What's the temperature where you are???

[Knobby]

 

[sourland]

27F with a high of 34 predicted.

 

[MROO]

Yesterday was perfect! Once the snow stopped - big wet flakes perfect for snowmen and snowballs- we had a good 8 inches. Big Dog was in his glory, making snow angels and tossing snowballs up with his nose ... and I was stuck inside. Doesn't it figure, we finally get the snow I've been hoping for all winter and I'm too sick to enjoy it properly. I quit! Bring on the Spring!

 

[MROO]

No, sorry, I'm agreeing with you! Here people will panic buy and clear out the shelves in the big supermarkets in the main town (who get almost all of their stock delivered from down south, by boat - unless the boats are all cancelled because it's too windy) when the smaller local shops are much less affected because they sell locally produced & bottled milk, and locally baked bread.

Years ago, I was in line at a local supermarket, joking with the cashier about the milk/bread/toilet paper panic. We laughed over my theory that Marylanders throw all three items into their crab pot (everyone here has one) adds half of an industrial sized can of Old Bay (most of us have that, too) and stir it up with a wooden crab mallet before spreading it on the driveway.
We were in the middle of a good chuckle when I felt a gentle hand on my arm and heard a soft southern drawl ask pleadingly, "Oh, Honey, does it work?"
That poor soul was up from Atlanta, Georgia for the birth of her first grandchild and was absolutely frozen in fear over the of the foot of snow predicted for that night. I can still hear her sigh as we explained the joke to her, and hear her soft, "Well, I'm just terrified, terrified (teh-ruh-fyed) by all that snow."
I felt so badly I hugged her right there in the checkout line! I've always wondered if that was a story told about that baby's birth ever since. It wouldn't surprise me, that was a humdinger of a storm!