Over the weekend the MD-DC area got 20 to 30 inches. Just being 2 miles into PA from MD, we got 24 inches. Now they are calling for 10 to 20 inches more Tuesday night into Wednesday.
(I added stimulus because snow removal creates jobs. 2010 election if it isn’t done right, politicians lose, And Hawai’i because I’d rather be there)
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Hmmm. The “H” in “Heaviest Snow” is right above la casa Pico.
And the westernmost purple arrow points directly at my house, which could make recovery much more difficult for our County.
We are still house-bound, though not a big problem. In fact, I’m enjoying it! The town finally plowed out our cul-de-sac just now. However, my 40 foot driveway is not cleared yet. We await a plowing service to take care of that. I’ve been pecking away with a shovel.
Obviously, neither of us have been able to get out to work. And it looks like tomorrow is going to be a repeat, maybe more considering the new storm.
We feel fortunate, though, as there are still many homes without power. We have power, heat and food. Our County is largely rural, with lots of wire connecting slightly populated villages and developments, therefore repairs take lots of time. We have shelters set up in high schools, so that helps those who can be reached. Neighbors are helping each other as well, so somehow I think we are going to come out OK. It sure beats being on the battlefield in combat!
I barely remember your neck of the woods, Perry, as I was driving a semi all over the country. I just remember wanting to get myself and my rig off that isthmus as soon as possible. But from your description, it sounds very much like the Vineland, NJ area. And Vineland, NJ may as well be central Ohio. Very beautiful, peaceful country.
Oh, by the way, we’re expecting 4 to 8 here in central Ohio (what the media geographically incorrectly calls north-central Ohio) tonight and into tomorrow.
John Hitchcock:
I barely remember your neck of the woods, Perry, as I was driving a semi all over the country. I just remember wanting to get myself and my rig off that isthmus as soon as possible. But from your description, it sounds very much like the Vineland, NJ area. And Vineland, NJ may as well be central Ohio. Very beautiful, peaceful country.
I think Perry is in Delaware near the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Yes, and that would put him on the isthmus I rushed through.
I love the irony in this!
NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate Change Announcement
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/02/08/noaa-blizzard-rearranges-climate-change-announcement/
Gotta love it. AGW activist protest marches get snowed out. Copenhagen gets dumped on by the big snow machine in the sky. Obama cuts short his Copenhagen trip because the big snow machine in the sky is dumping on the eastern seaboard even harder. And now Noah has a water problem.
John Hitchcock:
Gotta love it. AGW activist protest marches get snowed out. Copenhagen gets dumped on by the big snow machine in the sky. Obama cuts short his Copenhagen trip because the big snow machine in the sky is dumping on the eastern seaboard even harder. And now Noah has a water problem.
And don’t forget 15 months ago Robert Kennedy Jr., Climate Activist said Washington would not see any more snowstorms due to Glowball Warming. It’s looking like the whole Glowball Warming industry is collapsing. OH NO, more unemployment.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html#ixzz0esqS902f
John, Yorkshire is correct about my location, but you are right about the landscape and the rural character being like Vineland NJ: Farms and flat, sandy land. The overall all area here is part of the DelMarVa peninsula, the Chesapeake Bay to the West, the Delaware River and Atlantic Ocean to the East. Fishing still is a major industry on the peninsula.
If you were traveling South, John, you probably eventually reached the Bay-Bridge-Tunnel, connecting the southernmost peninsular tip to the VA mainland at VA Beach/Norfolk, where one of our daughters and family live, so we make that 175 mile trip quite often, a drive I love to make.
You could have continued South and onto the other Outer Banks of NC, you know, Kitty Hawk and all. Or you could continue down the coast, on Rte 17 (I think), avoiding Interstate 95, all the way to Charleston, SC, which we did a couple of years ago.
Since Laura’s sister lives in Durham, NC, a couple or three times a year we drive the peninsula to Norfolk, then West on Rt 58 across southern VA, then on to Interstate 85 to Durham, another enjoyable drive, all day, about 350 miles, through old cotton and tobacco country. Durham is a old tobacco processing center now converted into a cosmopolitan area, and home of Duke University and the Duke Medical Center, and part of the Duke-Chapel Hill-Raleigh triangle complex of fine Universities, research institutions, and cultural venues, all of which make the area a vibrant place to be.
I traveled that bridge-tunnel from south to north a couple times in a big rig. Those guard rails that are half-way up the side of your car? Well, they were also half-way up the side of my tires. Wholly incapable of keeping a big rig out of the drink. And that made it an un-fun un-scenic ride for me. The sooner I got out of that whole region the better, because if I had to deliver in DE I might’ve had to turn around and take 17 back down.
Perry:
If you were traveling South, John, you probably eventually reached the Bay-Bridge-Tunnel, connecting the southernmost peninsular tip to the VA mainland at VA Beach/Norfolk, where one of our daughters and family live, so we make that 175 mile trip quite often, a drive I love to make.
I’ve driven to VA BCH a few times. I like using The Chesapeake Bay Bridge then working my way over to US 13 to go south over the Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Two interesting things about the Bridge-Tunnel. One was traveling it at night in November. The land temperature was about 45ºF, but whe I got out onto the Bridge, it stayed around 52º while over water. Then back to 45º on the south side. So, I concluded the water temp was 52º. The other interesting thing is if you keep the speed limit or so, you can start the song Inna-Gadda-Da-Vita by Iron Butterfly as you enter the bridge, and it will finish as you come off the bridge.
A sign in VA BCH and a reminder as we dig out on Thursday.
Chance
Snow
Hi 28 °F
Snow
Lo 20 °F
Snow
Hi 31 °F
Night
Chance
Snow
Lo 20 °F
Mostly
Cloudy
Hi 29 °F
Night
Partly
Cloudy
Lo 15 °F
Mostly
Sunny
Hi 31 °F
Night
Partly
Cloudy
Lo 14 °F
Mostly
Sunny
Hi 31 °F
Hazardous weather condition(s):
Hazardous Weather Outlook
Today: A chance of snow after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 28. North wind between 5 and 8 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Tonight: Snow, mainly after 7pm. Low around 20. Calm wind becoming east between 5 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
Wednesday: Snow. High near 31. Blustery, with a north wind between 11 and 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches possible.
Wednesday Night: A chance of snow before midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 20. Blustery, with a north wind between 20 and 22 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. North wind between 16 and 18 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 15.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 31.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 14.
Damn that Algore, that baby is coming my way in northern NJ. Might even have to stay home tomorrow. Yikes.
Dig out Thursday it’s gonna be, for sure. I’m not dug out (driveway) here yet, hoping for a plow service this morning, to prepare my driveway for the next dig out. For sure, the Winter of 2010 will be remembered for years!
Well, day 2 and work is still closed in MD because transportation is stuck!
the government creates jobs?
I tried to pull out of my gravel parking spot in front of my house yesterday, only to slide across the sidewalk and partially into the front yard. I finally got the car dug out this morning and gassed up. It’s dug back in now.
Level 2 snow emergency in my county and the roads are definitely impassible for my car. Looking out the window to the stop-sign in the corner of my yard, I get to watch 4-WD vehicles come to a sliding stop and a spin-out start. The snow has stopped but it’s supposed to start up again after dark, with three more inches. Then tomorrow, another three inches.
donviti:
the government creates jobs?
At least they are hiring contractors to help remove the stuff. I was noticing in my neighborhood they are moving the snow back from the intersections for our next 18 inch snow storm tonight and tomorrow. Also, the shopping centers are moving snow to make way for this storm.
Christ Almighty. Listening to you guys complain about low temps and snow is hilarious.
That’s how I feel about AGW alarmists, mike g, except or the language part.
OK, I have done everything I possibly can to hold off the snowstorm:
With all of that done, there’s just no way, no way! it can really snow more than a couple of inches.
mike g:
Listening to you guys complain about low temps and snow is hilarious.
But 15 months ago Robert Kennedy said there would be no more cold and snow in this area. We know he’s an authority on AGW. So, I guess this is all white rain. Hmm, that sound like discrimination.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html#ixzz0esqS902f
Senate Committee cancels Global Warming meeting due to snow and cold:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=b3e826ad-802a-23ad-45b8-8fa00c661d62
I just love the irony of this.
And, most importantly, Elaine cooked a huge, two-day pot of home-made chicken noodle soup!
Meh…you guys get incorrect change back from a Coke machine and you say it’s proof that global warming is a hoax so I’m not too exercised about that. I’m saying it’s funny listening to you guys because I live in a state where every season is life-threatening so you get used to inclement weather. It’s why Jesus invented four wheel drive.
mike g:
I’m saying it’s funny listening to you guys because I live in a state where every season is life-threatening so you get used to inclement weather.
All joking aside, I agree with your statement on the upper midwest plains where there’s nothing stopping the polar weather from emptying into your backyard and can see a -20ºF real easy. And when conditions are right, moisture from the gulf comes up the Mississippi and for both it’s relatively unimpeded.
The problem in the east is the cities were laid out in the 1700′s with plent of narrow and crooked streets. A 12″ storm plays havoc on these cities because there are a lot of row homes (town homes) and there is no place to shove the snow. If you plow a narrow street, you cover all the cars. They have no alternative place like a driveway to park them. The house I grew up in was 14′ wide with a block of 20 of these and a 6 foot sidewalk. So, you take a city of a million people where 3/4 live like this, where do you put the snow. Baltimore whaen it gets too bad like a 24″ storm uses front end loaders and dump trucks and put it in the harbor. (It’s going to melt and go there anyway) But this stops cities like Baltimore, Washington and Philly cold and paralyzed.
Now the interstates are in decent shape, but the cities are a wreck. So, when we see back to back 20 inch snow storms in 72 hours, it’s the end of the world, well almost. And tomorrow the winds come. All this is not a complaint, it’s just reality of living in the east.
Now I have a friend who lives in Park City, UT and they do a sensible thing with all their snow, they rent it to us crazy easterners to ski on.
I think the rule of thumb is eight inches of snow is equal to one inch of rain so if you think about it that way you understand the importance of a slow melt. If you live on a flood plane anyway. So where do they take all that snow in B-more? I’d think that’d be the biggest issue.
Mike g, where do you live? And that crack about change from a Coke machine….not even cool. You say every season is life threatining, how so? Do you live on a glacier?
mike g:
I think the rule of thumb is eight inches of snow is equal to one inch of rain so if you think about it that way you understand the importance of a slow melt. If you live on a flood plane anyway. So where do they take all that snow in B-more? I’d think that’d be the biggest issue.
The ratio of 8 to 1, or 10 to 1 is good for heavy as in wet snow. Dry powdery can go 20 to 1 more like the mountains. But our worst storms are Nor’easters which brings in Ocean air and the 8 to 1, to 10 to 1 is correct. One spot just south of the city hit 37.8 inches. B’more averaged 24 inches. One street near where I grew up, Robinson St. was just wide enough to park cars on each side, and just wide enough for a 90% travel lane. No offstreet parking. You could just run a plow, but it all goes on the cars and the owner just shovel back to the street. The sidewalks on the two sides are 8 feet wide and the city requires a four foot path with 24 hours of the storm. What do you do? But this is about 10% of the streets in B’more. 70% are two drive lanes, and curb parking, but much the same problem.
And the city got 24 inches on Saturday, and now Tuesday into Wed., at least 15 inches more. So, I expect front end loaders, dump trucks, and dumping in the harbor. And the ciry has mixed in salt and cinders in the snow.
What I liked was how Anchorage handled snow. They had a dump truck, and a belt conveyer to feed the dump. Think like a corn harvester and the unloading while harvesting. Or at least like sugar beets.
About 15 years ago northern PA had 5 inch equivalent of snow and ice on the ground. We had a sudden warm up and rain, and minor flooding on the Susquehanna and Allegheny Rivers.
Yorkshire, you gotta love “What I liked was how Anchorage handled snow. They had a dump truck, and a belt conveyer to feed the dump.” That’s thinking American. We can do anything.
I live in Iowa, JohnC. Sub-zero winter temperatures. 100+ degree summers with substantial humidity. And don’t forget the tornados, blizzards, floods and thunderstorms. Gotta love it!
Mike G wrote:
Well, that’s just it for a lot of places: they don’t have anywhere to take it! A lot of Philadelphia’s side streets are so narrow that they can’t be plowed, and the cars there are still buried from the weekend’s snow storm.
Here in Jim Thorpe, we only got three inches on Saturday: that snow is still piled up (a little bit; we had some melt and some compaction) on the grassy strip between the curb and sidewalk. And that’s where this storm will go.
In Lehighton, they pick up the snow — when they actually do anything at all — and put it on an undeveloped section beside the 209 bypass, piling it up eight feet deep. It will remain a brown, ugly, dirty ice mass until it finally disappears in late April or mid May.
You’ve got a nice blog here…
You’ve got a nice blog here…
mike milton:
You’ve got a nice blog here…
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