Snowmageddon - The Threepeat!

Just cleared the deck and noticed that the other neighbors have taken my lead. Now I'm just wondering where the snowplow will eventually deposit all the snow in the parking lot. This should be interesting.

Only if by interesting you mean 'suck righteously for whoever owns that parking spot'.

Best wishes to all affected.

Thank Glub for teenagers deparate for money. Having my neighbor's kid clean my driveway. Yeah, I'm a lazy bastard, but it saves my back.

Bonus, I'm sure the money he earns will go towards cheap beer so that he has something to compare good beer to later in life. Ah I remember the days of drinking Schmidts and Colder's 29.

We're getting a few flakes. 99% of last week's snow has melted and I don't expect any new accumulation around here.

20-22 here just north of Pittsburgh. Yum!

Shoveled again at 10:30 AM; only about 2 inch accumulation since 6 AM. I am so pathetic; the Ironforge and Dun Morogh music from WoW were stuck in my head while working on the snow......

We got 2 inches in the last hour. There is a 5 foot tall snow berm that takes up my little front yard. It continues on either side of the sidewalk up and down my block. My next door neighbor's daughter has taken to digging tunnels in it.

Paleocon wrote:

We got 2 inches in the last hour. There is a 5 foot tall snow berm that takes up my little front yard. It continues on either side of the sidewalk up and down my block. My next door neighbor's daughter has taken to digging tunnels in it.

Pics?

We've got snow piled over our heads just from digging out the sidewalks. Cleared the area around my car, the walkways and my deck. Snow is up to at least 30 inches on the parking pad.

NWS says our area could go another 8 inches...

OK, which one of you is the President? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100206/...

We got a few flurries, and no accumulation at all. I feel seriously disappointed.

I wonder if someone there reads GWJ? Would not surprise me. Maybe I'll get a visit from some guys with sunglasses, ear buds and a note thanking me for the word...

You can have some of ours. Bring a convoy and plenty of shovels.

I spent the last hour shoveling snow here in Falls Church, VA. It was mostly fun, with my wife taking pics and trading off the shovel from time to time.

We then walked down to our local Giant Foods, about 1/4 mile away.

Remember all those PANDAMONEUM on-site news stories from grocery stores over the past 48 hours? Record lines, cleared-out supplies, no place to park, etc.?

Yeah, I just rolled in and there were about 6 to 8 customers total in the store. The shelves were completely stocked and I was in and out with all my guilty-pleasure supplies in about 10 minutes (Taco-night tonight, homemade cookies, homemade onion-chip dip for the game tomorrow, Sam Adams, etc.).

I sure am glad I waited. I don't think I've ever seen the store so empty. It was kind of surreal.

I managed to clear the thin-ish walk between the driveway and our house... took about 45min total.

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Some pics:

Pookie standing outside last night:
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Pookie with his tail between his legs, not wanting to go outside:
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Our back yard, about an hour ago... the broom is for reference.
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psu_13 wrote:

20-22 here just north of Pittsburgh. Yum!

Where are you? I live in Beaver County.

I am in Mcandless. A few miles north of the Ross Park Mall.

psu_13 wrote:

I am in Mcandless. A few miles north of the Ross Park Mall.

You lucky punk, you've got a Cheesecake Factory in your backyard.

Ice and wet snow snapped the top of a tree off near my house. It landed on my front gutters and took down a powerline. Thankfully we retained power, but the line fell across the road, held up at about the 4' high mark. After a bit of jury-rigging we raised the powerline a few feet so cars could get through. Hopefully no tall plow trucks try to go under the line tonight, and the electric company comes out to fix the problem shortly.

Yikes! That sounds dangerous.

Well, I woke up this morning (Saturday) thinking I'd be shoveling the driveway and sidewalk, but opened the front door to this.

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It was still coming down with no end in sight. This was around 11am and another 6 inches or more fell between then and now. I opened the door later and the depth of the snow had doubled but I think a lot of that was drifts from the blowing wind. Can't wait to try to shovel 2 feet of ice/snow from the driveway only to be blocked in again with another wall of ice/snow when the plows make their next run. Wooo!

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Aaron D. wrote:

I spent the last hour shoveling snow here in Falls Church, VA. It was mostly fun, with my wife taking pics and trading off the shovel from time to time.

We then walked down to our local Giant Foods, about 1/4 mile away.

Remember all those PANDAMONEUM on-site news stories from grocery stores over the past 48 hours? Record lines, cleared-out supplies, no place to park, etc.?

Yeah, I just rolled in and there were about 6 to 8 customers total in the store. The shelves were completely stocked and I was in and out with all my guilty-pleasure supplies in about 10 minutes (Taco-night tonight, homemade cookies, homemade onion-chip dip for the game tomorrow, Sam Adams, etc.).

I sure am glad I waited. I don't think I've ever seen the store so empty. It was kind of surreal.

Falls Church represent! I'm going to be attempting to go to the Capitals game tomorrow. Looks like I'll have to go to Ballston as the above ground metro is closed

Finished digging out tonight only to be treated to a forecast of additional snow on Wednesday.

Delaware had it's state of emergency lifted only to result in something like 300 road accidents in New Castle County alone.

Well the snow has stopped. A pregnant woman at the end of the development went into labor so they had to run an emergency plow through. They only plowed just enough to get a single vehicle through, but that meant we could explore the neighborhood on foot at least. The main emergency snow route is three roads away and hadn't fully been plowed by 4pm yesterday. The shopping complex on it is completely closed. Some folks have decided to dig out their cars, but it all seems a little pointless until the plow comes in earnest and clears the roads. The troughs of snow in the road mean any vehicle with less than 12 inches of road clearance is going to be piling snow in front of it. This hasn't stopped some idiots from trying. There are at least two SUV's stuck in the road between our development and the main artery making plowing and emergency medical evacuation difficult. Considering the next development over is an over 55 community, it makes me angry at their extraordinary selfishness. One person even pushed his wall of snow into the one lane plowed route just to get his Toyota 4runner out.

Paleocon wrote:

They only plowed just enough to get a single vehicle through, but that meant we could explore the neighborhood on foot at least.

You don't have a set of snow shoes in your house to allow walking over deep snow in an emergency? Who are you, and how did you hijack Paleocon's account?

Heh, on Cartalk yesterday, they had a new vocabulary word:

Subris, n: Aggressive, unsafe driving in snow by Subaru owners.

So, the last foot or two of snow was relatively light. I woke up to about 4-6" of snow that had blown onto the cleared areas overnight. The lower foot or so is heavy and wet. Makes for very discouraging shoveling.

We have a one-lane path clear in the neighborhood. The feeder road looks good, I'll probably walk up to the store today and take a look around.

Funkenpants wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

They only plowed just enough to get a single vehicle through, but that meant we could explore the neighborhood on foot at least.

You don't have a set of snow shoes in your house to allow walking over deep snow in an emergency? Who are you, and how did you hijack Paleocon's account?

Trust me. I've wanted a set of snowshoes for a while, but the wife has put a freeze on the Paleocon defense budget. That's what happens when you have a woman in the executive office.