Is WHITE!! The day before yesteday it was in the seventies. By thursday it’s supposed to be in the upper sixties, then at the weekend freezing again. Now tell me–what in the world is this?!? This never happened when I was a kid. If global warming, or cooling, or something, then what? This freakieness cannot be denied.
Wow! Beautiful.
your little guy is going to have a lot of fun! 
Over here similar. Yesterday was 20 C. Tomorrow it’s supposed to snow. Yay!
Meh…we get that all the time in Canada.
Thanks, Tash, my son did enjoy it very much!
Well, I live in Arkansas, not Canada. And when I was growing up, I could pretty much count on snow in the winter. Then it warmed up enough to melt the snow, and the rains and winds came with March. The rain and warmer winds caused the flowers to bloom–and there wasn’t another winter storm a day and a half a way that killed them off. It was never ever 70 on one day and snowing the day after!
The seasons tended to stay in their seperate compatments. Now, it’s as if there is a different seasoning on each day. And the days are beads and bead the box has been dropped, so that the seasons are all mixed up and strung randomely together on the thead of time.
Housecat is an authentic Arkie gal. I knew that when she made a comment about how Texas guys weren’t gentlemen, they were Texans. As no one else outside of Arkansas cares, we have a David vs. Goliath relationship with Texas, which explains Housecat’s anti-Texas comments.
Yes, I agree it’s weird. The worst I ever experienced was the winter of '85. My dog had a litter of puppies and only one survived that winter.
Yes, you guys get that all the time up North, but we don’t get it all the time down South. The unexpected is difficult to deal with. That’s the difference.
It looks gorgeous! Buy yeah, it does seem late for the south to be getting snow…and here I am in the UAE bitching because it’s “cold” (in the 70’s yesterday, 55 right now at 2:15 a.m)…I am so ashamed… 
Yeah, it was beautiful, all right! But this morning I scrapped almost six inches of snow/ice mix off my car, then twisted my ankle on the ice when I got the door open. Driving back home from school, the weather has warmed to the sixties and the sun is so hot through the wind sheild that I had the air on!!
And I do have kind of a love/hate relationship with TX. My brother defected to Texas years ago, and when I left AR for Taiwan, my mother moved there, too. They’re all the family I have. I actually moved my mother there just before I left, and my brand new car was totaled, and my self almost killed, when some Texan in a big Texan truck smashed into us. Since I was unable to speak, I was ticked. Even though I was hit from behind. The ER doc stiched me up, drugged me up, and sent me on my way, with a traffic ticket pinned to my bloody shirt!!
The last trip I made to Texas was to see my mother in hospital after a stroke, which almost killed her, and my sister-in-law ask me to leave “her” house (my mother’s house until my mother was moved to a nursing home in July and she promptly moved in) because I asked her to put her damn dog in another room after the thrid time it bit my son–unporvoked!!–hard enought to break the skin. So, we spent new years eve and a couple more nights sleeping in the car outside the hospital. But there were some kinder people around this time, so I’m a little torn.
Then the regular arkie girl stuff that Quint was talking about.
housecat, sounds like you had a pretty rough ride in Texas, but glad to hear you got some help in the end.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. – C.S. Lewis
Make me appreciate all the blessings that I’ve received, even when buried under the 12 feet of snow we got this year.
[quote=“sjcma”]housecat, sounds like you had a pretty rough ride in Texas, but glad to hear you got some help in the end.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. – C.S. Lewis
Make me appreciate all the blessings that I’ve received, even when buried under the 12 feet of snow we got this year.[/quote]
Well, I meant kinder to my mother, but it’s all good–the kindness. My sister-in-law had my mother on a do not save list and if she hadn’t gotten violently ill in front of my brother, just before the stroke, she would have died. As it is, they only gave her a pain shot and let her sleep in the hospital, so her recovery is still a miracle. But if she’d been at the nursing home when this happened, we would have known nothing until it was over. When my brother asked questions about this questionable treatment, he leaned that his wife had made these arrangements! I pretty much hate this woman. I have no idea why he is still with her, but he sure as hell has no balls.
And I was greated by my s-i-l at 11:30 pm, stupporously tired after driving for 10 hours and getting little sleep the night before, with this, “Right before your mom got sick, she said someone needed to take power of attorney over here. She brought it up herself. And the way I see it, it’s very clear. She has two kids–one lives in TX and one does not. I don’t really see any need for discussion about this.” Yes, I really can’t stand this woman.
I drove back from TX sick as a dog with a fever that stayed over 100 for a week. But Grace abounds and my son and I made it fine.
Twelve FEET of snow! And I was impressed by six inches!!
We got a foot of snow just yesterday. Apparently, 12 feet of snow isn’t even the all time high for a single winter here, although it’s been decades since there’s been this much snow. The snow at the end of my driveway is actually higher than the garage door. Quite the sight. According to the weather guys, this winter is firmly in 2nd place for all time snow. Hopefully, we don’t break the record for all time snow, which is supposed to be 14 1/2 feet. The forecast, however, calls for another 1/2 foot on Saturday. :s
We got a foot of snow just yesterday. Apparently, 12 feet of snow isn’t even the all time high for a single winter here, although it’s been decades since there’s been this much snow. The snow at the end of my driveway is actually higher than the garage door. Quite the sight. According to the weather guys, this winter is firmly in 2nd place for all time snow. Hopefully, we don’t break the record for all time snow, which is supposed to be 14 1/2 feet. The forecast, however, calls for another 1/2 foot on Saturday. :s[/quote]
How do you get the car out? How do you get out the front door, for that matter? I remember getting 14 inches at once one year when I was in high school. The outside door, or screen door, opened out and we could’t budge it! My brother climbed out a window and dug door out! That was only fourteen inches. I can’t immagine so much snow. And the cat very nearly froze to death when she tried to go out that year because she had to jump arount and could’t see where she’d been. She got disoriented and we had to go find her. She was huddled in one of her little jump holes all covered with snow. We found her because the spot in the snow was steeming where she was.
The 12 feet is the total amount of snow so far this winter; it doesn’t come down all at once, thank goodness. So as the snow comes, 1 foot one day, 4 inches 2 days later, 6 inches the next week, and so on, one just shovels it away onto the front lawn as it comes. To get out of the house after a big snow storm, we just go through the garage where all the shoveling paraphernalia are stored – no problemos.
Of course, with so much snow this year, shoveling is getting difficult because one has to throw the snow about 8 feet high to get it to go on top of the existing snowbank. Luckily for me, I’ve decided to hire someone to do my shoveling.
[quote=“sjcma”]The 12 feet is the total amount of snow so far this winter; it doesn’t come down all at once, thank goodness. So as the snow comes, 1 foot one day, 4 inches 2 days later, 6 inches the next week, and so on, one just shovels it away onto the front lawn as it comes. To get out of the house after a big snow storm, we just go through the garage where all the shoveling paraphernalia are stored – no problemos.
Of course, with so much snow this year, shoveling is getting difficult because one has to throw the snow about 8 feet high to get it to go on top of the existing snowbank. Luckily for me, I’ve decided to hire someone to do my shoveling. [/quote]
Ah! For some reason I thought it had all come almost as once. I immagine throwing shovels full of snow eight feet up might kill the back pretty quickly. I think I’d be the wierd lady out there with my blow drier on and extention cord~
You’re right, no one outside of Arkansas cares, because I was born and raised in Texas and have never heard about your state’s inferiority complex until now.
Snowing again! Big, Texas sized flakes falling straight down.
So, Gao, I’m stepping on your big, texas toes? Is that what all this is about?
I was replying to Quentin. And don’t take everything so personally. I consider everyone who believes in fairy tales as facts equally crazy (referring to the Genesis fairy tales, not the Arkie/Texan thing).
The small tree is now dead. It is now broken in half by the weight of the new snow that covered it today. Snow which should never have fallen on the heels of yesterdays high in the sixties! Crazy, crazy, crazy!!! Poor Tree.
The original forecast on Thursday called for 6 inches of snow over this past weekend. The forecast was a wee bit off. My son had a fever on Sunday and our driveway was shoveled already (money well spent!) but it didn’t mean a thing. Our car got stuck as soon as it left the driveway. Didn’t really matter though, the after-hours clinic called to say they’re closed 'cause no one could make it to the office. I gotta give the city credit, we were only snowed in until 1pm; that’s pretty damn efficient. Can’t wait to see my tax bills increased next year to pay for all this snow clearing. At least my lawn will be really green come spring.
Here are some photos from around town.
Not my kid, but a typical scene across the city.
Been there…done that.
Everyone can have their very own personal ski hill.
The tree is probably thinking…wtf!
Snowbanks as high as the street sign. This is quite close to where I live.
The city places snow markers (yellow stick) on fire hydrants during the winter so that if the snow buries the hydrants, the markers would still indicate their locations. This year, the markers got buried too.
Now that’s impressive!