[salpal]

I am in Delaware. It started snowing at 5 pm last night and still going strong at 7 am...why am I up so early? I have a 15 year old standard poodle who can no longer jump in the snow like he used to. Last night, at 9 pm I set some plastic boxes upside down out my back door so that I could actually open the back door in the morning. Then I shoveled a path to the nearest bush so my baby can relief himself.

I shoveled the path again at midnight. I set my alarm for 3 am to shovel again (glad I did). Of course, I just finished shoveling again. It is still coming down and supposed to keep going till late afternoon/early evening.

Oh God, I hope this is my last winter here!!!! I am so jealous of TV right now.

[TednRobin]

I'm right there with ya, hubby just came in from measuring, 14 inches in CentraL PA, he's out there blowing snow for our Yorkie. Can't wait for The Villages move.

[JMarkle]

North Carolina here - we just had two days of torrential downpours and freezing temps. Our lakes are overflowing. The weatherman here said that it is moving north and turning to snow. Batten down the hatches. Maybe teach the pooch how to use the loo.

Our TV ETA is another winter season here, then jump in the car and head south.

[Don H]

To The Palmers. You had my wife and I laughing. We had our son's mini schnauzer with us for a few weeks in the winter and I had to shovel paths into the backyard. I would stand on the back stoop watching him use my shoveling handiwork and say... "Hello Villages!!"

[rblammon]

Just got done snowblowing 5 inches of snow off driveway. Have a house rented in TV for the month of October. This will be my first visit. Hope it is all everyone says it is. If so will only 2 more winters in Ohio.

[salpal]

As of now (11 am) we have 20 inches. Supposed to stop by 4 or 5
tonight. I continue shoveling my doggie path.

Hubby used snowblower on driveway at around 9 am, but of course we
will have to do it again. Neighbor just borrowed snowblower, hope he
gives our driveway the once again when he returns it.

Dirty (old) joke for all you adults:
Snow is like men...you never know when it is coming, how many inches
you will get and how long it will last....

Sorry, could not resist. Hey, I need to laugh about snow today!!

[another Linda]

And can you believe we have nothing but sunshine here in the snow capitol? Strange. But I still want to be in TV. Have talked to our renters and they are having a ball. sigh. jealously

[golf2140]

Just spoke to our son in Swedesboro NJ. Front door is blocked by 24" of snow, rear sliders 36" of snow. I told him that our area of Bonita is 60 degrees but a little windy. I thought he wouldn't talk to his dad like that.

[jrjr729]

My wife and I are snowbirds. We left TV on December 15 and got back to Delaware in time for the big storm in December. We got stuck here, due to complications from cataract surgery and now we get to shovel once again. We have about 23 inches in Newark, DE and it's still coming down. Maybe I'll get caught up come Tuesday. Oh wait, it's going to snow on Tuesday into Wednesday, too. Little did we know that "snowbird" means going to where the snow is.

[JeanneBeannie]

Having lived in the snow country most of my life, last house on top of a mountain I sure do feel your pain of cold, snow, ice, shoveling, lugging wood inside all day etc. etc. . I promise you, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, or would that be.....the end of the igloo!

Stay warm folks, hope you can get to TV soon!

Jeanne

P.S. I enjoyed the shoveling a path for your doggie story.

[Floridagal]

Spoke to my granddaughter in MD and said her block is so full of snow she should be out by Spring....

[salpal]

On Saturday, at around 3, our cable died (about the same time snow stopped). We surmised that the snow had finally buried
the satellite dish on the roof. Luckily we had lots of DVD's to watch Saturday night, however yesterday was Superbowl Sunday.
So Hubby decides that if he hooks up a hose, he can wash the snow away. Guess where the hose is for the winter?
Of course, in the shed in the back of the backyard.

So, hubby takes the snowblower and blows a path to the backyard and onward to the shed, then over to kitchen window near the dish.
The dish (luckily) is located about five feet from gutters. The backyard now looks like a corn maze of snow.

He rigs up the hose, but it is not working so great. So we got a ladder, took a broom and brushed off the snow near the dish.
After about five minutes we now have TV again! Our superbowl party was saved!!!
And doggie now has several paths in the backyard, I no longer have to walk him in the street. Life is Good.

Thanks Jeannie...we cannot get there soon enough

[Hawkwind]

To keep snow off a satellite dish just spray it with Pam, the cooking spray, in late fall.

[salpal]

wish I knew that this past fall....we are forecasted to get
12 to 18 more inches tomorrow (Tuesday) night.

We average 19 inches of snow in a typical winter and it usually arrives two to five inches a storm. This year, we are already a tad over 30 inches.
I curse El Nino.

[Barefoot]

This is my third winter in The Bubble. Canadian winters are a dim memory.

I love hearing the snow stories! They are a great reminder to me to stop complaining when the weather gets "down" into the 60s!