Enough with the snow already

Zen, Puddems was not out for very long; the snow's novelty wore off very quickly!! Of the three ferals I feed (all of which have boxes out front should they want them), I haven't seen two of them since yesterday afternoon, so I'm worrying about them. They often sleep in my neighbor's bushes, so I may call my neighbor, ask him to meet me at the fence, and give him some cat food to toss under his bushes. This assumes he can get out his front door, however.... dang. This means I should probably wade through the snow myself to look for these beasts.

MDHillSlug, I fell asleep on the sofa shortly after 9 PM, and woke up just before 2 AM -- the sofa's not all that comfortable! -- was up until just after 4, and then went back to sleep (in bed) until 8.

some of my neighbors have been digging out their cars. I joined in, figuring better to get a start on it now. No intention of going anywhere though. Then I see one guy with several people in the car, heading on out, in his 4-dr Ford sedan. I thought - really? That doesn't look too smart. Moments later, he comes walking back by me, then again carrying a shovel, then another guy does the same. Then I notice, they are stuck, about 100 yds from the street. And now they are blocking the road and having to dig themselves out. Very bright, dude! Earlier today, the gigantic plow/salt truck got stuck there. Another truck had to come and try to pull it out from the snow drift it was stuck in.

I think I messed up the previous link.
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Really? It's gotten that bad that you're just throwing your vodka bottles out the door?

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Pictures here.

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Wow! I have never seen so much snow in my life outside of pictures and certainly helps me to look at our paltry 6 inches of snow quite differently. The shots of your patio furniture, and the final shots of the cars are just amazing! Enjoy your time at home!

Catrin, that wasn't the end of the snow, either; I'll be uploading the final shots later. Heck, the last pictures there were 5 or 6 hours ago! It stopped snowing here 35 minutes ago (not that I was counting the minutes or anything...). I measured in various places; measurements ranged from 24"-27".

Possegal, your neighbor is a yutz!! I have the news on, and they are imploring people to stay off the roads, now that the snow has stopped, so the plows can get out there to clear. Great pictures, and oh, how smart to attach the yardstick to something; I wish I'd thought of that!

Zen, lol! No need to put vodka in the freezer to keep it on ice!

I went out to clear some, not to try to get my car out -- can't do that with the wires across the driveway -- but to make a path from my porch to my neighbors' tree, under which the ferals hang out sometimes. The neighbor husband came out, too, to look under his trees for the cats, digging around them from his door to my driveway. (I have the sweetest neighbors!)

My path is crooked because of the wires, but at least my sidewalk is walkable!

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Really? It's gotten that bad that you're just throwing your vodka bottles out the door?

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My cousin said to me - now I see why you were doing so much shoveling! I told her it's like my own version of a Kong. Hide some treasure to encourage the shoveling. :)

They've plowed the parking lot in our courtyard and now some of my neighbors are out shoveling around their cars. I'm waiting until tomorrow to shovel. I just showered and changed into fresh pajamas. Now I'm gonna eat cookies. :D

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Rox has been studying levitation.

I got plowed out for $10.00!
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Snow Angel!

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I thought of doing that but have no one to help me up :o

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I thought of doing that but have no one to help me up :o

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Actually, neither did I; wasn't easy getting up!

I cleaned my bike. Again. Put on new bar tape. I'm supposed to be racing next weekend. I'll look ready, but my body definitely won't be. Haven't been able to ride 54 miles (my race distance) but a handful of times, at best, this year (can't make it that long on the trainer...and I hate the trainer).

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Snow Angel!

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Deck Dive!

My brother and sister in law, back in pittsburgh, have been without power since 10:30 last night. Their road was finally plowed enough that they could get out and go to a hotel to try and get warm. 30 minutes after checking in, power goes out at the hotel. I will not be buying any lottery tickets with them. :) They need to try and get to one of our sibs houses who still have power. UGH.

My niece here lost power earlier, she told me she was reading a book by her bike LED light. :)

There's already a wiki on this storm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_A...izzard_of_2010


My power went out for a couple hours this morning, but that was it. I heard from 7rider this morning - she wasn't going to whitetail (or anywhere) and her power had gone out at 6 am and still wasn't back on. Hopefully she's got power again, but she hasn't posted since.


My nice neighbor nextdoor with a snowblower did the sidewalk in front of my house & in front of my car, so I couldn't very well sit inside and be lazy during - so shovelled the walkway from my front door & along side the car.

Then we went out with cross country skis and got quite a workout (definitely not a good idea to fall over, cause even with poles it's hard to get back up) and came back and finished digging the cars out even though the road isn't plowed.

My mom was without power from about midnight until around 4 this afternoon.

WE had power bumps Friday night at the Emergency Center but kept power. I fell in a snow bank walking home from work on Saturday. We've been bundled up till my son shoveled out the car. Good times!!!

I think the folks in Monty county had it the worst---all those power outages!!! And the roof collapses...

Fingers crossed that OPM shuts us down tomorrow. There is no way we could get our cars out---no plow has been through yet and the county anticipates not hitting the neighborhoods until 48 hours after the snow stops (tomorrow pm).

On our slog/walk through the neighborhood yesterday, we saw a neighbor with a snowblower who had cleared off his entire cul de sac! Of course, the road to which it connects was impassible, despite the plow having gone through earlier (that one is a secondary road).

DH just went out on foot to get the NYT and the Post, since there is no way the paper delivery guys will make it. Hopefully, the Safeway will be open.

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That's on the patio table.

One of the missing ferals has shown up for food, the sturdy one; the other was the very skinny, very decrepit cat. These two are always together, and to have one show up without the other... :(

The rest of my blizzard photos are here.

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This front bump is a vw passat wagon. back bump is my subaru.
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Wow! Catriona, did you measure? You got LOTS!! And what's with the "front bump" and "back bump"? All I saw was bump, with no front nor back!!

I should probably go shower and then get to shoveling.... right after I call the phone company about the stupid sagging lines!

Just found this snow plowing map for Arlington County:

http://gis.arlingtonva.us/maps/stand...yWide_Snow.pdf

Interesting. I know our condo maintenance people plow my block (which is in the "other" category), but I wouldn't be surprised if they also do the roads in our neighborhood that the are considered secondary roads for the county to plow.

I'm getting ready to get out there and shovel now. I was worried it would freeze overnight, but some neighbors are out there now and they don't seem to be having trouble, other than with the sheer quantity of it.

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Wow! Catriona, did you measure? You got LOTS!! And what's with the "front bump" and "back bump"? All I saw was bump, with no front nor back!!

I should probably go shower and then get to shoveling.... right after I call the phone company about the stupid sagging lines!

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Shovel then shower or you'll need to shower again! ;)

We just did almost 2hrs of shoveling and we're not done. Cleaned off both cars, dug out both sides of mine, driver's side and all of behind Michele's; still need to do some real heavy lifting behind mine and the stuff between M's car and the neighbor's.

We got "only" 6 inches down here, but it was really snowing hard yesterday. I went out anyways to a University of Richmond basketball game. It was lots of fun.

On Friday night we had lots of rain, then it snowed all day on Saturday.

Looks like fun! Reminds me of 2003 in DC. That was a good one (although this one appears to be bigger).

I'm all dug out here in Takoma Park, waiting on a plow.

I talked to 7rider, and they've been without power since yesterday. But they've got a wood stove and a gas stove and gas hot water, so they're doing ok.

At least there won't be much shoveling required tomorrow, so I can enjoy my day off doing taxes and laundry. :rolleyes:

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Shovel then shower or you'll need to shower again! ;)

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Oh yeah, that hot shower works wonders on the sore muscles after shoveling.

Usually I get to slide casually through winter being glad I don't live in the northeast or the midwest. Normally I'd be looking for sprigs of daffodils under the leaves by now. But this year, I get to participate in the snow games! Six to 8 inches expected tomorrow! Highly unusual for Arkansas. I heard yesterday that our school district hasn't had a full week of school since the new year (MLK day was in there, too).

No ice expected, so I'm thinking the power will stay on.

Karen

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Oh yeah, that hot shower works wonders on the sore muscles after shoveling.

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But I really, really needed a shower; I couldn't stand my own stink!! :D

I did go shovel, for 2.5 hours. I have more, oh, so much more, to do, but need the lines hanging over the driveway to be fixed before I can finish, which will likely be just in time for Tuesday's snow, dangfraznabbit.

Sorry to hear that 7 lost power---heard that Silver Spring was hit pretty hard w/power outages. Hopefully, they will have it restored soon.

Our street remains untouched by a plow, but that's understandable given the conditions of many of the main roads... I might go out and shovel out the road in front of our house. Five to ten more inches expected tomorrow pm into Wednesday morning, unfortunately. I'm not sure when I'm going to make it back to work (thank goodness, OPM gave us today off).

Hope everyone is safe. I feel really bad for the folks who have to go in to work today.

We got out for a short drive over to the grocery store. Georgia Ave was awful up here, still snow covered (especially at intersections) and not even open full width.

I don't know how the area will cope with another 6-10" :eek:

Quoted a friend at the Super Bowl party last night, who was trying to figure out how to fly INTO Washington D.C. for a scheduled meeting today. Umm, the federal government is shut down, the airports are shut down, have a beer and enjoy the game. She finally confirmed that there are no available flights, her meeting is cancelled - and then she could have that beer or two or three - especially after the Saints won!

It is confirmend, Hell has frozen over, the Saints won the Super Bowl. :D

Sorry you're snowed in. :o

My niece lives on a cul de sac in silver spring - plows never get down there. She said her new neighbor apparently hired a guy off Craigslist to come and plow. Sounds good so far. Except he plowed only as far as the neighbor's house, and dumped ALL THE SNOW, right in front of my niece's driveway. She is furious.

Several of us have suggested hiring the guy to come again, and move the pile back over in front of the neighbor's driveway. ;) This guy could make a fortune just off this street!

We're now officially dug out, just in time for the next batch of snow. We got 32 inches up here. We're lucky that we live on a street within sight of the beltway and with a county homeless shelter and hospital at the end of the road, so they keep our street plowed (well, within reason--there's still a few inches of slop on it, but it's passable) and once we're off our street it's nothing but main roads and highways. Time to run out to the grocery store for milk and hummus!

My poor dog, though. He's agreeing now to go OUT in the snow, but won't walk very far--the narrow paths with high piles of snow on each side freak him out. He's going a bit stir crazy in here. My kids are going to hit that point soon too--school is canceled through Wednesday.

Sarah

They're now saying up to another 16 inches on Wednesday???

I just came in from spending three friggin' hours shoveling the rest of the driveway, checked Yahoo! weather, and saw this: ACCUMULATIONS...POTENTIAL FOR 8 OR MORE INCHES OF SNOW. THERE IS A GOOD LIKELIHOOD OF SNOW IN EXCESS OF 10 INCHES.

If I could pack up and go elsewhere, I would.

On the feral beastie front, they have all now turned up, even decrepit cat.

On the noon news, the weatherman said 3-8" for this next storm tomorrow, but I think north and west of DC is going to get more.

All morning, snow was dropping off in clumps from our roof, thanks to a bright sun. Still no sign of a plow....

Owlice, be thankful you have a driveway. We have street parking only, and I have a bad feeling that neighbors who haven't shoveled out parking spots will steal cleared out spots (this happened during the December storm).

It's common practice to set out chairs or cones with a broom between them once you have shoveled your parking space out. Of course, your neighbors might not get it, so a sign might be in order, too.

Or just don't drive--that's the best policy. The busses will be running soon, and if you have studded tires (or can get them), then you can bike to work and get there alot faster than anyone else. I have studded tires if you want to come to Richmond to get them! But that, of course, would mean that you would have to dig out your car and drive, and your neighbors might take your space, defeating the whole purpose.

NWS just upgraded for the area

WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY ... ACCUMULATIONS... 10 TO 20 INCHES.