CALIFORNIA MEMBERS - Please Check In - AGAIN!

[Kirahfaye]

I understand that Alaska has been hit very hard with winter storms. Please let us know you and your husband are okay!!

[kenaiqueen]

Digging ourselves out regularly, but thanks for asking. Anchorage which is 150 miles north of us is getting slammed worse than we are with snow, but we had our turn last year. This year is not as bad, although we still have 4-foot berms around the driveway. I admit I've been hibernating a bit and haven't been outside for the last 4 or 5 days. The temps for the last couple of weeks have mostly been in the minuses, crawling up to single digits during the day. (Thank goodness for the down coats I've invested in!)

Dreading our gas bill later this month. We have applied for the free senior weatherization, but they were full up last year so we have covered a lot of the windows with visqueen and hung fleece curtains to help hold in the heat. My poor doll room is downright chilly most days but I'm keeping it above 50 at least.

Feeling it for the lower 48 cities who don't have the infrastructure we have in the way of plows, dirt trucks and studded tires on our vehicles. Stay warm, peeps!

[DollyKim]

Those videos of Honda Civics trying to swim upstream to spawn in So Cal are pretty accurate. We got some snowflakes but they didn’t stick.

[Kattriella]

It's just been cold here in Tennessee, which is good. People around here hear "light flurries" and start acting like the world is ending.

[Kirahfaye]

Glad to hear you are doing okay. Augusta rarely gets frost let alone snow. I mean - we have palm trees!

[kenaiqueen]

He's our backyard at 24 below. It was nippy! you can tell it's really cold when the spruce are frosted. They usually just stay green even when we get ice fog.

Yard3 by Kenai Queen, on Flickr

[Kattriella]

I swear, I'm convinced that Alaska isn't even real.

[Tam I am]

Looks like I should have been posting pictures of what it was like here when we were getting -40C temps a couple weeks ago. XD

[DollyKim]

Alaska is real, my new city with its made up Hollywood/cartoon name and zip code isn’

[kenaiqueen]

Looks like I should have been posting pictures of what it was like here when we were getting -40C temps a couple weeks ago. XD

Would love to see that. I've been in those kinds of temps before and I prefer to stay in. When I arrived in Alaska in 1978, the snow berms were about 6 feet high, but I had spent some time in Saulte Ste. Marie, MI and we had snow like that one of the years I lived there. I'm just not a hot weather person and I dislike beaches, palm trees and bugs. I love being able to walk out on my deck to cool off when a hot flash hits (which is still ongoing for the past 20 years).