Enough with the snow already

[Zen]

Super Mega Snowfall

Just came in from taking the hounds to pee.
The wind is really whipping. I sure hope I don't lose power, I'll be one of the last to get it back, densely populated areas get first priority.

[Possegal]

I've been going with Snowmageddon myself. I do like watching to see what the different TV stations will call it, and what logo they will give it. I like CBS with "super storm" and there is a football in the corner of the logo.

I loaded up a few pics, hope I link it right. Never used picasaweb before but seemed easy enough.

http://picasaweb.google.com/thekidsc...wmageddon2010#

[Cataboo]

* PRECIPITATION TYPE...HEAVY SNOW...ACCOMPANIED OCCASIONALLY BY THUNDER OVERNIGHT.

* ACCUMULATIONS...WIDESPREAD STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 20 TO 30 INCHES...WITH SOME LOCATIONS RECEIVING LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS ESPECIALLY ACROSS WESTERN MARYLAND AND THE EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE.


Thunder snow????


My Mom lost power about 2 hours ago, she was pretty impressed that it only took them about an hour & a half to get power back. Va power sent out 5 trucks.

The BF didn't listen to me & leave work early today - kept telling me that the snow wasn't sticking in Columbia... I was doing the... erm, well, it's sticking in Frederick & your Passat sucks in the snow... So guess what happens when he gets about 1 mile to my house?

He couldn't get his car started again, so I drove over to help him - efforts to try to pry his hood open with a piece of rebar just bent the rebar. He had some webbing in his car, so we just tied it to the hitch of my subaru and first pulled it across the intersection into a parking lot, but then decided that worked well enough that we just went ahead and pulled it all the way to my house. GEICO is supposedly sending out a tow truck to get it tomorrow.

Some couple in a pickup truck stopped to offer to tow it across the street to the parking lot for $20 when we were still attempting to see if we could push it (not enough traction). It was a little bizarre. Not that we wouldn't have offered them money if they'd volunteered to do it. I'm just not used to people stopping and offering to help only if you pay them.

Gonna go out and play with the cross country skis now, I think.

[owlice]

I love thunder snows!!! SO cool!!

My power lines are heavily weighted with snow and the power blipped off for about 30 seconds just a few minutes ago.

I'd fallen asleep on the sofa, woke up about an hour ago, and WOW! to the snow that had fallen while I was sleeping! VERY impressive!! I took several pictures of the patio, then looked out the side door at the car -- can still tell it's a car, but probably not for much longer -- and then opened the front door to look at the street... and woke up one of the feral beasties, who'd been sleeping in a box on my porch. Said feral beastie is now under my bed. The resident beasties are not amused. I'm afraid to go to sleep, lest full-scale feline warfare break out, or the feral beastie need to pee and I sleep through the walking-around-looking-for-a-pee-spot moment.

Catronia, bizarre indeed about the couple in the pickup truck! I'm glad the webbing worked well and you got your BF's car all the way home. Did you really go cross country skiing at midnight??

I was out on my porch for a bit (petting the feral beastie) and it's not nearly so cold as it looks like it should be; checked the temp, and was surprised to find it's a very reasonable 32F.

[Zen]

I've never seen Wolfsville look like this. Very pretty. The power is still on for now.
Rednecks are seizing the opportunity, up and down the road on snowmobiles.

[HillSlugger]

Did anyone hear thunder? I sampled one spot on the patio at 17" but I don't think it was in the deepest spot. I'm gonna need a bigger ruler!

[ny biker]

I took more pics this morning but can't get my laptop to recognize my camera when I try to upload them. I don't know if the problem is with the camera or the laptop/operating system or what. Oh well, try again later.

I briefly lost my cable access last night (TV and internet both went out) but fortunately it didn't last long. It made me really glad that I didn't switch my phone service from Verizon to Comcast.

They closed I-66 last night around 11:30 pm. The Postal Service is closed today in DC, NoVa, parts of Maryland. Delivery and retail services will resume on Monday.

[Possegal]

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.
http://picasaweb.google.com/thekidsc...eat=directlink

[Zen]

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