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Another Blizzard!

chubbyalaskagriz

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Most of you know that these days I work at Corporate State Farm here in Bloomington. I work 3rd shift in the basement of this Fortune 25 company at "CMS" or Central Monitoring Services. We are similar to a 911 emergency call center- we monitor and receive burglary and fire alarms, which we dispatch police and fire departments to. We call and wake agents up during the night to get them to go to their offices to meet police, etc. Sometimes it's slow and boring- other times it's hectic.

Another thing we do is monitor "Environmental/Mechanical" alarms and observe when temps go above or below normal in offices- when power or phones fail, sump-pumps fail, etc.

We're also the Corp. Dept. people call when weather will impact the opening or delayed opening of both agencies (17,000 SF Agents from coast to coast!) and Operations Centers around North America. Yesterday at 05:00 calls started coming in from all over the south... after a couple hours and all was said and done we had prepared Office Closure forms for mass-emailing for over 400 agencies, operations centers, field offices, catastrophe sites, legal centers, etc. from Houston, Baton Rouge and Biloxi to Winter Haven, Atlanta, Spartanburg, Columbia, Raleigh and Rock Hill. Whew! What a morning that was!

Here snow started falling just after midnight this morning. It's 2:30PM now and looking out it looks as if we've probably gotten 5-6 inches and nothing's falling now.
 
Kevin where I live in N Georgia we got hammered with 12 inches. I know as far down as Atlanta the roads are almost impassable. We have little to no snow equipment down here. I can't even get out of my driveway. It's over 200 ft long and on an incline going up to the road. Lots of hills and valleys make this place treacherous with even a little snow.
 
ricksrealpitbbq said:
Kevin where I live in N Georgia we got hammered with 12 inches. I know as far down as Atlanta the roads are almost impassable. We have little to no snow equipment down here. I can't even get out of my driveway. It's over 200 ft long and on an incline going up to the road. Lots of hills and valleys make this place treacherous with even a little snow.
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Rick, we had tons of office closures in GA that I remember sending-out office closure forms for! Duluth, Kennesaw, Marietta, Lawrenceville, Hephzibah, Alpharetta, Lilburn, Milton, Columbus, Douglasville, Buford, Macon, Ocilla, Jasper, Woodstock, Chamblee, Evans, Ellenwood, Suwanee- DANG! And many, many more! (whew!)

If it makes you feel any better- even in IL where we are prone to severe winter weather we have not gotten 12" of snow-fall at one time yet this year! You guys are TOUGH! Hang in there! :)
 
While it did get to 19 degrees here in north Louisiana, the sky is clear so there is no ice to speak of. BTW you know CanMan is still laying out on that beach in southern California don't you? :D
 
My poor father in law has tore down his rototiller and rebuilt it to pass time til spring. I signed him up for tons of free seed catalogs that are starting to arrive now. They are only adding to his discontent with winter lol.
 
Tuesday night we got two inches of snow and then it turned to rain; has not stopped raining and is supposed to rain through next Monday, if not longer. The river will be up for sure.
 
it won't stop snowing here - just continuous snow flakes coming down - first the big ones, then the little ones, then the big ones again - shoveled 7 times yesterday and twice so far today -
 
Supposed to get 2-4 inches tomorrow. Let it snow ...I have everything I need for right now. It has that snow feel in the air.
 
for a day and a half we had such fine ice balls falling that you could not see them but you could feel them - non-stop - been driving on sheer ice for 2 days - then last night it started to snow - another big one is coming tomorrow with tons of snow - I don't know what is worse - the ice or the snow
 
Sure sorry y'all are having such bad weather. Just keep as safe as possible.
Mama, be careful shoveling that snow. And driving on the ice, I have done that not fun. We are expecting rain 49° at present. CF:)
 
Well JW and CF - you guys get to grill and enjoy a major heat wave (well that's what we would call it here!) and I get to shovel -----

DANG!!!
 
30 degrees and expecting 2-4 inches today in central Illinois. The drastic stuff keeps by-passing us. Seems every place has it much worse than we do this winter so far. Even much of the deep south!
 
We have the same upper 40s here in northern Louisiana but it is fairly dreary looking with rain predicted all day. Can't shovel rain Mama or else I would just so you wouldn't feel all alone.
 
thanx JP - I know rain doesn't need to be shoveled - and I"ll tell you - it's dang lonely when we are snowed in and can't get out - and worse when there is not power, water, etc. Now THAT is real loneliness.
 
Mama Mangia said:
thanx JP - I know rain doesn't need to be shoveled - and I"ll tell you - it's dang lonely when we are snowed in and can't get out - and worse when there is not power, water, etc. Now THAT is real loneliness.
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I know - we had that the past few years but am lucky to
to have a 4x4, wood stove in the family room and gas
stove in the kitchen. It only happens every few years here
but is aggravating none the less. I never remember losing
power growing up in the 50's and 60's in Iowa. We had
blizzards all winter then.
 
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