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I'll admit I don't pay attention to the weather when it's boring as hell...but woke up this morning, checked out the p&c forecast and saw a forecasted high of 47˚ for today. Not too bad. Will go with the light jacket at work today. Well, that busted, lol. Only made it to 38˚ today. Still a decent amount of snow around here. Couldn't have helped I'm sure. Tomorrow's forecast is 56˚. I'll bring my light and medium jacket...just in case.

My girlfriend had the same symptoms as you. She got it in November. Most lasting thing for her was loss of taste and smell for about a month. Then it came back. Regardless, she’s a nurse, and was in the first wave of shots. Got both (Pfizer), and had no problems at all with either, other than a sore arm for a couple of days. I like you, am eligible for the vaccines too. I had back in November too, but milder symptoms than my gf. I’ve actually decided to wait for awhile to get them, figuring I’d like to see others (like my parents) get theirs. I’m not worried for myself, think I can wait considering everything. Also with vaccine supply in IL kind of sketchy, especially here locally, I’d rather wait my turn in line a little longer.

2020-21 Season Snowfall Totals (thru 2/21)...Departure To Date (thru 2/21)...Snow Depth (as of 7:00 AM on 2/21) Akron Canton, OH: 46.0"...+12.2"...5" Alpena, MI: 46.4"...-15.5"...8" Chicago, IL: 47.0"...+19.5"...16" Cincinnati, OH: 29.2"...+11.9"...8" Cleveland, OH: 43.2"...-5.4"...7" Columbia, MO: 13.7"...-1.5"...4" Columbus, OH: 26.6"...+6.8"...5" Dayton, OH: 27.9"...+10.0"...8" Des Moines, IA: 54.5"...+27.9"...9" Detroit, MI: 40.3"...+8.9"...11" Dubuque, IA: 53.3"...+21.6"...16" Duluth, MN: 63.5"...+1.5"...14" Eau Claire, WI: 26.6"...-8.0"...7" Evansville, IN: 6.5"...-3.4"...2" Flint, MI: 46.0"...+9.9"...11" Fort Wayne, IN: 30.9"...+4.1"...10" Grand Rapids, MI: 44.3"...-17.2"...12" Green Bay, WI: 27.1"...-10.7"...9" Houghton Lake, MI: 41.2"...-10.5"...16" Indianapolis, IN: 22.2"...+0.4"...5" International Falls, MN: 36.5"...-17.5"...13" Kansas City, MO: 12.0"...-3.1"...T La Crosse, WI: 29.0"...-3.6"...10" Lansing, MI: 43.7"...+4.2"...15" Lexington, KY: 20.8"...+10.3"...2" Louisville, KY: 17.6"...+7.5"...2" Madison, WI: 43.1"...+4.4"...13" Mansfield, OH: 38.9"...+3.9"...13" Marquette, MI: 89.2"...-54.1"...20" Milwaukee, WI: 46.1"...+10.6"...19" Minneapolis, MN: 42.6"...+3.1"...8" Moline, IL: 41.2"...+15.9"...13" Muskegon, MI: 40.5"...-38.0"...15" Paducah, KY: 13.4"...+5.5"...3" Peoria, IL: 24.4"...+4.4"...9" Rochester, MN: 32.5"...-5.3"...7" Rockford, IL: 34.5"...+5.1"...15" Romeoville, IL: 46.3"...+20.4"...14" St. Cloud, MN: 30.7"...-1.5"...5" St. Louis, MO: 12.1"...-1.9"...4" Sault Ste Marie, MI: 69.5"...-26.8"...19" South Bend, IN: 51.5"...-3.5"...13" Springfield, IL: 20.4"...+3.5"...5" Toledo, OH: 34.9"...+6.5"...12" Waterloo, IA: 47.4"...+20.0"...13" Wausau, WI: 29.2"...-13.6"...13" Youngstown, OH: 53.2"...+7.7"...4"

It's been an incredible 3+ weeks of deep deep winter. Best run I can recall really. I will remember it fondly. But my body is ready for a break. Climbing at times, 3'+ snow banks to get to peoples houses ,day after day, is completely taxing. Walking thru yards with a foot and a half of snow...is exhausting. Navigating peoples sidewalks and porches that they have of course, not completely cleaned in 3 weeks, is almost maddening. Packed steps and porches of snow and ice...how the f*ck do they get in and out of the house all day? Seriously people, do us a favor and clean your sh*t up. That's my rant despite this absolutely great stretch of winter. Alas, in a few months...because seasons and all...I'll be complaining about heat and humidity, lol. Best climo.

Yep. Beautiful flakes falling here. Snow on snow on snow on snow...

-15˚ at IKK right now.

No problem RC. And yeah, I've thought about joining CoCoRAHS. May need to...to at least give this area some legit snowfall reports.

Not sure where to put this, but...in the past 18 days (Jan 30 thru today), I've measured 33.7" of snow. An incredible run in my book. Especially in light of how lame winter was until this point. 2013-14 is always going to be hard to beat, and it probably won't in my lifetime, but I didn't have a run that winter...like I've had this winter, in a timespan such as this one.

I tried that move too. Didn't work. But my parent's situation was even worse. I go over there this morning at 5:00 am to clear their walks and driveway. They live across the street from a church. Well their plowing company had already came and did the church grounds. But where did they deposit a rather large pile of snow? Halfway at the end of my parent's driveway. I mean WTF. I wasn't pleased. Took some work. Told my mom to call today and give them hell.

lol, the gf wanted to cook out Sunday night. Told her I was too lazy to dig it out. So I went to my parent's house and used their grill. They keep it in the garage.

And a couple from the entertainment section in the backyard...

Looks like by their map, they went with the lowballs. lol, figures. Regardless, safe to say 8-10" fell across the county. After shoveling the driveway out tonight, from the city plowing it shut, I snapped a few photos around from the house.

Epic

And it's snowing again.

Missed my midnight measurement... , but woke up at 4 to start shoveling. Measured 4.3" additional...so a storm total of 9.7". Good stuff.

lol, wow

8.7". That's adding the 3.3" in the past 2 hours to the 5.4" storm total from 6:30 or so.

1.8" here last hour. Pukage continues.

Sun is out here.

I cleared my board after my last measurement, then just did an hour measurement for fun. 1.5" was it.. Pretty awesome. And it's puking snow right now.

Conditions are something here. Just so much snow, it’s like fog. Just measured 3.2”. So in addition to part one’s 2.2”, up to 5.4” storm total. Will measure again at midnight. Going to be a long night.

You've also had 5 IPA's already. Lol, just kidding. Enjoy the walk. Happy to see you taking this all in.

Yeah, it'll be close.

Got my eye on it