Looks like we're having a repeat of the 99/00 year transition in Atlanta tonight.  Already have about 6" on the ground, and it's supposed to continue throughout the night.

This is from about an hour ago - which was 90 minutes after it started ... already had 5" on the ground.  It took a short break, but it just fired back up again.

Don't think I'll be going to work tomorrow.  More time with the baby!

Jason..  Here in New Bern, N.C. , I awoke to a couple of inches of snow. TV says it will change to sleet and iced roads tonight. Oh Joy!
  My 6 in-ground, young figs are enclosed with wire mesh and filled with leaves, should have no problems.
  But, my attempt at rooting was pitiful. Too much WATER!!
I must have a slow learning curve.
  Your advise on the forum is great and I thank you.  Fred..7b NC

Jason, I was worried about you man.  But you know whenever Atlanta gets hit Charlotte will too!  We have 6 inches now, its 28 degree outside and 40 in my GH.

Fred, you guys in New Bern will probably get more so get ready!!!!!

I need to go out and try to get some of the snow off my trees.  Cheers!

Will be getting our share starting tomorrow night till friday for 16" of snow. Had a blinding snow storm on Saturday night for a few hours and temp was down to 28*F.

Here in east Tennessee, we have 8" on snow and it is still snowing with temps about 30F.  I have been bagging up fig cuttings this morning, some with damp newspaper, others with long fibered sphagnum moss  and a few bags I am experimenting with Spanish moss I picked from trees in Fla during December as a rooting medium. Dreaming of a warmer day and Feb 1 when Jon's cutting list well be available.

I shoveled up about 7" off my sidewalk around midnight so our friends could walk to their houses (next door).  Woke up this morning, another 7" took its place.  So I went ahead and shoveled that also.  Lots of sleet and frozen rain came down today, now the snow is like creme brulee, nice hard coating of ice on top of soft fluffy snow.

they closed the office today.  I don't think I'll be going back in till Thursday with temps the way they're slated to be.  Lots of ice everywhere.

Wow, 8'' already here near the SC border and more coming. It will switch

Well this is quite a switch! You folks in the SE are definately getting more snow than us here in W KY. We got about a 1/2" day before yesterday. It mostly melted off by days end yesterday but we're getting a little more right now. Not nearly what you guys are getting though!

Here's what you need to do. Hop in the 4X4 & run down to HD or Lowes. Go to the masonry dept & pick up a couple of those large rectangular black plastic cement mixing tubs. Now go back out & find the biggest hill around. Makeshift sled riding time!! Wooo Hooo!!!!

I did that last year with my 5 & 8 year old. The kids had a blast! I even felt like a kid again until I hit that snow ramp some local college students had built. Oww my butt!! No permanent damage though so I still had plenty of play left in me for a few more rounds :-) .

Like you said Jason.....ahhh, snow - hehe. Ya just gotta go play in it ;) !

Thanks getting it here in Philly now

New Haven connecticut is about to get pounded by 18 inches of snow!!!! Guess I should have came home from florida a week later than I did

5" here in southen New Jersey....just enough to freshen things up!

Who would have ever thought Hotlanta would have more snow than I way up here in Michigan??

All total I can't say we've gotten much more than 6 inches thus far this winter.

I'm sure we're colder, though...


~Chills

As of today there's snow on the ground in every state except Florida.

8" here in N. Georgia, but the iced up roads are the worst part of it (due to inexperienced drivers). Next few nights will be in the low teens, so potted figs are in the garage or crawl space.

We got snow here in Louisiana, Bass?

There's snow at the Mauna Kea Observatory on the island of Hawaii [but since it's at ~14000 feet, it's common]


http://www.vlba.nrao.edu/sites/SITECAM/MKcam.shtml

Jason, if I understand right, you are wishing it was snow and not the ice that you got. Nasty.

Absolutely, Noss, same people. 50 mph on 2" of ice.

Good news, Cheer up.
Only 66 days until the official spring, far less than the 140 days at the end of October.....

We also told each other we hoped those people were going to keep going straight and didn't try to go around a bend!

After a visit with family in Tulsa one winter, we were on our way back down here and hit some black ice.  Mike was fine until he decided to change lanes and tapped off the cruise control.  The back end of the car broke loose and the car began to skid.  I was in the back seat of our station wagon and was closest to the huge ditches alongside of the highway, so I'd be first into them--on either side.  I have to say, Mike kept control of that car so well.  The rear end swung to the right and then to the left a few times, but Mike did such a good job of controlling the skid, the car came out of it.  Whew!  You should have seen his hands slapping the wheel!  I've never seen hands move that fast.  He was actually slapping the wheel in one direction then the next.  He never lost control of the vehicle.  Amazing.

We crept the rest of the way down the Indian Nations Turnpike very slowly and with the wheels of the right side of the car in the snow, on the shoulder of the road.

Excitement like that, I don't ever want to see again, but I still think Mike was amazing because he was going fast when the car broke into the skid.  Thankfully, there were no other vehicles around us at the time.

We had all my little Yorkies with us in the car and our son and all I could think about was the dogs would go flying in their pet taxies when we hit the ditch and what would happen to our son.  We had exercise pens too.  All kinds of dog equipment and I thought it would probably kill us as we went end over end in the ditch.  That was scary, yeah.

noss