Governor Hogan just announced that 270 is closed until tomorrow morning, so I don’t know what those people are doing. 70 as well.
I walked over to someone’s house for lunch today and since there were no clear sidewalks, was able to just walk straight down the middle of a major road without a single vehicle in sight. I was prepared to jump into a snow bank if a plow came along or something, but there was no one. Felt like the Twilight Zone.
Yeah, walking around is one thing, but who heads out to the beltway in a blizzard?
My wife has been at work downtown since Friday. Trying to figure out a way to get her home tomorrow. I’m sure the roads won’t be clear enough for her to drive her Prius home to Hyattsville, even with chains, but hoping a taxi or Uber can get through.
Yup, middle of the road was the place to be. Even with the metal grippers on the bottom of my snowshoes I wasn’t making contact with asphalt. There were more idiots driving than I’d have thought. Very few cars, but more than I’d have expected & some of them were models that don’t even offer 4WD/AWD.
Oof. I think that Metro is supposed to reopen Sunday, so she can get close and then Uber.
Did they revise that? Because earlier in the week, they said they were going to be shut down until Monday.
ETA: Their website says they’re still going to be shut down tomorrow. http://www.wmata.com/rider_tools/metro_service_status/advisories.cfm?AID=5401
Yeah, Metro’s out. Called a few taxi companies tonight and they said they might be more functional tomorrow afternoon.
I’ll walk down and get her if I have to. How long could it possibly take to walk 7.3 miles in 2 feet of snow?
Sorry, I thought it was back up Sunday. At least she’s warm and has a roof over her head.
For someone in fairly good shape, I’d allow 10 hours. Better carry some food and water.
Or wait until conditions improve.
Finished my Saturday shift and decided to come home. My job was to drive around and provide live video of the roads. Never got stuck, perhaps one or two close calls. Kept to the big roads.
I decided to come home late Sat night because there were fewer people out, and I knew it would be crowded Sunday. It was actually a very easy drive, most times I had the whole interstate to myself, no-one else in sight.
I figure (including the drive home at 9) I was on the road for 26 of 35 hours in the blizzard.
DCnDC I think a taxi or Uber can do the job tomorrow if they stick to major streets. Certainly passable.
Looks like I got between 2-3 inches of snow on my front steps since shoveling yesterday morning. So 11-12 inches total.
They’ve re-plowed the neighborhood, so the only hard part is getting my car into the road. Not that I feel a need to go anywhere; we’ve got everything we need right here.
And the sky is clear, the moon’s shining bright through the window, I can see Jupiter high in the sky to the south. This storm’s business hours are over, baby. 
Plus when you get to her, you’d have to turn around and head back.
Our side street hasn’t been plowed once, nor have any of the other side streets, I don’t see them getting to us any time soon.
Oh, glorious sunshine and blue sky!!!
I started digging out near our garage while my husband took a sign down to the road that said “Plow Wanted” and gave our phone number. A few minutes later, a couple of guys stopped - they’re working for the county right now, but when they’re done, they said they’d call. YAY! Plus the county has gone down our road a couple of times this morning with a plow/sand/salt truck, so once we get the 13-ish inches off the 100’ driveway, we should be able to get out.
Since the guys will come back later (or someone else might respond to our sign in the interim) I’ll be putting my efforts into digging out our truck, which is parked on a pad beside the driveway. My husband is having back surgery next week, so I’m fighting him about not shoveling. So he’s doing the laundry instead - I think that’s a good compromise. And on that note, it’s time for me to get back out there and dig some more.
We’ve managed to clear about half the driveway at this point after roughly 2.75 combined hours of work between the two of us. Shoveling can suck it, as far as I’m concerned. On the other hand, after talking to a neighbor who has lived here 20 years, there’s no rush, as we’re not likely to see a plow before tomorrow.
Next time we’re warned about a huge snow event, I will shop more wisely in terms of having a wider variety of food in the house. Lesson learned.
DC Dopers: Is the consensus view that the government will be closed tomorrow? I had initially been thinking delayed opening, but there’s so much digging out yet to be done that I’m now thinking closed Monday with a delayed opening Tuesday.
Good question. DC has already announced that schools are closed, which I’m assuming will have an impact on federal employees with kids. And Metro has yet to make an official announcement, but their spokesman said this morning that if they’re running tomorrow, it “will not be normal.”
We got between 2 1/2 and 3 feet. I don’t have the faintest idea where we are going to put the snow when I dig out the two cars, the pile in front of my house from the sidewalk is already 12 feet tall and can’t take any more.
This is the biggest storm we have ever had here in Central PA. I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody went to work until Tuesday.
Wow. We, in the Boston suburbs, lucked out this time. It didn’t start snowing until evening, was pretty much done by midnight. This morning we woke up to blue skies and suny, and barely an inch of the fluffiest, most perfect powdery snow a skier could ever dream of. I shoveled our three car wide driveway, plus front and back porches, sidewalks from front around whole house to back deck AND the town sidewalk along the road … in less than 45 minutes!
It was a genuine pleasure.
So that means we are being set up for some horror the next time.
