Snowstorm, DC area ++

[elleng]

from Washington Post, includes updates:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/02/major_to_historic_storm.html#impact_forecasts

[Tim01]

1. Yes, we are going to get clobbered, yet again! nt

[Captain Hilts]

2. And me in Toronto!!!

[elleng]

6. OG, Cap!

For how long?

[Captain Hilts]

20. Just two more days....nt

[elleng]

21. Watch your plans if you think you'll be flying back.

GOOD LUCK!

[Captain Hilts]

33. Drivin'! But I'm not sure I'll have a place to park when I get back....nt

[elleng]

You may have problems either way, so be careful and take your time!

[elleng]

34. dupe

[peggygirl]

3. And more on Tuesday. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. We've had maybe 8 inches all year here

:rofl:

[MiniMe]

11. It's obviously Obama's fault

We are getting Chicago type weather in the DC area. Personally, I'm tired of shoveling. :rofl:

[marmar]

22. Same here in Detroit.....In fact, I think we're closer to 5 or 6 inches for the season.

[HughBeaumont]

37. Ohio's not really received much snow either. Burning cold, that's a different story.

Plenty of that. Just no snow.

[TeeYiYi]

5. Does this have something to do with Punxatawny Phil? ...nt

TYY :shrug:

[Skink]

7. Did congress make it out of town for the weekend?

[elleng]

15. Dunno

Total accumulations of 16 inches to 24 inches are expected. The Richmond area, which averages about a foot of snow a season, was still shoveling out from a storm last weekend that left nearly that much. Many area schools had just reopened Thursday.

The weather service warns that the mix of heavy snow and strong winds would make travel Friday night ''very hazardous or nearly impossible.''

Virginia Del. Tim Hugo was hurrying out of a Thursday afternoon committee meeting so he could head home to Fairfax County, a Washington suburb that's supposed to get hit.

''I'm heading out of here now because I don't want my wife stranded at home with 2 feet of snow in the drive,'' he said.

State officials were deploying thousands of trucks and employees and had hundreds of thousands of tons of salt at the ready.

Southwest Airlines canceled Friday afternoon flights at Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington airports. Amtrak canceled most trains heading south from Washington, D.C.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/05/us/AP-US-Winter-Weather.html?ref=aponline

[wisteria]

8. New Senator Brown couldn't wait to get to work, I wonder if he stayed? n/t

[thecrow]

9. Snowpocalypse!

http://snowpocalypsedc.com/

[elleng]

10. Check this U.S. radar out:

Check out this radar loop:

http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/products/wximagery/usradar.html

The low is literally sucking up the Gulf of Mexico and dropping it on land! I don't think i've ever seen anything quite like it, outside of a landfalling tropical storm.

[Clio the Leo]

12. Well, that explains the rain I hear hitting my window.

:)

[MiniMe]

13. It is typical Noreaster, and it tends to dump a lot of snow in the DC area

The last I heard, 18-24 inches. The DC area doesn't get much snow, and when we get hit like this, we are snowed in for a few days at least.

[elleng]

14. Doesn't seem typical to me, and I've been here 30+ years;

DC is usually between 2 systems. DC AREA, broadly defined, is another thing.

[MiniMe]

26. It doesn't happen very often

Certainly not a yearly event. We usually get them every 5-10 years. But I have heard on several local stations that this storm looks exactly like the storm in December. When they come up from the south (the Gulf), and hug the coast, and we are in a cold pattern, it usually spells trouble for us. I have seen the big storms around here, but not the constant snow storms. That is unusual for the DC area.

[elleng]

29. Now just waiting for first flake, here in Hagerstown!

[tkmorris]

16. I was there for a storm that dumped about 28 inches

What was it, 1979? In any case it shut everything down for about 4 days and allowed a few friends and myself to build a MAGNIFICENT bobsled style run for our sleds. I despise the cold but that certainly is a fond memory.

[elleng]

17. In DC?

I left Chicago for DC in '78, after 2 severe winters. Don't remember what you mention in DC, but I could be wrong.

[tkmorris]

19. Just south of it actually, Prince George's county

Though I know DC itself got 20 inches plus. We got a bit more. Searched my memory, 1979 is what I come up with as the year.

[KG]

23. i was working part-time as a short-order cook and went to party that evening

evening when it started to snow. took me 2 days to get home.

[elleng]

30. OH GEE!

I think I was able to walk to work, across the mall!

[elleng]

31. dupe

[dgibby]

42. I was there for that one, too.

We had 3ft of snow on the ground in Fairfax with a 5ft drift against the front door of our townhouse. Took all day to shovel out. We literally couldn't get out of the front door. Had to shovel out through the basement sliding door, then around into the cul-de-sac, then up to the front door. Unfreakingbelievable!

[nilram]

18. Best comments from the article so far, imho,

I have my emergency supplies: a carton of smokes, 3 lb of coffee and I started taking Motrin for my shoulder today. I want all those little Motrinos doing their thing before I have to shovel.
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HOLY (POOP)! MAN LANDS ON (GERUND) MOON!
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I suppose it's too late, but shouldn't snowmageddon come before snowpocalypse?
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[DCBob]

24. People here are acting like we are about be under a seige..

Craziness at the groceries and hardware shops.

[MiniMe]

27. I understand the Grocery stores

And yes, everybody is panicking, but shouldn't they have shovels by now with the winter we have had so far already?

[DCBob]

28. You would think so...

Maybe they wore out their other ones.. :)

[Jennicut]

35. Oh yeah, we get that every year in CT. Big nor'easter and everyone dives for the bread and milk.

There was a blizzard in 78 that was epic. I was 2 and don't remember it but my parents have pics...the snow was halfway up the garage. It was crazy.

[elleng]

32. I've heard that, but didn't see it at the grocery store,

but at PHARMACY, pharmacist could not fill all orders last night before 10! Said he had hundreds!

[DCBob]

36. I just got back from Whole Foods in Rockville... very busy already.

I was fortunate to only have 8 items so I got in the short row. :)

[Mari333]

25. man, Im in Michigan, where we get hit a lot, so stay safe

I wont lie, Im glad we arent in the path of snow yet again
but I know how awful it is to get socked
so stay home, stay warm, and stay safe.

[marmar]

39. On the southeast side of the state, we've hardly gotten any snow....

.... Plenty of cold of late, but for the season we're in the 5-8 inch TOTAL range.

[Kingofalldems]

38. Pitchers and catchers report in a week

:hi:

[gblady]

40. Spring Training...yeah...

It's a glorious thing!

[Mira]

41. I see that, and hope you are all going to be OK - and I remember my friend Tangerine La Bamba

who lived for the snow and shortly before her death sent me a DC weather map like that, saying if the snow fell, she would do her naked snow dance on the balcony.
At night.
Here's to Annette Appollo, once more. May she rest in Peace!!!

[mwooldri]

43. they closed schools here in GSO, NC for about an inch of snow...

... followed by freezing rain for the rest of the day.

Work's panicking out because there's not enough bodies on the phones to answer the calls coming in. So we get free lunch if we turn up today!

If the storm had tracked a little further south we may have had a repeat of last Friday - 8 inches for GSO is quite a fair chunk of snow.

Mark.