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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Bill D Date: 18 Dec 09 - 02:38 PM It looks dicey on Sunday, Carol Weather Channel He'll need to stay tuned and stay on major roads to see what's been cleared...and DO NOT go thru W. Va. If he's from Colorado,I assume he can deal with snow ok. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: CarolC Date: 18 Dec 09 - 02:10 PM My son will be driving in to the DC area from Colorado on Sunday. I'm not happy about this. I'm particularly worried about his drive through western PA. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: gnu Date: 18 Dec 09 - 02:08 PM So... is hell gonna freeze over? |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Dec 09 - 02:05 PM I was in DC during a snowstorm in March of 1999, I think. It was no more than three inches, but it shut down almost all traffic. Workers went home three hours early, and downtown Washington was quiet and peaceful. I couldn't get any work done, so I walked and walked through the snow, and it was wonderful. After it got dark, I took the Metro almost to the door of my hotel. Didn't have to worry about traffic at all. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Bill D Date: 18 Dec 09 - 01:33 PM ooops! Sorry...it DOES say heavy snow for tomorrow afternoon! Snow starting at midnight, heavy right during the scheduled event, then continuing in diminishing amounts until almost Sunday noon. We'll do our best, Rap.. you'll probably be fine on Tuesday...as those of us who went to the Nowell concert dig our way out of the parking lot. (Wave at us! It IS near downtown Silver Spring_) |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: beardedbruce Date: 18 Dec 09 - 01:25 PM 8 - 12 inches now, starting at 10pm this evening... |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: fretless Date: 18 Dec 09 - 12:42 PM VA governor has just declared an emergency based on the anticipated weather. ............... "EFFECTIVE 12/18/09 AT 1114 HRS GOV TIM KAINE HAS VERBALLY DECLARED A STATE OF EMEREGENCY IN REF TO THE FORECASTED COMMONWEALTH WINTER WEATHER/NO ACK NEEDED/PULLEY "Sent by Communications VEOC Watch Center- to ALERT-SIGNIFICANT EVENT, ALL LOCAL COORDS , VERT ESF PRIMARY, VERT ESF SECONDARY via Virginia StateWide Alert Network" .................... You gotta love a place that panics at forecasts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Rapparee Date: 18 Dec 09 - 12:38 PM Well y'all...heh heh...my wife's flying into BWI on Monday and I'm coming in on Tuesday. Y'all get the roads to Silver Spring cleared now, ya hear? (We timed this so that YOU folks can do what we have been.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Bill D Date: 18 Dec 09 - 12:34 PM Yep...Nowell Sing We Clear scheduled for 3PM .... I guess we'll know more in the morning. The venue is on a narrow side street with complex parking.....doesn't sound like fun, even if not cancelled. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Severn Date: 18 Dec 09 - 12:06 PM I hope it doesn't cancel the Nowell Sing We Clear concert I'm scheduled to attend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Sawzaw Date: 18 Dec 09 - 11:49 AM Jeeze! in the middle of global warming? We ain't had a good snow here since 2000. Copenhagen is having a rare snowfall too. Record Events for Sun Dec 6, 2009 through Sat Dec 12, 2009 Total Records: 2601 Rainfall: 992 Snowfall: 815 High Temperatures: 36 Low Temperatures: 304 Lowest Max Temperatures: 403 Highest Min Temperatures: 51 Looks like the Lows have it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: fretless Date: 18 Dec 09 - 10:59 AM Wonderful, Rapaire. Thanks. Over reacting to snow is a way of life in the U.S. capital, and this storm actually promises to have some moxie. 6"-12" is the latest prediction from the government sources. The fact that is falls on a Saturday will be taken as a terrible waste of effort by the region's school children, who are used to getting days off with only a light dusting. And the fact that it falls on the weekend before Christmas is likely to be devastating to local merchants. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Mrrzy Date: 18 Dec 09 - 09:41 AM Yeah, and they can't drive in it for s**t. Not that I didn't slide into that pedestrian last winter, but hey, UVa students need to be brought down a peg anyway, right? I've heard 1-3, 2-4, and 3-5 inches, all within the same time frame from different radio stations and meteorologists. But there will be a lot of ice mixed in, and nobody can predict Charlottesville weather anyway, we're in a pocket that all the isobars somehow miss... I'm guessing at least 2 by bedtime tonight and maybe another 2 overnight. And it's the kids' last day of exams and the end of the school year and a Friday and *I*'m certainly not staying in drinking hot chocolate! I will turn my car to face downhill and leave it in the driveway, though, and go out in my wonderful forest green cloak of Irish wool to swirl through the falling snow. If there is any. I can hardly wait. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: jeffp Date: 18 Dec 09 - 09:32 AM Rap, that's too true to be funny! I like it though. Leadfingers: overreact? Our forecasts snarl traffic. They're predicting 4-8 inches and I just pray it doesn't start until I get home from work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Leadfingers Date: 18 Dec 09 - 09:25 AM I hope DC wil not over react to a bit of snow the way London usually does ! |
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Subject: BS: It's Gonna SNOW In DC!!! From: Rapparee Date: 18 Dec 09 - 09:14 AM Upon Hearing the Prediction of Snow for the Washington, DC, Area, Written by One Who Has Lived There for a Quarter-Century (by Fred King, 2007) Bread and milk and toilet paper! Snowshoes, hats, and skis and poles! Snow is coming! Snow is coming! Spread the salt and stir the coals. Snowplows sit with blinkers blinking, Students line up in the hall, Radios announce the panic As the flakes begin to fall. Metro's open underground, Outdoor stations will be closed. Thousands trapped on escalators! Things are worse than we supposed. Drivers slide along the Beltway From the dusk until the morn, Must get somewhere in a hurry, Brakes don't work, so use the horn. Bread and milk and toilet paper! A phrase to chill you to the core. Snow is coming! Snow is coming! At least an inch! and maybe more! |
