At least you have internet! My first night in Omaha...1982... they had over 10 inches of snow on the ground and windchills near -75. I was ready to run back to Mississippi when the heater died in our hotel room that night! I spent 4 long winters on the hill near Offutt's hospital with just cable...one TV...and a toddler who had to watch his Sesame Street everyday!

I hope that cough and ear get better soon so you don't have to venture out.

Try driving in Arizona when the snow falls!

No one in our town can drive in rain or snow except for the snowbirds and us retirees from snow country and we are like "why did I come here"?

I remember that winter. I was 13. Probably one of my first winters where I can remember the windchills getting that cold...and being the typical 13yr old, I didnt want to wear a coat to school. My mom made me do it anyways.

At least you werent here for the blizzard of 1975, that storm would have made you run back to Mississippi. You'd have gotten off the plane (stepped out of the car) and taken one look at an Omaha Winter and said "Screw this! and turned around. Almost made my mother (who was born in Bay Springs, MS) leave my dad to go back to warmer weather.

Me, I'd rather take my chances with a blizzard or a tornado that move to the South where I have to deal with hurricanes, or to California and have to worry about earthquakes. Nebraska weather isnt so bad...as long as I have heat/and or air conditioning (depending on the weather) and an internet connection and a steady supply of chocolate, I'm a happy camper.

If my internet goes down, at least I have my Kindle and my cellphone (can get internet on both)

I'm going to go take a shot of Delsym and try to stop coughing my lungs out. My cold is trying to make me cough up my spleen.

My folks just got to AZ like they do every year to escape the midwest plains and the cold nasty weather......i'm gonna have to poke fun of them for this.
NOBODY gets outta this one it sounds like....weather channel said EVERY state (almost) is gonna be affected by this phenominal arctic invasion!!

God Bless

It wasnt snowing an hour ago, but I looked outside about 10 minutes ago, and it was coming down. Not very hard yet...at least not in my part of town.

On the news, they had a reporter downtown somewhere, and they had big fluffy flakes coming down there.

I hope it wont be too bad. I was supposed to go to the doctor tomorrow for my cough, and go to the physical therapy for my neck. Good thing they're right next door to each other, too bad the doctor's appointment is at 1130, and the physical therapy is at 2. I suppose I could take my trusty 4wheel drive over to Michael's Crafts and do some yarn shopping for myself...or buy my dad a set of knitting needles for his projects and use those for stocking stuffers for Xmas. (I wonder if the bamboo needles are on sale this week or not?? Hmmm!)

I drove south to avoid it all. LOL

It's a headin for Ohio.

Going to be mostly ice and freezing rain, when it gets here...bummer!!

I hate ice and freezing rain.

I'm glad we're getting snow dumped on us instead of ice and freezing rain. Wait...that just sounds wrong.

It's really coming down. I have to be at the doctor's office at 1130...it's almost 1030 now, and the doctors office is 5 minutes away. I hope I dont get there too late if I leave in a few minutes. (I'm actually a bit scared to do this.. Eeek!)

I called my doctor's office and expressed my worry at trying to drive up there.

I'm worried about my cough, but I'm almost more worried about my driving in this weather. So, they were going to call me back if Dr. C could suggest something for my cough. I called them back instead because I was going to try to brave the snow and tell them not to worry about talking to the doctor...(it'd only been like 2 minutes since I first called them) The nurse calling me back was a little freaked because she was just about to pick up the phone and call me back.

Dr. C called in a prescription for a Z-pack (zithromax) Yay!! I'm going to have to knit Dr. C a scarf. He's so cool!

So now, all I have to do is manage to get up to walgreens. Good thing they're closer than my doctor's office is, and pretty much a straight shot out my garage door.

I just have to get out of my neighborhood. I can see the road out of my neighborhood from our 4 season deck, and there's one car on the side of the road. That's an ominous sign.

I think I'm going to McDonald's for lunch while I'm out...have to remember to bring my mother something. I'm not taking her.

I better go before the snow gets any deeper!