Hooky or Not? (Poll included)

If you got up at 3 am. your too sleepy to drive to school safely :-)

My oldest is the same way...must be the teen years setting in. Oh to just be able to sleep in and have nothing else to do! ;-)

Enjoy your day!

Ahh, just different driving conditions in every part of the country. I didn't so much drive to work as I felt like I water-skied. It was a real white knuckle drive in this morning. I need something stronger in my coffee than creamer...

Hey, I totally understand. In NM 1/4 inch of snow is still snow! We take what we can get:)

Tosses a snowball at Belove!

*snorts* runsssssssssssssss~ ~ ~ ~ ~

I think the word you're looking for is "medley".

Big red prediction (that's how you know it's serious, when the Weather Channel puts it in a big red box) of 2-3 in per hr from 3-8am. So roughly a foot or more by the time schls open. They were all running closures at the bottom of the TV screen at suppertime last nite already. Continued snowing thereafter until about 10pm, so maybe Thurs will be a snow day, too, depending on how efficient they are at cleaning up the final tally.

It's wicked cold, so besides the accumulation there's also factoring in popsicle toes for the short ppl at the bus stop. It's not "really" that cold (19F), but the wind chill makes it "feel" like no degrees.

So then you have your closure trifecta, b/c 25-30mph winds reduces driving visibility. B/c in NYS where a ft of snow is nothing there's always a passel of hardy souls who go, I know! I'm gonna get on the NYS Thruway & get stranded for the next 2 days!

Well, OK, obvs they don't think that b/c they get on the stupid thing anyway, which means they're not thinking anything at all. The Thruway is always the best-cleared road so ppl get on it to avoid the sloppy main drags. All of em, judging by the miles-long backup in the early Dec storm (which also began on the 2nd).

All it takes is one jackknifed tractor-trailer & there's your recipe for sound bytes on the news of ppl whining to news reporters arriving on snowmobiles that no one has come to their rescue, they're hungry, they're almost out of gas, & they wanna go home. Well, you should've stayed there in the 1st place is what I'm thinking.

Why they just don't slap gates across the entrance ramps for this sort of weather I'm sure I don't know. I also wonder how they, um, evacuate whilst stuck in their cars. Males can risk a little frostbite & just discreetly clomp over to the shoulder in snow up to their kneecaps, but females have to risk a whole lot more frostbite & drop trou, which in such bitter cold & close quarters would not be conducive to a fun time. And if they really need TP b/c they can't hold that in any longer....how is this managed? I also wonder if any couples who get stranded together just let the snow pile up w/o running wipers & defroster & jump into the backseat.

Official snow day is not as much fun as playing hooky. Um, yeah, the plow came by & dumped 2 ft at the end of my driveway & my shovel broke/snowblower demised, so I'm stuck & can't get out. Or I heroically struggled to get that 2 ft of snow cleared out & now my car won't start & AAA says it's a 6 hr wait for a jump but what if it's not just a frozen battery? Which are the least creative excuses; I'm sure there are better ones. I could always dream something up about panic-shoppers & getting run over by a motorized cart retrieval system by a cart retrieval boy as I trekked to my spot that was 87 slots from the store doors. Those med supply stores sell all kinds of things to bravely fake injury w/ on your return to work.

I'm just all puhleeeeeze don't let the internet go out during this mess LOL I plan on ignoring laundry.

I don't think you have a choice, at this point...lol! Stay warm.

Last year, and the year before that and I believe the year before that even and then 2005. With the weather this week 3/4 of this country is experiencing artic freeze conditions does that mean the remaining 1/4 is the only one experiencing global warming?

Yup! It snowed a couple of times last year! lol

It's VERY odd to have palm trees and a pool covered with a light snow! I'll have to find the photos!

: )

Vine meet Austin! : )

Have you been to Glorias? Super yummy!!!

May have to make the lunch run to Kirby Lane for their Tortilla soup.