Who Else Is Getting Ready for Yet Another Nor'Easter Snow Storm?

[pomtzu]

Finally - it's over here too - now that it's too late to start digging out today. That was 26 straight hours of snow. Officially we only got 19", so Maggie hit the jackpot. Of course, there's 4 foot drifts between the house and cars to get thru, and we still can't get to the front of the house yet. Oh well - tomorrow is dig out day here.

[Grace]

Pinot's Mom-
I'm in Richmond VA and it's snowing still really hard here. I don't know if this will make it to you or not. It's been snowing all day...We've probably gotten about 8-10 inches.

Our son lives in Midlothian, and we've been teasing him about all the snow he's had this year - compared to the paltry amount we've had here in Michigan.

[Asiel]

Paltry describes the snow we've had up to date. Looking at all the pictures reminds me of what we usually get every few days during a normal winter but this isn't a normal winter and everyone is happy. Please God, let it stay this way for once, we appreciate the break. And our high today was -6 so still very mild. It only goes down in the -20's overnight too....lucky us so far this year.

[3Catcondo]

The snow has finally stopped. Thank Goodness! Maybe tomorrow I can get out of here. And yes, Grace, this is the most snow I've seen here in ages.

[Pinot's Mom]

What is your official total??

Sorry, I was off line for quite a while helping with the dig out. BWI will issue a final total at some point this evening, but we were running about 11-12" over them all day here in Howard County. The last tally here was 34", but we started digging out before taking another one. Ellie, the snowthrower was a workhorse today! The main driveway is done, the driveways to the houses are done, my car is fully accessible, but the main road is still not plowed.

For the record, this is the heaviest snowfall in one storm ever in Maryland, and it's the only time in history there have been two storms over 20" in the same season. My arms are killing me.

Oh, and for those digging out tomorrow, I wish you luck and really strong arms. The temp will be 12F this evening and that stuff is going to be like a ROCK tomorrow.

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

We have survived.
Thankfully we did not get any of the high winds. We did not lose power.
However, we went from an 8-14" prediction to a 12-16" prediction to a 18-24" prediction.
We easily have drifts of 3ft. out in our yard. Our house is on a hill and it drifts crazy.
Neither my husband or I can shovel, we have no neighbor kids to hire to do it. Hopefully my husband can get the 4-wheel drive truck out of the driveway and we won't have to hire someone to plow and can just let it melt.
We bring our outdoor dog, Nellie, in the house during these storms. She stays in the kitchen as she has no house manners, has been an outdoor dog all her life. Walking her is a chore. I had to walk her through the deep drifts to the packed-down road to do her business! There just is no place for her to squat to do it anywhere else!
It started snowing around 7:15pm Friday night and by 8pm we had an inch already. It didn't stop until around 3pm Saturday(today). The heaviest came down overnight.

8pm Friday night after less than one-hour of snow falling:


8am Saturday morning...you can't tell it's still snowing in this pic, it came down heavier and lighter though the day:


Kitties watching birds outside the window at feeders:


Snow on the outside window sill, most our windows had no view except the piles of snow on the ledges & drifted and stuck on the screens:


Around 1pm Saturday afternoon:


Looking out our basement door:


My car is under there somewhere I think!


3pm Saturday, the snow finally stopped...our back yard:


The sun setting as if there'd never been a wicked snow storm the last 18 hours:

[Catty1]

I read something about 300,000 people being without power??!!?!

Everyone here ok?

[Laura's Babies]

OK, everybody report in! Who has power this morning?

[Pinot's Mom]

I read something about 300,000 people being without power??!!?!

Everyone here ok?

We never lost power, but many of our friends have had problems with service. We're just wondering - can we possibly ship the snow we plow to Vancouver for the Olympics? It sounds like they need it. I'll post more pictures when I can get out - our door is frozen shut!

[Medusa]

Never lost power here, just ambition.

[anna_66]

Our total I think was around 13-14" but the blowing and drifting was the worst.
I'm SO glad I'm not some of you who got in the 20"+ area!
We got lucky while shoveling. A plow came by and for $35 plowed the other half of the drive. Well worth it to me that's for sure!

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

No loss of power at my house.
We don't get a newspaper and I purposefully did not watch any news or weather reports yesterday because I was tired of hearing it as well as dealing with it. I knew it snowed a lot, so I watched pleasant stuff when I watched tv!
I do know that my on-line friends from North Jersey got very little snow. That's about all I know as far as reports on totals, etc.

[pomtzu]

I'm here and doing fine, but already have cabin fever. Thankfully, we never lost power, and the only damage is some tree limbs snapped under the weight of the snow.

It's a bright, clear, cold morning, and everything looks so beautiful - fresh and clean - for now anyway.

We got a revised total - closer to 2 feet now, but the drifts are terrible. Temps are supposed to stay below freezing all week, so we won't get much melting. And joy-joy-joy - another snow storm Tuesday night/Wednesday. The forecasters are tiptoeing around that one, but I heard one say that it could be another nor'Easter. We've already broken old records - this is the first winter ever in this area, to have 2 storms in one season that exceeded 20" per storm.

When does it all end??? - April maybe?????

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

Oh please, not another Nor'Easter!!!!!
I've had enough!
Now I'm even MORE afraid to listen to any news or weather reports.

[davidpizzica]

I read something about 300,000 people being without power??!!?!

Everyone here ok?

I'm fine here, Candace. However there were a lot of power outages in the Pittsburgh area due to the heavy, wet snow breaking tree limbs and the limbs knocking the lines down. About 100,000 still without power.