Probably because now we're in a blizzard warning! That's going till at least noon or later tomorrow.

This has got to be one of the nastiest winter storms I've been in. (worst was the 1975 blizzard)

The snow has been coming down all day, and it's still coming down right now, but the winds are picking up. There have been 50mph winds west and south of here.

A woman was killed here in town tonight by a private snowplow. She was getting out of her car in her apartment parking lot, and a snowplow driver backed up really fast and slammed into her. Apparently she died instantly.

I hope there arent any more things like that tonight.

My antibiotics are finally working. (yay for z-packs!) My aunt and my dad both think I was starting to get pneumonia, or already had it. I just cant wait to take the next pill in the z-pack, I can still feel the crud in my lungs. 50% better than I was this morning tho.

I still want to cough up my spleen...My face, brain and neck are killing me from all the coughing...and I've been pushing fluids all night, so I've got to...well...ahem.

Cant wait till this cough goes away.

its snowing like mad here! we are expecting 6 to 12 inches before tonight is over. brrr.....

We got the mixed bag - snow, sleet, ice and rain. And more to come.

I hate winter.

We do too, due south of you! I hate that stuff.....I'd rather be buried in snow. (HE didn't hear that, did HE?)

Had rain/sleet all day yesterday. Now it is snowing and the wet roads are turning to ice. The wind is terrible -- freezing out. And is supposed to be colder tomorrow. I am in my office at school right now. As soon as my class is over, I am heading home. I was supposed to go to a holiday luch on campus, but I gave my ticket away. Wish me luck on walking to my car.

Rotsa Ruck, Barb.

Made it home. Temperature is now 24, with a wind chill of 7. Tomorrow, the wind chills are supposed to be zero to -8. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

I'm tucked under a blankie, watching the snow blow by the window, listening to the thunder...yep, it's a thundersnowstorm!

The woodstove is cranking, we have a cast iron dutch oven on the woodstove with some homemade turkey soup stewing, the cats are curled around my feet and I don't have to work for the next three days. The generator is ready to run if needed, we cleaned the porch so we could fit the boat motor out there instead of putting it in the garage, the cars are parked at the summer home next door so the plow can drive right by my door, and I am not going outside until I have to!

Life is good! I hope everyone is warm and safe. Stay home and enjoy the first storm of the season!

I took advantage of not having to go anywhere today and slept off and on till 3pm.

I went to bed around 11pm last night. (earliest I've been to bed in months. I'm usually not falling asleep til 4 or 5am) Got woken up by my mom at 1am because she was kvetching (complaining) about the snow. (she has a pathological hatred of snow)

Went back to sleep and woke up around 5am, went upstairs and had breakfast with my dad before he went to work.

Went back to bed and slept till about 10am when my lungs decided that the antibiotics were really working and I was trying to cough up a lung or two. Went upstairs to make sure my mom wasnt trying to go outside to look for the newspapers (neither of which were delivered because the guys who deliver the papers are sane and stayed home instead of going out into the blizzard) If she falls down on the snow or ice, I cant lift her to get her back up, and it's really dangerous temperatures outside for the next several days at least.

Went back to bed, slept till almost 3pm...went upstairs and my mom was more than just kvetching about the snow. She's mad because the association hasnt plowed our driveway yet (they did the sidewalks up to our front doors tho...that was nice) and she's mad because she hasnt seen the mailman, and she doesnt have a newspaper to read, and she's ticked because Mother Nature had gall to dump a foot of snow on Omaha yesterday.

I'm about to go back to bed now that my dad is home and upstairs listening to her complain. (better him than me) She has a problem with being stuck in the house after a storm like the one we just had, and she's getting herself all worked up into a tizzy because I wouldnt take her anywhere. (I'm sick!) and I'm not insane and about to take her out into weather conditions like this. If we were to get stuck, there's no way she'd be able to walk away from the car. I might be able to, but I'd be smart and stay with the car unless there was a house 10 feet away.

I've been thru enough bad storms that I know enough to stay at home till the city digs out or melts. Only reason I went anywhere yesterday was because I needed antibiotics.

I actually dont mind the snow or the dangerous conditions as much as the aftermath of the storm where we're still stuck at home and she's complaining (really screaming her head off) about wanting to go somewhere.

We just have to keep her from complaining to the snowplow guys who do our street and driveway (city doesnt do our neighborhood, we're county even tho the rest of the neighborhoods around us are city) I dont want them ignoring us till we're the last house for them to do.

At least I got caught up on a bunch of sleep that I've missed over the weekend because I couldnt breathe from either bronchitis or pneumonia or whatever took up residence in my lungs.

I took a picture of the snow yesterday, and sent it to one of the local news stations, and they were using it on their website all evening, and I think it made it on the tv news in a millisecond blip of stuff last night. That was cool.

I think I'll either go back to bed, or go take a shower (and then go back to bed) It's nice to not have to go anywhere. I'm enjoying being able to catch up on my sleep, even if I keep getting woken up by all the coughing I've been having to do. At least now I can actually breathe, and I can tell the antibiotics are working. Yay!

My sis and bro in law are out in the sticks just south of Des Moines, Iowa and they got really socked!! There are 5-8 foot drifts in their front yard and driveway.

They are snowed in for awhile but have plenty to eat, a fireplace, pellet stove and generator so they are ready.

Son and DIL flew back to Ohio yesterday and they are ready to come back here for the Winter. They beat the storms so were very lucky but a nasty rough flight because of weather. First stop they made was the store for bread and milk same as most in snow country. There is always a rush at the bread aisle.

We had horrible winds yesterday and no snow but we did get an inch of rain we desperately needed. I looked out the window yesterday and there was snow on the mountains but mostly gone today.

Stay safe and stay home if you can.