How is the weather in your area?

[Inspired]

I'm in West Des Moines and we have pretty much closed shop in the Des Moines area.

What going on in your neck of the frozen tundra?

[IADEMO2004]

1. Red Oak 12deg. 23-35 mph wind, blowing snow, roads closed

hot coffee warm banana bread

Steve King still useless

[Inspired]

2. Warm banana bread? Oh YUM! Wish I had some.

And Steve King is useless!

[IADEMO2004]

5. County just opened one lane but it will not stay open long.

and I am too comfortable at home.

[Condem]

3. Iowa City checking in....

U of I closed. That doesn't happen very often. The wind is howlin'. Not much traffic and I live on a very busy street.

[Inspired]

8. Iowa State is closed, too. Now I can stop worrying about my daughter!

[HarveyDarkey]

4. Fairfield here

We got freezing rain yesterday afternoon so where the streets are cleared it's glare ice. It took me over half an hour to chip the ice on the driver's side door before I could get it open. Haven't worked on the passenger side yet. Not a lot of new snow, but what there is is drifting with sustained winds of about 20.

[Inspired]

7. I think I'd rather have a foot of snow than ice.

I hate freezing rain. It's the worst, imo.

[emmadoggy]

6. Checking in from

rural Waukon, in Allamakee county. 10-11 inches of snow, light snow coming down right now, and plenty of wind blowing it all around. Temp is 17 and on it's way down. I haven't left my home since yesterday when school got out 3 hours early (could have stayed in until at least 2!). We live a few miles out of town in a group of homes with one private service road which had not been plowed until after 11am this morning. Hubby was picked up by a co-worker who has a 4-wheel drive pickup which was able to get through our unplowed road (most of the snow was blowing off that section, but not enough for hubby to get through with the car - not to mention, get back in at 6:30 tonight.)

It's definitely nasty, but honestly, I have seen worse. I'm trying to use the day to get some stuff done around the house, but I'm not getting very far yet! Feeling tired and lazy. Just want to curl up with a book and some hot chocolate........

[Inspired]

9. I don't remember it ever being as bad as it is in Des Moines right now.

[HarveyDarkey]

10. Weren't around in '73 I guess

APRIL BLIZZARD IN 1973

A late season snowstorm brought heavy snow to Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Wind gusts were up to 70 mph blowing the snow into snow drifts as high as 16 feet. Snow totals were commonly reported in the 10-20″ range.

Dubuque: 19.2″
Waterloo: 9.7″ (this pushed Waterloo to the top of the list of Snowiest Aprils)
Cedar Rapids: 14.5″
Belle Plaine 20.2″

The heavy snow and strong wind closed some highways in Iowa.

I was living in Des Moines at the time.

[emmadoggy]

11. Heck, I only have to go back

to Feb. 2007. Or 1997, 1996, or 1982. This one stands out as a doozy.... http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/events/snow_jan96.php I was living in Spring Grove, MN at the time, which, as you can see, received 19 inches in that storm. In Jan. of 1982 I was a freshman in high school. My siblings and I only had 5 days that WHOLE MONTH where we were in school for the entire school day. All the rest were either late starts, early outs, snow days, or we just simply couldn't get to school even though school was going that day. A few times, our bus got stuck which made us even later. We had a blizzard every Friday that month, and the rest of the time there was just enough wind to blow all the snow around and drift the roads closed, even if there wasn't a storm. My folks even drove us to my Grandma and Grandpa's house a few miles away one night in horrible conditions (zero visibility, bucking big snow drifts) just so that we would be able to get to school because we had missed so much (their road didn't drift shut as bad and they were only a mile from the pavement). We grew up in rural Howard County where it's flat as a pancake and wide open. We actually had to make up school on a few Saturdays that year.

[Inspired]

13. I remember the thundersnow of '96.

It wasn't as bad as this is, at least in my area.

[Inspired]

12. Actually I was but I was too young to remember anything beyond playing in it.

[47of74]

18. That was the weekend my cousin was born

I wasn't around then but my mom said how she was working at the hospital and had to stay there the entire weekend because it was impossible to leave.

[Tashca]

14. In Cedar Rapids

The wind is the issue now. We might have somewhere in the area of nine inches of snow on the ground and in the air. The city was shutdown and is doing a good job of digging out.

Personally I thought the snow was very heavy to move. Fortunately we had a couple of neighbors with big blowers move the stuff we couldn't get. Two years ago we came within a couple of inches of setting a record for most snowfall in a season. None of those storms were as bad as this. I certainly hope this is not a sample of a hard winter to come. My back can not handle it.

I thought the winter of 79-80 was the worst I have lived through.....I lived in Washington that winter.

[petersjo02]

15. Rural West Branch

Snowing, windy, drifting, temp dropping. Hubby has swept the porch and the sidewalk four or five times. Just keeps blowing back in. Dog won't go out long enough to do his business. I'm making cinnamon rolls.

[rurallib]

16. Thank goodness I had no place to go

I am in town. I took a spin around once and even in town it was snarky.
got the corn burner and wood fire going. Just had some chili that appears to be gonna keep the insides plenty warm.

[PeachySue1957]

17. COLD!

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
But in here it's so delightful.
And since we've no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow."

Or something like that.....:hug:

[47of74]

19. I live near Dubuque

Dad said where we live we got around 10 inches of snow (he's an observer for the NWS).

I, however, was down in the Quad Cities for work, so I stayed down there the entire time. I didn't have too far to go then to get to work. The roads were covered around the Quad Cities but the main ones were all passable. I took it easy and got to where I was going ok. By Wednesday evening I-74 was still partially covered but I-80 was in decent enough shape long enough to get to the hotel.