Ain't it the truth? I've said the same about our local news. Snow is coming. Well gee, it's winter in Ohio, snow is to be expected. The local news stations get all atwitter screaming "The White Death is coming. The White Death is coming. RUN!"

I don't know where abouts you live in OH, but up here north of Akron we have about 2ft of snow. Which is a little unusual this early into winter.
Went for a hike in the woods yesterday with the dog, she loved the deep snow. Dummy wouldn't stay on the trail i was stomping out for her.

Deer in the backyard
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Lots of snow
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The 17 y/o dog blazing her own trail. Because she can.
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Bullitt: I live in the middle of the state way on the west side. We've had some snow but nothing to speak of really. It was unusual because it was so warm for so long, then it snowed and is so cold. Of course, the whole U.S. of A. is cold. It seemed like one day I was driving my car with the lid down (in NOVEMBER) and the next I was freezing to death.

That snow looks pretty. If I didn't have to drive so far in it I might not hate it so much. Plus, with all the traffic and humans tromping about, it gets dirty and ugly. I love your pictures though. That's what show should be! Nature Girl would like that snow.

The talking TV weatherheads are predicting a MAJOR storm for PDX this weekend... 4-6 inches of rain.

They call it the "pineapple express" when these big storms come out of the SW Pacific.
The last such event was 1996, when the Willamette River (thru downtown Portland) had really major flooding.

Here is a link to a "real time" weather radar map I use to follow the storm fronts thruout North America.
Easy access to lots and lots of data, graphs, pics, etc.

Right now (6 am PST) the front seems to be reaching Salem, OR... about 50 miles S of Portland.

It is going to be in the 60's this weekend, then back to the 40's. These pictures only remind me of why I love living in Savannah. :D

Oh, nice pictures btw.

What a wimp of a storm... so far :neutral:
Just over 1 inch of rain; temps reached 60 F... just like Georgia

The warning are still up til Monday am, so we'll see if the TV gurus can redeem themselves.

17 inches of snow in less than 24 hours causing the Metrodome roof to collapse and the roads to become undrivable. The snowplows even gave up for a while.

Why would anyone choose to live in such a place. I could easily live in Alaska, but of course there are few people there. But to live in a city where there are hundreds of idiot drivers and people desperate to get from point A to point B sounds like nothing short of stupidity.

Haha. I'm sorry Merc but I would rather drive in Minneapolis during a 17 inch snowstorm than anywhere in the south after they have gotten more than an inch.

Free football in Detroit tonight -and not the Lions!

Snow Day here. two kids happy, one not, although i may just be about to fix that...... (fingers crossed)

Our forecasters set everyone in the PDX area up for a MAJOR storm.
People filling sandbags, taking yard stuff inside, road barriers up in low-lying areas,
boats out of the rivers, steelhead fishing postponed, etc.

What a limp whip of a weather front !
This edition of the "Pineapple Express" held the temps
at 57-60 deg over the weekend and drizzled a bit over 1 inch of rain.
Maybe further north in WA it was as predicted,
but here it was just another December wekend in the Willamette valley.

Job Performance ratings for our TV weathermen are below efficiency ratings of the French army.

As the creeks were rising, I watched carefully. If the creek I live close to floods over into the street,it would be no big deal, but my sister lives close to the river. My mom lives there too. I didn't want to the river to get to flood-stage. It was at 22 feet last night. Where I am, flood level is at 28 feet.

In 1996 it flooded at 37 feet which wasn't catastrophic but the water would have covered the ground at least knee high in some places. I am glad the waters are receding.. or halting.

23 Degrees this morning at 7 am when I left work. Coldest it has been around here for a long time.

National Weather Service has just issued a tornado warning for area just east of Salem, OR.

This is really unusual !

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Some damage to buildings in a small community called Aumsville, no injuries reported

National Weather Service has returned to normal
45 min later... TV weathermen are still orgasmic

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Yep, and here it is.

http://www.kgw.com/home/Tornado-touc...111870589.html