[mcmama]

This is the whine about the weather thread. At least for now.

Can we get decent snow? Oh no, just ice. And then a little sleet on top of that, making walking or driving feel like skating on marbles. And then a little wet snow. And more sleet mixed in. And then just a lot of moist moist air that instantly freezes when it touches anything.

So it will get up to 45 degrees where I am today - just enough time to run outside and chip away at the driveway, where buckets of slush have frozen and aren't going anywhere - and then a nor'easter. Wind. Rain. Sleet. Snow. Not enough to have any fun with, but enough to be dangerous.

And as usual, my son is spending the weekend when I need his muscle with his father, who thinks the world revolves around him and his arthritis. Every major snowstorm I get caught alone.

I was supposed to be living in Florida by now, but for a lot of reasons that did not happen. One more winter in the NJ gulag.

[dhilbert]

We got 2 bad ice storms before we got the snow yesterday, and now i heard this nor'easter is gonna bring us ice, then snow, then more ice, why cant we just get snow for the kids to play in, they have today and tomorrow to play in yesterdays snow then there will be a sheet of ice on it!

[Alejandros Mommy]

Can you go out and get soft water salt? You can spead it on your driveway and it will melt the snow/ice away. I've had to do this in our old place....I'd put it on before a big storm hit and the sidewalk/front walk didn't get ice/snow on them...very important as they both went down hill and I'd slip on my way to work all the time.

Hope the weather gets better soon Janet.

[LeanyBean]

I have plenty of snow. Only because the temps haven't reached 30 in about 2 weeks. Perhaps this weekend they'll get that high but it won't melt off much at all. I count myself lucky to have avoided the big Midwest Ice Disaster. I live in Northern Iowa and all we saw was a dusting of snow out of that storm front. The weekend before we got aboutu 5 inches of snow with about 3/4 in of ice coat on top of that. then a few more inches a few days later. I hate driving with snow or ice on the roads. I have only been a licensed driver for just about 16 months now and I had a fender bender a year ago when the weather was nasty. Being this pregnant does help matters either because I can't drive more than 10 miles without having to adjust something. Plus parking sucks at my hospital and will do so until late spring. They are expanding. 2 more floors plus half a dozen or so new clinics being added in as well as a new entry way. So they only have about 3/4 of their normal parking available which is across a street from the hospital on two sides. So now that I am approaching weekly visits I get to look forward to dumb drivers and nasty weather at least once a week. happy happy joy joy.

[DivasMomma]

Originally Posted by mcmama

I was supposed to be living in Florida by now, but for a lot of reasons that did not happen. One more winter in the NJ gulag.

i knew you lived somewhere near me just by your description of the weather...what part of NJ? Im over the bridge in Philly but same gross weather!!

[poliscmjr]

Divasmom...we are close...I'm also in NJ just outside of Philly! The fog we had this morning was unbelievable! You couldn't see 2 feet in front of you!

[mcmama]

I'm 15 minutes from the George Washington Bridge to NYC.

I have salt, I just hate doing this. And I hate the ice when it is rock solid in the driveway - the spreaders go down the street, plow everything into the driveway, it melts with the spreader salt, and then it freezes. Yuck. We have a bit of a moratorium this afternoon with temps in the 40s so I am taking advantage of this.

Last night I took my son to a masonic function about 2 miles from our house. Took forever to get there. Coming home, my street was blocked in the middle - but no warning when turning the corner - and too slick to k turn - a fedex truck was stuck in someones driveway. Beyond him were two cop cars just sitting there so I could not pass.

I waited two full minutes, thinking a cop was going to be directing traffic or assisting the truck driver. Finally I got out of the car, waded through slush, (no boots just sneakers because I had not intended to walk in this) knocked on the window of the nice warm patrol car, and asked the policeman what should I do to get home, just 5 doors down? Oh, uh, wait a minute, I'll move my car.

My tax dollars at work. Oh wait, that's another vent!!!

[mcmama]

We had serious fog too. If you are near a river, it really does roll in. My son goes to school in Englewood, so driving him there was an adventure - the fog is always worse in the areas near the PIP or 9W than it is in more central Bergen County.

He can drive, with a permit - but not today!!!!! And not last night!!!!

[MommaColleen]

Well, I live a bit north of you guys near the Lehigh Valley. We were supposed to get hit hard yeasterday....but it musta decided to go around us. It snow/sleet/freezing rained in the morning but by 3 it was all over and everything was just slushy. They sent the kids home at 11am in anticipation of what DIDN'T happen.

[mcmama]

We had a snow day yesterday - many schools closed early, but since we're a private school, with kids coming from a 20 mile radius, that just doesn't work for us. I like it better this way, because closing early is a hassle and has the kids leaving into some dangerous situations.

However, driving to school was extra fun today, because in addition to ice and fog, the city of Englewood NJ has not yet picked up the autumn leaves. So you are winding around not only the ice and traffic, but the sludgy leaf piles - and the cops closing roads so that the leaf suckers can finally get around to this after the plow has pushed the piles sky high. Add to that people actually walking in the residential neighborhood, and it is a mess. And another road was closed for some kind of construction, so traffic entering the school from the leafy pile road and exiting the school onto the main road which was backed up due to construction - a total nightmare.

I am used to lining up to get out of the school driveway - but when we saw the backed up line to get IN, my son just jumped out of the car and started sprinting.