michsnowfreak

wild start out west. here comes a wild winter!

fwiw, I have now went out to dinner once and today I had to go to Sam's club to do some shopping. These are the first 2 times I've been in public since having it and I can report that every single person I saw was wearing a mask. If people just continue to cooperate we can hopefully avoid a lockdown.

CMH is only +0.4 for oct

I will say that everywhere I've been everyone has been good with wearing masks.

Hard to tell if we squeeze out any flakes in October in Detroit. We've actually had snow 7 of the past 8 octobers (only 2016 did not have anything), but all 7 years were just a trace.

So many people report that and it lingers for months. I was fortunate to not have that. in fact on my sickest day I slept about 14 hours and I did not want to move and I had no appetite. I had to force myself to eat an apple and I remember it tasted so sweet and good I just did not want to eat it.

I'm wondering if anyone else here has had it? i know some in other forums did. And thank you! I really appreciate the kind words but no need to mention me, I was a mild case, I just like to point out to everyone that with first hand experience, even with a mild case, yes the flu like bad part lasts 10-14 days, but usually some minor things linger for 3-5 WEEKS. Most common is a cough and varying levels of fatigue, which is my issue, but a lot of people also lose their sense of taste and smell (luckily I did not). And again, this is common for most of the 80% mild cases. This is not close to talking about the issues that "long haulers" face and many do have permanent damage. So yes, only a very small percentage of people actually die but I just cannot stand when people compare this to any other virus. I hope they are ready to be tired and have obstacles for a month If they get a mild case.

I did not realize. sending well wishes jackstraw!

sounds like me

2011-12 was definitely worse here. It was a bit warmer than 2019-20 and had 18" less snow. I use 2011-12 as my benchmark for crap winters but it was surrounded by harsh winters so needed to flatten the curve at some point lol.

I would say most people do not know someone personally who died but everyone has to know someone who's had covid or else theyre lying.

Wow. To each their own. For me personally, Having hotter and more humid summers than I already have, hardly getting any snow, and living in an area with very conservative people is just not my bag. But I am sure some people love it.

I definitely do not wish I lived in the south

I'm not a dr and I don't have any proof of the potency thing, but its what my dr told me.

one saving grace is the virus has lost its potency from spring.

How much snow have you had so far?

We are going to be making some amendments to our holiday gatherings but I am not sure how drastic yet. I want to be as cautious as possible but I am not going to let covid ruin my holidays.

There are so many long haulers. I have an aunt who is one. She had it in March and April. She still has a few effects though she can live her life normally now. Still has occasional cough and loses some hair. That's what's so baffling about everything. If you have a mild case it absolutely will just feel like the flu. In fact I had a bad flu 4 years ago and that felt worse. However, when you have the flu, when it's done it's done. With this its like you charge your battery from 10% to 85 or 90% but then you're stuck there for weeks and can't get to 100%.

Thanks! I've talked to many who work in the medical field and they ALL say the same thing...im fine, this is totally normal to have minor issues linger for weeks. Thats whats so crazy about this virus imo. The longevity, not the severity. I had a total of about 10 days that id consider "bad". But were talking 3.5 weeks and im still not 100%. So realistically its possible that I will go 4-5 weeks before im totally myself (God willing no more LOL) despite only 10 days of it being really bad.

I mask up everytime I'm in public and always have sanitizer. My personal guess? On Sept 24 a friend and I went to run an errand and dinner. He works at a restaurant, I work from home so he sees more people. Neither one of us had any symptoms of any kind. We even shared a drink. We both started feeling ill later the next week. we both tested positive Oct 2nd. Mine ended up worse than his (still mild).

wow, good for you running a marathon! I'm no doctor but from what I'm told my chest xray looks good for not having any long term damage. I had an xray earlier this week and it was much clearer than the Oct 8 one, but not 100% so I have one more Nov 19 to make sure all is clear.

I'm feeling so much better but still have a lingering cough. for me it was like an 8 day flu (oct 2-10) then once that resolved a cough and shortness of breath for a few days. still have a cough and some chest congestion. Moral of the story, even when you have a mild case, minor things will linger for weeks. it can easily be 3-4 weeks before you feel totally better, and that's with a mild case.

I don't know what his rule is, but I know here in the Great Lakes a lot of superstitious weenies do not like wintry November's because lately cold, snowy November's have seguayed into mild December's. If you look at the long term data it's a mixed bag but there's no denying the recent trends that "what happens in November the Winter remember" could not be further from the truth.

quite a shelf cloud with that storm

December wasn't so much snowy but it was a cold cloudy month so snow remained on the ground. The dec 10th storm solidified a nice 6" pack that didn't budge til new years. I take back what I said earlier, that dec storm was wet snow but instantly froze in the bitter cold after the storm. omg I used to get so tired of hearing about the Ghd bust lol. We had 10" but were forecast like 15" but then 3 days later we got 4-6" when forecast partly sunny and on feb 20 we got 10" when forecast 1-3". we had a deep winter wonderland and all snow weenies were doing was complaining about a storm bust lol.