Enough with the snow already

[ny biker]

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.

[Zen]

I told you there was gonna be a second storm
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)?

[aicabsolut]

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.

[Cataboo]

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.

[Cataboo]

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.






I tried to get a pic of the visibility:

[Zen]

I love my Jeep more than ever. Low4 is a mountain goat.

[owlice]

Owlice, what's going on in that photo? Did the cat freeze to something (like Ralphie's friend)?

Zen, that's the back of a peeing Puddems.

[Selkie]

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.

[Cataboo]

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)

[7rider]

Tom and I went for a walk just now. 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.

[Selkie]

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.

[ny biker]

I'm afraid to go outside for fear Jack Nicholson will be out there chasing me around the yard with an axe.

Word.

[Selkie]

Word.

It would be someone whose parking space was stolen by a lazy SOB who didn't clear their own!!

[divingbiker]

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.

[Selkie]

DB, maybe I will go out and make a start on the shoveling.... The puppy is starting to get on my nerves (wants to go outside every five minutes to eat snow).