Is the weather threatening the holidays for you?

[Martianinvader]

It's been snowing around here for the past few days. We're stuck in the house with over a foot of it outside and it's continuing to pile.

There are states where this happens all the time and their state budgets allow for dozens of snow plows and salt and the kids only miss school if you get over fifteen feet, but here in Oregon, we get one or two of these per year and occasionally none at all. No one's used to it, so everyone panics and the highways are closed and just about every event is cancelled, and the local news treats every snowfall like the Apocalypse and interrupts all national programming with "24-hour Winter Storm Watch Coverage."

Our extended family lives in the same city, and we all get together for birthdays and holidays, and especially Christmas. We still have a feast and mass present-opening planned for Christmas Day. But the snow is still here and now the forecast doesn't call for anything but more snow until after Christmas Day. If not everyone can make it, we'll face that scenario in every single holiday movie where "Christmas might not happen," only this time for real, and this time there's no Rudolph or Ernest P. Worrell to save the day.

While this is the ideal Christmassy weather, Hollywood tends to leave out the inconveniences associated with it. If you get enough snow, you may not HAVE a Christmas.

Given that this is part of a huuuuge system that's whited out the entire northern half of America, I can't be alone. Who else among us might lose Christmas to snow?

[Captain Highwind]

Not just snow and freezing rain, but gusts of wind so below freezing that just taking the trash out without a coat feels like my hands are falling off (a walk that usually takes 10 seconds because it's right outside the building).

Consecutive days of below 0 temperatures, and you can't even walk normally in boots. You pretty much just walk in place. I guess barrel rolling would be more effective.

I don't like the North.

[purplehairedwonder]

It's supposed to be in the 60s and raining on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day here in Georgia.

...

*is shot*

Today it was really cold (by Georgia standards) and it's supposed to be cold again tomorrow, then get warm and rain again. It was in the 60s and rainy most of last week too. The weather has been so weird, but Lake Lanier is insanely low so needs the rain.

[Yusuke Urameshi]

Delayed my sisters flight for about 12 hours. ;_;


And Someone I know got in a car accident.

[Romanesque]

Thanks to freezing rain, I've already gone three days without power or heat, and that's better than others I know who were in the dark for a week. Some people around here are going to be without electricity until after Christmas.

Now the snow is piling up day after day, and more storms are predicted.
Are we all worried? Yes.

--Romey

[Yusuke Urameshi]

Thanks to freezing rain, I've already gone three days without power or heat, and that's better than others I know who were in the dark for a week. Some people around here are going to be without electricity until after Christmas.

Now the snow is piling up day after day, and more storms are predicted.
Are we all worried? Yes.

--Romey


Yikes! three days? wow.

Good luck with that :X

[Dr.Pepper]

I don't think so. We have lots of snow, but it is goinng to melt to slush by Christmas.Thanks to freezing rain, I've already gone three days without power or heat
That happened to me a few years back

[ToOn~g@l]

We're expecting a storm tomorrow but nothing too big, just a possible 1-3 inches. It has been really cold out here in Colorado for the past few weeks though. For about two days the temperature never reached above 10 degrees, and the wind chill has been brutal too. But nothing too significant yet. *keeps her fingers crossed*

[DBZNarutoWarrior]

I think I have about... 2.5 feet where I live now. I know that there's going to be mixed precipitation on Christmas Eve, which could be a problem for travel. I haven't heard too much about it though since there are still a few things up in the air (no pun intended.....:shrug: :yawn: ). Last year I think we had a little bit more snow by this time though, maybe 3 or 4 inches more.

[Elven Moon]

I'm hoping it won't be too bad tomorrow, since I have to drive. Since I hate driving in the snow I'm going to see if I can con my mom into picking me up XD That's where I'm spending Christmas Eve.

[SirLemming]

From Friday to Monday it's been absolutely freezing here in Long Island. This morning, however, it wasn't so bad. I'm hoping this trend continues and most of the road ice either melts or just gets warm enough to be eroded over the next 2 days.

Currently, though, over here, the roads are mostly pretty drivable. No real snow since Saturday morning.

[DarthGonzo]

From Friday to Monday it's been absolutely freezing here in Long Island. This morning, however, it wasn't so bad. I'm hoping this trend continues and most of the road ice either melts or just gets warm enough to be eroded over the next 2 days.

Dude, it's going to be up to 50 degrees tomorrow. Kiss all this white stuff goodbye. And thank God. I couldn't inflate my 8ft snowman balloon last night because it was frozen.

Currently, though, over here, the roads are mostly pretty drivable. No real snow since Saturday morning.

Aside from the occassional patch of ice driving around here isn't difficult at all.

[Megaman X]

There is a small possibility that my brother in Seattle might not come until Christmas day due to the bad weather. But I doubt the planes will be stopped on Christmas eve, I have a good feeling. If he does not show until Christmas I will be more then happy to wait to open my gifts since it's not the same without him.

[Wolfie~Giri]

From Friday to Monday it's been absolutely freezing here in Long Island. This morning, however, it wasn't so bad. I'm hoping this trend continues and most of the road ice either melts or just gets warm enough to be eroded over the next 2 days.

Currently, though, over here, the roads are mostly pretty drivable. No real snow since Saturday morning.

Yeah it was very bitter last night. I did some last minute holiday shopping with a few friends over at the Walt Whitman mall and it was ridiculous, crossing over to the outside stores because of all the ice that bordered around the parking lot. One of my friends tripped and so did I. We got a few scrapes on our hands from the prickly bushes we grabbed onto and a bruised elbow on my part but nothing too bad. Still, it was frustrating to walk around in baby steps all day.

[KPTitan]

It's been snowing around here for the past few days. We're stuck in the house with over a foot of it outside and it's continuing to pile.

I'd be more than happy to take some of that snow from you. I want snow, really bad. It's really rare to get a white Christmas in Wyoming for some reason...

Even though I haven't been getting that snow, I've been getting the subzero temps associated with it...providing it's the same systems we're talking about. The snow I've been getting though has been too dry and fluffy to stick to the roads, so I'm not having many travel problems, that is going to work and back.:p

[defunctzombie]

Central PA has ice. Lots of Ice. More to come. No thank you. I hate ice. :sweat:

The weather isn't a hazard here. It's just cold, so that makes us all think it is bad.

[XOMiss_Samantha]

Last week I had a snow day on Friday due to the first really big storm CT had gotten for this winter season. I was pretty happy with my 3 day weekend and for once I enjoyed the cold weather...that was until the next day when my Saturday night plans had to be canceled because my father wouldn't let me drive.
As of right now I'm sick of the weather and would love it if spring could come in the day few days. Not only that, but my car doesn't have 4-wheel drive so getting to school is absolute hell, never mind just making it up the driveway.


A white Christmas is nice...but not that nice.

[stargirl]

Originally we were supposed to go home to the Bay Area, but since snow is blocking the Grapevine and other places, we've decided to spend Christmas and New Year's where we live.

[J. B. Warner]

We had an absolutely terrible snowstorm in Massachusetts this past weekend, but fortunately, it's now been plowed and melted enough for there to still be plenty of white stuff on the ground for Christmas, though not enough to screw up everyone's travel plans. I must be one of the lucky ones.

[tucsoncoyote]

And then there's Arizona.. and you would think that when you say Arizona, you would expect and think 60 to 70 degree weather with plenty of sunshine..

Not this Christmas.

Anywhere the elevation is above 4,500 feet (In places like Kingman, Winslow, Flagstaff, Show Low, Sedona, and Even Prescott), you can expect anywhere from 1 to 5 inches of the white stuff, and in places like Flagstaff and Show Low ((Elevation 6000+ Feet) expect 6 to 20 inches), but in Tucson, Phoenix, and places under 4500 feet? Well it's rain.

So yeah the weather isn't threatening us, but for some of us in the state, it will be. After all it depends on How high you are.

:coyote:

[Super Leviathan]

Down here in Houston, it's about 70 degrees, with unbearable humidity.

I'll gladly timeshare with anyone living up North.

[Wounded_Dragon]

I wasn't traveling, but the weather sure has been giving me headaches. Going from below zero to 60 back to 30s back to 60s in the same week is making my head explode (pressure change headaches.)