Very good! And we're on day 5 right now, which means our sanity is at risk. I went to reschedule a doctor's appointment earlier, only to learn that the office is closed because he managed to slide his car off the road. There are plenty of icy roads out there right now.
I see I'm not converting anyone to snow loving. ; ) I think it is actually more problematic when it snows down south; I understand that there isn't usually the equipment to deal with it. We expect snow here, and I'd much rather have a beautiful snow covered landscape than a cold rain in winter.
When you say you are on day 5, do you mean that it has been snowing for 5 days, or just that the roads haven't been cleared?:?:
When I lived in Oklahoma, I remember driving from Tulsa to Witchita. The snow had been on the ground for about a week, and the highway heading north out of Oklahoma had only one lane clear in both directions. As soon as we hit the Kansas line, the roads were COMPLETELY cleared. People who don't live with snow don't know how to drive in it. Plus, the road crews don't know how to deal with it, and they don't order the supplies needed to keep the roads clear. It's a rare thing for them.
Yikes! I think the road crews are slow when I see any amount of accumulation on the road here. Usually the road crew is out there spraying salt before the snow, and plowing even throughout the night. I can see how my attitude would be very different if the snow were just left in place, getting packed into ice.
That's how they are here, too! But, like Jackie we use to live in OK and it was horrible. An inch of snow on the ground and everything shut down. (Maybe not quite that bad) I have friends still in OK that will say, "I hear you got 2ft. of snow on the ground, is everything shut down?" I just laugh because even with 5 ft. things are still the same and everything is open.
Snow's still on the ground, it's still treacherous to drive on the roads, schools and colleges are closed, some offices are closed, and local grocery stores are open just a small number of day-time hours.
In central Ohio, unless it's an all-out blizzard (which has only been once in my lifetime, in 1978, and I missed it being in Oklahoma), the main roads will be clear and things back to "normal" within 24 hours. The "Year of the Blizzard" (still said in tones of awe and reverence around here, lol!), my dad was working for the electric company. He actually slept there on a cot for three nights. They were working 'round the clock trying to get electricity to everyone.
Jakk...you are not alone. I'm from WISCONSIN and I HATE snow! LOL The only times I prefer it are on Christmas Day (wouldn't be the same without it, to me) and for days when the boys want to go sledding. Growing up, I loved it, but now as an adult I hate it. Why I live here, I don't know. lol We normally have a few feet on the ground by now, but our weather has been very weird this winter. We got rain a few weeks ago that melted all the snow, now there are about 6 inches on the ground again. No pictures taken yet, but if everyone looks at Jakk's photos...that is what it normally looks like.
As a cold weather baby, I am happy to report a high in the 70s today. Now, come summertime, I will be jealous of all of the colder places.
Here (in the boonies) they used the thing (motor grader maybe?) that they use to scrape dirt roads with to scrape the ice off the road-which results in all the reflectors getting scraped off the road. Hubby and I went grocery shopping 2 towns over the other day, and we made a game of finding what few reflectors were left on the road LOL
