Now the east coast is getting its first blizzard. Lets see if our east coast posters can post more pictures than the midwest did not. All AMTRAK is showing operating although not on time. ex: Cresent lost 2 hours from clt to Charlottesville.
Here’s a live pic of the snow in Roanoke, VA:
Got a snowmobile? Getting around in two feet of snow in the storm area it is either that, snow shoes or cross country skis.
Just got done shoveling my first foot of Global Warming…it is still coming down.
Interesting web sites. Especially, the live {streaming}, video cam in Roanoke. Thanks for sharing.
AND - - - - how about the 12 INCHES of rain behind it , good luck, now all you need is 40 below temperatures, chin up ! !
I’m in the process of moving to Traverse City, Michigan. When I left yesterday there was 34" on the ground. Last winter they got over 120" and when I get back with my next load tomorrow I will have to shovel to get the SUV close enough to the garage to unload it. It snows so much they don’t even say snow in the forecast. They just give you the temperature range for the day and tell you if the sun will be out. Otherwise expect snow.
We had one back in 93 I think. 42 inches overnight and when the winds quit, telephone poles and whole houses were covered, including ours.
The covered porch allowed us precious working room to start on that wall of snow outside the front door. The big question was how high and how heavy was that snow on the roof.
We still had dirty snow on the lawn in June wearing summer clothes that year.
Forget the snowmobile, I am going to hook my to cats up to the sleigh and say “MUSH, CAT, MUSH. HO, HO HO!!!”. As of 11:30 this morning we had 6 inches on the ground and the snow has been coming down heavier…
1: When you get the cats “hooked” up, let us know.
Then:
2: When you holler MUSH CAT - let us know.
(Dr’s office is on standby for # 1 and put in a long DVD for waiting on # 2)
Wow,
I know how you guys feel, its down in the 60s right now…
http://www.galveston.com/webcams/
might have to put on some flip flops and a shirt…[:)]
…Continuing with the “Blizzard accounts…”, today we’ve received maybe 2" total wet snow…We’re off the main path {north}, of this massive storm passing thru…Temps were up to 38 degrees this afternoon, so it didn’t really get a good foot hold…Streets became slushy or even just wet.
Seems to be about over here for us…unless something changes. This one is on it’s way out northeast.
Trivia: Massive snow stories…Back in 1958, and still in my homeland of southwestern Pennsylvania, we received 188" of snow that season. That was tops for in my lifetime. That produced some extreme conditions.
…Those webcams are really neat Ed…Some are crystal clear, too bad they are not {streaming}, video. Did you catch the one over in Roanoke today supplied by Murray…It’s live {streaming}.
IMHO – AMTRAK seems to be handling this blizzard very well. A preliminary search (will do complete tomorrow for today) shows only one PHL - Harrisburg round trip and the Vermonter cancelled both ways. Now some trains are late but on the NEC they appear to be getting closer to on time as the day goes on. Of course the south trains are very late. The only problem for tomorrow is if crews are so late that they delay or cancel trains tomorrow for lack of crews.
Now the airlines are certainly not doing as well!!!
Just went and looked…Didn’t see a single palm tree anywhere.
Plus there is all this white stuff all over everything, but it don’t look like sand.
It looks really cold there.
Gonna have to visit in the daylight to see more details.
I made it in…and proceeded to shuttle road crews around via locomotive…as the van company had packed it in. I also cleaned out a few switches…thank goodness for Under Armor and Carhart.
Nick
From the radar, looks it’s all over but the shoveling at your place. Eastern New England is still in it.
Strike that. The trains going south of washington took several hits of 6 hr from BAL - Washington 40 miles. To further complicate the situation several took over 4+ hours to go Washington - Alexandria a 9 mile distance.
If anyone knows the reason it will be informative to know why??.
News reports indicate that there were substantial locomotive problems. It may be that DC traction motors equipped loco and motors (AEM-7DCs) were on the LD trains and that would be why the WASH - Alexandria happened. Anyone know?