My local news reported last night how elated Ohio officials are, in these tight budgetary times, that they’ve saved some $700,000 so far in road salt costs because of the unusually warm start to the winter weather season. They did not say how the overall budget looks when the flooding that resulted from 2011′s record rainfall amounts is taken into account.
It’s funny really, because the main reason I included this image…
… in my Happy 2011! post was the terrible weather (like Snowmageddon 2010) we lived through last year. Unfortunately, as we now know, 2011 was NOT an improvement! Here’s a look back by our friends at The PBS NewsHour:
BTW, if you’re wanting to brush up on your “snow-lingo” ahead of posting about 2012′s terrible storms, you might want to check out the SnOMG! It’s Snowmageddon 2010 post I ran across at Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus. 
I want ice water.
More Random Ravings
This year we have been lucky… last year at this time it was so cold and everything was frozen and slippy, we couldnt leave the house.. this year has been really mild.. hope it stays this way…
Happy New Year
Other than lots and lots of rain, it hasn’t been so bad here. But elsewhere was an entirely different story. Happy New Year to you too!
We did get a hurricane you know
the Scotts named it bawbags…. We don’t normally get them and a tornado 
Wow, I hadn’t heard of that! But a quick search did produce some interesting results:
We still had 2 of 12 ski resorts open in first week of July, we had over 15 feet of a snow base in our mountains. It was an incredible year across the US many states had unbelievable extremes. So far no snow it is something I am waiting for, being patient expecting the unexpected.
I hope you are warm and smiling,
A great video.
Rx
Thanks Raven. I can’t remember where you are, but no snow now after having it hang around til July sounds pretty odd to me. Here, I’ve see just a few flakes, but fellow blogger Pied Type has apparently seen plenty out her way!
Well we had some but not like usual and certainly nothing like this Mega Weather Year!!! I live in Utah nestled in foothills of 4 canyons of the Alpine like Uintah, Wasatch and Ashley National Forests. To the south of me are the Red Rock Desert Canyons of Moab including Arches and Canyonlands. Did I say I love my home state?
Actually, I have been asked if I am a Tour Guide when I worked at a Gas Station for 10 yrs.
LOL
Now I see why you described your “Ravenwood” in such loving terms on your about page. I can think of far worse things than being a “tour guide” in such a beautiful place. Of course, with my luck they’d be calling on you to lead the search party looking for me and the tourists!
Yeah, but rain is boring. Snowmageddon is FUN!
And love the second video. Exactly the kind of stupidity I’ d do.
Thanks, but the Snowmageddon I lived through in Nebraska back in ’74 (or was it ’75?) wasn’t much fun at all. I have to admit, however, that I’ve done my “stupids” too. I almost died in a car wreck when me and my AF Weather buddies decided to play “Tornado Chasers” (also in Nebraska, in the summer after the blizzard)!
I think all those crazy snow words must be coined by journalists who haven’t seen much snow. Personally, I think they, the words, are pretty lame. I’ve lived several places that routinely get a lot of snow and rarely heard the journalists resort to to such “cuteness.”
You said a mouthful there PT. One of the things that really tick my off about the larger, more national, news shows, is how disconnected they seem when reporting on hardships they obviously haven’t experienced themselves!
Very sad Mak. I just have to mention Asia and Philippines to confirm that.
At least we have one storm to be thankful for — the Occupy storm which was probably also an offshoot from all those disasters.
Excellent point Poch, and that’s one storm I hope will eventually blow the blinders off our so-called leader’s eyes!