BIG Snow Jan 24,25 2026

[Maxmars]

I live in Southern California so snow is only for fun sports that happens up in the mountains a few months out of the year. I personally have only seen snow in real life once. I do see snow in my freezer quite often when it builds up. All joking aside, I cant imagine what you people go through in these kind of situations. The prepping, the aftermath and the necessary steps needed to just live in freezing cold weather. But, I thank you for allowing us others on the west coast to see what mother nature looks like in a different state.

It veers from an exciting adventure to an unbearable chore.

Attitude helps... people who live with this in their yearly goings on respond as if it were a mini crisis...
not necessarily because of how "bad the storm is"... but because of what can go wrong because of a storm's aftermath.

I've traveled and endured many different winters... some actually horrific... this wasn't one of those.

But dang, it is cold outside!

[fiveandtwo]

Saturday afternoon I thought we dodged it but around midnight and into early Sunday morning we got hit with about 7 inches and drifts over a foot.  Hasn’t been above freezing since Saturday morning.

I’m trying to psych myself up to getting bundled and walking around outside for a bit.  The ducks are across the road at the neighbors house and she put some water out in a bucket.  They’re huddled around it and that’s keeping it thawed.  We both agree that they are smart ducks.

Hopefully by Thursday afternoon I can get out of the neighborhood and drive into town just to get out for a bit.  We’re still stocked up pretty good but I’m used to getting out just about every day and I’m getting cabin fever.

[putnam6]

Saturday afternoon I thought we dodged it but around midnight and into early Sunday morning we got hit with about 7 inches and drifts over a foot.  Hasn’t been above freezing since Saturday morning.

I’m trying to psych myself up to getting bundled and walking around outside for a bit.  The ducks are across the road at the neighbors house and she put some water out in a bucket.  They’re huddled around it and that’s keeping it thawed.  We both agree that they are smart ducks.

Hopefully by Thursday afternoon I can get out of the neighborhood and drive into town just to get out for a bit.  We’re still stocked up pretty good but I’m used to getting out just about every day and I’m getting cabin fever.

Yeah, I'm OK snowed in for 24-48 hours, but after that, I start feeling a bit like "Jack Torrence."

We got lucky, we had enough melt, no more branches are falling but it was 14 degrees here last night and thats as low as its been here in awhile

[David64]

It veers from an exciting adventure to an unbearable chore.

Attitude helps... people who live with this in their yearly goings on respond as if it were a mini crisis...
not necessarily because of how "bad the storm is"... but because of what can go wrong because of a storm's aftermath.

I've traveled and endured many different winters... some actually horrific... this wasn't one of those.

But dang, it is cold outside!

...and when all this melts, we get to deal with the mud. Not the nice warm mud that's fun to play in, it's mud that's just barely above freezing, sticks to everything. Like your truck, your boots, the porch. My wife gives 4 ft of grace inside the back door to take your boots off if they're muddy or wet.

If you go past that....well I have no idea what happens 'cause I ain't that brave.

[WallFlowerActive]

Where I live, they are pretty good about plowing.  It takes a few days before they get to the dirt roads.

[fiveandtwo]

Just checking in to see how everyone is doing.  We’re finally able to get out some but the window of opportunity is between noon and around 4:00 pm.  After 4 or so everything melted starts refreezing.

A reminder to everyone… Watch for potholes as everything starts to thaw.  We saw one that was half a lane wide and looked to be about a foot deep.  Yikes!

[putnam6]

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Where I live, they are pretty good about plowing.  It takes a few days before they get to the dirt roads.

That looks like a beautiful area ....

[FlyersFan]

Just checking in to see how everyone is doing.  

Still have lots of snow with an inch of packed sleet on top.
I tried to walk in the back yard yesterday to play with the dog
but fell on the packed ice so I gave up.

Sidewalks are mostly taken care of.   Roads are okay unless
you are in the development there is still ice patches ...

lots of folks parking in t he street because the bottoms of their
driveways are flooded and then frozen.   They can't get into 
their driveways.

[Roma]

Sick.  Of.  It.

The dog has a hard time finding a spot to go.  My trashcan was frozen into a pile of snow.  My recycling bin was frozen to my deck.  My car wouldn't start due to a dead battery (even though it's only a year old).  And I'm dreading the utility bills when they come in. 

I'm not asking for Spring.  All I want is a couple of weeks above freezing. 

Rant over.

[rickymouse]

Sick.  Of.  It.

The dog has a hard time finding a spot to go.  My trashcan was frozen into a pile of snow.  My recycling bin was frozen to my deck.  My car wouldn't start due to a dead battery (even though it's only a year old).  And I'm dreading the utility bills when they come in. 

I'm not asking for Spring.  All I want is a couple of weeks above freezing. 

Rant over.

You get used to it after a while.  I'm a Yooper, I originally come from the copper country where there is a lot of snow, thirty five years ago I moved to Negaunee, and we get lots of snow here and cold weather too.  This year we have gotten over a hundred sixty inches of snow so far....I have a six and a half foot snowblower on the back of my tractor, plus a plow truck...and scoops and lots of various kinds of shovels.

At least this year the snow is not wet and heavy all the time. 

We have the heikki Lunta festival in a few days, it is a big party with fireworks.  A big social event.  The city manager mentioned that if Heikki shows up he is going to break his legs...the wife goes to knitting at the library and he came in.  They are running out of places to put the snow, the city snowblowers can't keep up with removing the six to seven foot high snowbanks from the sides of the street so it is stressing out the city manager when people are complaining.  Hopefully heikki stays down on the east coast and does not come to the fistival.

The wife and I will probably go to the fish fry and the senior center breakfast and go watch the parade.  The VFW also has cudighis I think.  And the food trucks and food tents will be down by the lake for the festival and there is a fishing contest on the lake.

It sucks that I am getting old when they have so many social events going on this weekend, I used to go every year to that, now I will just watch the fireworks from the upstairs window, they are going to be about two miles from our house...hard to see them sometimes because of the hundred foot tall pine trees around the house.  We can only see the really high and big ones through the trees..