Anyone else preparing for the big storm? [Archive]

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 01:27 PM

Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous. I was walking around KC and Lawrence in shorts and sandalls and it got up to at least 70.

Today, it's just now hit Lawrence in the last hour so KC is in the next hour or two. I went to my bank at about 12 and it was lightly raining but came out about half an hour later and buckets of sleet were coming down.

So, if you work in KC, I would definitely recommend leaving in the next hour or so if you can since you know what the city looks like when ice hits.

SI

lordscarlet

11-29-2006, 01:42 PM

That storm is supposed to hit us over night Thursday/Friday. I am looking forward to giving the 4-wheel drive a go in the snow!

You better hope it's snow and not ice. Four wheels or ten, you're not going anywhere if it's an ice storm. :)

FrogMan

11-29-2006, 01:45 PM

You better hope it's snow and not ice. Four wheels or ten, you're not going anywhere if it's an ice storm. :)

indeed. You know how to tell appart regular 2 wheel drive cars and 4 wheel drive cars? 4 wheel drive cars usually end up about 20 feet deeper in trouble when the shit hits the fan. :D

FM

Surtt

11-29-2006, 01:53 PM

indeed. You know how to tell appart regular 2 wheel drive cars and 4 wheel drive cars? 4 wheel drive cars usually end up about 20 feet deeper in trouble when the shit hits the fan. :D

FM

Q: what is th difference between a 2 and 4 wheel drive pickup?
A: How far you have to walk.

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 02:06 PM

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y268/sterlingice/apartment/IMG_7561.jpg

And, just like that, it's pretty much stopped here (actually stopped about half an hour ago). So, we got that much sleet in less than an hour.

SI

GoldenEagle

11-29-2006, 02:08 PM

They said we may get some in Little Rock, but there is no way it will stick.

spleen1015

11-29-2006, 02:17 PM

You better hope it's snow and not ice. Four wheels or ten, you're not going anywhere if it's an ice storm. :)

I definitely won't do anything crazy. Having this truck will prevent me from having to shovel the driveway, hopefully. I'll park on the wife's side of the driveway hoping there's not much snow build up. Then I can just park my truck in the snow on my side.

Yes. I am lazy. I hate shoveling snow.

TroyF

11-29-2006, 02:20 PM

lordscarlet

11-29-2006, 02:30 PM

I definitely won't do anything crazy. Having this truck will prevent me from having to shovel the driveway, hopefully. I'll park on the wife's side of the driveway hoping there's not much snow build up. Then I can just park my truck in the snow on my side.

Yes. I am lazy. I hate shoveling snow.

When I lived in the suburbs and had my Jeep I helped a neighbor "shovel her driveway" by driving up and down it half a dozen times and creating a packed down tread path for her to drive through. :)

finketr

11-29-2006, 02:44 PM

bryce

11-29-2006, 03:43 PM

We're bracing for it all the way down here in Dallas, too. We are pretty much spanning the gamut with weather conditions:

Today: 80 degrees, not a cloud in the sky
Tonight: Hail and T-Storms and Tornados
Later Tonight: 25 degrees
Tomorrow: 35 degrees and wintry mix

Ksyrup

11-29-2006, 03:51 PM

In Lexington, the forecast is for severe thunderstorms/hail/possible tornadoes Thursday night, then by 10-11am Friday morning, the cold front comes through, drops temps about 25-30 degrees, and turns the rain to snow. And I'm actually looking forward to it (except the possible severe weather). You can tell I'm a snow noob.

Ragone

11-29-2006, 03:53 PM

yea, my neighborhood is iced down completely.. hooray for not going to work

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 03:55 PM

Yeah, I'm feeling kindof good right now about my twin decisions of taking this week off and getting everything I needed outside of my apartment done by just after noon on Wednesday.

SI

Ksyrup

11-29-2006, 04:11 PM

I wonder if the potential severe weather will make for some entertaining viewing tomorrow night of the Ravens/Bengals game.

kcchief19

11-29-2006, 06:05 PM

I managed to get out of work about an hour early and my 35-minute drive home took me about 1:15 plus 10 minutes of clearing my car off. I'm somewhat surprised we haven't had more problems with ice on trees and power lines yet.

Part II of the storm is supposed to blow in overnight with a band just south of KC getting about a foot of snow. Of course, this storm is continuing to track north and that band could move into the metro. Lovely.

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 06:08 PM

Hopefully it stays just south and east enough that Lawrence gets missed, as per usual.

SI

ctmason

11-29-2006, 06:22 PM

It was a freezing 55 degrees this morning in Phoenix. I was really worried about the roads.

MizzouRah

11-29-2006, 06:34 PM

Brought my laptop home just in case. ;)

panerd

11-29-2006, 07:24 PM

I wonder if the potential severe weather will make for some entertaining viewing tomorrow night of the Ravens/Bengals game.

You're probably talking about the thunderstorm for the game, but I am thinking of a different angle. The Bengals are my team and I am caught in quite a quandry here in St. Louis if the weather forecast holds up. It isn't supposed to get bad until around noon tomorrow so I will be heading to work in the morning, but my parents live like 2 minutes from my work while I live a long way (especially in severe weather). Unfortunatly, I get the NFL network with directv and they don't with Charter cable. Do I drive in potentially severe weather for a game or not mess with it? Will an ice storm end up screwing with Directv coverage anyways?

MizzouRah

11-29-2006, 07:52 PM

Right now.. 1-2 inches tomorrow afternoon and 6-10 tomorrow night..

Tasan

11-29-2006, 07:55 PM

Well down here in the Armpit of the US, its supposed to be 65 when I leave for work in the morning and 35 when I leave work. Thats friggin' cold for us down here.

kcchief19

11-29-2006, 08:33 PM

Right now.. 1-2 inches tomorrow afternoon and 6-10 tomorrow night..
That's what it's looking like here too, we're just a half day ahead of you. I've got about 1-2 inches of sleet/ice/snow on the ground right now, but it's pretty much tapered off for now. Round two is supposed to start tomorrow afternoon, with at least one usually wrong forecaster calling for 6-12+ in the metro by Friday morning.

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 08:39 PM

That's what it's looking like here too, we're just a half day ahead of you. I've got about 1-2 inches of sleet/ice/snow on the ground right now, but it's pretty much tapered off for now. Round two is supposed to start tomorrow afternoon, with at least one usually wrong forecaster calling for 6-12+ in the metro by Friday morning.

Whio, pray tell, is that?

SI

kcchief19

11-29-2006, 08:49 PM

Whio, pray tell, is that?

SI
Gary Lezak at KSHB. It's in his blog right now: "We are forecasting 6 to 12 inches in Kansas City with over a foot in some spots possible."

Of course, Gary's famous for changing his forecast repeatedly so later he can always say he was right.

Wolfpack

11-29-2006, 08:52 PM

Scheduled to roll in through here tomorrow through Friday. Starts off as rain tonight into tomorrow with temps in the low 50s before dropping off tomorrow afternoon. Everything goes into the tank starting tomorrow night into Friday with all sorts of nastiness coming down. Metro Detroit looks like it'll get a glancing blow out of this with 3-5 inches of snow, but just north and west of here, they've posted Winter Storm Watches for a potential 5-8 inch accumulation. Of course, if the forecast is wrong by some distance, we could get dumped on anyway....

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 08:54 PM

Gary Lezak at KSHB. It's in his blog right now: "We are forecasting 6 to 12 inches in Kansas City with over a foot in some spots possible."

Of course, Gary's famous for changing his forecast repeatedly so later he can always say he was right.

That's what I figured. He's more for entertainment value as I think, like most at that station, he plays up the dramatic. Unlike most at that station, tho, I think he really believes it. I remember one time, there were some "suspicious looking clouds" over KC from a storm that had previously spawned a tornado and he wanted so badly to see them forming something again but there was just nothing there. Passionate guy, just lets a little weather fanboyism get in the way of accuracy.

I actually saw his report at 5pm and he actually said 6-12" would be down south and east of KC, possibly reaching Lee's Summit if everything breaks right for the "worst case". But he also said north and west may get very little- just an inch or two.

He has also predicted single digit lows and no one else is getting even close to that, almost everyone in the mid teens.

SI

MizzouRah

11-29-2006, 09:15 PM

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 09:17 PM

Bring it on!

SI - Jack is freaking out right now, wants everyone at work at 7am to make sure calls are caught up. :)

I suppose that's the nice thing about us doing mostly the per-event stuff in KC. Ultimately, those could always be put off or returned if necessary but not so with the crazy 1 hour calls and the like.

Speaking of which, I keep trying to access webmail and am having no luck. Oh well, I'll just email out the FSRs tomorrow. It's not like those have ever been on a tight schedule as there always seem to be month old ones on the report.

SI

Toddiec

11-29-2006, 09:43 PM

Hey SI, quit wishing that it goes south and east of Lawrence...that's where I am!! The roads out here in the country (about 45 minutes south of Olathe) are all iced up and there were plenty of accidents this afternoon. More snow would be fine. More ice....not so much.

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 09:46 PM

Where at down there? I've probably had to go out that direction before.

And when I mean south and east, I'm talking about SE of KC, down in that part of Missouri where there aren't a whole lot of people except along 50.

That said, I'd never wish ice on anyone. I fear driving on the stuff :(

SI

MizzouRah

11-29-2006, 09:50 PM

I suppose that's the nice thing about us doing mostly the per-event stuff in KC. Ultimately, those could always be put off or returned if necessary but not so with the crazy 1 hour calls and the like.

Speaking of which, I keep trying to access webmail and am having no luck. Oh well, I'll just email out the FSRs tomorrow. It's not like those have ever been on a tight schedule as there always seem to be month old ones on the report.

SI

Yeah.. it's just Jack doing what he always likes to do, overreact. I don't have any calls due tomorrow at Verizon, so I guess I'll sleep in. :D

Buccaneer

11-29-2006, 09:51 PM

What, you mean the storm running through Denver now?

Ugh, I HATE snow. hate it, hate it, hate it. Having to sweep off six inches off the car this morning pissed me off. Having to do it again before I leave for work tonight makes me even more unhappy.

Jeez, Troy, you call yourself a Coloradoan? I definitely prefer this weather than the relatively hot shit we get in the summer.

We got about 6-9" here, much more in the mountains though - 2-3 feet. It came with an arctic blast so it's going to be a little on the cool side, about 0 tonight.

Craptacular

11-29-2006, 09:55 PM

I'd like to see some snow. We're supposed to get 1-2" overnight, and another couple on Friday. Enough to make the ground slippery but not enough to enjoy. :(

cartman

11-29-2006, 09:57 PM

There are currently tornado watches immediately west of San Antonio, and the storms are moving to the northeast. That means they should be reaching me in about 2 to 3 hours. Which is strange, because I figured with an arctic front moving through that the winds would be out of the north.

Toddiec

11-29-2006, 10:04 PM

I am about 20 miles east of Ottawa and 45 miles south of Olathe in Miami County. That means the sand trucks should hit our roads sometime on Friday...of next week.

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 10:09 PM

So somewhere like Paola or further south like down by La Cygne Lake?

SI

Toddiec

11-29-2006, 10:14 PM

Just a little south of Paola (10 miles). West of Osawatomie. Not quite down in the budding metropolis that is the LaCygne area. They just outlawed golfcarts as street legal transportation down there (true story).

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 10:18 PM

Can't say I've been exactly where you are talking about but I've been down to Paola a couple of times and taken 69 as far south as Fort Scott.

SI

Toddiec

11-29-2006, 10:25 PM

Osawatomie is 10 miles south of Paola on 169. According to KMBC our area should see 4-8 inches tomorrow starting at noonish or so. But it does look like you were right about it missing Lawrence. The good news is that it looks like all snow and no ice.

sterlingice

11-29-2006, 10:26 PM

Ah, see I'd like a few inches of snow in Lawrence. I still very much have that Texan "oh cool! it's snowing" mentality. I'm just not too keen of packing it on top of the inch of ice we have everywhere.

SI

kcchief19

11-29-2006, 10:26 PM

That's what I figured. He's more for entertainment value as I think, like most at that station, he plays up the dramatic. Unlike most at that station, tho, I think he really believes it. I remember one time, there were some "suspicious looking clouds" over KC from a storm that had previously spawned a tornado and he wanted so badly to see them forming something again but there was just nothing there. Passionate guy, just lets a little weather fanboyism get in the way of accuracy.
The winner is still Katie Horner for the time she came into the studio during a tornado warning wearing jeans and in a ponytail because she had been gardening, then telling everyone in the warning area to take shelter in their basement or lower level bathroom and put on a football helmet if they have one.

True story.

Chief Rum

11-29-2006, 10:30 PM

Mizzou B-ball fan

11-29-2006, 10:33 PM

Oh crap. They just adjusted the storm track towards the north. KC's going to get hammered, especially on the south side. Up to a foot on the north side of town with the south side of town getting 20-24" of snow. That's a ton of snow. Guess I'll be heading out of town early to avoid the snow and go to the Mizzou/Arkansas game. Columbia is now expecting only a trace of snow, so they'll certainly play the game tomorrow. 4x4 trucks rock.

kcchief19

11-29-2006, 11:41 PM

primelord

11-29-2006, 11:59 PM

I have to say working from home rules. It rules in general, but not having to worry about driving in winter storms makes rules even more.

Lorena

11-30-2006, 01:26 AM

It's nothing like what you all deal with, but we are in the middle of some very extreme weather here for California.

Gale force (50-60 mph) winds have been tearing up the Inland Empire (Riverside/San Berdoo area) and deserts today, and even here deep in OC, the windows are rattling.

I work out in IE, so I got to feel that first hand. Literally, swirling dust and debris flying through the air. Me seriously wondering if we're going to get hit by a tornado. Trees falling, power going out, the whole gamuk.

It might be a normal thing for you guys in the Midwest or in the hurricane zones, but for us, it is new and weird (and for some, frightening).

Wow, that's insanity. The last time I remember winds hitting So.Cal that bad was in 1987ish (I must have been in the 8th grade or so).

I just looked at the forecast for tomorrow out here and it's gonna be a high of 48 degrees and low of 30 with tornado watch and and freeze warning. I've lived in places with mild weather so this is new to me... especially the tornado thing that kinda freaks me out.

Airhog

11-30-2006, 06:58 AM

Pretty heavy blanket of ice/sleet/snow on the ground here now. Gonna be a long 5 minute drive to work, thats for sure!

Mizzou B-ball fan

11-30-2006, 07:55 AM

Mizzou, where did you see that total? NWS issued a heavy snow warning tonight for KC that has the 12+ total for south of the river, but I hadn't seen the 20-24 number. Was that Gary going nuts again? :)

Hell yes, that was Gary! Love that guy! While the 20-24 may be a bit crazy, it's pretty much a foot for most of the viewing area from what I saw. After a foot of snow, I'm not sure another 6-8" on top of that make all that much difference.

flere-imsaho

11-30-2006, 08:28 AM

I have to say working from home rules. It rules in general, but not having to worry about driving in winter storms makes rules even more.

Pretty heavy blanket of ice/sleet/snow on the ground here now. Gonna be a long 5 minute drive to work, thats for sure!

Yeah, and on the other end of the spectrum, it's supposed to start snowing heavily in Chicago this afternoon all the way through the night. What am I doing tonight? Only FLYING INTO O'HARE!!!

It's going to be a long night.... :(

MizzouRah

11-30-2006, 09:35 AM

I made it in, but it's sleeting like a bear. Won't be long before I head home and start playing some FOF 2k7.

sterlingice

11-30-2006, 10:14 AM

The winner is still Katie Horner for the time she came into the studio during a tornado warning wearing jeans and in a ponytail because she had been gardening, then telling everyone in the warning area to take shelter in their basement or lower level bathroom and put on a football helmet if they have one.

True story.

I remember that. That station just does nothing for me in weather. It's funny because everyone around has opinions on how storm coverage is. Lezak's easily the guy for entertainment value. The Fox guy is probably the most accurate tho I really don't guage that much from KC weather. CBS does have the best radar, I think. And ABC has, um... Brian Buzby. Don't really have any strong opinions either way there.

Personally, if I'm looking for a good and accurate forecast in the area, it's easily Bruce Jones on NBC Topeka. Sure, the man always looks like he's pulling an all-nighter even if it's only tornado night coverage at 7pm and he's working on his 3rd cup of coffee in the last half hour, but he seems to have the most reliable forecasts and is the most professional, to boot. And during tornadoes, he does a good job of not being over the top and covering the whole region pretty much from Manhappiness to past Lawrence as well as ranging north and south.

Special mention goes to "the kid" on Lawrence channel 6, which, if you haven't seen it is a half step above public access. Still, it's a nice little station. They have a guy who looks about my age and a couple of years ago, yes, he uttered these words in kindof the frat-guy apathetic voice: "There's a tornado coming your direction, so you might wanna take cover, ya know." He's gotten much better, but from that, there's nowhere to go but up.

SI

Coffee Warlord

11-30-2006, 10:39 AM

Yeah, and on the other end of the spectrum, it's supposed to start snowing heavily in Chicago this afternoon all the way through the night. What am I doing tonight? Only FLYING INTO O'HARE!!!

It's going to be a long night.... :(

The O'Hare Hilton is calling your name, bucko. :)

finketr

11-30-2006, 10:53 AM

does it count if you went shopping because it was a normal day?

anyway.. forecast for central illinois:
1" of snow/ice today, 6-10" snow tonight, 2-4" new snow tomorrow. with 15-25 mph winds throughout.

kcchief19

11-30-2006, 11:24 AM

Hell yes, that was Gary! Love that guy! While the 20-24 may be a bit crazy, it's pretty much a foot for most of the viewing area from what I saw. After a foot of snow, I'm not sure another 6-8" on top of that make all that much difference.
Well, our favorite weather spaz strikes again ... Gary is now saying maybe 1-2" in the Northland, 2-3" south of the river and and a "good chance" we won't get any snow.

I'm expecting regardless of what happens for Gary to run a promo saying he said exactly what would happen.

kcchief19

11-30-2006, 11:27 AM

Special mention goes to "the kid" on Lawrence channel 6, which, if you haven't seen it is a half step above public access. Still, it's a nice little station. They have a guy who looks about my age and a couple of years ago, yes, he uttered these words in kindof the frat-guy apathetic voice: "There's a tornado coming your direction, so you might wanna take cover, ya know." He's gotten much better, but from that, there's nowhere to go but up.
He would have gotten bonus points if he added something about dangerous lightning and "boom goes the dynmanite."

cartman

11-30-2006, 11:29 AM

The O'Hare Hilton is calling your name, bucko. :)

I spent what seemed like two weeks one night in the O'Hare Hilton. That was #2 on my worst travel interruption experiences.

kcchief19

11-30-2006, 11:38 AM

New data
Good morning,
The new NAM has come out and the chance of a major snow storm has been diminished considerably. There is still some hope that a nice band of snow will work its way north into the area and reach Kansas City so let's watch this closely. But, the major snowstorm may be 100 miles further south. Right now I am thinking one inch around KCI and north to 3 inches down south.
Once again. Let's keep watching for, hopefully, another twist and see if this suddenly turns north.
Gary

Don't give up. The radar echoes are increasing. I know I am looking like a fool here, but Brett and Jeremy just told my our Adonis computer model is giving 8 or 9 inche to the south side and 3 inches up north.
The new GFS has 6 to 12 inches here. Let's watch radar. Sorry about this flip flopping today. Let's watch the radar trends. I LIKE WHAT I AM SEEING. A wave is breaking off from the upper low and heading our way.
Gary

Within an hour and 15 minutes, he forecast everything from zero to 12 inches. I'm looking at the radar and trying to figure out what he's smoking, because the leading edge of snow is already in the metro (he said this morning it might not start for another 8 hours) and the head of the comma formation appears to be headed straight towards us. I'm guessing the diving line will end up just south of St. Joe, although the heavy stuff will probably be closer to where the originally thought in the Lee's Summit/Harrisonville direction.

MizzouRah

11-30-2006, 11:46 AM

The drive home wasn't bad.

sterlingice

11-30-2006, 11:49 AM

Enjoy the afternoon of FOF ;)

SI

flere-imsaho

11-30-2006, 11:51 AM

The O'Hare Hilton is calling your name, bucko. :)

Nah, I'm flying into O'Hare. Assuming I make it, all I then have to do is get a cab home to Glenview. More likely, of course, is that I'll just be delayed in San Francisco (my departure city) all afternoon. Ugh.

MizzouRah

11-30-2006, 11:58 AM

Enjoy the afternoon of FOF ;)

SI

:)

Nobody to look over my shoulder.

sterlingice

11-30-2006, 12:00 PM

Well, here's what the weather service has to offer and they don't really have a horse in this race (everyone: "they're the government, they're always wrong" noaa weather guy: "why do i even bother? oh, yeah, because no one reads it and i can leave early when i want to"). That said, I think the key here is the "ranges of several inches of snow across a county".

A HEAVY SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY.
SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTHEAST INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON TODAY. SNOWFALL COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS BEFORE TAPERING OFF AFTER MIDNIGHT. SNOW AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE SOUTH OF A COUNCIL GROVE...TO LAWRENCE LINE. A NARROW BAND OF 8 TO 12 INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE BY FRIDAY MORNING SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 35.

DUE TO THE NATURE AND TRACK OF THE STORM...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ARE LIKELY TO VARY DRAMATICALLY ACROSS A SMALL AREA...WITH RANGES OF SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW ACROSS A COUNTY POSSIBLE. NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTIES IN THE WARNING AREA MAY RECEIVE MUCH LOWER SNOW AMOUNTS.

SI

Toddiec

11-30-2006, 12:43 PM

I am checking out the Live Doppler at the KMBC site right now and it looks like we are right in the middle of the east to west U-shape of snow lines (yeah, that is the limit of my weather term knowledge). It is snowing to the north, west and south of us. If I didn't know better.....I would say that snowstorm is trying to flank me!

On the plus side, it looks like SI should be getting snowed on right now! I mean that is good because SI is still awed by snow, not that I wish him any ill snow-related fate.

sterlingice

11-30-2006, 12:55 PM

Ayup, it's started snowing here in the last half hour.

It's really funny, if you go off weather.com's maps, it's apparently been snowing here for 3+ hours. Then again, I guess that's why I tend to use noaa's website as they're much more accurate.

SI

Mizzou B-ball fan

11-30-2006, 12:55 PM

On the plus side, it looks like SI should be getting snowed on right now! I mean that is good because SI is still awed by snow, not that I wish him any ill snow-related fate.

I'm just hoping for enough snow on the roof of Allen Fieldhouse to collapse that roof and complete a demolition that should have been done years ago. :)

timmae

11-30-2006, 01:10 PM

I am patiently waiting... nothing is better in the winter months than to see Millenium Park covered in fresh snow from my 18th floor vantage point. The lights bouncing off of the Pritzker Pavilion (Frank Gehry designed) and the screens of the Crown Fountian light up the park. Combined with snow clinging to all of the trees and it's a winter wonderland. Hurry up snow! Hurry up!!

Then I can sulk in this horrible weather for the next 4 months....

Coffee Warlord

11-30-2006, 01:33 PM

We have now set up the office pool on how much snow, to be measured at a precise location 4:45pm tomorrow.

MizzouRah

11-30-2006, 01:42 PM

I love my garage. It's been sleeting for hours now and the cars outside should take about 2 hrs to thaw out. :)

GoldenEagle

11-30-2006, 01:44 PM

We are getting rain in Little Rock. The sleet line is slowly approaching us. But, I think the ground temp is still to warm for any type of accumilation. The storm seems to be moving very, very slowly but it is suppose (and already is) losing its punch due to the atmosphere or something like that.

People in LR are not worried about at all.

timmae

11-30-2006, 03:59 PM

We have now set up the office pool on how much snow, to be measured at a precise location 4:45pm tomorrow.

what's the ante and location? I'd like some of that action... :D

Coffee Warlord

11-30-2006, 04:06 PM

what's the ante and location? I'd like some of that action... :D

Cheap pool this time, a scant dollar. Location is a little stone ledge on our building sign (Burr Ridge). C'mon over and sign up, I'm the bookie for this one. :)

Ksyrup

11-30-2006, 04:13 PM

I can see pink and white on the western fringes of our radar...

MizzouRah

11-30-2006, 05:28 PM

All you cheap asses who have a 2WD truck instead of a 4WD truck, I feel sorry for you.. actually I don't.

Ice everywhere tonight and a friend of my wife's calls and says she's stuck at the top of our street, yep 2WD Dodge Ram. My wife's freaking out and I get bundled up and start my 1989 Ford Ranger 4X4. Some guys are helping her out and I pull up. Basically I tell them to back the truck down the road and I would show her an alternate route.

She almost doesn't make it up the 2nd hill right before our house, but eventually she does and the whole time, I'm right behind her at a dead stop. I hit the gas and ol blue goes right up the hill with little trouble. I love that old truck.

Buccaneer

11-30-2006, 06:28 PM

For what it's worth, today was one of those perfect Colorado days - cold, clear, dry with sparkling snow cover under a brilliant blue sky. Temps probably didn't get above 20 (yes, I relunctantly wore a coat) but with the usually warm sun and calm winds, it felt great. I think that's the main difference between the mountain west and everywhere east of here - the lack of moisture in the cold air doesn't make it feel like your bones are freezing. This was the kind of day that brings back great memories of skiing.

Stay warm and safe.

sterlingice

11-30-2006, 08:22 PM

Ok, I gotta go with the weathermen on this one. They're looking pretty spot on with the 8-12" in some areas that everyone was reporting last night. We all know 24" was insane but so were people claiming 1-3". Yes, in Lawrence we're under an inch as we've been on the edge of the churning radar all day and the airport probably isn't too bad.

There's no way a storm is going to hit every part of the metro for a foot of snow and there are some pretty good totals out there already. Olathe had 4.3" at 4:30 and Lenexa had 3" and it hasn't stopped or let up at all. Highest I've seen is Wellsville at 7" and hopefully Toddiec is nice and warm as that's heading down his direction.

SI

sooner333

11-30-2006, 08:45 PM

Well, I'll be up in KC for the Big 12 game...but I'm leaving Saturday morning so hopefully roads will be somewhat okay up there by then.

sterlingice

11-30-2006, 08:45 PM

Actually, here's the latest. Thunder in snow? Never seen that before:

THE POTENT WINTER STORM TRACKING ACROSS CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS
EVENING IS HAVING A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON EAST CENTRAL AND WEST
CENTRAL MISSOURI. SEVERAL NARROW BANDS OF HEAVY SNOW FORMED FROM THE
OLATHE AREA TO DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY AND BLUE SPRINGS. STORM SPOTTERS
HAVE REPORTED AS MUCH AS 6 INCHES OF SNOW IN OLATHE...5 INCHES IN PAOLA...
N4ARLY 5 INCHES IN LEES SUMMIT...5 INCHES IN DREXEL...4 INCHES IN
MOUND CITY KANSAS.

SNOW....OCCASIONALLY HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE
EVENING HOURS. AREAS SOUTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER IN THE KANSAS CITY
AREA CAN EXPECT TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES WITH THE
HIGHER AMOUNTS THE FURTHER SOUTH YOU GO. A TOTAL OF 10 TO 15 INCHES
OF SNOW IS FORECAST FOR AREAS FROM PAOLA AND MOUND CITY KANSAS TO
HIGGINSVILLE...WARRENSBURG...MARSHALL...MOBERLY AND MACON. SOME
THUNDER IS ALSO POSSIBLE THIS EVENING WHICH WOULD ENHANCE SNOW RATES
OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW IS
ALSO LIKELY. THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO END BY DAYBREAK ON FRIDAY.

SI

sooner333

11-30-2006, 08:54 PM

We had some Thunder-sleet last night...pretty weird, especially seeing the lightning.

finkenst

11-30-2006, 10:11 PM

it's started here...
and it's an ugly snowfall of mostly ice at this time...

i dread going to wrok tomorrow..

and the forecast is now for 8-12" when it's done. with snow rates of up to 2"/hr.

Toddiec

12-01-2006, 08:05 AM

The snow has officially ended for my neck of the woods. Post snow report: 10 inches in the field behind the house and drifts up against the garage of about 16-18 inches. The most difficult part was getting out of the driveway and up the untreated country roads to get to the blacktop. My fellow co-workers are saying the main highways are in good shape. Sooner333 it should get better the more north you go, but if you stay on the main highways/interstates it should be smooth sailing. Should be a sun-filled day with temps in the low 20's and wind chills in the teens at best! Viva Kansas!

Quick edit to add for anyone concerned about SI's quest for snow. Morning news said at least 4-6 inches for Lawrence so look for SI in his yard making snow angels any minute now...

Mizzou B-ball fan

12-01-2006, 08:30 AM

I drove from KC to the Mizzou/Arkansas game last night in Columbia. Drive down was just fine. Drive back was exciting to say the least. Semis and cars off the road everywhere and they ended up closing I-70 just after we passed through. The semis had no business being on that road last night. They've got a freakin' hotel room in the back of their cab! Pull your a$$ over and sleep through it!

flere-imsaho

12-01-2006, 08:33 AM

Well, I was only about an hour late getting into O'Hare, but definitely escaped there - as most of the other arrivals were further delayed or outright cancelled. In fact, when I checked in for my flight at SFO, the later flight to Chicago was already cancelled. At noon.

It's snowing pretty hard this morning, and both the wife & I are working from home, which is great. Took the dog out for a walk in the worst of it and he was thrilled (seriously, he loves the snow). Got to bark at the snow plow and everything.

Also took our newly-purchased (as of August) 2004 Subaru Forester out to do a couple of quick errands around town. Drove through the snow like it wasn't there. Love this car.

And this afternoon, when it lets up (hopefully) I can get outside and play with the snowblower. Fun! :D

sooner333

12-01-2006, 10:48 AM

Well, I can safely say that if an actual major storm went through Oklahoma, the city would be on lockdown for days. Yeah, the ice didn't help, but I mean, they shut down the turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa (a pretty major interstate) overnight and now only have one lane open going eastbound and none westbound. The roads aren't much better than when the snow stopped and there are still spinouts.

At least I decided not to head into work 45 minutes away because they said don't travel unless necessary. My car does not handle well in the snow/ice and the office is about 7 miles off of the interstate in a more rural setting.

And it seems I made the right choice because in the middle of typing this my roommate called, said he got stuck here in Norman and needs my help to go push him out.

MizzouRah

12-01-2006, 10:48 AM

MizzouRah

12-01-2006, 10:49 AM

dola,

GREAT GAME!

sterlingice

12-01-2006, 11:59 AM

Quick edit to add for anyone concerned about SI's quest for snow. Morning news said at least 4-6 inches for Lawrence so look for SI in his yard making snow angels any minute now...

Not unless laying in slushy grass is conducive to snow angels. And my wife is strongly opposed to driving anywhere to play in the snow (ok, so yeah, that's a cheat) :(

Seriously, if you go 15 miles south of Lawrence to Baldwin, they got 7" of snow. We got a dusting.

Again, the weathermen were actually almost dead on- big snowfall amounts, as much as 15" in SW Missouri, but high gradient so that some places get nothing (KCI had a trace) while others got dumped on (OP ended up with 10").

Nice win by Mizzou last night, btw.

SI

Mizzou B-ball fan

12-01-2006, 12:24 PM

Good game, eh? :)

It was a lot of fun. Well worth the hassle of dodging idiot drivers on I-70.

finketr

12-01-2006, 01:50 PM

so, we got anywhere from 8-11 inches of snow. ...

however there are 3 feet of drifts making getting out of the building and to the car nearly impossible...

then there's the snow around the cars...

wade moore

12-01-2006, 02:03 PM

We're going to drop about 20-25 degrees between today and tomorrow and get tons of precipitation..

Too bad for some unknown reason it's been like 70-75 the last few days, so that just means a lot of rain.

Ksyrup

12-01-2006, 02:09 PM

What a disappointment. No snow. A couple of (as in, 2) flurries, or so my wife says. We were at 69 degrees at midnight last night, then got hit with wicked thunderstorms through the night and 40 MPH winds and woke up to temps in the upper 50s. At 10am the temp dropped about 20 degrees in an instant. But by then, the precipitation had left the area.

FrogMan

12-01-2006, 02:12 PM

LOL ksyrup, I was reading your post with the word "degrees" missing at first, hit "quote" and see the "degrees" just added with a quick, well placed edit on your part. I was gonna say it was a bit too much information ;)

As for us, it as just started snowing way up here. maybe 12 inches expected from now until tomorrow evening, so actually a non event for us :)

FM

Ksyrup

12-01-2006, 03:12 PM

Yeah, I figured '69' and 'midnight' in the same sentence, without clarification, was asking for a threadjack. :D

Pumpy Tudors

12-01-2006, 03:46 PM

It got up to about 70 degrees here late this morning, but it looked like a tropical storm blew through here by the afternoon. Heavy rain, wind gusts up to 80 MPH, and trees/branches down pretty much everywhere. More rain is expected tonight, and it'll turn to snow around midnight. They're expecting about a half-inch of accumulation, so it's not that bad. I just don't want to be outside if we get another one of those tropical storm moments.

From what I hear, there was some heavy wind damage in my town, but I am guessing that my house is OK. I guess I'll find out for sure when I get home in a couple of hours, or if my wife gets home and calls me, whichever comes first. It should be fine, though.

Craptacular

12-01-2006, 07:47 PM

The southeast part of Dane Co got 6" of snow, the Milwaukee area got a foot, and we got ... 0. :(

Wolfpack

12-01-2006, 08:56 PM

Ended up being a dud here as well. Rain much of the day, then one very brief, somewhat intense snowfall that barely coated the really cold surfaces (cars, outdoor furniture, etc), now nothing. Just windy and cold. Yuck.

Ksyrup

12-01-2006, 09:19 PM

Part of my fence bent about 45 degrees and is touching our neighbor's fence. That was some intense wind.

flere-imsaho

12-02-2006, 12:03 PM

We plan to go showshoeing this afternoon. :)

Buccaneer

12-02-2006, 12:34 PM

You guys probably got another one coming your way. This second storm is hitting us now and we were supposed to get 1-3" but so far, it's up to 4-7". Fortunately here in Colorado, it is all powder.

timmae

12-04-2006, 11:14 AM

Cheap pool this time, a scant dollar. Location is a little stone ledge on our building sign (Burr Ridge). C'mon over and sign up, I'm the bookie for this one. :)

So how'd ya spend those dollar bills??? ;)

Coffee Warlord

12-04-2006, 11:34 AM

I did not win, but the winner did tip me 3 whole bucks. :)

SplitPersonality1

12-04-2006, 01:25 PM

The southeast part of Dane Co got 6" of snow, the Milwaukee area got a foot, and we got ... 0. :(

Bite me. :)

At my office this morning, a group of us were comparing notes regarding the storm. One guy said, "I got 10 inches." Another said, "I've got 8 inches." I piped in with "I've got 12".

One of the administrative assistants walked passed us smirking. It was a good start to the day.