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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Ready for snow
For all of us in the Midwest/East Coast....how are you surviving or getting ready for this storm. They are predicting several feet by Tuesday for us in Cleveland. The grocery stores and gas stations are packed by everyone getting ready to stay in. How about where you live?
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We are in central IL. We only got about 3-4 inches of snow but the temps are below zero and the wind is some of the strongest I have ever seen. The snow drifts are closing the roads as fast as the crews are getting them open. DH works as a nurse at a local trauma center and they have been swamped today with wreck victims. DH's commute is usually about 40 minutes but this morning it took him just over 1 hr 45 minutes to make it to work. He is hoping to make it home tonight (left work 35 minutes ago) but is prepared to stop and get a hotel room if he can't.....
Edit-DH made it home. I-55 was closed for most of the afternoon as they cleaned up a 21 car pile-up and also a hazmat truck that wrecked with a snowplow. Good luck to all of those who have to suffer through this for the next few days. I have a 2 hour 75 mile one way commute to work tomorrow if it isn't cancelled....
I'm in Minnesota, St. Paul to be exact. We got 17 inches, making it the 5th worst blizzard in recorded history. When you add that to what we had before, the snow is taller than our dog. She liked it at first but now that she can't see around the snowbanks on the sidewalks she's not such a fan.
Our stupid landlords didn't bother to actually plow our parking lot all the way through, just the first few feet. We unburied the car yesterday but still couldn't get out because despite other people making paths, the snow was still higher that the bottom of our van. So the first thing we had to do this morning was lower the level of the snow so Darren could get out of the parking lot. It was epic.
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We got a pretty decent snowstorm yesterday later afternoon/evening in central IL. I actually got my first snow day of the year! It was pretty nice because I was able to get some Christmas shopping done, and I got about 8 inches chopped off my hair! Ah! My students are going to be insane this week, though, especially with break starting on Friday and this snow day today, but it was really nice to get some things done that I was going to have to put off until the weekend.
*If the storm you're getting out east will be anything like what we had, stay in! The wind was blowing so bad that it was basically zero visibility for the whole afternoon yesterday.
Minneapolis & St. Paul schools are closed again too.
Traffic was so bad in downtown Minneapolis last night, and the roads are still really slippery. I left work at 5 last night, waited almost an hour for my bus to show up (the route has buses running every 10 minutes and we still had to wait that long!) and didn't get home until 7:30.
Blizzards are fun the first day, and only if you can be at home. After that, not so much.
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