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

**Grace** · 02-06-2010, 02:30 PM

What is your official total??

**Pinot's Mom** · 02-06-2010, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by Grace

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** · 02-06-2010, 07:59 PM

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** · 02-06-2010, 11:44 PM

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

Everyone here ok?

**Laura's Babies** · 02-07-2010, 07:06 AM

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

**Pinot's Mom** · 02-07-2010, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by Catty1

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** · 02-07-2010, 07:11 AM

Never lost power here, just ambition.

**pomtzu** · 02-07-2010, 07:27 AM

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?????

**davidpizzica** · 02-07-2010, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by Catty1

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** · 02-07-2010, 08:32 AM

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?????

**orangemm** · 02-07-2010, 08:38 AM

Yesterday around 2 PM. The worst hadn't hit yet...................

http://www.thorssell.net/homepiks/snow100206.jpg

**Pinot's Mom** · 02-07-2010, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by 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?????

What neighborhood is that? It looks like where Coop and I lived a long time ago - that was Westowne.

**Hellow** · 02-09-2010, 07:09 PM

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** · 02-09-2010, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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

**Alysser** · 02-09-2010, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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.