The storm that’s hitting the East Coast of the US is starting to hit us here (Washington, DC) now. First tiny flakes started drifting down about 20 minutes ago.
Just for the record, two digits is a LOT of snow for this area. I read recently that we’ve only had double digits twice in the same season four times, historically. On Dec 19th we had 18 inches, so this’ll be only the 5th time ever.
"The horror! The horror!"
Last night people completely denuded the vegetable bins in the Harris Teeter supermarket, leaving only a handful of dark purple potatoes and one lonely star fruit. People are freaking out with some reason – traffic in this region is sometime brought to its knees by rainfall, let alone snow. I wanted to yell in the middle of the store, “Since when do you people eat VEGETABLES?!?”
"I’ve done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her; marooned for all eternity in the center of a snowbound region filled with bad drivers… buried alive! Buried alive…!"
Should be fun. The Feds are releasing us in about 15 minutes, but I live west of here, where it’s already been snowing for an hour, I hear. My bus won’t run me the last leg home until 3:30, so I’ll be on foot for the last bit…normally a 30-minute walk in dry weather.
Good luck Sailboat.
I lived in Alexandria, Va during the snowstorm of 1983.
That was 16 inches or so, and the winds made it a blizzard.
For a Georgia-boy, it was quite an experience.
I admit to being grateful the forecasts are apparently going to spare the NYC region the brunt of the storm. I have tickets to a matinee of Sleeping Beauty at the NYC Ballet tomorrow. We’re scheduled to get 3-6 inches but I’m hoping Lincoln Center officials can handle it reasonably gracefully.
I’ve been checking all winter for snow shovels, and they’re always sold out :mad:
Looks like I’ll be borrowing from neighbors again and offering to dig out their cars in exchange. (southern MD here) I’m not sure why DC is expecting so much; we’re expecting between 8 and 12 here in Ellicott City.
18" due for arrival in Delaware. ::shrug:: We just got 18" before Christmas.
Wait… this just in…
The storm “watch”, which was then upgraded to a “warning”, has now been upgraded to a “promise”… and precipitation totals are now predicted to be a *gazzilion *inches.
Got home easily enough. Didn’t have to walk, since the wife used me as an excuse to leave work early herself. We went to the grocery store yet again (three times total since yesterday…I don’t know exactly why).
It’s really beautiful so far. I’m west of DC near Dulles airport.
The TV weather guy predicted totals in blocks (“12 inches between 6 pm and midnight”) that added up to 30 inches. We’ll see.
I’m in St. Mary’s county, and I work right across the Potomac in Dahlgren. We were sent home at noon. About 5, we drove into Leonardtown, 6 miles from here, to pick up some pizza for supper. Roads were wet when we left and white as we came home. Our cars are parked, not to move till maybe Sunday.
According to channel 7, this county is under blizzard warning, 20-30" and gusty winds. If we’re lucky, it’ll stop late Saturday. Our county does an outstanding job clearing the roads, and in the last storms, we had plows in our neighborhood fairly early, so we’re hopeful. Of course, there’s still 100+’ of driveway between us and the road.
As long as we don’t lose power, we’ll be fine. Since we’re on a well, losing power is losing everything, altho we do have a fireplace and some good Amish firewood.
It’s coming down in Central Pennsylvania. I think they’re expecting 18" by tomorrow night. For all I know, there’s 18" on the ground now. Fortunately, we’re in good shape. We’ve got soda, cookie fixin’s, popcorn, and bagels. Oh, and milk, bread, eggs and toilet paper.
Also in Columbus OH. We’ve got about 4 inches of extremely wet snow. I’ve shoveled off my stoop and the walk down to the sidewalk and also shaken snow off some shrubs - I’m hoping they survive the storm. I’ve heard we could get more than 10" total. No fun.
It’s coming down at a good clip here in central Maryland.
The news stations just finished their non-stop coverage of all things snow. You have Bob in the weather room with Doppler radar, then weatherman B on the roof with a yard stick, coverage from man on the street, then woman on the street interviewing innocent passersby, then another doofus doing a bit with the snow plow drivers, then a shot of traffic cam and reporters from other parts of the area checking in to say: “Yup, it’s snowing here too, Doreen.” Rinse. Repeat.
Nothing else of even remotely newsworthy gets reported on.
Those from the Maryland / Northern Va. / DC area know what I’m talking about.
We woke up to about two feet of snow here just north of Baltimore. It’s still coming down; the forecast says it probably won’t stop for another twelve hours.
I’m not panicking- this is, like, the coolest thing ever. We’ve got a ton of junk food, movies to watch, games to play… and as long as the electricity stays on, we’re going to have a blast. It’ll be interesting to see if we can get out of the driveway on Monday, though.
And we’re supposed to get another, weaker, storm around Tuesday. Fun!
