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Title: Snow in the South
Post by: Lt.Del on March 01, 2009, 09:02:44 am
We are expecting 12 inches in Richmond tonight.  I hear Alabama got a lot of the white stuff.  Figures, I've been waiting all winter, really for about 5 years for a big storm, and here it is March and we are finally gonna get it.

You guys in Alabama doin all right?

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Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: Toolmaster on March 01, 2009, 09:28:40 am
Everything is white here !  About 2" and its slacking up now. This system is moving east so look out.  State police are asking people to stay home.

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/tmtoolman/snow/IMG_0504.jpg)
It's melting
(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/tmtoolman/snow/IMG_0603.jpg)

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/tmtoolman/snow/IMG_0606.jpg)


(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/tmtoolman/snow/IMG_0507.jpg)

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/tmtoolman/snow/IMG_0522.jpg)
(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/tmtoolman/snow/IMG_0610.jpg)

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/tmtoolman/snow/IMG_0517.jpg)

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/tmtoolman/snow/IMG_0586.jpg)

All gone in a matter of hours !!  Now bright sunshiney day.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: 69byrd on March 01, 2009, 10:38:13 am
I live in south west Tn and we got about 5" The county east of here got 10". So mabye you will get all the snow you want.

(http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr299/69byrd/HPIM2505.jpg)

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Son also had alot of fun playing in it this morning. He is three so this is the first snow he has got to play in.

(http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr299/69byrd/HPIM24992.jpg)

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Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: Blazin on March 01, 2009, 11:14:07 am
We are supposed to get 10" to 16" tonight through Tuseday morning. Long time frame should be easy to keep up with. Last one we got 18" in about sixteen hours.
 I have a couple friends that live in the south, transplants from up here, they all say most natives loose there mind with two or three inches of snow. So don't fret, it will melt!! LOL ;D
Its cool your boy got to experience snow. Everyone should, it is a magical thing. I still love to just sit and watch it fall in wonderment how mother nature works.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: 69byrd on March 01, 2009, 11:56:23 am
Most people around here go crazy if we get a half inch of snow, they close school, dont go to work and clean out the grocery stores. By the way they act you would think they were gonna be snowed in for weeks.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: eventhorizon66 on March 01, 2009, 01:23:14 pm
Everyone should, it is a magical thing. I still love to just sit and watch it fall in wonderment how mother nature works.

...and then go out the next morning and plow if off the road like refuse.  LOL.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: oldwhity on March 01, 2009, 02:07:41 pm
We had about 1" here and they say were due for about 10" but we'll see. My little Wheelhorse is ready.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: 78 Chevyrado on March 01, 2009, 05:13:02 pm
We've gotten about 2 inches in the last 5 hours.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: Captkaos on March 01, 2009, 05:39:18 pm
This was around 10am
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Bl60Ri5jFoE/Sarm5VHd7xI/AAAAAAAAAO4/5K17WkWh09c/s640/DSC03518.JPG)

This is Lizzy playing in her first snow:
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It was gone in a matter of hours, this guy is still holding on..
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Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: Lt.Del on March 01, 2009, 07:50:03 pm
Time: 830pm... calling for 10 inches tonight....

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09a.jpg)
(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09b.jpg)
(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09c.jpg)

update:  they are downgrading the accumulations....surprise.  Now, by the time I awake in the morning, there will be about 6 inches. We'll see.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: 69byrd on March 02, 2009, 06:49:50 am
Mabye yours will stay around longer than ours. Ours has melted and you cant tell we got any.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: VileZambonie on March 02, 2009, 06:52:33 am
I've got about a foot and it's still snowing
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: 69byrd on March 02, 2009, 07:02:49 am
Man I wish we could get a snow like that atleast once in my life.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: DnStClr on March 02, 2009, 09:06:04 am
Well it lets the little ones out for a while
(http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd22/Dnstclr/57LIgnitionModule001.jpg)

But heavy snows can do some damage to our trees. Lost some limbs on this one.
(http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd22/Dnstclr/57LIgnitionModule004.jpg)
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: Lt.Del on March 02, 2009, 10:41:38 am
more pics from Richmond...we got 9 inches as of this morning when it finally stopped around 9am....


(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09e)
my road in front of my house
 
(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09f)
I was out at 6:30am cleaning the snow off all of our vehicles.


(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09g)

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09h)


my 4 yr old boy doesn't know what to do...he was actually afraid at first...never been in this stuff b4.  Well, theis evening, we are gonna build a snowman and call it "Mommy"....well, i guess it will be a snowwoman.

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09i)

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09j)

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09k)





Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: DnStClr on March 02, 2009, 10:58:50 am
Wow. At least it's passed us now . These late winter storms can get rough. Do you have to work today Sgt Dell?
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: Lt.Del on March 02, 2009, 11:06:40 am
Yeah, i had to work.  I awoke at 6am, showered, started the motors to all of our cars (4) except my mustang..she's in the garage.  Went out 30 mins later after some of the defrosts melted some snow on the windows, and knocked all the snow off the cars/trucks.

Took my wife to work (i wouldn't let her drive)  took my son to daycare.  Then I went to work.  They closed the entire county offices and such and i work in Admin at the S.O. so the sheriff pretty much told people, not much going on w/ everything closed...go home.  I came home at 11am.

My parents lost power..still off...supposed to be 11 degrees tonight.  So the roads will be much worse tomorrow when the snow and slush refreezes like concrete tonight.   It's only 24 degrees now.

anyway, dad is coming by to get some firewood so he can at least keep a fire going in his fire place in his basement.  My mom is pretty cold.  I'm gonna give my parents my two generators anyway.  It'll help.   

It's noon now and the snow started up again.   I love it  ;D


still snowing at 1pm.....


(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09m)

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09n)

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09o)

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Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: DnStClr on March 02, 2009, 11:11:38 am
I hope you don't lose power if you're giving them your gensets! We lost power Sun. am for a few hrs and internet til this morning.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: VileZambonie on March 02, 2009, 11:25:52 am
I snapped a few pix myself while I was clearing snow...

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(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/Sabaka454/100_0006.jpg)

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Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: DnStClr on March 02, 2009, 11:31:15 am
Your place looks nice when it snows Vile! What- no clean up for the mailman? lol
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: 78 Chevyrado on March 02, 2009, 12:48:15 pm
Didn't get any pics of everything all white, my battery died and I didn't have any more....  I got a couple of it snowing though.  It snowed pretty good for about 6 or 7 hours and then died out and some of it had already gone away before daylight.  It's mostly all gone now.  We got around 3 inches here.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t195/wes2880/78%20C20/GEDC0007.jpg)
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: Lt.Del on March 02, 2009, 04:06:12 pm
Picked up my kid early from daycare so we could play in the snow.  He had fun hitting me with snowballs and building a so-so snowman.  It wasn't really sticky yet--too cold.  We'll build a better one maybe tomorrow afternoon when it is supposed to be over freezing and the snow will stick together better.

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09s) 

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09t) 

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09u) 

(http://www.delbridge.net/snow09v) 
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: oldwhity on March 02, 2009, 05:53:43 pm
Love the snowman Sgt. We got about 6 or 7 inches at the most. Built an igloo this morning and when the sun came out the opening closed up bit.It was kinda funny. Oh well, it came and we played. Where's spring!! ::)
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: choptop on March 02, 2009, 09:43:50 pm
We dont get that much snow in a year.....make that 10 years. It was a nice day here, around 80f. Got my tractor ready for spring.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: zieg85 on March 02, 2009, 10:23:34 pm
We had enough this year, glad we just got a dusting.  Last dumping we got around 14 inches of lake effect.
Title: Re: Snow in the South
Post by: Blazin on March 03, 2009, 04:23:04 am
Only ended up with about 6" here. South of us got dumped on pretty heavy.