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Blizzard Warning!!!

That storm system blew through AZ yesterday. Dumped 12-18 inches of snow in northern AZ and .25-1.5 in of rain down here. Around 10:30pm we had wind gusts of 60-75 mph along with thunder and lightning, and numerous power outages. Batten down the hatches!!
 
Update: Green Bay, WI
It's official, we have a full blown blizzard going on here.
We're expecting at least 9-15 inches here with winds 20-25 and gusts to 40+. Everything is closed and canceled. Visibility near zero. All flights canceled. Can't wait to do the drive to work. :isadizzy:
Sucks working in retail this time of year.
I just heard their not towing any cars out of ditches until this is over tomorrow unless it's blocking a road. Their telling everyone to stay off the roads. I gotta get them to call my work!
 
I am really worried about driving to work this afternoon...

We have at least a foot of snow on our table on the back porch. It is coming down like crazy still. :mixedsmi:
 
safn1949 said:
Out the front window of my truck,45 miles south of Des Moines,IA.
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Wow!!! Stay safe man, that doesn't look fun at all!

I can't wait to get out and take some pictures. I don't want to go out with my camera until it is snowing less though. My little Rebel XSi doesn't have weather sealing. :(

WHOA there was just a huge wind gust. We've got easily 14 inches on the deck off the back of our house right now.
 
Looks bad here, but against my better judgement, I'm off to see if I can make it to work. Will report back if I fail. Unless I fail REAL BAD.
 
I just got a call from my brother in green Bay and he's reporting severe conditions in the W. Downtown area were he lives and is blaming me for this mess:icon_lol:. Ya blame me the one in the Arctic, we didnt send the snow, just the cold:icon_lol:.
 
Yep,the geniuses at my company just emailed me to say they rescheduled my appointment to 7am tomorrow...in Beaver Dam WI.....300 miles away(mostly north) in a blizzard.

Brilliant.:pop4:
 
safn1949 said:
Out the front window of my truck,45 miles south of Des Moines,IA.
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That pic looks and shows the brunt WX blizzard conditions. Excellent driving and skill. Certainly looks like a Infamous Ice Road up here under a phase 2.
 
Im in Green Bay, lots of snow. Usually Im out there shoveling but with a 3 foot berm at the driveway and 18 or more inches of heavy wet snow I concede defeat, waiting on the snow removal guy then off to fleet farm or menards to buy a snow blower.
 
Emil Frand said:
Im in Green Bay, lots of snow. Usually Im out there shoveling but with a 3 foot berm at the driveway and 18 or more inches of heavy wet snow I concede defeat, waiting on the snow removal guy then off to fleet farm or menards to buy a snow blower.
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You live in Green Bay and you don't have a snow blower...?! :kilroy: :isadizzy: :173go1:
 
safn1949 said:
Yep,the geniuses at my company just emailed me to say they rescheduled my appointment to 7am tomorrow...in Beaver Dam WI.....300 miles away(mostly north) in a blizzard.

Brilliant.:pop4:
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The picture of your "office" brings back good and bad memories. Good because my last truck was a Volvo 660. Bad... been there, done that, somehow survived.

I always owned my trucks, so it was easy for me to take the stance that the truck moved when I decided it was going to move. Schedules be damned, safety was and never would be compromised.

My sincere best wishes to you. Bleep the dispatchers! :icon_lol:
 
I have failed. Actually, I never even got in the car. I could see from a third floor window that the road to our complex and parking lot hadn't been plowed since early this morning and most of it had filled in again. There were one set of tracks coming in but none going out. And there was a guy stuck in his van trying to get out of the parking lot. My car is in the underground parking and it appears that the ramp has not been plowed. I thought "I don't need my car stuck on the ramp in anybodies way", so I turned around and went home. When I called in to work, it sounded like I must have been about the 50th employee to call in so far. Right now I've got about a three foot drift on my deck. and about 6-12in on the railing. Snow seems to be letting up some but the wind is still really blowin.
 
Yeah I have a similar story here. The plow appears to have come by earlier this morning but there looks to be easily 4-5 inches of snow on the road in front of our house, deeper in drifts. I really don't think I want to try going all the way across town to work this afternoon. No one's grocery shopping now anyways... :icon_lol:

My boss said he spent 45 minutes digging out his car earlier today. :isadizzy:

It's still snowing here, but it has really let up in the last 15 minutes. Still really really windy though. Hopefully I can get out and take some pictures soon.
 
I went about 40 miles and told them to forget it,I am in a casino parking lot in Des Moines with about 75 other trucks and here I will stay.This is the casino parking lot.
 
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