I lucked out with a front end loader like that on Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
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I lucked out with a front end loader like that on Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
Hazardous Weather Outlook
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
331 PM EST TUE FEB 9 2010
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502-WVZ050>055-501>504-101000-
WASHINGTON-FREDERICK MD-CARROLL-MONTGOMERY-HOWARD-
EXTREME WESTERN ALLEGANY-CENTRAL AND EASTERN ALLEGANY-HIGHLAND-
AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM-SHENANDOAH-FREDERICK VA-PAGE-WARREN-CLARKE-
NELSON-ALBEMARLE-GREENE-MADISON-RAPPAHANNOCK-LOUDOUN-ORANGE-
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WESTERN MINERAL-EASTERN MINERAL-
331 PM EST TUE FEB 9 2010
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA...AND CENTRAL AND WESTERN MARYLAND
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF GARRETT COUNTY.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA. PLEASE
SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE FOR DETAILS...INCLUDING
ACCUMULATIONS.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY
A WINTER STORM WARNING CONTINUES THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
WINDS WILL INCREASE FOR WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NEAR
BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WASHINGTON DC METRO
AREA NORTHEASTWARD WEDNESDAY MORNING. A WIND ADVISORY MAY BE
WARRANTED FOR WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. THIS WILL LEAD TO BLOWING
AND DRIFTING SNOW AS WELL AS LOW WIND CHILL VALUES.:eek:
PROLONGED UPSLOPE SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE
WESTERN SLOPES OF THE APPALACHIANS INTO THURSDAY. ADDITIONAL
ACCUMULATIONS CAN BE EXPECTED.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. SNOWFALL
TOTALS WILL BE APPRECIATED LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.
I think the National Weather Service should incorporate the use of :eek: into its warnings and advisories.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Also sometimes :mad: and :( would be appropriate.
BTW I just noticed that the fire hydrant across from my building looks pretty near inacessible right now. I was planning to not do any shoveling today but I think I will take a closer look and maybe try to clear the snow around it.
The first flakes of Snoverkill just started to fall...
Great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Tom and I just took a prolonged cruise through our neighborhood (but not before giving the name of the tree service who delivered our firewood to a desperate neighbor. Good luck getting a delivery now! :o).
Spoke to one neighbor (an avid cyclist we know). He's pushing back as much snow as he can from the end of his driveway - topping the piles - to make room for the next onslaught. Smart man.
Asked another neighbor "Do you have power yet?" Nope. Not down that side street. :(
Saw another woman, walking down the street. She flagged us down. "We just got power, minutes ago!" She was thrilled and could barely contain herself. From the sound of this advisory, she may not have it for long! :eek:
Crazy. The main drag outside our neighborhood was a parking lot. Tons of cars. The post office (where we were headed, ultimately) was a zoo.
"Snoverkill"
Oh, that's great!!
The name, I mean... not the need for it.
It's snowing here, too. Little flakes, fast flakes. Just measured the snow on the patio table so I can figure out how much more snow today and tomorrow bring. (Current measurement is 21.5".)
I was out for a bit this afternoon; took the lull between the flakes to visit my mother (in a nursing home), look for D cells (none anywhere), get onions (SuperFresh comes through! I hate that store, but do admire their ability to be so well-stocked), yell at someone parked in a firelane (as if there's enough room in the snow-mounded parking lot for that yutz to be there), and get Q-Tips. You know, the essentials. :D
(I got chocolate yesterday....)
Before that, I dug out a path to my shed to get the camping lantern (which requires D cells), a flashlight (which requires one of those big, honkin' rectangular batteries which aren't sold anywhere, apparently), a platform bird feeder, and another shovel, as the handle broke on one I was using yesterday -- snapped right in half. Also dug out my side door, so I can use that until it's snowed in again, and thought about bringing in one of the sleeping bags but didn't.
My 24" of snow has reduced itself to 17"; I'm all ready to figure out the new accumulation.
That's why I said older, not OLD.Quote:
Originally Posted by divingbiker
But I could be really bad at judging the age of chubby bald old men. They could be older. I just haven't asked ;)
And if someone decides to shovel your walk because they think you might be older - I think you should sit back & let them :)
Owlice, I never measured my snow that first day - it had sunk down some by the 2nd day. So I'm not sure what I'm at.
When someone makes a riding snowblower I'll get one
Yes. Want some???Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
This is coming down faster than I expected. There's already almost 3 inches on top of my car.
I'm pretty sure you can add a snowblower attachment to a ride-on tractor/mowerQuote:
Originally Posted by Zen
After spending 9 hrs in the office today, I think everything has been done that needs to be done for the week (actually, all of the essential stuff due this week I had done a long time ago, but my boss reviews everything literally at the last minute).
Unfortunately, he calls me on the office phone only and gets pissed when I don't pick up (once we had a fire drill in the building and apparently, he flipped out b/c I wasn't there to get the phone). Easy for him since he is NEVER THERE. I haven't bought groceries in almost 2 weeks. Should be interesting.
Anyone have a better job for me? I can tune derailleurs. And train horses. And do some lawyerly things.
John Deere has one for a paltry $1400.Quote:
Originally Posted by MDHillSlug
Tire chains for your tractor are extra.
I don't want a riding mower with an attachment. I want a snow blower with a seat on it. And where's the jet pack they said we'd all have by now?
Your day will come (age is the great leveler).Quote:
Originally Posted by Catriona
DH and I---both of us closer to 50 than 30---helped a younger neighbor shovel out her minivan yesterday afternoon. She was desperate to get out of the house and escape her two sons!!
DH and I are native Pennsylvanians and are strong, efficient shovelers. We enjoy the physical labor. DH has an ice chipper that works like a champ---now all our neighbors want one!
;)
They say we're only supposed to get 1-2 inches today in Richmond, but in the past hour my car has gone from grey to all white with about 2 inches already. And it's snowing so hard that I can barely see the house across the street!
Sounds like us (DH is pushing the big five oh this year..shhhh...don't know if you noticed that AARP mailing in the picture of our mortar and pestle to grind coffee a few posts back).Quote:
Originally Posted by mickchick
DH is a native New Yorker, I'm from Connecticut. We both seem to have acquired a rep in our neighborhood as the crazy shovelers...Out there several times during a storm, not content until the driveway is bare pavement. Our neighbors (Texans, Columbia, India, and who knows where else) are content to brush off snow and drive over the piles, leaving the driveway(s) uncleared and ultimately, icy and treacherous. We have new neighbors from New Jersey who seem to be kindred spirits....at least in snow removal. Our friend John (a native of HI) has a son in college in Colorado. The son has learned the hard way the necessity of adequate shoveling after a storm this year!
Maybe next time he needs to pee, he'll use the litter box....
The last time I looked we were up to 6.5" of new snow.
7, where in NY is Tom from?
oh POOR KITTY!Quote:
Originally Posted by owlice
and YES! SEND SNOW to SEATTLE ! PLEASE!
You haven't heard from me at all since the weekend storm and I have a reason for that. I had a special friend visiting from Texas this past weekend -a guy I met on my recent trip to Mali. Yes, I met a guy in Mali. How cool is that. :D So I was "stuck inside" all weekend with a wonderful guy. How could I complain about the first blizzard? :D And...he helped me shovel my snow. But he left on Monday afternoon.:( So now I will say - this snow, these blizzards, the cold weather...:mad::mad::mad::(
I guess you didn't notice the snow and cold, huh?;)
Didn't even realize it was snowing outside. :p It was a blast for him. He hadn't seen snow like this in 25 years - since he lived in Iowa.Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
Is that why I'm one of the few people in my courtyard who clears snow down to the pavement? I thought it was just a snow-specific form of OCD (snOCD).Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
BTW it only took me about 5 minutes to clear the snow away from the fire hydrant yesterday, but 5 minutes could be life-or-death in an emergency. So don't forget your local fire hydrants when you head back out with your shovels.
My driveway seems to be filling itself back in with snow. The deck is now chest high with snow.
Snow plows have been told to pull off the roads in Montgomery, Prince Georges and Frederick Counties due to white-out conditions.
Everybody stay home! It's too dangerous to be out in the roads, whether in vehicles or on foot.
I told you there was gonna be a second storm:rolleyes:
I'm afraid to go outside for fear Jack Nicholson will be out there chasing me around the yard with an axe.
Owlice, what's going on in that photo? Did the cat freeze to something (like Ralphie's friend)?
It is really blowing out there! I hope I can make it to NC on Friday. At least one of the exits from my garage was mostly cleared after the first snow. I am missing my 4x4. It got me through one snow storm about this bad and one bad ice storm. AWD is nice, but the low gear 4WD was better.
I got my sidewalk down to bare concrete - my driveway, I know my car has all wheel drive, so I wasn't ocd about getting it down to the bare pavement. Especially when I knew the snow plow was going to be coming through and burying everything I dug out repeatedly. There was a couple icy patches, but not really.
I'm debating going out with my cross country skis and seeing how the trail I broke the other day is doing - I'm a bit worried I won't even be able to see it and will have to start another one. Not to mention, if I fall and can't get up, I'm thinking I'll die out there.
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I tried to get a pic of the visibility:
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I love my Jeep more than ever. Low4 is a mountain goat.
Zen, that's the back of a peeing Puddems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
It is scary out there. When the wind started, ice cicles (sp?) took flight and were hurled into the windows. Fiona and Margot were enjoying themselves out back and pointedly ignoring our pleas to come inside until something scared the H out of them. They both promptly ran up to the stoop. Chickens in thick golden fur! Maeve, the elder, promptly did her business and came inside.
Although I'm tempted to go out and start shoveling, it would be an exercise in futility. It's drifting like mad out there. Fortunately, it looks like a light snow this time.
I went to check on R's house yesterday - he had most impressive icicles. Apparently, there's barely any new snow over there and hardly any wind right now (he's in Burtonsville)
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Tom and I went for a walk just now. :eek: He said "If you hear a pop and a crack, be prepared to run like h***." Cables to houses were sagging low, but most seemed to have power. We lost power around 10 a.m. for about 5 minutes, but it's back on (so far). It's crazy. Sometimes, the wind blows so hard, you can't see the neighbor's across the street. On the roads and driveway, I can feel a layer of ice about 4 inches beneath the surface powder...and then another few inches of snow beneath that. So it appears as if the snow turned to sleet at some point during the night, and then back to snow.
We're not attempting any shoveling just yet. It can wait. :cool:
Word.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
You got it right, 7. I heard on the news that it was sleet/rain for several hours during the night, but turned to all snow around 4am.
It would be someone whose parking space was stolen by a lazy SOB who didn't clear their own!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
I just finished my second round of shoveling this morning (after one about 9 last night). I have to keep up with it or my front and back doors won't open, and it's easier to lift 6 inches of snow than a foot. The piles on the side of the sidewalk are so high I can hardly throw the snow up there, and of course the wind just blows it back. But for now, the sidewalk, driveway, and deck are clear. Kinda makes me feel useful, and gives me a reason not to start in on my taxes.
I broke my favorite shovel Monday, so how I have to use the POS ergonomic one that doesn't clear down to the pavement as well. I hate that shovel.
This is like Little House on the Prairie.