Saturday, February 04, 2006

A blizzard is coming! Run! Hide!

A storm will explode across Ontario and produce blizzard conditions across Michigan into northwest Ohio late today and tonight according to AccuWeather.com. Heavy snow will fall across eastern Michigan into northwest Ohio where over 6 inches is forecasted. Parts of eastern Michigan will see a foot of snow. Winds will increase and gust up to 50 mph tonight into tomorrow resulting in massive blowing and drifting of the snow.

Of course nothing like the Blizzard in 1978, but should be fun to watch. People are rushing out to the stores, to stock up on things. Yet given some of our local weather casters and their ability to be wrong? We could end up with more or alot less snow.

How will it affect the super Bowl? Not going to be a very pleasant day to tailgate in the parking lot. I blame those pesky groundhogs...

:-)
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8 comments:

historymike said...

Whoa! Great minds think alike.

Should be a helluva blast. I think it's going to be on the heavier end of that 6"-12" prediction. I don't like the way this storm is doing the counterclockwise rotation maneuver.

2:39 PM
Valbee said...

Yeah, I don't like that counterclockwise rotation either. That tends to give us the lake effect stuff instead of Cleveland.

I remember a storm in 1992 that had that rotation... we were living in Stony Ridge at the time and my husband had to drive down a road with only two ruts to get through. Snow on either side was halfway up the car doors.

The Boyfriend's band is supposed to play tonight, too. Wonder if they'd believe me if I said I had the flu and couldn't venture out?

4:01 PM
Unknown said...

Well Val, we are both mom's so having seen our kids fake being sick? Think either one of us could pull it off.

:-)

I am prepared which means it will not be a blizzard - lol

4:25 PM
Cyberseaer said...

OMFG!!!!! I saw three flakes come down from the sky and it tuck to the road! Quick! We need 47 gallons of milk and 127 loafs of bread to survive!!!!!!

Or is that only a Jersey irrational fear that all the idiots feel when snow and winter are mentioned in the same sentence?

4:33 PM
Unknown said...

Nope, here in Ohio they run to the stores in panic mode. Milk and Bread will be just about gone, the price for de-icing salt will rise, there will be not a snow shovel to be found and? Most times it ends up not being anything close to the "huge storm" that is predicted.

I've found it works this way. If I need groceries it will storm and be horrible. If I am all stocked up and don't need anything It will not storm...

After the blizzard of 78, those of us who survived that one always compare storms to that one. So far? No comparison has yet come yet every so often the "blizzard" word gets mentioned and we then relive our blizzard horror stories or tell those to young to remember what a "real" blizzard was like.

The snow was so deep during the 1978 storm that you couldn't see my 1969 Roadrunner in the driveway and we had to have a bulldozer come in to clear the street so my dad could get in (He spent the whole blizzard in Mexico and came in two days after it was over). Lots of babies came 9 months later....

:-)

4:41 PM
Valbee said...

Southern states are even worse when it comes to panic mode over winter storms. One of my closest friends is an Alabama transplant and she's convinced that the weather forecasters are in cahoots with the dairy farmers... when sales are down, they predict snow, and every Alabaman rushes to stock up. Never mind that a snow storm in Alabama is a dusting here - and it's usually gone within three hours. :)

4:57 PM
Unknown said...

Nooo blizzard, not even any snow to speak of as far as accumulation.

Geee...weather people being wrong....what a surprise!

lol

4:08 PM
Scott G said...

A blizzard is in Colorado when you get 30 inches in 10 minutes. Sure, it is 80 the next day, but for those hours of snow it sucks

7:42 PM

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