Northern weather

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

The weather headline here is SIGNIFICANT SNOW...that could be anything down to 1/2" around here

But if it's gonna snow, do it right so I can stay home from work Saturday.

It actually warmed up to about 36 degrees around 1pm, I drove to my daughter's house for lunch and stopped by the Food Lion near my house on the way home, it was a mad house in there. Luckily I only got 4-5 things, bread (of course), detergent for my new dishwasher, pineapple slices for the pork chops I plan on cooking for dinner, can't think of the other 2 . Point is I got in the "short line" and was in/out within minutes. When I walked in they were out of shopping carts!

[rogruth]

My wife is very unhappy with the Savannah TV stations. They are treating this snowfall like it is a hurricane,
They have reporters out driving in the snow, reporting how bad it is and that everyone (except them) should stay off the roads.
What upset my wife is that they have pre-empted the soaps.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

HOLY COW!!!

As I was typing my last post I looked out the window and thought I saw a black dog across the street, turned out to be a cat I expect was close to twice the size of my cats, probably 25-30 lbs of feline.

Don't think I've ever seen a cat that big (not fat). I took a photo thru my window screen, must be 200' away. Sorry, the screen shows up nicely but the cat is a blur:

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If someone wants to do the math, the camera was about 30" away from the screen, the screen threads are 1/16" apart. 200' is a SWAG, but close enough for our purposes.

My rough guess puts the cats body at 30" long, not including the tail

[healey36]

Probably one of those reclusive Shenandoah panthers...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.........probably 25-30 lbs of feline.

Sure it was feline and not a coyote or even a fox? There's a rather large fox in my neighborhood; was out the night we had that little dusting of snow and it was making some off sounds that woke me up so I saw it in my front yard. Tracks were all over the driveway and yard chasing after rabbits,

[E7]

Maybe a Notany Lion!

[robert.]

One of the guys in our neighborhood as a game tracker camera mounted in a tree. He claims this year to have videoed a coy/wolve. Onto liter news gas stations are filled with cars today ahead of an incoming snowstorm. With the news media dropping a new term Bomb Cyclone Storm. They were able to stir people up and help get grocery stores empty.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

One of the guys in our neighborhood as a game tracker camera mounted in a tree. He claims this year to have videoed a coy/wolve.

We have coyotes here in No. VA and I know that we have them in PA out at my place there.

Onto liter news gas stations are filled with cars today ahead of an incoming snowstorm. With the news media dropping a new term Bomb Cyclone Storm. They were able to stir people up and help get grocery stores empty.

All part of the vast conspiracy to make sure that grocery stores move that product out the door - folks might actually starve to death if they can't get their chips & dip.....

[Tom Dempsey]

Maine Coons are getting more popular as a domestic cat breed in this country. That would not be an unusual size for a male. My Maine Coon was considered somewhat on the small size for a male cat and still tipped the scales at about 29 pounds, and the number of cats, etc, he chased around the neighborhood would indicate he was in fairly good physical shape, i.e., not a fatty.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

It was a cat for sure. Just after I took that photo he ran behind a house to the right, then came out on the other side of the yard.

I think it might the the same cat that scared the daylights out of my 2 one night when they were out on the screened porch. The female came running in with her tail as big around as a can of soda

[Mitch]

My wife is very unhappy with the Savannah TV stations.
What upset my wife is that they have pre-empted the soaps.

Hell hath no fury like a woman whose soaps have been pre-empted by the Category 5 Storm fast approaching.

[E7]

All part of the vast conspiracy to make sure that grocery stores move that product out the door - folks might actually starve to death if they can't get their chips & dip.....

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/v ... tion=click

[rogruth]

Today there is still snow on the ground . This is the first time since we moved to Georgia (1975) that a snowfall has been on the ground a second day.
Temperature at 8:30 AM is 20.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I had to push the door open to get past the snow drift. I'd say there's 6 inches on the ground with drifts up to 18". Wind is howling 15-25mph and the snow flakes are getting bigger, must be ending soon.

I managed to shovel out a walkway to the garage, but getting the Mini down the driveway may be for another day.

I do see tire tracks down the street so some nut has been out and about this morning.

I did call my neighbor to see if she needed anything (snow removal, warming up, etc), she said she's working from home today. That's what she gets for being a gumint contractor!!!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Might be a 1/2" out there......22 degrees so it's not going anywhere until Sunday.