My very cold and lonely egg...after the storm

That's a lot of white stuff.

Don't be such a wuss! Fire that puppy up! 

I know dat feels, yo.

Is anybody else thinking litte Steven? 

Only one thing to do - dig that Egg out and fire it up! 

SWMBO shoveling the deck mid-storm. Yeah, we got a lot of snow in Frederick. 

fishepa said:

Man how did you pull that off?

I'm shoveling the other side, took a quick break to snap a photo but she was a trooper this weekend for sure.

News2u said:

That's a great homage to the Coneheads.

Love it!

oldgeezeystax said:

fishepa said:

Man how did you pull that off?

I'm shoveling the other side, took a quick break to snap a photo but she was a trooper this weekend for sure.

I had to make fun of my neighbor due to something similar. I was walking by his house with my shovels to do the front stoop. He was standing in the door holding a beer while his wife was shoveling out front. I said "what's wrong with this picture" and he quickly retorted "I'm having shoulder surgery next week!". Then his wife dropped this bomb: "it's not like that matters anyway. I'm from Buffalo".

Touché ma'am, touché.

@jhl192 not speaking for @Little Steven as he is just northwest of me but I think we're doing fine up here in the north.  Just back from busting some hang time off this bad boy in the driveway 

This was Sat afternoon in Leesburg... The egg is in the corner of the deck.

I liked the path of this storm...sorry guys

Eggcelsior said:

Newport65 said:

I liked the path of this storm...sorry guys

Don't be sorry. Snow is the best. A LOT of snow is even better.

How was the riding? My buddy got snowed in at whitetail and said it was almost too much snow, he said his back foot is going to be sore all well. Oh and whitetail closed at 4pm on Saturday! Too much snow for the ski resort

You have my sympathy. I went thru the blizzard of '78 in South Bend, IN, close to 40" in about 32 hours, on top of about a foot. Took me a full day just to dig a path to the street,  Could not open the front door, but was able to go out the back, and clear a small path. Took my wife 2 hours to get to the only open grocery just 2 blocks away. She had to swim thru maybe 250' of snow.

The only other place open was a working man's bar that opened at 7 am, right after the graveyard shift ended. That was just when the heavy stuff started. It became emergency central. They had a package store that no one ever used. After day three, it was cleared out. I got the last bottle of Port wine. In the event of blizzard, have that on hand, I learned.

Likewise, beans, rice & butter.

Canugghead said:

gdenby said:

...Took my wife 2 hours to get to the only open grocery just 2 blocks away. She had to swim thru maybe 250' of snow..

shame on you 

Brings back fond memory of South Bend, one of our kids spent a semester at Notre Dame on an exchange programme, dropped her off in the summer and picked her up just before Christmas, that was over a decade ago. Beautiful campus, oh and Touchdown Jesus! During the winter drive it was snowing lightly but steadily both ways, couldn't believe how many cars we saw ended up in the ditch along the Interstates!

ND almost never shuts down. The 78' blizzard closed the campus. The fellow who was supposed to manage such things slept in, and didn't stop folks from coming in to work, where a few were trapped for several days. The county was only reachable by helicopter for awhile.

(BTW, ND has been going thru a massive building program. If your daughter happens to visit, she might be astonished.)

South Bend is in the "Lake Effect" shadow. Sudden bands of snow precipitating off the lake often make white out conditions. Not as bad as closer to the lake, but bad enough that a few mile drive can have minutes of complete panic, can't even see 300' ahead.