Posted on 02/06/2010 7:08:28 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – A blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region Saturday, with emergency crews struggling to keep pace with the heavy, wet snow that has piled up on roadways, toppled trees and left thousands without electricity.
Officials urged people to huddle at home and out of the way of emergency crews. Forecasters said the storm could be the biggest for the nation's capital in modern history.
A record 2 1/2 feet or more was predicted for Washington. As of early Saturday, 10 inches of snow was reported at the White House, while parts of Maryland and West Virginia were buried under more than 20 inches. Forecasters expected snowfall rates to increase, up to 2 inches per hour through Saturday morning.
Blizzard warnings were issued for the District of Columbia, Baltimore, parts of New Jersey and Delaware, and some areas west of the Chesapeake Bay.
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LOL Indeed! out of the mouth of innocents! You had human parents!
thanks! now we just have to figure out how WE will get down there!
I’ve got the NHL CenterIce package thru DirectTV. They also said that if cancelled for tomorrow, the make-up date is Monday, so if you guys get halfway to DC and hear it’s cancelled, you might as well press on and find a hotel room.
It’s too complicated to fully explain, but my name goes all the way back to the old GEnie service, where the topic-drift topic in the ST roundtable was frequently referred to as Club Cave.
Getting back to the topic of Washington in the snow, this has me remembering the day the plane hit the 14th St Bridge, a Metro train jumped the tracks and I was one of about 2500 nuts that went to the old Cap Centre to watch the Oilers and the Caps. We got free coffee and cocoa that night, as I recall.
That's the high editorial and journalistic standards of Reuters for you.
Oh, what a shame :), here in flyover, we order pizza during a storm, ‘just because’. We have the tools to deal with snow. Sorry to dance on the grave of yankees, but..... HAHAHAHAHA, welcome to our world. Stay safe everyone!
When people talk about being 'buried' under snow, I think about my family really being buried in our cabin in a logging camp in the Black Range forest in New Mexico in 1947... I was six years old. We couldn't open the door to get out, and melting snow outside the two windows created thick solid blocks of ice preventing any exit. We were trapped inside for seven days.
Pictures taken by the first rescuers to arrive at the camp showed only about 2 feet of the chimneys of cabins (about 25 of them) visible above the snow.
I remember well how my step father rationed what food we had in the cabin - the day before we were finally dug out we had the last meal of Quaker Oats and canned milk. I always hated oatmeal after that week of so much of it... ~grim grin~
Oxygen was a problem - couldn't have a fire very long we quickly found - because the fire used oxygen we needed to breath. We could only have small ones for short periods of time.
Unfortunately two people died in their cabin - probably of oxygen deprivation.
Rescuers dug trenches (somehow) in the snow to get to the cabin doors, and I remember that my brother and I got into trouble playing in those long trenches... playing children most likely got in the way of adults trying to move 'the necessities' to and from cabins.
I say somehow, because those paths in the snow were close to 10 feet deep and more - far far above our heads... so I have often wondered how they went about the job.
It was more than a week before we could get a car out - it had to be pulled by a 'bulldozer' though a lot of mud.
We never went back...
I think you answered your own question. Most everyone else gets thoroughly confused by the cross-hatch, diagonal vs. north-south orientation of DC streets.
I once read that the layout was intentionally planned that way to confuse invading troops.
Best post on this thread!
If the Pens can do it, I can do it.
Im going to get up at 6am and go. Who cares if I get there early. There is always Clydes.
If this game is played, we will not miss it. Look for me on NBC!
DC needs a dentist....
Keep posting these awesome photos!
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“Getting back to the topic of Washington in the snow, this has me remembering the day the plane hit the 14th St Bridge, a Metro train jumped the tracks and I was one of about 2500 nuts that went to the old Cap Centre to watch the Oilers and the Caps. We got free coffee and cocoa that night, as I recall”
Yes, 1982, Lenny Skutnik. Introduced in the balcony by President Reagan at the State of the Union Address. I remember it like it was yesterday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Skutnik
I went to the Capital Center many times. When I was in college, we found out where the Bruins were staying and went to their hotel after the game. Phil Esposito, Harry Sinden, and coach Don Cherry got on the elevator with us. Espo was wearing a full length mink coat! It was pretty unbelievable.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
freeper agreatper said that it’s been confirmed that the Pens will fly into Newark and bus to DC for the game. There was a sizeable crowd at the Verizon center for the G’town-Villanova game, i have no idea how they all got there. Metro is not running above ground. has to be by bus.
AMEN! From your keyboard to God's ears!
ok, good you saw his post. wasn’t sure it was on the same thread!
Fairfax County, VA here: Between 24 and 30 inches depending on where we measure. Still have power and heat, so we’re OK.
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