After Sunday night's freezing crud, clean up yesterday, rain today, 48* for a high, now we have more rain/sleet coming tonight with up to 8" of snow starting tomorrow morning into the night.
Then temps dive into the teens during daytime, below zero with winds for a few days.
Like the rest of the Midwest we could use the water, problem is the ground is frozen and we have deep puddles the water can't seep in so it sits or runs off into the storm sewers and some evaps into the air.
If this changes over tonight with the temps around 30 and then 8" of snow on top we are looking at a big mess for a week or two and then depending on the spring thaw things could get nasty in a few weeks.
Last winter I got two new (to me) snow throwers, wouldn't ya know very little snow.
This summer we put in a new double driveway, sidewalks, porch and steps, can't use any ice melt stuff on it for a year, wouldn't ya know, ice up the ying yang this year.
Stay safe and warm.

65 mph wind gust today, power has been out for 1 1/2 hours so far, stove running on battery back up, temps dropping started at 40 this morning now 26 and just now starting to snow.

You must be getting the storm that just passed us. Hope the power comes back up soon for ya. I bought a nice little Honda generator just to run the stove if the power goes out for a length of time, wife wasn't to pleased but I show her the power outages and the people struggling and she quiets down.
I've used it camping and ice fishing also when out on the ice all day or at night for lighting so it's very handy to have.
Stay safe and warm.

Power still out estimated repair time tomorrow at noon. Generator now up and running, wind gust still bad, stove running well, nice and warm.

Hang in there AC. You were prepared.

6* -14* windchill with 22 MPH wind and dropping. This will be an interesting coldest night of this winter

We are only getting down to 9*, but finally getting a little snow, and I mean a little. Boiler and stove cranking and nice and toasty. Be warm and safe.

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Thanks Nogas. Glad your doing good.

I just had to go outside to bring the brass monkeys in. Damn it's cold!

We got down to -7 this AM. -25 windchill. It's so cold I saw teenagers with their pants pulled all the way up.