Snow Yet?
Supposed to be here noonish. so far - a big, fat NOTHING.
You?
We got a dusting of snow last nite.
Very light, none sticking yet except on top of what was already here.
I'm in an interior office, but my wife just called and she said it started about a half hour ago.
spose to start here at 3-5pm
Started here around 9:30 this morning, you should be seeing it either now or real soon, Bri.
Nothing here yet. Should be in full swing for my ride home though.
I wondered why there was no food and a million old people at the store when I shopped yesterday.... fuckers.
no snow for Michigan..... again :(
Here in the 4-Corners we're supposed to get snow Sunday. Or maybe tomorrow. It depends on how close to Telluride you are.
Started here around 9:30 this morning, you should be seeing it either now or real soon, Bri.
Sleeting rain turning to snow. Messy.
Nothing here yet in central PA. They expect it to start sometime around 2-ish with the heaviest snow starting after the evening rush. It takes time to saturate the air when the humidity is very low. We're expecting 12" with 18" closer to the MD line.
So far, I'm not impressed by the snow today. It's barely even getting the pavement wet.
But a glance at the radar shows that this is just a tiny, wispy cloud band in front of the real storm, and things are gonna get bad soon.
Snow yet?
No' yet.
We're due it next week apparently.
Just got home. It's sloppy slushy yucky out there. I'll post a photo I took on the way home, as soon as my phone sends it to my e-mail. I can't find the little connector thingy from phone to PC.
Ah, here it is. Lovely day, isn't it? Weather folks say we're supposed to get 6-8" or maybe 12" depending on who's talking.
It's sticking on the roads, wherever there aren't any trees.
Looking out my front window (glad to be home!)
We just got an emergency e-mail alert from the County saying it will be 20 to 30 inches. Holy crap. I'm starting to wonder about the roof. Will a Virginian roof built to the shoddy post war building standards of 60 years ago hold that much weight?
We have about 1 inch now.
Good question, glatt. I'm worried about the aluminum roof over our chicken run.
We just got an emergency e-mail alert from the County saying it will be 20 to 30 inches. Holy crap. I'm starting to wonder about the roof. Will a Virginian roof built to the shoddy post war building standards of 60 years ago hold that much weight?
We have about 1 inch now.
Isn't your roof sloped?
You could always shovel it if its worrying you.
This is NOT a major snowstorm, people! The area weathercasters should be taken out and, while not actually flogged, at least spoken harshly to.
You hush.
We're hoping for several feet and many days of sled use.
I hope all stays well with dwellers in the 20+ inches area of this storm.
[SIZE=1]I won't mention how it was 54 f and sunny today.[/SIZE]
About a foot so far, but the heavy stuff is supposed to come in the morning.
Hard to tell how much we have. The wind is blowing it around so much. I'd guess anywhere from 10 inches to 14 inches, just looking out the window.
i like your doggie.
Ha ha, that's a wolf face off a mini-shopping bag.
Looks like it might get serious... and the wind chill is 5.
We dodged a bullet. Most of our neighbors lost power last night.
Everyone's out in the street comparing notes. The outage is in a weird configuration. Groups of houses here and there have power in the middle of a sea of outage. We're one of the lucky ones.
There's a good chance we may be hosting a family or two tonight. Depends on what the power company is able to do. Snow's still coming down pretty hard.
Super bowl slumber party!:cool:
our street and some lawn chairs in the back yard, 15 minutes ago.
A little over 26 inches, but I think it's slowing down.
We got a light dusting last night. All gone now. This is the unsnowiest winter I've ever ancountered in Michigan.
It stopped about an hour ago. I have no idea what the official number is, but after a day of settling, it measured 21 inches in the middle of the driveway.
Ya, we got quite a bit. Enough so that pickmup trucks don't stop so well anyway. FaaahhhhhhK!
OH NOOOOO!!!!
Is Every body ok ??
Yeah we're fine, the other guy is fine. Jeep is afu.
Lemme guess.... GMC 4x4 doesn't understand that getting traction doesn't mean he has brakes. :mad2:
This is why a lot of areas made it illegal to be out unless you had to be.
They're even shutting down most of public transportation in Philly, until tomorrow morning, except the subway and one elevated line. Not only other cars are a problem, but people on skis, bicycles and snowmobiles, in the street.:rolleyes:
My dad has a 4x4 like that. Red and HUGE and not so easy to handle apparently.
Look at your one child taking it all in stride. :)
I am so so glad you are all alright.
Lemme guess.... GMC 4x4 doesn't understand that getting traction doesn't mean he has brakes. :mad2:
Yeah, like the cop told him, 4wd means you can go it doesn't mean you can stop.
Holy crap! I bet that was scary. I'm glad everyone is OK, but I'm sorry for your Jeep. (Or I'm not sorry for your Jeep...j/k) I am sorry it happened. Fuck. Accidents just suck.
I had a little one during our last ice storm. As I tried to make a left turn, my car kept going straight and my wheel hit the curb flat side...hard. Ended up costing me nearly $1000. I declined not to go the insurance route.
At least with yours, the other guys insurance pays up. That is a bright side.
So sorry Jinx, but so glad all are ok. That's the important thing. the car can be fixed/replaced.
No way that guy even tried to stop. Look how far into a snow/mud bank he has pushed my 6000lb jeep. We're way off the other side of the road there.
here's a scientific depiction of what transpired.
exbit A:
our street and some lawn chairs in the back yard, 15 minutes ago.
Oooops, did you forget to bring Grampa in from his chair in the garden? :eek:
You've got a bit of white on your chair there.
I actually enjoy shoveling when the snow is light. But now I never want to leave the spot. It won't be available when I get back.
These guys haven't dug out yet.
The snow was much deeper at my parents' place. Notice anything odd?
I actually enjoy shoveling when the snow is light. But now I never want to leave the spot. It won't be available when I get back.
I forgot how much that sucks. As much as I hated shoveling my driveway, at least nobody else will park in it.
HM, Im looking and looking....
look at the clothes line. If you click on the link and look at the original size, you'll see it.
I wonder why "snow" was yellow. I didn't pee on it intentionally.
look at the clothes line. If you click on the link and look at the original size, you'll see it.
Oh WOW! That looks cool. Looks like sausage in the making...or something.
Yeah, it was pretty sticky. The power lines down the Jersey shore look like that, except it's not coming off and threatening to take the wires down. :(
Oh, and they're saying we'll get another foot on Tuesday night.
Well we didnt get Thah much snow , but enough for my boss to call a snow day
No school for the kids, and no work for me today. If they hadn't given me the day off, I would have called in. Shoveling was freaking brutal, and I need a day off after all that.
We ended up hosting one neighborhood family because they had lost power and we still had ours. It was fun, but also a little tiring to play host to them with little notice. We stayed up late with the grownups playing euchre. That was fun.
And then another neighbor and I shoveled the driveway of the little old lady behind us. She has a long driveway, and to make it harder, the neighbor next to the old lady asked us nicely not pile pile any snow on their property as we were shoveling. So we had to carry all the snow to the one side and throw it up onto a hill. If you didn't throw it far enough, it would roll back down into the driveway. This neighbor was afraid of huge piles of melting snow flooding their basement. So I see their point, but it sucked.
The county did a great job (by our standards down here) clearing the snow. Within 24 hours of the snow ending, you could see the pavement on our little residential street. Much better than in years past, where they never plowed and we just had to wait for it to melt.
blessings on your head, glatt. Piling jewels up in heaven, you are.
We're supposed to get more snow tuesday with winds up to 35 mph. THAT should be fun.
blessings on your head, glatt. Piling jewels up in heaven, you are..
Thanks, but I think for that to work, I'm not supposed to mention it or heaven forbid, bitch about it.
Thanks, but I think for that to work, I'm not supposed to mention it or heaven forbid, bitch about it.
ah. You must be Catholic.
Somewhere between 6" and 18" starting tomorrow night, on top of the 20" already on the ground. This is already a record-breaking snow accum. for the Philly area, with over 500% of the normal snowfall totals by this date.
Just got my rental Expedition. It's big and sloppy but it'll do. Jim's gonna go try and find my jeep and get my cd's and crap out of it.
Darn, wish I could have been there!
World largest snowball fight!Next round commencing. We may be looking at worst case scenario, we get pounded but work/school being North of us stays open... I want a real storm up here!
Work is canceled again today, which is always nice, I suppose. But I know this is costing my firm a lot of money to pay all these people to stay home, and I want them to be profitable "in these difficult economic times," so I'm lukewarm about the days off. I bet we won't be back to work until Friday at the soonest.
Round two is coming tonight. We're wondering what we should be doing to prepare for a possible power outage. Decided to do some laundry, charge cell phones, and make sure to take showers today while we can. We have plenty of food.
Get some firewood, hot chocolate, mini marshmallows, chocolate bars and graham crackers. Have S'mores and hot chocolate by the fireplace, play games and tell stories with your kids.
Work is canceled again today, which is always nice, I suppose. But I know this is costing my firm a lot of money to pay all these people to stay home, and I want them to be profitable "in these difficult economic times," so I'm lukewarm about the days off. I bet we won't be back to work until Friday at the soonest.
Why don't you suggest they go the route of my employer? I'm using vacation time.
Why don't you suggest they go the route of my employer? I'm using vacation time.
I'm not quite that lukewarm about it.
hey pico
Your link reminds me of this one I saw in December.
A bunch of strangers in NYC just having fun in the snow. It's great.
video
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/12/snowball-fight-times-square-nyc-1565653
still frames of the same
http://blog.ricecracker.net/2009/12/20/snowball-fight-times-square/By the power of snowskull!!!!!
I have the powerrrrrr!!!!
Hee hee @ snowskull.
We have snow, finally. About an inch in the last two hours. We're supposed to have a swim meet this evening. I'm thinking not. Which is a pain. But then a night off is always cool and there's almost guaranteed to be no school tomorrow because the schools allow for five snow days and we haven't had one yet. Of course it has to be the one day I have to go out anyway because it's my figure skating class which -being a winter sport- doesn't stop for snow.
I went to the neighborhood grocery store. We had plenty of food, but it occurred to me that we didn't have enough party food, so I got some wine and cheese and crackers and chips, and ice cream. You know, the staples.
The shelves for milk and eggs and most produce were bare, but packaged food was all stocked pretty well.
We're set for party time for a couple days.
I have most of a case of
Golden Monkey. I'm sure jinx will lay in plenty of Taco ingredients.....
I think I'll stop and get some cream in case we have to make coffe
When I was a kid, we never seemed to know when it was going to snow. It did or didn't and you just took it in stride. Forecasting is really pretty good now, that you know 4 days in advance that the big one is coming. It's pretty amazing, when you think about it.
I feel it looming. As of last night, the ambulanceboi entered a prediction of 24-30" for our county. He was dead on with the last one, and prides himself on his ability to read a weather map.
I think I'll stop and get some cream in case we have to make coffe
I was just going to give Jigna my phone number so she can call when she has my latte ready and wants a ride....
phillyweather.net says 10-18 in Montco.
Everyone knows Chesco gets all the best snow storms...
WHooooooHOOOOOO.>>!!!!
in your FACE, Montco!
my area is getting a dumping. It's been snowing allllllllll day - those big, fat, white flakes that could knock you unconscious - that's how big they are.
next - HIGH WINDS! YAAAAAAAY! Love me some snow storm!
Lancco is supposed to win this one guys!
How the Brits should enjoy our Pennsylvania county monikers.
Bucks Montgomery Chester Lancaster Northumberland Bradford Cumberland
we live right near the intersection of the borders of Berks, Chester and Lancaster counties.
'bout three inches so far, hard to tell because we shovelled. maybe 4. Swim meet cancelled. nobody thinks there will be school tomorrow.
Wow! At 10pm no school tomorrow confirmed.....earliest call evah!
took me 2 hours to drive home at 35-40 mph. 2-3 inches on the ground so far...
bad news is that this is heavy, sticky snow....not fluffy stuff like the first blast
if we get 18 inches of this shit...shoveling is going to suck ass
My boss did a 4 minute dissertation on if there's a state of emergency... without an infraction... sick day... vacation day, but if there's no state of... make up on saturday... Delaware... New Jersey...yada yada yada.
I said, "I ain't comin'".
They gave us today off too, but said we would be open tomorrow no matter what. Just another way of saying we'll need to use vacation days if we stay home. Seems fair to me. We've had 3.5 days off in a row now.
RFN. Not so bad. We got our paper delivery.
I'm not going outside.
Yay! Snow day! We'll be lucky to get 10" in, not part of the Anglo naming scheme, Susquehanna County. Upper right of the lj map.
OK all shovelled. Now waiting for the city snow plows to come and shove a foot high wall of ice up my drive..... :rolleyes: :lol:
(sounds like a euphemism if there ever was one....)
I expect it to be ready for me when I get back from figure skating.
Wish me luck...... I'm going out now, I may be some time.......
My favorite part of my drive home last night was seeing that some idiot went off the road in exactly the same place as some idiot did during Friday night's storm. See, there's this itty bitty hill, that you don't even notice is a hill when it's dry, that becomes Satan's Sliding Board once it gets the tiniest bit of snow on it.
I, of course, wondered if it were the same idiot, or if they had imported a fresh one for the occasion.
I vote import. DOT spent the summer adding silly signage to my hill... many of which are quite flat now. The signs seem closer to the road than normal.
wow Happy Monkey. That's some storm.
we have another foot at least at this point. it's heart attack snow, too. heavy as balls, but good for a snowball fight. there's no freaking place to pile it!
York should be added to the county list with English names...
OtherBoss just texted me. The ambulance is coming to take me away.
[COLOR="white"]Ho ho, he he, ha ha.[/COLOR]
holy fuck it's snowing its ass off here. i almost carked it walking through 50 yards of above my knees deep snow. i had to stop and suck wind twice. for fux ache!
Ya, we got quite a bit. Enough so that pickmup trucks don't stop so well anyway. FaaahhhhhhK!
I like how philosophical your kids look in #4
It's pretty steady, and then every once in a while, a wind comes through and you wonder if it's going to rip the roof off.
"Howling wind!"
-Bono
Most eastern Pennsylvania interstate highways are closed as of 2pm, until midnight: I-78, I-81, I-83, I-76, I-476, I-676, Roosevelt Blvd. Only I-95 remains open in the area. Still another 8 in. due until it ends tonight.
These two storms combined are the snow event of a lifetime around here. Rare is the winter where there's a 20" storm - now we're gonna have three, two of them separated by 3 days of time.
(Non-US: those "I" thingies are road numbers)
Holy crap - they are saying 45+ MPH winds are coming in an hour or two.
The drifts are gonna be WILD.
I can't see this shit drifting anywhere - Its so damn heavy!
OK all shovelled. Now waiting for the city snow plows to come and shove a foot high wall of ice up my drive..... :rolleyes: :lol:
I expect it to be ready for me when I get back from figure skating.
Buggers did it before I even went out, had to dig out two tracks, now I'm back not looking forward to the rest of it
Jigna just called from Dunkin Donuts wishing to get home. Jim was able to get the Expedition out and rescue her, but now it's stuck at an odd angle in the driveways. No way our neighbors were getting out anyway.
According to CNN Philly sounds pretty much closed down.
She's the lady that makes my latte every day. We're very close.
I think Jigna is their indian mail order bride whom they have indentured at the local DD to work off her passage.
I believe she is also one of the people on the (near)Asian Cultural Lunch Exchange Program from whence the lumberjim family derive their samosae.
Is she the one who makes the Indian food for you to try?
It's stopped snowing here and squirell guirell has gone out driving on errands. The roads are quite clear.
Is she the one who makes the Indian food for you to try?
You have me on ignore?
No way does squirrel or even squirell rhyme with girl. Don't even try that shit. NO WAY.
You have me on ignore?
yah.
how does you pronounce girl?
here we go again.... ;)
girl rhymes with hurl and curl and whirl but most definitely not Squirrel which rhymes with Cyril and Quirrel as in Professsor. So there. :p
Right, Jinx. And Gurl rhymes with squrl. Therefore...
cyril squirell? How the fuck do you expect to pass your citizenship test with that glaring shibboleth?
(btw, bitchin' thread drift gang! we rock!)
Rock does not rhyme with squirell or gurl. Just FTR.
More to the point, how do you pronounce Jigna?
I say Jig-nuh and she hasn't corrected me. I doubt it's her real name anyway, they (the extended family that runs the place) tend to reuse name tags and make names up. Jigna has a sister that uses an old tag that either says Sqnall or Sonall, and the patriarch usually uses Bob, but not always. When you ask for Bob they have no idea who you're talking about...
I just walked/trudged around for an hour, taking pictures. It seems to be tapering off. Ours isn't heavy. It's more of a powder. But I haven't tried to shovel any yet.
Neighborhood grocery store is looking pretty wiped out. Like looters struck it.
I guess I better go finish shovelling the plow's droppings before beest gets home in 45 minutes.
it had better fucking stop here soon. I dont want to be out there in the dark shoveling this shit. stoopit sideways snow.
also, Fords are shit. how is this weak ass Expedition stuck in my driveway at a 12% grade? crappy ass CAR tires on it's rented ass is how.
wow. You guys are getting the full experience. Blessings on your heads and shovels. damn - you'll be stuck for a while. dam.
Local TV spent all day covering it with roving reporters, and this exchange was notable:
We're live here in Mays Landing, New Jersey. Not many people braving the snow today, but here are some young women walking across the Wawa parking lot. Let's talk to them.
Why are you ladies out in this blizzard today?
"We're walking to the liquor store."
Ah, so not many plans?
"We're gonna get blitzed and fall asleep."
A special snow night for you then.
"No, it's our regular routine."
LOL. Like the guys who drink through hurricanes. Meanwhile, here in South central PA Route 15 is also closed and 581 and no doubt 30. But my driveway is open. Just can't go anywhere!
Ha! made me laugh. Hope everyone is okay. It's pretty nice out here (although overcast right now).
yeah,,funny ....eabod
and screw you, old man winter!
All the major highways were closed at around 2:00 - I hear it is to last throughout the night so they can reopen for rush hour. Rush hour??? I'll be making a very slow move, at best, to the phone to call out. There will be no rushing.
Oh and even if the main roads are clear, I couldn't get out of my development anyway.
it's STILL coming down!
holy shit Houston. Holy mother of Fuck.
It's piled up above my fence....the fucking yard is 3 1/2 feet deep!
there's a plow truck stuck in the snow across the street. ...and I was hoping he'd get my car out! d'oh!
fuck.... I'm gonna go help him....
Fuck this motherfucking snow - I've had it! I've shoveled my driveway 5 times already and the shit is still coming. I can't reach high enough to pile the crap anywhere anymore and the goddamn plow just came through and buried me again. Fuuuuuhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Just before it started in earnest last night, some big-assed snow blowers from western PA arrived. The Gov figured since there was nowhere to push it, they might have to throw it. The last time I saw one of them down this way, it broke down by my mailbox, trying to clear the hollow where it had drifted in 10 ft deep.
If this heavy wet snow was as light as the stuff we had last weekend, it'd be at least a foot deeper. We're already over 70 inches for the winter (6 inches more than Buffalo), and more coming Monday or Tuesday. Fuck groundhogs.:p
Fuck groundhogs.:p
alert PETA!
...I bet there's porn for that.....
Best I could do on short notice ...
Best I could do on short notice ...
That's what the groundhog said....
You can have it....
Winter in Savannah, GA this week:
Thursday Partly Cloudy
54° F | 31° F
Friday Chance of Rain 30%
47° F | 31° F
Saturday Partly Cloudy
49° F | 31° F
Sunday Clear
56° F | 34° F
Monday Partly Cloudy
54° F | 31° F
Best I could do on short notice ...
Fuck you, ya little bastard. Ya live a cushy life all fucking year, on the taxpayers dime, and them stick it up our ass? I'll make a hat outta ya. :mad2:
Neighbors down the street had a pot luck last night. It was so good to get out of the house and talk to some people. We were able to find the ingredients to make a quiche, and we showed up with a bottle of wine and jar of peanuts too. Nice party. Storms like this are great for bringing the neighborhood together. It was fun to compare notes.
This morning, a plow woke me up! Arlington is finally figuring out how to deal with this stuff. We got a paper too.
No work for the 4th day in a row.
We've had the kids working on their science fair projects, but feel like we need to get them doing some more work. They are getting more time off from these storms than they got for Christmas break.
Our office out in the deep burbs is open today. But SEPTA warns of hour-long delays on their regional rail trains, none of the buses are running out there, and the cab company I use sometimes instead of the bus is not answering the phone.
So, looks like I'm on Day 2 of working at home. :)
How can I be sure they shoveled out my parking spot at work?
I ain't doing it.
Not my job.
I better wait till tomorrow just to be sure.
I wouldn't want to get the shovel guy in trouble.
Selfless? That's the way I roll. ;)
I would prefer to gtfo, but the gym is closed and I'm all groceried up. Damn.
We're seriously home schooling today.
cyril squirell? How the fuck do you expect to pass your citizenship test with that glaring shibboleth?
Shibboleth (pronounced /ˈʃɪbəlɛθ/ or /ˈʃɪbələθ/) is any distinguishing practice which is indicative of one's social or regional origin.
...
i did not know this
Paint the house. ;)
You hush.
We're seriously home schooling today.
Us too. :D
Let me know if you want my Ed Helper password, tons of stuff there...
I would prefer to gtfo, but the gym is closed and I'm all groceried up. Damn.
STFI! Do you not remember the last time you GTFO?
I figure the odds are with me at this point...
Ow, it's hard doing design stuff on a laptop touchpad!
I don't see this working at home thing going on for too much longer. Anyway, I see it's time for lunch...
OH MANNNNNNN
i do NOT want to shovel that tonight at 11pm
hey...in that 2nd picture....is that the guy on the bike with the snow shoes strapped to the back...in front of Gary's?
I think he's casing our street. He's rolled by several times in the last few days.
You hush.
Us too. :D
Let me know if you want my Ed Helper password, tons of stuff there...
Fucking ED Helper Rocks!
Shibboleth (pronounced /ˈʃɪbəlɛθ/ or /ˈʃɪbələθ/) is any distinguishing practice which is indicative of one's social or regional origin. ...
i did not know this
But now you do.
Fucking ED Helper Rocks!
We just have to get through tomorrow. Our school department put a bunch of ideas for all ages on their website. We had been working on science fair projects due in a week, but these posted ideas were helpful.
We taught our 5th grade daughter how to balance a checkbook, and when she made a mistake, I created a statement from the bank for her to check it against and made her find the mistake and fix it. She reacted exactly the same we I do when I get a bank statement and it doesn't match. But she wasn't happy when she saw the extra fictitious $400 in the account like I would be in real life.
For art, they both made mailboxes that they put on their doors and one on our door. We've been writing letters to each other all day. They love it.
OH MANNNNNNN
i do NOT want to shovel that tonight at 11pm
i didn't, either
It was a frozen wall of ice at 10:20 when I got home.
I'm out of here at 1Pm, and that is going to be my workout instead of my usual trip to the Gym. hopefully it will be softened up a bit by then.
More snow might be coming to greater Philly on Monday/Tuesday.
No, that storm has been cancelled. Next one is next weekend.
More snow might be coming to greater Philly on Monday/Tuesday.
No, that storm has been cancelled. Next one is next weekend.
What, did it double-book or something?
It was having a good time down South and decided to stay there.
It was having a good time down South and decided to stay there.
I'm sure the weather was better down south.;)
Soooo, snow flies south for the winter?
Soooo, snow flies south for the winter?
Thar reminds me. Yesterday, I saw a flock of geese flying south. Aren't they a little late?
I don't think geese actually fly south, unless there's a lake or something a mile or so south.
I should know, I live by the river and about once a week I swear there's a goose convention, every day there's at least a smattering.
HONK HONK HONK (multiply by hundreds)
holy mother of fuck. my back.
We got 3 to 5", lots gone this afternoon late
I was wrong about Tuesday - it's coming from the North, arriving Monday afternoon and may get us another 6".
We've got some extra rooms if ya'll want to head south to avoid it! (Just bring tastycakes...I miss em!)
Thanks Bruce - but they're much better off not in the house :)
Sure, but it's better them coming with the mailman, than a bunch of pesky guests. :haha:
Not everyone from the Cellar would be classified as Pesky :)
um. more snow. 5-9 inches heading your way, philly.
Looks like we'll be right on the edge, from Philly south.
We've been getting pelted all morning - once again Wright state is closing at two pm. SNOW DAY! :)
It's starting in northern Virginia.
It is supposed to hit NEPA this evening. Yay!
snurrying in Cherry Hill RFN.
I thought my caving in and taking an AWD Rogue for a demo today would put an end to the snow fall for the season. Guess I'll just have to put up with gay men making passes at me until i can park it..... usually takes me 2.5 months to put 5500-5800 on a car. I returned the Altima I took on Dec 8th today with 5845 on it.
They have a big snow melting operation going on at the elementary school two blocks away. It's loud. They run it all night. It woke me up at 3AM last night. Front end loader banging around. Or maybe it's the tailgates of the dump trucks slamming shut.
Snowing here but not sticking to the roads.
When I lived in NY they used to dump all the extra snow in the lake. But most people had a clue how to plow in the first place so the parking lots and roads weren't choked off after the first, or second, 20 inches on the ground.
I don't know why they don't dump it into the river here. That's where the melt water is winding up.
When Philly had that 31 inch storm back in '96, I remember them dumping snow in the Schuylkill River off the multitude of bridges coming out of center city. It seemed like a good idea, until they dammed up the river and started flooding upstream.:rolleyes:
well - we're all socked in now. complete mess. gonna get another two inches today - that'll make - nine inches on top of the snow we got last week.
it's very, very quiet out there...
When Philly had that 31 inch storm back in '96, I remember them dumping snow in the Schuylkill River off the multitude of bridges coming out of center city. It seemed like a good idea, until they dammed up the river and started flooding upstream.:rolleyes:
I remember something about changing the PH or whatever of the water too - Something about all the salt and whatnot that they had put on the roads.
We got snow down here for the first time since 1988. Big wet flakes for about an hour or so. It stuck to the cars, ground and bushes, but it was gone by the morning. Pretty wild. So many people ran out of work to look at it and many had never seen snow in real time, ever. Amusing.
Damm you Al Gore! :lol:
Hey! It's snowing up here on the 43rd parallel.
Who could have imagined it?
Well down here at 32.08257455954592 we don't get much of that.
I remember my brother telling me a story of a guy on one of his boats (he was an Naval Officer at the time) who saw it snowing when they were out to sea and he ran and hid in his cabin. He was scared because he did not know what was happening. He thought it was fallout.
Damm you Al Gore! :lol:
Who could have imagined it?
All the global warming climatologists.
Well down here at 32.08257455954592 we don't get much of that.
I remember my brother telling me a story of a guy on one of his boats (he was an Naval Officer at the time) who saw it snowing when they were out to sea and he ran and hid in his cabin. He was scared because he did not know what was happening. He thought it was fallout.
Laughing my ass off. That can never be lived down.
Well down here at 32.08257455954592 we don't get much of that.
Tell me about it. This afternoon the kids and I took a walk around the block in t-shirts. Every once in awhile I think I might be jealous of this fun thing you guys have called snow... but, nah, nevermind.
I took the kids sledding. Managed to not wreck the car this time...
Steep hill! Is that a dam?
Nice of them to put the woods at the bottom, so you don't have to walk so far back. :eek:
If you're feeling sorry for yourself, what with all the snow, check out
this collection for some... perspective.
Been snowing here since I woke up.
Going into town now.
Going to wear me new coat!
YAY!
I bet I get too hot.
Will report back.
Just returned from a walk with visiting Labradog. He enjoyed it. I didn't. There is no more to be said.
Carruthers.
PS:
SG..................
Has Aylesbury ground to a halt this AM as usual in the circumstances?
I didn't wear my new coat.
I realised when breaking the ice on the birdbath that it was nowhere near cold enough for that. I wore my Mum's jacket instead, and got so hot I had to wear it open halfway to town.
Actually all the roads were clear, so there was no grinding to a halt that I saw. I think the roads here are generally good, but then I lived within spitting distance of the Southern approach to the Blackwell Tunnel. I hope never to live anywhere with traffic quite like that again.
(The Blackwall Tunnel goes under the Thames. Two lanes in each direction, but in separate tunnels. When it is closed it is closed, and there is nowhere else for the traffic to go once they have reached a certain point. Traffic can and does back up for MILES).
We had snow again today. Hours of it. Still didn't settle. I think we've had our ration for this winter.
OMG we had snow all day today.
Yes, yes, you've all had snow for weeks. But I live in South Texas! You get snow in Dallas on a pretty regular basis, but not down here. On Sunday--the day before yesterday--it was 75 degrees, and we took the kids swimming. No shit. Today we got 2 inches of snow, and they let school out early.
3" - 22" they don't know. 25-60 mph winds they don't know. Thursday is all they know.
we have a warning, or a watch, or whatever, but who knows what's going to happen. We've had some significant melting, so there's lots of ugly dirty snow everywhere. At least it will cover the dirt.
We're in play here for the next few days as well.
about six inches today and we're set for another 8 tomorrow. A lot of knuckleheads off the road, business as usual.
Hang on, I just looked outside and it's DARK! and there's a less bright sun out too.
Oh no, we're fucked.
nod to HM ;)
10 inches in Ann Arbor, apparently
NONE IN FLORIDA :D :lol: :p: :p:
hope one of the neighbors has shovelled our sidewalk
Shitty ass rat fuck piss damn bitch... another foot. :rolleyes:
First wave missed us. We just got some rain. Yay! :)
Tomorrow we might get 1-6 inches of snow. At this point, that's nothing.
Shitty ass rat fuck piss damn bitch... another foot. :rolleyes:
Don't feel bad. They got another
two feet of snow here:
Statement as of 2:36 PM EST on February 24, 2010
... Winter Storm Warning in effect from 4 am Thursday to 7 am EST
Friday...
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a Winter
Storm Warning for snow... which is in effect from 4 am Thursday to 7
am EST Friday.
Steady snow is expected to develop Thursday morning... generally
between 7 and 10 am. The heaviest snow should occur during the
afternoon and early evening hours... when snowfall rates of 1 to 2
inches per hour are possible.
By the time snow begins to taper off late Thursday night... storm
totals of 8 to 12 inches are anticipated... with localized amounts
of 12 to 18 inches on the hilltops... and where any heavier bands
are able to set up.
Important considerations for this storm will be both the heavy wet
nature of the snow... and increasing winds late Thursday afternoon
and night. Sustained winds should pick up to 15 to 25 mph by early
Thursday evening... with gusts of 30 to 35 mph. Scattered power
outages... and some tree damage... can be expected.
Precautionary/preparedness actions...
A Winter Storm Warning for heavy snow means severe winter weather
conditions are expected. Significant amounts of snow are forecast
that will make travel dangerous. Only travel in an emergency. In
addition... heavy wet snow could cause scattered power outages.
sweet
You know you've had enough winter when you see this:
Snowed overnight in Scotland. 11,500 people (approx) without power.
Not a sniff of it here.
Thank goodness. The 'rents are flying into Gatwick tonight - I don't want them home too late as tomorrow is my first day of school! About the only reason you'll ever hear me not wanting snow.
First wave missed us. We just got some rain. Yay! :)
Tomorrow we might get 1-6 inches of snow. At this point, that's nothing.
Nothing. Not a flake. Not a drop.
YES!!!
Been snowing in Philly since about 7am
Yet more snow in Chicago. Blech.
The shit and the fan are now proximite.
We are between storms here on the edge of the desert Southwest. Last night we got about an inch of wet snow. The next storm is scheduled to move in Saturday. I am sick of snow but glad for the moisture. We can always use more precipitation around here.
Been snowing in Philly since about 7am
Sure, nothing but cute fluffy stuff until about 2 hours ago. Now it's sticking to the road at a fairly alarming rate...hope everyone has their french toast ingredients.
Felt stupid for having ambulance take me to work yesterday on merely wet roads, then bring me home on mildly slidy ones. Although they did have to pull over and active the 4WD on the Excursion, so I felt a little better.
A few flurries here. And some sunshine. Yay!
Wow, long tractor day. The end of my driveway had 4' of snow in it. While trying to get the tractor far enough up to get above the snow to push down hill my Bro in law and niece walked up the main road. He put his Explorer in the ditch a mile down. I pulled him out and got back to my futility. I gave up and called the BiL to see if his snow blower was operational. That backup one he tried to give me last fall was, its replacement gave up the ghost this morning. On my way over to get it I saw my neighbor's SJ jammed in a snowbank and his plow truck buried beside his driveway. BiL insisted on doing my driveway so I went to the neighbor and pulled out his Toyota and dug out his more reasonable driveway. Everybody got their work done somehow. I've got more to do after OM tomorrow but right now I'm toast.
I'm not sure we were expecting this last one. I left work and got on the interstate and thought "holy crap!" It was a mess. Got off the i-state when I knew I had a clue where I would be going, and crawled through a town to the store. Then I took a back road home and it had been drifted and plowed many times over, so the snow was blowing over the top of these banks in otherwise very flat fields and road. It was surreal. I was very happy to get home! There were people sliding around everywhere; it was deceptively slick.
With the melting, I've noticed that the penalty for parking more than 4 hours is pretty strict in this town. Glad it's not mine.
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