Snowgorok: The Fourpeat!

I'm in the darkest portion of northern Delaware, too. I'll be working from home as long as there is power. And making sure my DS is always fully charged! Glad my new card game arrived before this starts.

It's really starting to come down now. The neighbors have got the mini bar plans set up for tomorrow.

And up here in Ottawa, where we are supposed to be having the snow you are getting, it got sunny enough today that the ice/snow in my driveway started melting.

In CT we're supposed to be getting 8 to 14 inches, which means canceled schools. May get a snow day at work, too, but I doubt it.

Yep, sunny and -5. Thanks for taking the hit for us!

Yellek wrote:

These storm threads are severely lacking in pics.

Here's a few from the weekend.

My driveway after shoveling half of it (wanted to at least get one car out)
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Our street (yes, that's after the plow) with someone's SUV stuck in the middle of it. The plow actually got stuck at the beginning of the street and after an hour of trying to dig themselves out they abandoned it there. They came back a couple hours later with a little bobcat and pulled it out. The truck left and the bobcat tried to plow the street, but didn't do a very good job. This is still what the street looks like even tonight.
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Exciting action shot. Me shoveling.
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Which brings us to right now. Just opened the door and took these. This was my nicely shoveled driveway after 20 minutes of the new snow and it's all ready covered.
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And the front, where I shoveled a nice little walkway for the mailman, about to be covered with another foot of snow.
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Paleo, the stories I have from the Jersey Shore will have you rolling on the floor. On a good note. I made it home just as the current snowgorok started Oh, school is out for the rest of the week.

BTW, I think the thread title should be "Snownarok" or "Snowgnarok", a la Ragnarok. I'm just pedanting here.

Yay for Pics!

Those pics are quite mindboggling when you're in the middle of an Australian summer.

Never have I heard so much whining, crying, pissing and moaning.

You wouldn't last one winter up here!

Call me when you have to shovel your roof.
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I was up there shoveling today. Our roofs aren't all pitched for this type of weather. The nasty thing about our snow is that it's so wet and compacted now that a foot of it is like two feet of the powdery stuff. Just about everyone I know is on a steady diet of Asprin to help relieve their sore backs and shoulders. If it's going to snow Monday again, I'm going to pack my bags Sunday and head south. Goodjer retreat in Orlando anyone?

Well, it's a big deal in this area because we typically only get dustings or accumulations of a inch or two. We're officially sitting at a total for the season of 45.1 inches of snow. Tonight is going to likely add another 12 inches to that total (if not more), so let's say 57.1 inches give or take. This is more snow than we've had in the last 122 years and we still have the rest of February and March to get through. I think we can piss and moan as much as we want.

Minarchist wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

Gottersnowerrung.

Love this. You must use it.

I would think it'd be more like "Gotterdammstopsnowingalready"

Bear wrote:

Never have I heard so much whining, crying, pissing and moaning.

You wouldn't last one winter up here!

Call me when you have to shovel your roof.
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Speaking as someone whose family hails from the Central/Western NY region, you should understand that Syracuse and Buffalo are America's versions of Siberia/Hoth, and therefore cannot be compared to normal, earthly weather patters.

Minarchist wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

Gottersnowerrung.

Love this. You must use it.

Yes. This. A million times, this.

Given the sheer, unending amount of snow, you might want to check the local news and see if a man was recently stabbed to death in a diner. I think they've already released a sketch of the primary suspect.

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Bear wrote:

Never have I heard so much whining, crying, pissing and moaning.

You wouldn't last one winter up here!

Call me when you have to shovel your roof.
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Seconded.

I'm from Buffalo, originally. Went to school there too. I moved to the greater Boston area in 2000, and have been endlessly amused at the wailing and gnashing of teeth when 6 inches of snow is predicted. (And yet, all the commuters refuse to wear gloves or hats).

Where I come from, if you don't measure it in integer-feet, it's not snow.

The weather channel predicts 5-9 inches along the Mass Pike (aka the I-90) and 9-15 inches where I live. 15 inches is a respectable amount of snow, but it's no reason to panic.

I spent an hour and a half shoveling out the smallish concrete section of our driveway right in front of the garage yesterday, but gave up and didn't bother with the 60 yards of gravel driveway from there out to the street because nobody had any problems getting through it yesterday. Then of course it snowed another few inches overnight on top of it.

Got stuck about ten yards into the thick stuff this morning. Spent the last hour shoveling the car out. Tried to borrow another car, a Toyota Matrix. I got stuck about five yards farther out than my car because the front end is too low and it just plows snow up in front of the tires.

Nobody's going to work today. The remaining 30 yards of unshoveled driveway is just too much effort. I'm already an hour late. Another hour of shoveling and I could get to the street, but that hasn't been plowed since yesterday morning and it hasn't been salted at all. By the time I got to the interstate I'd probably be three hours late.

Tomorrow starts my regular days off work anyway. Meh. Emergency vacation day means a 3 day weekend for me.

The reason for panic is that the Mid Atlantic states are halfway between the sun belt and the snow belt. The result is that we rarely get much snow and have never gotten this much snow. We don't have the snow removal budgets, snow removal equipment, and emergency vehicles properly equipped to deal with it. On a private level, nearly no one has a snowblower (it is economically unwise) and some folks don't even have snow shovels.

Imagine if you Canadians had to deal with 30 centigrade weather for three straight months in one summer. I imagine you'd panic.

I've got my camera back, I'll post pictures later today.

Paleocon wrote:

The reason for panic is that the Mid Atlantic states are halfway between the sun belt and the snow belt. The result is that we rarely get much snow and have never gotten this much snow. We don't have the snow removal budgets, snow removal equipment, and emergency vehicles properly equipped to deal with it. On a private level, nearly no one has a snow blower (it is economically unwise) and some folks don't even have snow shovels.

Imagine if you Canadians had to deal with 30 centigrade weather for three straight months in one summer. I imagine you'd panic.

We get snow in the MidAtlantic. We will get several feet over the course of a winter. We almost never get it all at the same time. A snowfall of 6 to 8 inches is a huge storm down here, and usually it is a combination of snow, sleet and rain. Ice storms are much more common that multiple feet of snow at a time. People may have big 4x4 and suvs, but they have no idea how to drive them in the snow. I needed new snow boots as mine finally gave up the ghost. There are almost none to be found at our local mall. That is how unprepared many folks down here are.

Kiri wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

The reason for panic is that the Mid Atlantic states are halfway between the sun belt and the snow belt. The result is that we rarely get much snow and have never gotten this much snow. We don't have the snow removal budgets, snow removal equipment, and emergency vehicles properly equipped to deal with it. On a private level, nearly no one has a snow blower (it is economically unwise) and some folks don't even have snow shovels.

Imagine if you Canadians had to deal with 30 centigrade weather for three straight months in one summer. I imagine you'd panic.

We get snow in the MidAtlantic. We will get several feet over the course of a winter. We almost never get it all at the same time. A snowfall of 6 to 8 inches is a huge storm down here, and usually it is a combination of snow, sleet and rain. Ice storms are much more common that multiple feet of snow at a time. People may have big 4x4 and suvs, but they have no idea how to drive them in the snow. I needed new snow boots as mine finally gave up the ghost. There are almost none to be found at our local mall. That is how unprepared many folks down here are.

Yup. My point is that folks who live in London or Guelph (OT) would be idiots not to own snow boots, tire chains, and a snowblower with a 24" capacity, but rarely own air conditioners and never have central air. This is because they get multiple feet of snow, but never have to deal with the crippling summer heat that induced the British consulate to consider DC a "hardship post" until the invention of air conditioning.

Oh, and it really coming down now.

Paleocon wrote:

The reason for panic is that the Mid Atlantic states are halfway between the sun belt and the snow belt. The result is that we rarely get much snow and have never gotten this much snow. We don't have the snow removal budgets, snow removal equipment, and emergency vehicles properly equipped to deal with it. On a private level, nearly no one has a snowblower (it is economically unwise) and some folks don't even have snow shovels.

Imagine if you Canadians had to deal with 30 centigrade weather for three straight months in one summer. I imagine you'd panic.

Just for the record, Bear said he was from Syracuse and DT from Buffalo. Leave us Canadians out of this!

Dysplastic wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

The reason for panic is that the Mid Atlantic states are halfway between the sun belt and the snow belt. The result is that we rarely get much snow and have never gotten this much snow. We don't have the snow removal budgets, snow removal equipment, and emergency vehicles properly equipped to deal with it. On a private level, nearly no one has a snowblower (it is economically unwise) and some folks don't even have snow shovels.

Imagine if you Canadians had to deal with 30 centigrade weather for three straight months in one summer. I imagine you'd panic.

Just for the record, Bear said he was from Syracuse and DT from Buffalo. Leave us Canadians out of this!

I thought Buffalo was a suburb of Niagra.

If you're physically willing, this is a fantastic oppurtunity to makes some cash. Just start shoveling your roof off, and you'll be amazed at how many people will start asking you how much to do theirs. Wear a harness and tie on a rope, maybe put on a hardhat. The more professional you look, the more you can pull in.

I've been amazed how many folks stopped and asked as we shoveled my Grandmothers roof off in Northern Idaho during one of their heavier dumps these past few years.

Yeah, it's the same thing in the Atlanta area. It only snows there once every few years, but it pretty much shuts the city down when it happens, because the roads are just as slippery and dangerous as anywhere else, but they don't have the equipment to deal with it. If they bought that equipment, it would just sit there for years at a time, sucking up maintenance money. One or two days of paralysis beats years of paying for the resources to deal with snow on a broad scale.

Hey, I finally get a day off from work. It makes it somewhat worth it.

The winds here are gusting 30mph +. We're getting whiteouts every few minutes, and snow from the roofs and trees are adding to the stuff falling from the sky. Very dangerous to be out and about right now. Hope everyone is safe and warm.

One of my old high school buddies married a cop. She tells me that her husband has been pulling dumbasses out of cars all morning.

Took an hour to get to work driving along 295 (Richmond's 2/3 beltway of stupidity) today and it usually takes just over 20 mins. While yes conditions were slippery with ice under snow, the complete stoppage of cars in the right hand lane 1 mile from my exit, so people could exit 2 miles after that was the most annoying thing possible. Did I mention it was quite slick this morning? Also, I think I control my camry better and with more control over grip than my wife's Xterra in 4WD.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Took an hour to get to work driving along 295 (Richmond's 2/3 beltway of stupidity) today and it usually takes just over 20 mins. While yes conditions were slippery with ice under snow, the complete stoppage of cars in the right hand lane 1 mile from my exit, so people could exit 2 miles after that was the most annoying thing possible. Did I mention it was quite slick this morning? Also, I think I control my camry better and with more control over grip than my wife's Xterra in 4WD.

Do you work in a vital industry that requires your attendance on a day like today?