Somebody talk to this Texan about

[Texasgal]

your SNOW!!!

Is it really amazing? Are you guys okay?

I've been reading about this monster storm all day.... stay safe and warm... and post pics for us southerners who never get anything! :(

[Captain Hilts]

1. We've already got a couple of inches in Chevy Chase, MD!!!!

[texanwitch]

2. Houston got a little snow, for a few hours.

It stuck on the ground even.

Y'all guys so warm and safe.

[seabeyond]

3. wherez my snow. we havent had it for working on three years. it is our time to

be dumped on.

[Texasgal]

8. Well... the weather gods say

we should be colder with more precipitation this winter. Maybe... just maybe!

[HipChick]

4. Last time DC area got anything close to this amount of snow..it shut down for a few days..

I leave for the Caribbean Monday..go figure

[tabatha]

5. Global Warming makes it colder .....

"According to Paul R. Epstein, at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Global Warming is what's making it colder in the winter in the US:

Normally, water circulates in the North Atlantic like this: Cold, salty water at the top sinks; that sinking water acts as a pump, pulling warm Gulf Stream water north and thus moderating winter weather. But now, fresh water from the thawing ice and heavier rain is accumulating near the ocean's surface; it's not sinking as quickly. (The tropics are faced with the opposite phenomenon.

According to Dr. Ruth Curry and her colleagues at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the tropical Atlantic is becoming saltier; as warming increases, so does evaporation, which leaves behind salt.) The "freshening" in the North Atlantic may be contributing to a high-pressure system that is accelerating trans-Atlantic winds and deflecting the jet stream — changes that may be driving frigid fronts down the Eastern Seaboard. The ice-core records demonstrate that the North Atlantic can freshen to a point where the deep-water pump fails, warm water stops coming north, and the northern ocean suddenly freezes, as it did in the last Ice Age.

No one can say if that is what will happen next. But since the 1950's, the best documented deep-water pump, between Iceland and Scotland, has slowed 20 percent."

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/2004/02/global_warming_.html

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Here in the Northeast, we stock up on wood/food/booze

Best time to relax & cook (as you can't go anywhere).

As long as you prepare, and are warm, it is wonderful. And quiet. You can just sit and watch the snow fall and kick back (until it is time to shovel!)

Snow dampens all sound - and with little/no traffic, it is amazing. Just the silence, the neighborhood/street lights and the pristine scene of everything blanketed in white.

Of course, ask again in 6 weeks when northerners are snow shoveled out and we will tell you a different story. LOL!

I live in the city in a condo with a garage, so I don't count as I can just enjoy it without all the work. :D

[Texasgal]

7. *sigh*

It sounds wonderful....

Keep warm!!!

[ohheckyeah]

9. Here's some pics

From my front porch:







Out the back door:

[tomm2thumbs]

11. woweeeeee!!!! thanks for the pictooores

that makes me want to go wrap presents now - thank you!!!

(I was procrastinatin')

Stay warm!

[ohheckyeah]

12. You're welcome.

The bird bath may not make it through this without cracking.

[ohheckyeah]

13. I haven't finished Christmas shopping

and it looks like I'm going to be out on Christmas week. I never put it off this late and I was going to go today but the storm was so close by the time I got up I didn't bother.

[Texasgal]

14. ooooh! MY GOSH!!!

How cool is that???

Keep warm and thanks for the pics!!!

[ohheckyeah]

15. You're welcome.

It was fun. I didn't realize just how deep the snow had gotten. It really shows up on the bird bath.

We have our gas logs going and they keep the whole house nice and toasty warm. Heat pumps just don't get it in this kind of cold.

[HopeHoops]

10. Nothing yet (after midnight, Harrisburg, PA)

We're sort of in the 1-3" / 3-6" prediction band, at least last I checked the map. I lived in NH for 10 years where 2' of snow overnight is nothing. The plows would be through our court of 9 houses before 6 a.m. and the biggest bitch was clearing the mountain range it left at the end of the driveway. Coal shovels are wonderful things. Anything less than 18" hardly phases me.