No school or work tomorrow!!!

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

A blizzard is coming!  A blizzard is coming!!  

[swamp]

How,is this happening?  We've got nothing here!!! 

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

We're speshul.  

And it's a Nor'easter off the coast.  

[wvugurl26]

Keep that crap in Boston!! I am done with snow.

[Tennesseer]

"No school or work tomorrow!!!"

When I was in high school, that meant riding the toboggan down the hills at the high school I attended. Either way, I was at the high school.

[TheHaitian]

Feb 7, 2016 23:23:51 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

We're speshul.  

And it's a Nor'easter off the coast.  

Please tell me you are lying?

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Feb 7, 2016 23:33:22 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Feb 7, 2016 23:23:51 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

We're speshul.  

And it's a Nor'easter off the coast.  

Please tell me you are lying?

Um.  No.  Where have you been for the past couple days?  Check your favorite weather source.  Snow starts in about 30 minutes and falls until Tuesday morning.

Seriously.

[TheHaitian]

Feb 7, 2016 23:42:11 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Feb 7, 2016 23:33:22 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Please tell me you are lying?

Um.  No.  Where have you been for the past couple days?  Check your favorite weather source.  Snow starts in about 30 minutes and falls until Tuesday morning.

Seriously.

My mother in law HAS to be in NY tomorrow
I have a flight out to DC on Tuesday morning...

I thought it was supposed to be a dusting. Going to go check!

[geenamercile]

Weather maps make it looks like you are about to get sandwiched by storms.  

[milee]

If it makes you feel any better we had bad weather down here this weekend, too. Normally I get to post about how it's still nice here while somewhere else has a blizzard, but this weekend just sucked.  I was part of a big regatta we were hosting and on Saturday while we were sailing it rained on us the entire day, the wind built to nearly unsailable conditions and it got continually colder to boot.  By the end of the day, it was miserable even to the people who came down from Canada to sail - 50 degrees, almost 30 kts of wind and driving rain as we sailed the last few races and then back to the club.  Yesterday, it was cold and blowing so hard all day that I had trouble even standing upright in the unprotected areas.  Sailing was canceled.  I stayed to help the guests hoist their boats out of the water to pack on the trailers; normally if it's not windy you can hoist out a boat with only one or two people helping, but the wind was so strong yesterday that we had 8 or more people on the hoist and were still struggling.  I wore half the tread off my sneakers because I'd try to plant my feet on the cement to get traction and the wind/hoist would literally push me skidding across the cement.  Not fun.

Hope your blizzard doesn't much snow and your area recovers quickly. 

[zibazinski]

Feb 8, 2016 6:44:59 GMT -5 milee said:

If it makes you feel any better we had bad weather down here this weekend, too. Normally I get to post about how it's still nice here while somewhere else has a blizzard, but this weekend just sucked.  I was part of a big regatta we were hosting and on Saturday while we were sailing it rained on us the entire day, the wind built to nearly unsailable conditions and it got continually colder to boot.  By the end of the day, it was miserable even to the people who came down from Canada to sail - 50 degrees, almost 30 kts of wind and driving rain as we sailed the last few races and then back to the club.  Yesterday, it was cold and blowing so hard all day that I had trouble even standing upright in the unprotected areas.  Sailing was canceled.  I stayed to help the guests hoist their boats out of the water to pack on the trailers; normally if it's not windy you can hoist out a boat with only one or two people helping, but the wind was so strong yesterday that we had 8 or more people on the hoist and were still struggling.  I wore half the tread off my sneakers because I'd try to plant my feet on the cement to get traction and the wind/hoist would literally push me skidding across the cement.  Not fun.

Hope your blizzard doesn't much snow and your area recovers quickly. 

Ugh. I'm sorry.

[MJ2.0]

Mother Nature can seriously blow me.  Hard.


On the upside, there will be 4" max so not as bad as it could be.  And I have clean clothes and plenty of food this time! 

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Feb 8, 2016 9:30:59 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Mother Nature can seriously blow me.  Hard.


On the upside, there will be 4" max so not as bad as it could be.  And I have clean clothes and plenty of food this time! 

Did you buy a shovel yet??

[swamp]

Feb 8, 2016 6:44:59 GMT -5 milee said:

If it makes you feel any better we had bad weather down here this weekend, too. Normally I get to post about how it's still nice here while somewhere else has a blizzard, but this weekend just sucked.  I was part of a big regatta we were hosting and on Saturday while we were sailing it rained on us the entire day, the wind built to nearly unsailable conditions and it got continually colder to boot.  By the end of the day, it was miserable even to the people who came down from Canada to sail - 50 degrees, almost 30 kts of wind and driving rain as we sailed the last few races and then back to the club.  Yesterday, it was cold and blowing so hard all day that I had trouble even standing upright in the unprotected areas.  Sailing was canceled.  I stayed to help the guests hoist their boats out of the water to pack on the trailers; normally if it's not windy you can hoist out a boat with only one or two people helping, but the wind was so strong yesterday that we had 8 or more people on the hoist and were still struggling.  I wore half the tread off my sneakers because I'd try to plant my feet on the cement to get traction and the wind/hoist would literally push me skidding across the cement.  Not fun.

Hope your blizzard doesn't much snow and your area recovers quickly. 

my parents were whining about this weather yesterday.

[ArchietheDragon]

My parents came over to watch the kids today armed with an overnight bag just in case...   Hopefully it is just iun case. 

[MJ2.0]

Feb 8, 2016 9:56:39 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Feb 8, 2016 9:30:59 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Mother Nature can seriously blow me.  Hard.


On the upside, there will be 4" max so not as bad as it could be.  And I have clean clothes and plenty of food this time! 

Did you buy a shovel yet??

see, the thing is.....


<<bolts out of the room>>

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Feb 8, 2016 10:19:14 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

My parents came over to watch the kids today armed with an overnight bag just in case...   Hopefully it is just iun case. 

Your parents are awesome and I hope you tell them so on a regular basis.

We never had the generous benefit of grandparents to watch our kids when school was cancelled...or any other time. 

My kids got cheated.  

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Feb 8, 2016 10:37:07 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Feb 8, 2016 9:56:39 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Did you buy a shovel yet??

see, the thing is.....


<<bolts out of the room>>

Go out at lunch and buy one TODAY.  

[ArchietheDragon]

Feb 8, 2016 10:44:54 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Feb 8, 2016 10:19:14 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

My parents came over to watch the kids today armed with an overnight bag just in case...   Hopefully it is just iun case. 

Your parents are awesome and I hope you tell them so on a regular basis.

We never had the generous benefit of grandparents to watch our kids when school was cancelled...or any other time. 

My kids got cheated.  

I honestly don't know how a working couple with kids does it without help from grandparents.  I guess we would figure something out, but but I have much respect for those that do it.   

[MJ2.0]

Feb 8, 2016 10:49:51 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Feb 8, 2016 10:44:54 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Your parents are awesome and I hope you tell them so on a regular basis.

We never had the generous benefit of grandparents to watch our kids when school was cancelled...or any other time. 

My kids got cheated.  

I honestly don't know how a working couple with kids does it without help from grandparents.  I guess we would figure something out, but but I have much respect for those that do it.   

you would just pay a sitter and stop buying so much crap from Etsy/Starbucks. You also may have stopped at 1 or 2 kids.

[MJ2.0]

Feb 8, 2016 10:45:51 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Feb 8, 2016 10:37:07 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

see, the thing is.....


<<bolts out of the room>>

Go out at lunch and buy one TODAY.  

LOL, I plan on going to Home Depot on my lunch hour. I should get a small bag of salt too since the management doesn't salt the parking lot that well.

[ArchietheDragon]

Feb 8, 2016 11:02:08 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Feb 8, 2016 10:49:51 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

I honestly don't know how a working couple with kids does it without help from grandparents.  I guess we would figure something out, but but I have much respect for those that do it.   

you would just pay a sitter and stop buying so much crap from Etsy/Starbucks. You also may have stopped at 1 or 2 kids.

I guess.     Are most sitters available at a moment's notice at 6AM?

[NastyWoman]

My guest room is available on a first come, first served basis. 76 degrees at kickoff yesterday, and predicted to be even nicer today and matching yesterday after that until Friday. 

I WANT THE RAIN BACK, we are still in a drought here!

[MJ2.0]

Feb 8, 2016 11:04:18 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Feb 8, 2016 11:02:08 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

you would just pay a sitter and stop buying so much crap from Etsy/Starbucks. You also may have stopped at 1 or 2 kids.

I guess.     Are most sitters available at a moment's notice at 6AM?

I'm not sure. X and I have help, but usually one of us bites the bullet and stays home. Some people have "per diem" sitters for these types of occasions. If I had one, I guess I'd be keeping a pretty good eye on the weather everyday and would probably check in with my pinch hitter sitter the night before to see if they might be available in case there is a school closing.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Feb 8, 2016 11:16:31 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Feb 8, 2016 11:04:18 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

I guess.     Are most sitters available at a moment's notice at 6AM?

I'm not sure. X and I have help, but usually one of us bites the bullet and stays home. Some people have "per diem" sitters for these types of occasions. If I had one, I guess I'd be keeping a pretty good eye on the weather everyday and would probably check in with my pinch hitter sitter the night before to see if they might be available in case there is a school closing.

Which is a lot of planning, effort, and expense --  IF that arrangement is even an option -- and exactly why grandparents who are ready, willing, and able to do watch grandkids regularly and/or at a moment's notice are such a gift.

I became a SAHM when I'd exhausted my vacation time to stay home for snow days and ear infections.  I'll be honest -- I naively and selfishly counted on the grandparents in my child care plan just as my sister had.  Who knew that 3 out of the 4 would be gone -- at relatively young ages -- by the time I had kids?  I didn't have a Plan B (although my home day care provider generously kept ODS for a couple of days when YDS was born).  

I sincerely hope to be ready, willing, and able to pinch hit for my grandkids in 15-20 years.  

[Deleted]

Feb 8, 2016 11:04:18 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Feb 8, 2016 11:02:08 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

you would just pay a sitter and stop buying so much crap from Etsy/Starbucks. You also may have stopped at 1 or 2 kids.

I guess.     Are most sitters available at a moment's notice at 6AM?

I take mine to the YMCA.  It doesn't open until 7am, but free childcare for members on no school/snow days.  They're awesome too.  They wear them kids out! 

[MJ2.0]

Okay, so I got salt and extra windshield fluid. Luckily I still have the shovel X lent me (he has another) because HD had none. How?!?!

[ArchietheDragon]

Feb 8, 2016 13:16:53 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Okay, so I got salt and extra windshield fluid. Luckily I still have the shovel X lent me (he has another) because HD had none. How?!?!

happens every storm.  The must be a giant pile of forgotten snow shovels in some forgotten corner of the world. 

[Miss Tequila]

It had best not hit NEPA...I'm quite happy with our winter that never happened...I want to keep it that way!

[gregintenn]

Feb 8, 2016 13:18:34 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Feb 8, 2016 13:16:53 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Okay, so I got salt and extra windshield fluid. Luckily I still have the shovel X lent me (he has another) because HD had none. How?!?!

happens every storm.  The must be a giant pile of forgotten snow shovels in some forgotten corner of the world. 

It's milk and bread here. A weather forecast of flurries will instantly fill the grocery store parking lot and empty the bread shelves and dairy cooler. Last time it snowed, the only thing left in the bread isle was a single loaf, busted open and slices strewn about like a struggle had occurred there only moments earlier.