Looks like we're in for it...

Jim Burns:
Funny though, we were
never afraid of the snow tunnels and the snow caves collapsing on us!
After
the snow was piled up along driveways and in parking lots we'd attack
it
with shovels, digging tunnels through it or making caves. I remember
one we
made that had several rooms connected by tunnels. One room had heat
and
lights provided by a homemade burner made of a tin can stuffed with
rolled
up cardboard soaked in parafin wax.

Thanks Jim, I remember THAT winter I was 12 yrs old, we did the same
thing and also my friend's dad pulled us along on pbluic roads as we
rode on a sled. I miss being young. This year I'm gonna help my
daughters w/ their igloo and snowman for sure.

Well Jay, According to the forcast for southern WI, it looks like its
gonna be less than 10% chance of precipitation this coming week.

Snow is OK until Xmas. But I hate temps below 20 degrees, and don't need
either after xmas as far as I'm concerned.

John

Jay Honeck wrote:
Since we moved to Iowa in '97, getting a "White Christmas" has always been a
dicey affair. Regular warm(ish) weather fronts and little snow has pretty
much been the rule, and we often had a "brown Christmas" -- much to the
dismay of my kids.

This year is looking dramatically different. We've already had temperatures
below zero throughout the Midwest, we've already had two significant
snowfalls -- with more predicted for today -- and it's not even technically
"winter" yet...
Meteorological winter starts December 1.

Snowmobilers, skiers, and kids are ecstatic -- and that ski-plane conversion
kit isn't looking so silly, either!

:-)