How are you doing Mama??
It's all relative...
I worked at a tiny ski lodge on the Tsaina River in beautiful Thompson Pass just outside of Valdez, Alaska... it wasn't a proper ski season there unless the annual snow-fall reached 300 inches!
Here in central Illinois we've had about what Janie has had- maybe half a dozen inches so far. Some years we see less by this time of the year- sometimes much more. It just all depends. I grew up near here in a ramshackle old uninsulated farm house. We often saw 25 below zero back then (it seems it hardly gets that cold here these days) and when windy out the drafts would blow into the house thru the old ill-fitting windows and cracks in the walls. When it got below zero we actually had to carry our mattresses down the stairs from the second floor and put them on the living room and dining room floors close to our wood-burning stove (we also had a propane furnace) to sleep in some semblance of warmth because it was just TOO COLD upstairs. BBBRRR!
One Thanksgiving when I was chef at the Fairbanks Princess Hotel it got down to 50-below. And the coldest temp I was ever present in on the North Slope was 72 below zero- but in all fairness I was never outside in it- I remained indoors the entire time.
I worked at a tiny ski lodge on the Tsaina River in beautiful Thompson Pass just outside of Valdez, Alaska... it wasn't a proper ski season there unless the annual snow-fall reached 300 inches!
Here in central Illinois we've had about what Janie has had- maybe half a dozen inches so far. Some years we see less by this time of the year- sometimes much more. It just all depends. I grew up near here in a ramshackle old uninsulated farm house. We often saw 25 below zero back then (it seems it hardly gets that cold here these days) and when windy out the drafts would blow into the house thru the old ill-fitting windows and cracks in the walls. When it got below zero we actually had to carry our mattresses down the stairs from the second floor and put them on the living room and dining room floors close to our wood-burning stove (we also had a propane furnace) to sleep in some semblance of warmth because it was just TOO COLD upstairs. BBBRRR!
One Thanksgiving when I was chef at the Fairbanks Princess Hotel it got down to 50-below. And the coldest temp I was ever present in on the North Slope was 72 below zero- but in all fairness I was never outside in it- I remained indoors the entire time.
Where are you at in KY? I lived there for 14 years. Now I'm in southeastern Germany. We've gotten a lot of snow earlier than normal here, its raining now, 2nd time in 2 days, after it snowed, will probably snow again in the morning to make things even messier. Hope all your family are ok.
it's been teasing us daily here - the shoveling right now is light - if you keep up with it - and the weatherman predicts tons of snow on either Christmas Eve or Day - we'll see