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

[Pinot's Mom]

It's OVER!!!

The snow is done!!!

[Grace]

What is your official total??

[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.

[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.

[orangemm]

It finally stopped here around 7 last night. What a MESS!

We walked out around the house to clean out around our heat pump and it was up to my knees! We're never going to get outta here!

BTW, here is a pic of the big one in '96 when we lived in Balto. Kinda like what we have now, and what we never expected to see again.



Looking back on this, why was I smiling?????

[Hellow]

Weatherman Freaking Out Over DC Snowpocalypse
by TheDlisted

I believe this is/was many of the people whom have posted in this thread thus far.

[caseysmom]

Weatherman Freaking Out Over DC Snowpocalypse
by TheDlisted

I believe this is/was many of the people whom have posted in this thread thus far.

Come back and talk to these folks when you actually have to drive in it.

[Alysser]

Weatherman Freaking Out Over DC Snowpocalypse
by TheDlisted

I believe this is/was many of the people whom have posted in this thread thus far.

I find it funny that you post this, considering you live down south, in Georgia or something if I recall, and rarely if ever have to deal witht he inconviences snow causes. Flight delays and cancelation, very annoying for people whom are traveling to go see family, on business or have to be at a destination at a specific time. Driving, black ice - very dangerous. He is not freaking out over nothing, Washington DC is in a very big mess right now. They already have well over a foot of snow - and they are not well equipped for it. Everything is closed, no one can get to the captiol, the whitehouse, all trains are down..I don't see how you think he's freaking out over "nothing". My brother cannot even walk out of his apartment right now in DC, he said his road isn't even salted or plowed yet from the first storm. Power outages are probably the worst thing right now, there isn't heat or ways to prepare food. Sorry, we're not all sitting in nice 60 degree weather with shorts on down south right now, although I wish I was.

School was just canceled here, oh happy day. My dad already told me I'll be helping him shovel tomorrow, gotta love parents.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Where everyone lives, how much snow does it take for y'all to get before school closes? My school is the one school that doesn't close unless it's REALLY bad. If we have bad roads and a lot of snow, we get out. If they're predicting bad snow, sometimes we get a two hour delay...

[sparks19]

Yeah I think it's a little hypocritical to sit and talk about how people deal with the snow (many people with two feet or more while having another possible two feet piled on top when the first storm hasn't been cleared out) while sitting in nice weather.

I always have to laugh when my MIL calls and makes mention of how it's supposed to get down below 50 degrees and refers to that as cold. LMAO cold? that's still t shirt weather for me

Now I am from Canada and I am well used to this amount of snow. BUT it is a completely different affair here. In Canada this is expected and well prepared for because it is a common occurance. But here? VA, DC, MD etc etc... not so much.

Last year we were lucky if we got 6 inches of snow TOTAL through the entire winter. this year we've had at least 5 feet of snowfall already. This area is just NOT equipped to deal with this kind of snow let alone two storms within a couple of days of each other.

so sit back and laugh all you want I'm used to this amount of snow and even I am well aware how crippling it can be to an area that doesn't have the resources to handle it.

You know after tonight Philly will have broken RECORDS for snowfall in one winter EVER. Not much of a laughing matter even to a seasoned snow goer.

that being said... I'm so SICK of the news. "special accuweather update" *cue dramatic music* What is the update? it's snowing? Yeah we know. more snow? YEAH we FREAKING KNOW. lol