at least we're not Minneapolis jesus fuck

that's a lot of shiny colors for all the warnings

we are officially in the winter storm warning part, not the ice storm warning. still don't want any of it.

February sure is bein February up in here

Be safe and stay warm!

you guys are in the clear I think. I hope?

you know it's a nasty snowstorm in the midwest when the catholic churches cancel ash wednesday lmfao

oh god yeah no kidding

no magic dust for thee today

I'll take my current magic dust in the form of a bunch of confused-looking ice particles blowing around in the wind

that's enough magic dust for my day

we've had sleet since noon, I could hear it pinging on the basement window every time I went into the laundry

oh jeez that's annoying

at least I can salt it but yeah lmfao not even going out to check the mail

I just have "snow" aka tiny ice particles that aren't going to become anything because the wind won't let them settle and the ambient temp is like 38 anyway

don't wanna slide down my driveway and then not be able to walk back up

god yeah no sleet is such a pain

I genuinely had to weigh whether I'd rather the sleet or the 18-24 inches of snow and um. actually yeah the sleet thanks

that's... fair, 18-24 is a lot of work

we'd have no way to shovel, I'd have to pay my neighbor to come over with his snowblower like a good midwesterner

I had ice warnings.

was it awful? hopefully no power outages or anything

we lucked way out, barely an inch of snow/sleet with a light crust of ice on top, it was super easy to just. shove out of the way lmao.

oh wow very good, I just shoveled my driveway, the snow finally got here

but it was like 2.5 inches of pure powder so even though my hands went numb it got done quickly

enjoy?

haha I am, it's super pretty, it's really windy here so the snow is going in every direction but down

somehow enough wound up on the ground anyway

well, good for your plants then.

I'd had my boots on the back porch and they were full of snow despite being under a couple feet of overhanging roof which says something about the wind, but

I shook them out and a peanut came out

thanks scrub jays

I finally heard chickadees and a cardiinal, after all winter of nohting but juncos

oh good, a little variety haha

we usually have a pair of cardinals around, I wonder where they went

No, not awful, but I got my wipers flipped up just in case. Lot of wind this morning, sleety rain yesterday for pretty much the whole day.

good, good. ish. I mean it could be worse

Oh, definitely. Got a dusting of snow-that-stuck overnight (Fri>Sat), but barely sweep-the-back-deck worthy. Los Angeles and Oregon have had it much worse for weather!