>>>>I see in the news that your part of the country are really getting hammered by snow. Good luck!
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>>>>Here we are supposed to receive 3-6 inches of snow tomorrow, mixed with rain, sleet, and freezing rain, but we are getting off easy. They won't be telling everyone to stay home.
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>>>We got about 10 inches on Thursday. We're supposed to get about the same tonight/tomorrow. We haven't had that much snow (if we really get it) in a month in the 19 years we've lived here.
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>>>We desperately need the water so I'm thrilled to see it.
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>>>I'm not real thrilled that the snowblower is out of service. It'll be fixed by Friday (which should be when summer arrives).
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>>>It really only means that I work from home (I do that a lot anyway) and we use the truck to go out (4WD Dakota).
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>>>It's that global warming you know.. :)
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>>We all know there's no such thing ;-)
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>>Good luck with the melting or digging out!
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>Turns out we only got a couple of light flurries yesterday and that was about it. There's a little snow blowing around this morning (on the standard 40mph KS breeze), but no accumulation over what we got last week at all.
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>Topeka has icy roads and an inch or 2 of new snow - enough so I'm still working from home.

I'm with you there. I can deal with snow (up to a point) but don't like ice. IMO anyone who claims they can drive on ice without worry is either deluded or lying.