So I’m looking at the weather.com forecast for tonight. 6 to 10 additional inches of snow expected!
I just went outside with a ruler. We already have 6.5" on the ground! It’s been going for twelve freaking hours now (or something like that - it’s hard to tell when you’re working third shift in a windowless datacenter).
To make matters worse, nobody I’ve talked to has seen one damned plow yet.
People here are still reaming out PennDOT for inadequate response time in what some punny folks have dubbed the St. Valentine’s Day Mass-a-Car, the day-long 45-mile backup of traffic on I-78 last month.
Now we’ve got another major winter storm on another minor holiday (my favorite holiday, at that).
To make matters even worse for me, I have a mission critical job (they’re up 24/7/365, no exceptions) in a State building. I need to show up for second shift tomorrow even if I have to walk to Harrisburg.
I was planning to have a friend come over tonight, but the way it’s looking, I’m going to be drinking alone (or not at all) for my St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Bah.
neutron star, same story in Lancaster, just like last month. No plows yet. It’s going to freeze into a block and we’re going to have washboard roads again for two weeks. You’d think having such a disastrous storm response just a month ago would have made someone in SOME city office say “Hey! Maybe we should retool our procedures so we actually have some sort of response before everything’s been sitting there for 24 hours…”
It’s my birthday. We had plans to go out tonight and Saturday night. Pffft. I’ve spent a goodly portion of today shoveling snow and we’re likely not going ANYWHERE all weekend. Some birthday…Thanks, Ma Nature…
ah yes, nothing like the sound of gaupple or grapple or how ever you spell it, hitting the window. there seems to be 3 inches of the stuff in center city philly.
i’m looking into hibernation with a nice hot bath upon waking. got quite a few books at the ready.
I work in downtown Harrisburg. To get home, I simply drive over the State Street Bridge, make a couple of turns, and presto-chango I’m home in about seven minutes max.
Today it took me 53 minutes to get home. :mad: I hate snow. No, I really hate snow. Forget Spring, I want Summer and I want it NOW. Now, I tell you! Are you listening Mother Nature, 'cause right now I’m really pissed at you!
Could you melt the snow tomorrow please Mother Nature?
Dayum. I awoke at 4:00 am, got the Fem-Bot™ into the car by 5:30 and started driving the 65 miles from the Hudson Valley into NYC today. The SECOND I hit the Thruway it started lightly snowing. By the time I got into NYC, it was that granular hoo-hah.
Worked a few hours. Took the aforementioned daughter to breakfast at one of my fave diners. ( around 101 and B’way, northwest corner,…Metro? ), and headed out. The drive home took me three and a half fucking hours. What a mess.
Since we had a wicked falling out a few days ago with next-door neighbor who is a landscaper and has plowed us out for years, we are left hoping the fellow I called three days ago does come and plow us out. We’re about 10 inches in and I just shoveled the front walk. It’s freezing rain now but will switch back in a few hours. I’m guessing we’ll see 14-16 inches by tomorrow afternoon.
The sound of the ice pinging off of the windows in front of me is romantic. Like Siberia is romantic, that is. :rolleyes:
Mom’s in Philly and she said she’s gotten the granular globular crap all day.
We’re having a good old fashioned nor’easter up here. They’re saying anywhere between 8-12" for the Boston area, with more points west and north, while south and the Cape gets rain. Tomorrow all the snow’s supposedly turning to sleet/freezing rain, then to torrential downpours worthy of building an ark :eek:
They just put the plows out now. Mind you, the snow started around noontime :rolleyes:
I’m debating whether or not to go into work tomorrow. My shift starts at 4AM. Last snowstorm it took me over an hour to get there (it’s a 15-20 minute ride), and many of my coworkers called in. The Powers That Be told the night crew not to come in. Thing is, I have nobody to take my call, as my manager doesn’t arrive until mid-morning. Hmmm…
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I work in downtown Harrisburg. To get home, I simply drive over the State Street Bridge, make a couple of turns, and presto-chango I’m home in about seven minutes max.
Today it took me 53 minutes to get home. :mad: I hate snow. No, I really hate snow. Forget Spring, I want Summer and I want it NOW. Now, I tell you! Are you listening Mother Nature, 'cause right now I’m really pissed at you!
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Another State employee here. My boss let me roll out at 1 to work from home. It took about an hour for my normal 20 minute ride home. I live by the Hershey Med Center so we are plowed every 5 minutes it seems. There are benefits to living in Stepford.
I don’t live or work in Harrisburg, but 81 between Carlisle and Shippensburg this afternoon was just ugly. It’s not that PennDOT didn’t clear the road (they did), but there were a lot of truckers trying to do the speed limit. Between the splashing slush and the sheer aggressiveness, it was a scary trip home.
Yeah, PennDot seems to actually be pretty good at road clearance this year. Last month when it did this (it snowed on a Tuesday/Wednesday) we had plans to visit a friend in Idaville (in the Boonies between York and Carlisle) on the weekend. Once you got out of Lancaster, the roads (even the little country roads) were clean as a whistle. It was just in Lancaster (and Harrisburg, where we went for Bear Happy Hour that same night) that the streets were for shit. It’s the city departments that suck, not PennDot*.
*Well, for road-clearing, anyway. There are other reasons PennDot, in toto, sucks. But road-clearing isn’t one of them.
It’s been snowing here for 12 hours and not one plow or sand truck has gone by. Wednesday it was 70! My 35 minute commute took 90 minutes today. I hate winter.
It is a real disgrace how badly the streets are maintained in Harrisburg. My drive in is smooth sailing until I hit Cameron and the arctic tundra. I rounded a corner after the last snow and was faced with a 20 foot high snow pile blocking 3 of 4 lanes on the road infront of the Capitol!
“What do I have behind my back? Right, a beautiful springlike day! Oh what’s this in my other hand…icy sleet. Bwahahaha.”
And apparently his amusment is complete as, yes, they seem to have people putting all plowing etc equitment in storage the minute it got over 50. So Even though it’s only a couple of inches here you still can’t leave your house. It’s like living in Florida; Ahhhh, snow! Everything grinds to a halt.
