[MsDivaKate]

So I'd like to share with everyone the beautiful, unseasonal weather I'm being forced to experience.

As some of you know I moved from NYC to a suburb of Buffalo, NY to attend Graduate school.

Today, it snowed. Its October 12 for those who are counting. Not just a little snow either. There's already a couple inches on the ground and its still snowing. Over the weekend it was near 70degrees farenheit. I am completely frustrated with this weather!

[Mademoiselle Lanoire]

It's apparently hitting a large swath - it's hit Illinois, Michigan, Ontario and so on as well. I got caught in it on my way home from classes earlier today.

[norayouadora]

Ha. You know nothing about crazy weather until you've lived in northern Ohio. Only here do you need the furnace and the air-conditioner all in the same day (damn you, Lake Erie!)... Anyways, I feel your pain: it was 71 degrees here yesterday, and today it SNOWED. It should not be snowing in October, especially October 12th. How can the first snow of the year be before Halloween? That's just wrong. Lol.

[MsDivaKate]

[theaterforme]

I'm in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Currently the wind chill is below twenty and it's snowing. Last weekend it was almost eighty. I know MN is known for snow, but not usually THIS early!!! Today I attended my little sister's cross country race and it snowed the whole time- more like nordic ski weather than running weather!

[what_the_heck013]

Well, we've been having very nice weather here. A bit windy, yet warm enough so that you do not need a jacket.

[Holly]

Aggh, snow...I live in Los Angeles; snow is not a common word in my vocabulary. I think I've seen it twice in my entire life.

Our days are alternating cold and sunny and just plain hot right now, which is really starting to piss me off. I can never figure out if I need more than one jacket or not...

[norayouadora]

[Missnewbooty]

I live in Texas. Where snow is only in fairy tales.

[Salome]

[OnceUponATime]

Y'all have nothing on Northern Wisconsin.

I suggest you live a winter here before complaining about the weather.

[Missnewbooty]

[Baker]

It snowed here in Ohio yesterday too.

But it usually snows here starting mid-October.

[Missnewbooty]

Sounds like a weird question: But since ya'll experience so much snow, do ya'll have snow days? or is everything just normal.

[OnceUponATime]

Yes, we have snow days.

If the weather is too hazardous to travel safely, they'll either cancel school or delay it until the plows have a chance to get through.

But what will almost always get you off school if it was rain turned to snow. Nothing like a nice coating of ice to get you a free day at home.


And Salome, aren't we reaching a little bit? Turning a post about snow into yet another Bush bash?

[Missnewbooty]

Texas public school laws permit that each student has to attend 90% of the school days. So if we get a school day that means we have to come make it up on a saturday or memorial day.

Do ya'll have to make up your school days, because it seems like ya'll would have a lot.

[Salome]

[Missnewbooty]

ohhhh...sorry. I try not to think/speak of him.

[sunrae]

[norayouadora]

[Imy]

Haha, welcome to Upstate New York, Kate. I'm in Rochester, so I'm used to this kind of thing. It was 78 degrees on monday and 35 degrees yesterday. My boyfriend goes to school at UB and he had all his classes cancelled on Friday, too. I was jealous.

[Baker]

There's a limit to how many snow days a school can have (at least, there are here in Ohio). After you go over the limit, you make them up in summer vacation (or Saturdays if your school board really sucks).

Two years ago, we had an ice storm - everything was covered in ice and power was out all over the place. I knew of places a half-hour from here who were out, but places only 5 minutes away that never lost power. Bush acknowledged our area as a disaster area - but, of course, we didn't get any time on TV news stations for it (but you know if L.A. or something had been out of power for a week like we were, it would've been all over the news). The point is, we got 3 or 4 days out of school, plus our full limit of snow days, and we didn't have to make anything up because it was considered a natural disaster.

[MsDivaKate]

Just so you all know where I've been...you may have seen Buffalo and the surrounding areas on the news...I've heard it made the national news because we were labeled a disaster area. Where I live in Lancaster was one of the hardest hit and we're still under state of emergency/driving bans, but that bit of snow I complained about on Thursday turned into a full storm.

I haven't had power since 5am on Friday morning-I'm with my laptop using a grocery store nearby to me's cafe/wifi and taking advantage of their electricty. We just got a generator yesterday but before then my mom, my sister and I were bailing out our basement every 2 hours because it was backing up with water from all the snow. Trees are down everywhere..it looks like a war zone. Plus with no electricty and no heat my poor guinea pig is so cold every morning we have to wrap him up in blankets and hold him til he gets warm. All in all, it sucks.

So hopefully I'll be back in action by Tuesday...but it could take til next Saturday....yuck!

[Amber]

My cousin lives up in Buffalo with her husband and two kids. They had to go to someone else's house because the snowstorm cut off their heat and electricity. Here in Philly that kind of situation in October is unthinkable.

Hope that things are clearing up for anyone going through something like that.

[Beagle On Stage]

I hate Washington's weather. As I always say, I don't even want to hear any of this crap about global warming, because it's freaking cold here all year round, except for like two days when it's unbearably hot.

[MsDivaKate]

My power is finally back, thank god.