Jackstraw

The muddy snow hounds are lovin' it lol......

I picked a helluva a morning to go fishing! I started this thread as kinda a joke but I just measured a little under 2 inches and it's still coming down hard. Visibility less than a half mile. Secondary roads are starting to get some snow cover. If this system was a 100 miles north it'd probably have a "hot" tag lol. Pleasantly surprised......

I was a field service engineer for 10 years before my current job and was NEVER home, sometimes gone 2 or 3 weeks at a time. I got to travel all over the US and Canada which was great but I got so sick of living out of hotels and eating at restaurants besides being away from my wife and family for such long periods. Took my current job because it allowed me to be home and now the wife hates me lol. I work 90% from my home office, occasionally getting to go in for corporate crap or a rare customer onsite. My friends who go to a workplace say I have it made but it really is hard. When I said its not what it's cracked up to be is because working from home almost all the time requires a lot more discipline than most people realize. It's really easy to get distracted and complacent. Didn't take me long to figure that out. I built a shed away from the house that's my home office so I have some kind of "feel" like I'm going to work . I will admit, the 50 foot commute is pretty sweet lol.

Have to say I don't think I've been bass fishing in the snow before. Snow bass aren't biting but it's snowing pretty good, nickle sized parachutes, and sticking on grassy surfaces surprisingly. About a half inch in the last 45 minutes. Top 5 event for the season so far (tongue in cheek) lol .....

Light snow/grapul this morning. Gonna make fishing fun.

Yes, they just closed schools here for the next month. I've worked from home for the last 6 years. Trust me it's not all it's cracked up to be. I agree with you about getting outside and enjoying life away from 4 walls be it a workplace and/or home. I do it just to maintain sanity. Heck I'll sleep out in the yard half the time in the summer lol. I agree with you about getting out and about. This may be a blessing for some if they do that and get them back in touch with parts of life that the rat race of modern life has taken away. Not likely to get sick in the woods! Actually I'm getting ready to go fishing at a local spot this morning for the first time in 2020. See if I can't coax me out some slow moving snow bass lol

Heard the Gov. of NY say the best way to control this is testing and to isolate the "positive's". That's all we need, a label for those infected geez. Like ShaumburgStormer posted, these precautions are being implemented to protect those most vulnerable, mainly infants, folks with for whatever reason have a depressed immune system and those over 60, of which we have one of the largest elderly populations in US history right now. That's also a big difference from say 1918, there's a lot more vulnerable today. On one of the flying channels on youtube I watch the guy had a Physician/pilot on there that gave a very balanced discussion on what's going on, which is extremely difficult to filter through with all the crap out there. Some of the things he brought up made very good sense. The fact that those who do pass from this die from pneumonia, and it is a viral pneumonia so antibiotics don't help. He stated the mortality rate from this is around 3% where as the 1918 was around 2% without the advances in medical care we have now. The one thing he said that struck me is that within the medical community the biggest fear is its going to settle down as we enter the summer but when we get back into the colder months next fall it very likely is going to come back with a vengeance. The only way to truly control it is via vaccinations so the body can defend itself of which may not be available until late fall early winter. I'm not in a high risk category so honestly I wouldn't be too concerned if I contracted it now, while I'm healthy than take a chance on next winter when something could happen to me health wise to compromise my immune system before a vaccine is available, my body would be ready. Here's a link to that interview plus if your into GA and flying this guys got a great channel....

Ahh, I thought you said around tournament time. I hereby remove you from the castle of weeniedom

No tournament . Can I trade my beer stock for toilet hand paper sanitizer? Honestly, and maybe I'm just an old ****, but I think there's a bit of over reaction going on. My biggest concern is somebody is going to supposedly get someone else mortally sick and relatives or even government are going to go after them. We don't need anymore division in this country. Was already a fight locally over the last couple gallons of bleach at the local store. I mean c'mon.

Ok, Cyclone's wimping out, I'll do it, hopefully put this winter to rest

I'll do it since Cyclone's gonna weenie out lol. Models have been sending some potential snow somewhere through the central parts of the forum. NAM cast has warning criteria 6+ through SE IA, central IL/IN/OH, globals wishy washy the past few days from a stripe of 6+ to a spitter patter. with the usual windshield wiper N\S who the hell knows outside 24 hours trend. Going to be hard pressed to get any accumulation with the warmth we've had IMHO. Here's the 3/13 00Z NAM ball grabber....

I would think that cell approaching Bowling Green needs TOR warned. Nice hook, rotation and inflow notch on radar. Was warned 30 min ago

Storms becoming more cellular in central KY. Was a possible debris ball on CC on the one warned just N of Bowling Green but it's also showing a nasty hail core so don't know.

Isolate supercells popping along the MO/AR border, they all are showing rotation and a couple TOR warned.

Tropical season is gonna be a blast this year lol.

If this Tournament storm keeps showing up Cyclone needs to start the thread, he called it a month out

Will be pulling my mushroom hiking stick Monday. It'll tell me when it's time

Nice. Winds are starting to howl. If we can't get it from the sky may as well pile what we got high lol

At 4 here as of 7pm. Still snowing but has let up to sand blasting pixie dust. That little wrap around band kicked it up a notch. Can keep these ticklers off the lake over night might even get another inch. Pretty big cutoff to the SE, SE Madison county maybe 2 inches. Driving around amounts definitely reflect the banding. The secondary roads are shit, just the way I like it lol. I'm still amazed at the drifting, there's some 2 footers out there and still building. Due for another ride in a couple hours.. Biggest drifts since Pumpkin Day.

Sticking out here in the boonies, and I can't believe how well this sticky stuff is drifting...

Sitting at 3. Would've been half as much but had a nice band sit on top around 10am. Hoping for another inch as the backside moves through. This stuff is sticking to everything. Guess it's better than nothing.

Lite white drizzle, if there is such a thing. Anyhoots, some flakes about 12 hours too late. Been the worst thing this season, if ya get some it's an agonizing long event. Like sitting in the dentists chair.

Glad to see our Maple Leaf friends have something to even discuss. Been a long time.

Definition of a SOPOS...

Ok I'm finally within 24 hours of my area. 4 down 2 on the ground final call