Posted on 01/23/2016 12:02:03 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
Dear Northeast Freepers:
Please check-in to let us know that you're safe. If you want to share your blizzard experiences- whether funny or scary - we're listening. If you need something, please say so. Maybe we can help or get word to someone who can.
~Signed, Your Friends at Free Republic.
Barely an inch here in north Georgia.
I’m north of Dawsonville.
Got a pot of pintos on the stove.
they said 2 feet on Staten Island
i cant even pay mexicans to clean my walk or i’ll get kicked off the board lol.
jk neighborhood kids come around.
my better half has been laid off for a month and said it figures that here is no snow while she’s laid off and doesn’t have to commute to NYC.
she just got a contract job that starts monday!! she found out today.
but the money’s very good so she’s going if i have to shovel all the way there for her :0
3-4 inches on the ground on the foothills around Hood River, OR, but this is stale snow, weeks old.
i like that one.
some have gone to be a 4 with a 3 :)
We just got brushed by this storm as it was getting cranked up: A “nice” snow of about 5” on top of about 2” left from prev. snow. Enough for the kids to play in, but not too bad to shovel.
The most snow I’ve ever experienced was close to 2’, but IIRC, we got it in 3 waves over maybe a 5 day period. It’s a bit hard for me to imagine 2-3 ft. in one day, with blizzard strength winds. (I can imagine the snow, just not me digging out without serious mechanical assistance!)
Good luck to all “in the path” of this one.
I am very definitely snowed in, as is a whole lot of Maryland. I could ski or snowshoe elsewhere if I really needed to, but that’s not happening unless something really bad happens.
It’s beautiful and peaceful. I’m enjoying this. I have electricity, which is really nice, but I could cook, stay warm, and have plenty of water even if we lost power. “Prepping” isn’t about being ready for a catastrophe worthy of a Hollywood movie and just as unrealistic. It’s about being ready for the things that actually happen every few years - like this weekend - and not letting the unexpected interfere with enjoying life’s beauty.
it is a lot of hype but a good excuse for the govt employees to get another day off....
well snow is white afterall.....its racist!
3 to 4 inches on the ground in the Bronx, NY. Coming down strong. Started around 9pm. Hoping it doesn’t get to bad. Have a new job to start and may have to travel to Jersey.
started in NYC around 8 pm last night. Doesn’t look like much out there.
Falling quickly, but thankfully it’s not heavy snow.
DC metropolitan area. Have gone out 3 times. Two plus inches first time. Four to 5 inches the second and third time. Snow started around 2 pm, last shoveling starting 2:30 am. Forecast is for lots more. Nice light fluffy snow. Even at 77, not to hard to do 40 feet. Used to those bitter Iowa winters, 25f is nothing. After dropping salt off to a friend at noon in DC went to the local Harris Teeter in NW. Place was mobbed. They said they would be open until midnight, and on Saturday too. Well stocked with most things. One year we had a bad snow and there was NO bread. So I baked some and sold it making some money and doing a public service.
boy, we city slickers hide for weeks lol,.
well, not the ones with the big trucks, which are VERY common here now, not like 20 years ago.
Sounds like weather Viagra! lol
I live in ATL but am visiting the parents in Central Kentucky. The forecast was pretty spot on here. There’s about 8” of snow on the ground.
I hate seeing that FReepers, like the media, seem to thing an event is important only if and as it affects the coasts, and ignore effects outside the coasts. KY got hit pretty good, as did other inland locations. No one here seems to be freaking out, they’re just going about their business and hunkering down.
Central PA updated forecast from 8”-12” to 2-3 feet. It’s 20 degrees with steady snow not much wind yet. This could be a record event for my area.
On a side note-The birds must have known yesterday. They emptied the feeder in one day, prior to that it lasted 2-3 days.
Wow. They really upgraded the snow amount for PA. Looks like it tracked a little further north. DC and Baltimore are getting the 3 inch/hour core right now. Yeah better get used to this during winter. Solar max for this weak cycle is half way down to zero sunspots now. No more net solar warming for at least 6-7 years.
it looks pretty dam bad outside my Staten Island window.
i’ll send the cat out to check it out :) jk.
if this were election time, Chris Matthews would “love that blizzard” for making obama look like a leader, even if there were a few silly deaths involved /s
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