[:D] Gee some folks have all the good weather . Here in the mtns. there is terrible times. The sun is shining nicely and the temps are about 78deg. now and will be for the week. Looking forward to spring when the temps. drop down and ice on the pond( bird water bowl). Now the birds are just swimming there. No more ice skating for a bit. The rail tankers seem to be having a bad time with crude oil getting from point to point. Anyhow , hope folks in the cold parts will stay in good health and be warm.
Meanwhile, in DC, they’ve got two inches of snow (with a little more coming) and they’re closing up…
Two inches? Sheesh. We just leave a little earlier to get where we’re going. The only reason schools close (or delay) is because they have parking lots to clear…
Here in the south-east corner of Arizona, only 8 miles from Mexico, at an altitude of 4,600 feet, the temperature today (Tuesday, January 21st) was 70 with partly cloudy skies. But tomorrow we’re supposed to have another bone-chilling cold spell with a high of only 63.
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A member of our local model railroad club who moved out here from the Chicago area last year has had phone calls from a couple of friends back there who say they are fed up with Illinois weather and are going to move to Arizona. I’m originally from southern Illinois and will never go back into that part of the country again.
We got about 6" or so of powder. And all the cities and towns were all excited and all declared “snow emergencies” [*-)]
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I feel sorry for the people who were, you know, working during the day and had their 2nd/spare/primary if they take the bus car towed because they forgot the fact that life has to stop because there’s a few inches of white stuff on the ground.
I can understand if we got 3 feet of heavy snow and they needed front end loaders and dump trucks to clear it out, but this stuff? Give me a break.
We had 2-1/2" of fluffy snow last week, backed up by a 40+ m.p.h. wind. The city went crazy, issued a snow alert, and sent out the plows. Heck- some of the drifts must have been up to 4" deep! When the plows came through in the middle of the night, they were able to scream by at about 40 m.p.h. themselves. It left a big ol’ ridge of snow across the driveway, as snowplows tend to do. This ridge had to be darn near 18" across, and at least 4" thick! [sigh]
Trust me, when DC gets 2 inches they need to shut down - the idiots there forget what little they know about driving in snow every summer. It snows there every winter, and every winter knuckleheads do the same stupid things. If God is merciful to me I’ll never have to contend with that nonsense again. I’ll take the high-20’s-to-low-60’s we’re having any day over the frozen white crap.
Maybe DC only received a few inches but 40 miles north we have well over a foot with heavy blowing and drifting. CSX is punching through 4 foot drifts on the Old Main with higher fills in a couple of places. So far everything is moving but at reduced speeds. Just a miserable night to be out working.
Well, a 20 mile stretch of I80-I94 was plugged solid today, Gary, IN, got nearly two feet of snow. I wisely decided to avoid the mess, IN DOT could not even plow the interstate, so many vehicles were stuck…
The weather conditions here in the Washington, DC area are 4"- 8" of dry powdery snow, winds up to 25 mph with higher gusts, and single digit temperatures overnight. MARC cancelled service on the Camden and the Brunswick Lines today, January 21, and they have also cancelled service on the Camden and the Brunswick Lines tomorrow, January 22nd. The MARC Penn Line is running reduced service on its “S” schedule.
Thanks for your good wishes Cannonball, we will survive.
Tree & SAL: DC traffic? Where to start? It was laid out for horses & buggies and designed so that armies could defend the Capitol. Nobody thought about cars back then. Very large numbers of people come from distant states & countries, either as tourists or for their jobs, & they all bring their own distinct driving styles & “etiquette” with them. Traffic arrows are painted on the road surface and not on elevated signs; when snow covers the painted arrows, nobody knows where the edges of the lanes are, and if they did they wouldn’t know which lane to be in to get where they want to go. I’ve lived in Chicago, Northern Ohio, and now Maryland, so I know how to drive in snow, but a lot of folks just don’t have a clue about it. Following a car with Hawaii license plates thru a DC snowstorm is enough to strike fear into the hearts of the bravest of men.
Here in northern Michigan we get 2" in an hour every day. Snow on the sides of my driveway is over 8’. Temps have been -18 up to 10. We just keep going in spite of the weather channel telling us 10 degrees and 4" is a life threatening situation.