BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 03:52 PM

Carly, I can just picture the view of your tree-lined meadow from yur 'balcony". In my mind I'll place a small doe in the near distance...

Get well quickly, Dean.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Tinker
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 04:39 PM

I am so glad I talked my daughter into taking her last final early and leaving DC yesterday !   If the parent alert emails are any indication GW is scrambling to deal with kids whose travel plans were to head home today and tommorrow.

Keep warm and safe all


Tinker

Who has heard about snow headed here, but so far only a very few flakes....

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 04:47 PM

24 inches and still snowin' here in Pine Grove Holler...

Just finished the second shift on the tractor and got another 400 feet cleared... Me thinks I have miscalculated the lenght of the drive way because it's still another 1200 feet (minumum) to go... Gonna take a couple more days...

But, we have a nice cozy fire going in the fireplace, I have beer and the P-Vine so all is well...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:11 PM

So sorry, guys. That looks bad.

Bill - screw shovelling for now. It will be there tomorrow. Then only in small increments. Warm gloves, hats, scarves...better still pay some kid to do it.
Mary, in mother mode.

Carly,
Watch Dean carefully. The flu has not been as horrible as predicted but it can still be extremely dangerous.
I feel like a mother cat. I want all my little ones around me safe.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:41 PM

I think we have about 3 feet officially, but there's more than 4 on my porch roof... and it's still snowing.
I'm so glad I have nothing that requires me to leave my house!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:51 PM

3 feet???

Danged!!! That is a lot of snow!!!

I expect that some of the drifts will be 3 feet tomorrow but I guess I oughtta be happy that we only got 24 or so inches...

BTW, the deepest snow I've ever had was back in Wes Ginny where we once got 31 inches...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:58 PM

awww. Mary... I HAVE been doing it in increments. Just did round 4, (only 2-3 inches) and only a narrow path so I will have a place to work from tomorrow. I also am shaking the Yew bush that overhangs our path to the cars, as it gets bent way down.

I just waded out to a level patch of ground and measured 17"...and it is still coming at a fair clip.

(and Darriel and his co-workers had the friend with 4X4 come take them all home...he left work 6 miles away at 12:30 and got hone at 4.)

I am making my trademark HUGE pot of beef stew...using the 6½ lbs of potatoes and 2 bags of baby carrots I bought at the nearly bare Safeway last night...along with about 6lbs of cut up beef I had frozen for just such an event. It's almost ready....

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: GUEST,LynnT
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 06:56 PM

Just down the road from you in Lanham, BillD, we've been digging out in intervals all afternoon. Richard has been wearing his French & Indian War woolies out in the snow -- he built a fire out in the back yard by the hedge and hung a small kettle of snow over it to brew tea, brightened with brandy. My hispanic immigrant neighbors have no idea what to make of this. I am of more practical bent; I bought lots of mushrooms and some short ribs at the Korean market yesterday, so we are having mushroom barley soup and cheddar cornbread downstairs by the fireplace. But I just realized - I forgot to put the leeks in the soup! Guess we'll have leeks and potatoes for lunch tomorrow. And I DID get the last of the bulbs in the ground yesterday, including about 150 crocus and scilla as a housewarming gift to an old friend who has just bought a house over on Flower Ave.

Enjoy the enforced peace, y'all!

LynnT





It's still snowing...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:12 PM

Great!..I hope the global warming bullshitters freeze their peckers off!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:37 PM

gee.. GfS...such a pleasant idea. Sorry to disappoint you, but it ain't that cold, and it's supposed to be warmer again next few days.

To remind you...this snow is **climate**. It is temporary. The polar bears will have 'some' cold days this Winter, before they have start swimming again. Would you perhaps have any nice wishes for them?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:43 PM

I'm sure this fellow would appreciate some reassurance.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:43 PM

Now don't be like that, GfS...

Ya' do realize that as polar ice caps melt and wander into ocean currents that they are gonna mess up the el nija stuff, don't ya'???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 09:21 PM

Carly: Sorry to hear about Mr. Steed. Sending healthy thoughts and virtual chicken soup for Dean.

We were supposed to go to The Chromatics' annual holiday concert tonight at Greenbelt Arts Center. Of course, that got canceled too.

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 10:18 PM

It snowed 2-3 more inches...so that means we got 'about' 19-20 right where I am in Silver Spring/Wheaton... I'll measure it in the morning, even though it may have settled a bit.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 10:38 PM

Buncha wimps...one place out here has 60+ inches and another better'n eight FEET. And it was -12F a week or so ago for about five days straight.

Hmmm...in the interests of full and complete disclosure I should mention that the places I mentioned with the snow are Pommerelle and Grand Targhee ski areas, about 3500 feet higher in elevation than I am, where the snow is all melting and stuff.... But it really was that cold.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 11:59 PM

By now (pushing midnight) it's been stopped in DC for about an hour or a tad more. Outdoor public transit, including elevated Metro stations, quit around midday, without terribly much warning. Closings, including the Smithsonian, already announced for Sunday. If they're slow digging out, we'll get a snow day on Monday after all.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Sawzaw
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 08:52 AM

We got 18" here. Nearby in Columbia they got 23"

I had to take my daughter to work because her Civic was out of the question. Then I took the person she relieved to her home in Baltimore. She had a Civic too.

It was in the middle of a what the weathermen termed a blizzard. There were very few cars out and it was terrible but my 2WD pickup made it through fine after I got out of my side street with the help of some sand

I didn't even have to resort to my trick of letting air out of my rear tires to increase my footprint and get more traction.

It broke the record for December but it was 6th for largest ever.

It we get another major one it will probably break the record for yearly total.

Of course it is just an freak event and doesn't count unless it fits into the subjective data sets of the Illuminati.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 09:09 AM

Wimps, my but, Rap... Other than the mild inconviences, like spending 3 days diggin' out to the road, most of us are enjoyin' the snow...

I think it's too cold here (13 degress), however, to get the the kabuta started until noon so I'm gonna brew another pot of coffee and just chill (pun intended)... Then go out and take some pics 'cause everything is beautiful and then spend the after noon on tractor duty...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Nancy King
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 10:19 AM

Time to start shoveling.... Not that it will do much good -- my one-block, dead-end street is pretty low on the plowing priority list, so it'll probably be another couple of days before I can get up the hill and out. Even my all-wheel drive Subaru can't push through snow higher than the bumper.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 10:32 AM

I measure 18" in several spots.

The birds found us this morning....the word that the deli is open got around pretty fast. Snowbirds, Tufted Titmice, Carolina Wrens, Chickadees, Goldfinches, a few sparrows....and one fat Red-bellied Woodpecker who claims the suet for himself!

Very pretty out...sun shining.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 11:20 AM

A few more pics this morning (#18 on). It's not bad; plow came thru, and didn't even make a serious mess for me to clear. I'll poke at it gradually thru the day, and probably be able to drive out tomorrow.


And it never WAS a 'blizzard'....not around here. Locals have no idea what 'blizzard' really means. We had more snow than usual- it came on a weekend, so traffic was not as bad as if it happened in rush hour on a Tuesday.

More birds.. Downy woodpeckers, Cardinals, Nuthatch...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 11:30 AM

Snowing here in Maine but just a dusting. Maybe 3". Hope it's not enough to have to pay to have my driveway ploughed.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 11:56 AM

Haven't tried to measure here in Rockville yet (Washingtonpost.com claims 21"). Have Sheryl's car mostly excavated, will work on mine a bit later.

VERY tempting to take the day off tomorrow. Regardless of whether the Feds close or not, Metro and downtown DC will be a mess.

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Alice
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 12:09 PM

Bill, you have a nice collection of snow photos. I like the recent one of the house with your shoveled path.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 02:03 PM

Well, me and Mr. Kabota had a fine mroning and early afternoon... I'm down to the last 400 feet which unfortunately is straight down but I've allready attacked the first 59 feet of the hill from hell and looks as if my plan will work... If not, been nice knowin' ya'll...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 02:38 PM

The front of our house looks like Bill D's lovely pix, but our backyard is sheltered on 3 sides by tall trees and the drifts back there have gone over a meter... the boys could SWIM in it. It was GREAT seeing them out there acting like the kids they are, in those undeniably adolescent bodies! And very little melted today, which will all freeze overnight, and we might get some more tomorrow! Yippee! I love teaching and school being out when this happens!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 03:39 PM

Hee hee - I've been watching the tow truck that got stuck inside my house, so far the SUV has come and failed to move it and gone, and a bigger truck is now stuck behind it, why are they even out there?

I'm going to be walking to my party... none of the buses are running yet, not city nor school.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 03:42 PM

You have a tow truck inside your house?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 03:57 PM

Ok... at least I can get out now if I need to. It only took 5 trips of 10-40 minutes apiece. I'm sure glad this wasn't a heavy, wet snow.

   I even have ice melting stuff for the melt/freeze cycles of the next few days.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Alice
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 04:01 PM

That's how deep my long driveway and sidewalk gets buried several times in a winter. I hate it. After my shoulder injury a couple years ago, I can't shovel like I used to. It's worse when the temp is below zero. I'm going to invest in an electric snow thrower some day (when my ship comes in).

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 04:31 PM

One trick (which I forgot this time) is to park the car near the street end of the driveway, so that minimum shoveling is required to get the car out. It doesn't change the total, but 'may' at least help get out when needed.
I have actually contemplated some sort of car port with a peaked roof....but...$$$$$

The other trick is to cover the car with a roll of heavy-duty plastic,,,(Home Depot) and peel all the snow off in one careful tug..It was a bit heavy this time, but sure left the car clean.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 04:37 PM

Bill D... "One trick (which I forgot this time) is to park the car near the street end of the driveway,..."

I thought that was posted in standing orders? Perhaps you missed it.

BTW... park the drive wheels away from the street... that's for those who don't often get snow.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Alice
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 05:05 PM

news says there are 150 people stranded on a commuter train on Long Island, which has white out snow conditions.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Alice
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 05:08 PM

from the NY Times

"Possibly the worst of the delays jangled nerves for 150 pre-dawn commuters on the 2:53 a.m. train from Penn Station. It was due in to Ronkonkoma at 4:14 a.m. but was stranded for several hours — the Associated Press said more than five — by a combination of snow drifts, ice and failures of equipment. It had to be towed to a nearby station."

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 05:09 PM

"I thought that was posted in standing orders? Perhaps you missed it."

naawww...it was just COLD when I went out to cover the car, and I got involved and ignored 'standing orders'. I paid for my folly with extra digging! (I did back in, so that my drive wheels would have a full car's length of clear pavement to work with.)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 05:21 PM

I had to give it up for the day... I have run thru all but a gallon of diesel and still have 200 feet to the road but...

...it's all downhill so tomorrow morning I'm going toset the front bucket about 6 inches above the ground level and set the plow at an angle and just let her rip down that last 200 feet... Then I'll just drive the tractor the 4 miles to the nearest gas station, gas it up, then drive another mile to the equipment joint and buy a couple shere pins that I've broken today on the blade and then back home and attack the remainin' snow from the bottom of the hill...

At least that's the plan for now... I might come up with a better one, I donno...

I sure hope we don't get another deep snow 'cause I ain't got any room left to stash it...

Hope everyone is safe and warm this evenin'...

Sorry about the tow truck runnin' into yer house, Mrrzy...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 05:53 PM

I *did* remember to turn my car so that it's facing downhill instead of leaving it in its usual back-out position. But a friend parked behind me and got stranded here, went home on foot but his car is still there. I figure it should be good to get out by Wednesday, and both of us are educators so we're not missing work...

I meant that *I* was inside, the tow and other trucks were out, in the snow, oddly enough, right before our big front windows. It was kind of like a movie...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: GUEST,fretless
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 07:01 PM

Federal government and Arlington County government are closed Monday, which means I get a day off, too. And lots of good visits with the neighbors this morning while we were taking breaks from shoveling our sidewalks and driveways. For the moment, life is good.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 08:00 PM

Whew, Mrrzy... Glad you cleared that up... Tow trucks ain't 'sposed to be in folks houses... It's the rules...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 09:18 AM

Guess folks are diggin' out this mornin'... I'm waitin' for a couple more of them Ferenheits to come 'round before tryin' to get the deisel to fire in the Kabota then...

...the two of us are going to "take the plunge" down steepest part of the driveway some 200 feet to the road... There are places in there where the snow looks to be as high as 28 inches but according to the Wes Ginny Slide Rule this will work... Or not???

Oh, the joys of winter...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Nancy King
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 11:23 AM

Good luck, Bobert!

As for me, I'm LIBERATED! Snow plows finally showed up, followed not too long after by the recycling collection truck! Fortunately, I'd checked the county website and got my mountains of trash and recycling out to the curb (or somewhere close to it -- who can tell?) just in the nick of time. Whee!

So now I'm ready to go -- where? I wonder if the grocery stores have had a chance to re-stock...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 11:34 AM

Ha ha, we've just had a mere 4 inch blob fall in South Croydon, England whic is causing chaos.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 02:06 PM

Well, so far the plan is workin'... I did make it down the driveway this mornin' and into town, filled up the tractor with deisel, strapped an extra 5 gallon can on top of the plow, made it back and am making slow progress (one bucket at a time) on the scarey hill from the bottom... Had to walk home for luch and a quick nap from down there but will go back shortly and hopefully break thru before dark... Gonna be real close...

Fun, fun, fun...

(Not)

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Amos
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 02:16 PM

Man, we're still getting blasted out here; this morning another six inches of sunlight started pouring out of the heavens. Imade it to work without going blind, and the schools are still open, but that just shows what hardy folk we San Diegans are; we keep things going up to the last minute. I dunno though; I hear the surf's up, too...
That's a wicked combination.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Carly
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 02:52 PM

Thanks to all for their good wishes. Dean is feeling much better today; ironically, he and our son are supposed to go in tomorrow to get H1N1 shots (as an older asthmatic, I already had mine.)

Carly

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 03:27 PM

Got 20 -22 inches in Mt. Rainier.

National Airport reports new record- most snow 16 inches) ever recorded in 24 hours.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 05:47 PM

Just bite me, Amos!!!

Sunshine, my butt...

But nevermind that 'cause it's...

... FARM FOR SALE!!!

Man, Iz wored out... I can't imagine having to ever agian dig out this friggin' half mile steepass driveway again... No, I'm gonna sell the sumabcih and move to California and buy a house right next door to Amos and groove on that sunshine and smoke dope until I drop... Yezzir, that is the plan...

Meanwhile, yes... I did finish just as it was getting dark... Ended up pokin' a purdy decent hole in my forehead but it's done and I don't care about the hole... It will heal... I'm beat... Everything hurts... An' here it is only what??? Three days until Christmas and I was plannin' on havin' me a fistfight with Santa this year but as bad as I feel he might take me... That would be terrible to get beat up by Santa... Maybe I'll just do what the other thread said and pop him with the 12 guage... Yeah, much better idea... At least fir now...

Gonna go soak in the tub...

Anyone lookin' fir a farm??? Cheap...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 11:07 PM

pat pat pat There, there, Beaubear. By spring you won't remember this day. Hardly a'tall.

And Spring- remember how purty it is in those hills in Spring? Just focus on that.

pat pat pat

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 08:13 AM

Yeah, as per usual, yer right, Eb... I must lost my mind there last night.... Ahhhhhh, that smell of spring and the wildflowers and the merelle mushrooms and leave on the trees and, and , and...

Plus, if I moved next door to Amos I'm afraid that he's be a bad influence on me and we'd just sit around soakin' in that sunshine and smokin' dope and not get much of anything done...

Heck, what am I thinking here???

FARM FOR SALE!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 08:31 AM

I Bid $100 for the farm !!

AND a 100th post !