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The blizzard of 2011

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The weather people have been saying for a few days that the blizzard of the century was on its way.  Well, I guess it’s here.  The good news is that I have a safe, warm house, plenty of food, and the electricity seems to be holding.  The bad news is I’m sure I’m one of the lucky ones.

I hope everyone has a safe, dry place to ride out the storm–especially since this system is covering much of the country.

Hang in there, and be good.

Ally

 

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  1. In Illinois, schools were being cancelled BEFORE the blizzard hit. We’re expecting about 18 inches. Now it’s getting started with like 40mph wind, and there’s an empty cornfield down the road, so pretty much no protection from the wind, which is coming from that direction.

    The last blizzard we had was in December, the only highway in and out of the town was closed down and people were trapped there in their cars for hours before an IDOT truck came to plow them out and break into the high school that’s next to the highway for refuge. I pray that everyone stays safe.

    Who knows? Maybe you and others writers,both aspiring and published, will have a writing breakthrough or something.

    -Roe

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  2. Not really a blizzard here, but we had the day off from school… again because of this constant snow. There’s supposed to be an ice storm tomorrow on top of all the snow we already have. This weather is seriously getting ridiculous. Seriously. Well, good luck shoveling and stay safe!!

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  3. It’s gonna hit Canada tomorrow… and we jus finished exams… so it kinda sucks we dont get to miss any school from it

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  4. Man! I wish we got snow here! Psh! We’d be lucky to get an inch once a year! I haven’t even ever built a snowman. Boo… 🙁
    See ya blizzard lizzards.
    (0.o… did I really just say that?)

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  5. its terrible in this part of CT. We can’t see past our driveway. And in our back yard i tried to make a snowman, well i sunk down to my head. And im 5’4.

    But at least we have electricity!!! :))))) lookin at the bright side! 🙂

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  6. Yeah its about to hit us. Everything is chargeing!! I have my nice pile of books and flasshlights just incase 🙂 <3
    Hope everyone stays safee 🙂

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  7. here in kansas its so white!!!!!!! if the power gets knocked out in the middle of the day all we’ll have to do is pull aside the drapes and we will have all the light we need seriously we wont need any flashlights 🙂 but if it goes out after dark now thats another story:( HURRY ally write quickly before the power goes out!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!!! NO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  8. I live in Jersey, and cannot believe how much snow we’ve gotten!!! We are only allowed 3 snow days a year, which is annoying, because we will probably go over that limit and have to have more days of school in the spring 🙁 well good luck with building that snowman!

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  11. All I have is rain. Buckets and buckets of rain. It makes me drowsy listening to it, which is really a bad thing when I’m trying to finish a paper on India. lol All I need is soup.

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  13. all this snowpocalypse across the country is crazy! But it’s funny to me, because I’m in one of the only areas of the country -not- getting hit with it. I look outside and see nothing but blue skies…granted, it’s freezing out, but still. Bundle up everyone!

    Briana

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  14. A school bus was in a car accident this morning, no one was killed, but it did scare alot of people. Another bus got stuck on its way to school. im glad i wasnt on the busses but i know that i could have been. I wish everyone a safe week, and ally, im glad that you are somwhere safe and sheltered from the store. LOVE YOU ALLY! (and your books of course:)

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  15. What part of CT do you live in? (lol, not to sound stalkerish or anyhting..) i live in Brookfield, and the superintendent of schools isnt even deciding whether there is school tomorow or not, the government is. :0
    this somehow makes me think that there will be NO school tomorw. (or is that just wishful thinking cuz i didnt do my homework…)

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  16. We’ve already had 4 SNOW DAYS and 2 Half days, probably another snow day tomorrow. I love snow, but I am so sick of it now! It’s been snowing every other day :p
    Well, I hope your power will stay on Ally so you can get through this blizzard easily!

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  17. Haha! I got on your blog expecting to see a post about the blizzrd. It’s just begun where I’m at. I hope everything combed over smoothly for you and your family.

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  19. All this talk about snow makes me sad. I live in California and where I live we only get 5 inches of snow at the most every 5 or 6 years. The last one We got was when I was in 8th grade. I’m now in 10th……… I wish I could play in the snow. 🙁 But be safe everyone! Get some hot coco to drink and some of Ally’s books and you’ll be safe. 🙂

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  21. Wow, you guys are so lucky. I live in the south and it doesn’t snow that much and let me say something: people here FREAK OUT if they see snowflakes out the window. Honestly.

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  22. i dont know about you but we had one snow day last year for that big storm in early jan. and today is our 4th but last years storm isnt half of whats coming down now!!!! i hope your getting some good writing in ally 😛
    -nat

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  24. Same here! Today I had school off due to bad weather too, also I just checked on my school website and found out that we have no school tommorow either, but the wors part is that I can’t enjoy the snow because i’m sick;(

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  25. in PA and SICK OF THE SNOW!!!
    it actually didn’t hit here today, we were suposed to get a snow day today, but it never even started.

    last week it was horrible, though. we had a half day on Wednesday and didn’t come back til monday the roads are still terrible though, and they only have a few sidewalks dug out and the streets are a mess. and a lot of people are getting hurt from it

    the funny thing is that until last year we never usually got more than a few inches each year.

    oh, well. stay warm and be safe everybody!
    <3~(>-)~=D

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  27. That is no fair! I wish I had a reason to get out of school and just hang! Maybe I’ll get some part of the blizzard… (Hey, a girl can hope!) Stay safe and warm everyone!!!!

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  28. Where’s the storm supposed to be? Like all over the world or in certain places do you know? Please answer.
    ~Jewel

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  29. Guess what my dad got us as “Energy Pellets” for the possibility that we lose power or something? Peanut M&M’s! My family is nuts about them 😛

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  32. I live here in Wisconsin. (You know the Rose Bowl’s Badgers and Super Bowl’s Packers are here! I didn’t watch the Rose Bowl and probably won’t watch the Super Bowl.) We have had 3 snow days. One was today, and we have one tomorrow. I am thinking that we will have a few more soon, so we will probably have some make-up days… 🙁
    Did you know that Wisconsin is probably the only state that would have people write parodies for songs on sports teams? Check out “Teach Me How to Bucky” and “Green and Yellow.”
    Yeah. I know. It’s a Wisconsin thing…
    Wow. That was random…

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  33. Oh no! Even here, it’s never been over my head. It’s probably only 4 feet deep here. My dad shoveled for almost 2 hours this morning!

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  35. I don’t know about Carrie, but i live in MIA FL and not only is there no snow, but i wore shorts to school today and i was worried that i’d be cold, but i wasn’t lol. i heard the other day it was snowing somewhere in every single state of the US except for home sweet sunshine state! i’m not sure how true that is though…

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  36. I KNOW! At the hint of snow, the supermarkets get flooded with hysterical people ready to deck each-other for a can of Spahgetti-o’s. It’s crazy!

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  37. I live in Connecticut, too, and I sink up to my head, too. I might go sledding today, though! That should be fun!
    Anyway, it’s not that it snowed a lot at once (although it’s done that…), it’s that once it snows, it JUST WON’T MELT!!! It is kind of frustrating to shovel the driveway and have all the snow roll back down the hill to where it started. I really love snow, but not when it turns to ice, and not when it gets old and dirty. Also not when it eats me alive and I can’t get back out again. That really sucks. My dad said that he used to burrow under the snow when he was a kid, and make whole caves and tunnels under there. I’m not really sure if I can do that, but I guess I have nothing better to do when it’s a snow day every day of the week except for Mondays and Fridays, when there’s either 90-minute delays or 12:30 dismissals… And why, might you ask, would school be cancelled on such a regular basis? The answer is quite simple, really. You see, it pertains to the excess of–SNOW!!!
    Now they’re shoveling it into trucks and taking it to SNOW DUMPS. Yes, they have SNOW DUMPS!!! You know, like for trash, only it’s snow, and it’s gonna melt in the spring. That is, if spring ever comes!
    I’ll bet that groundhog that predicts when spring is going to come is holed up in his little burrow with his cup of hot cider and his fluffy socks and matching robe, saying, “Oh, I’m not going out there. There’re reporters… and it’s cold out there, too. No, I think I’ll just stay nice and warm down here. Yes, that sounds like a good idea.” And then he finishes his cider and takes off his slippers and robe, and crawls into bed, snuggling deep under the covers. Yeah, that really sounds like the life right now, when I know that I have to go outside and shovel the snow in the driveway. The snow that, amazingly enough, will probably magically reappear by the end of the day. I guess this is one way to get that “hot bikini bod” before swimsuit season. Now I just have to work on the tan part. Oh, that can wait ’till later. You know, when it’s not below freezing every day, every hour of every day, and every freaking minute of every hour of every day.
    Well, my school takes that lovely opportunity to turn up the heat as far as it will go until the class is sweating. Of course, the teachers don’t think it’s warm. They think it’s freezing! I know teachers were born human, and sometime decades ago they were kids, but I wonder how old they are when they turn into… teachers. I’m voting late twenties, early thirties, so they’re old enough to already have the spouse and the kids that they keep ranting about or devoting precious minutes of class (minutes, that on any other occasion could not be wasted on children arguing over the right answer to a problem, even if their semester’s grade depends on it)to talking about their beloved children or grandchildren for TEN WHOLE MINUTES. It’s better than geography class(where we have to correct maps we drew the night before and, in the process, completely ruining half an hour of hard work with red scribbles), but it still isn’t that fun. I kind of prefer thinking of teachers as being inhuman machines that exist to educate tomorrow’s future, and I don’t want to think of them as humans because then I might actually feel sorry for them, having to correct kids’ papers all day and preach boredom to a rude handful of barely-evolved-out-of-the-monkey-stage kids every stinking day of the year. That wouldn’t exactly be great, would it? And on top of that, they get payed pretty bad salaries.
    But I don’t really know the specifics of teacher paychecks, as I am not a teacher, nor the person who signs their paychecks.

    Wow, this comment has gotten really off track. I started with snow and ended with teachers, with a groundhog in between. I guess I should really wrap up now, even though I could just sign off here and no one would know that I even commented. I mean, right now there are sixty-two of these things already on Ally’s blog, and who would take the time to read another? I guess I’ll just copy and paste this comment and put it into a Word document, then print it and put it away somewhere… maybe in my diary? I don’t know. All I’m saying is that this comment is pretty long and I want to keep it. So, yeah. That’s about it.

    Great books, Ally! Can’t wait to read Heist Society 2!

    Thanks!
    -Kerrie

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  38. you know what i’ve never herd of texas getting snow but what do i here this morning TEXAS GOT SNOW!!!!???????????
    I dont live in texas i live in North Carolina and guess what were NOT GETTING. SNOW! 🙁 (I MAD) sorry but how does TEXAS get snow and today it WAS 65 DEGREES TODAY THATS REDICULOS!
    thank you for lisenig (please reply to my comment pleeeease!)

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  40. ME TOO !!!!! AT my school it snowed for 3 miniutslast week and the hole school went upside down kids were sreaming! also we had to stay in school for an extra 45 minand it didnt even stick! OH and I AN NOT! BE SACASTIC! except for the hole school upside down thing but every thing else TRUE!!

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  41. well i think my teacher should be on the news for weather every time she makes a perdiction it happends like when she said we would miss a hole week of school but get a 2 hour dalay on friday it happend! and when the weather person said it would snow on monday night our teacher said wensday night and guess wat she was right!!!!! by the way this was at the begining of Jan. and now were not getting snow were one of those countrys that are not but every one BE SAFE well got to go eat dinner bye! 🙂

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  42. Yeah, I live in Texas, and we are going on our third no-school day, everyone freaked out and prepared for a three month blizzard… and all we have is about an inch of ice and a little bit of snow 🙂

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  43. this afternoon we almst got in anaccident on the school bus. my bus driver was driving and then this mail package due was crossing a double line and heading STRAIT FOR US! he was literly one inch from hitting the bus . but if my bus drver didnt make a QUICK side thing we would of gone smashind into each other . We acully SKIDDED and she slamed on the breaks but thankfull no acident;)but of course i banged my knee agianst my Saxaphone (owch)
    THE werdist part was i have no ide how we sikedded i mean we had no ice,snow or rain! and were not getting any infact today i wore shorts it was 65 degrees!
    -allie

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  44. hey my family too! we cant get enuf of PEANUT M&M’S i hope every one is safe
    I know some people might think i’m crazy but you people how are getting snow are lucky! my grandma said i was crazy because well shes lives in Michagen and its 8 degrees and we live in North Carolina and its 65 degrees 🙁

    I love going to michagen<3 me and my sister buit snow tunnels but she got stuck one time LOL it was alot of fun but now we only go in the summer so no snow 🙁

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  45. hi i live in England and our snow is meant to hit us next week and today its gone fron 21 to 8 degrees yestarday the sun rose at 19 minutes past7 and set at 20 past 6
    stay safe warm and take cair

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