance, then you're on your own.

They have a Polaris ATV (6 wheel rig) with a snow plow at the motel, but that thing would only make a bad thing worse if you don't know how to plow snow. Besides, it's kinda buried right now.

My opinion from talking to people, they just wait till it melts. Gal at the front desk says if they get 1" of snow, schools are closed for 3 days.

Oh Boy, lady in the room on the other side of my truck just fired up her car. She's from SW Georgia and can't drive in snow. Maybe I should move my truck.

I don't now man. Maybe leave it there. Sounds like, if you play your cards right, you might get a new truck out of this!