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kimmie
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 Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:59 am Post subject: listening to ... |
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... the US news today....they have been hit with winter with vengence!
Colorado has severe snow...rest of US from Texas to Pennsylvania has been hit with Ice storms!!
| Quote: | ST. LOUIS - An ice storm slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power to tens of thousands Sunday in a swath from the Southern Plains to the Great Lakes as even colder weather threatened.
The wintry weather was expected to continue through midweek, and ice storm warnings stretched from Texas to Pennsylvania.
"Tomorrow may be even more of a dilemma than today because we're going to get even a little bit more colder," said John Pike, a meteorologist in the Weather Service's office in Norman, Okla.
Six traffic deaths were blamed on icy roads in Oklahoma. Roads along much of the state were considered slick and hazardous by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, with two sections of Interstate 40 being closed temporarily.
More than 130,000 customers lost power in Missouri, Oklahoma, Illinois and Kansas, utilities reported.
Some communities in Missouri reported ice as thick as three-quarters of an inch, the National Weather Service said.
"The rural roads are pretty rough, the main highways are pretty clear, and the overpasses are slick," said John Christiansen, emergency management director in Missouri's St. Clair County.
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard.
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, one of the nation's busiest, canceled more than 400 flights. The airports in Kansas City, Mo., and St. Louis also canceled several flights.
Places of worship across the region called off services because of the slippery roads. Roads in all but the southeastern corner of Oklahoma were considered slick and hazardous, the state Department of Transportation said.
Chicago officials used the city's emergency phone system to deliver recorded warnings to about 2,700 elderly residents that sidewalks were icy and slippery. |
....what i have noticed in the past is one thing....if New York gets heavy or bad wintery weather.... about two weeks to a month later...we get bad weather!
What do you recon will happen to our weather this winter...goimg by this news?
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We don't usually get it as severe, but yes it does tend to head this way on a strong westerly (which we currently have).
If all that follows, you know what that means...white Christmas 
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