Official Monday blizzard thread

[chuckd4735]

Omaha got an inch and then got really quiet! I love how it always misses Omaha anymore. Then it finds its way to Des Moines, which is odd

La Nina is just more attracted to Des Moines...

 

[fccy]

Whats it like going east anybody?/

Winter Road Conditions

Iowa DOT Travel Information Service

NWS Des Moines Office

NWS Des Moines, IA

 

[jaretac]

Does anybody else picture La Nina as a hot Latino chick? I like to picture her as Selma Hayek. :yes:

It means "the baby", since it la, it a female baby. El Nino is a reference to the Christ baby, not sure la nina references.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

I heard a lot of people say last winter that bad winters come in threes, and thus since last winter was the second strong winter in a row, that this winter would be bad as well. Obviously it's purely anectdotal, but it seems to be holding true. Hopefully next winter is a relief.

That sounds like the "bad things always happen in sets of 3" saying. I read somewhere that there's really not a lot of truth to that. It's just that by the 3rd time of whatever, people start paying attention, and it doesn't really matter what the timeframe has been for the occurence of those three things.

 

[brianhos]

What a great day to go out and see your car dead...

Guess that shows how my morning is going.

 

[cyfanatic]

Cedar Rapids schools are dismissing at 12:50...and they hardly ever dismiss early so this must certainly be a threat today!

 

[dosry5]

What a great day to go out and see your car dead...

Guess that shows how my morning is going.

Bet you wish you had a Prius now, huh?

 

[CycloneErik]

What a great day to go out and see your car dead...

Guess that shows how my morning is going.

Two questions:

1) Did you "almost" slip on the way out?

2) Did the snowpants work out fine? :yes:

 

[fccy]

I'm hoping that NWS is right, and I get a small window between snow slowing down and winds picking up to clean driveway.

 

[Bubbahotep]

It means "the baby", since it la, it a female baby. El Nino is a reference to the Christ baby, not sure la nina references.

el nino refers to this
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEoHz56jWGY]YouTube - El Nino[/ame]

 

[Bubbahotep]

sorry, didnt pan up

 

[tec71]

What a great day to go out and see your car dead...

Guess that shows how my morning is going.

Don't worry, ...Then you won't have to worry about such things.

 

[4429 mcc]

I live and teach in Wyoming. We got probably 5 inches just between 11:00 PM last night and 6:30 AM this morning. We rarely ever have a now day. I think we have had 1 maybe 2 in the 4 years I have been here, and that was when it snowed almost a foot over night.

Where do you live in Wyoming, near Gillette by chance? I heard 50+ mph winds out that way.

 

[AirWalke]

Don't worry, soon BHO (that's Barack Hussein Obama, seems suspiciously similar to your screen name) will either nationalize the towing companies so that someone will come take care of you on such mornings, or tax the operation of your vehicle so much you'll have to walk to work anyway. Then you won't have to worry about such things.

You don't visit the political forum much, do you? :wink:

 

[Mrs.ISUFan22]

I just read that Waukee, SE Polk and Indianola are all dismissing early.

 

[cycopath25]

Where do you live in Wyoming, near Gillette by chance? I heard 50+ mph winds out that way.

No, Thermopolis. I hear the wind is bad in Gillette as well. I live on the other side of the Big Horn Mountains as Gilette.

 

[cmoneyr]

Ames is dismissing early.

 

[jaretac]

Looks like the snow might be tampering off soon.

 

[dosry5]

insert picture of Chicken Little here...

 

[A-town Cy]

Any chance on Iowa State canceling this afternoon? Please real responses and no "Iowa State never cancels" Because the did last year on a rainy day that never turned icy.