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Eastern United States braced for winter storm (How Ya Doin'? Got Yur 'Shovel Ready' 8-?)
BBC News ^ | 12/26/10 | BBC

Posted on 12/26/2010 2:12:34 PM PST by NormsRevenge

The snow is causing travel chaos across the eastern US.

A swathe of the US eastern seaboard is braced for an intensifying winter storm that is dumping heavy snow as it sweeps north.

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and severe weather warnings are in place from Georgia to Vermont as temperatures continue to plummet.

Blizzards dropping up to 1ft (31cm) of snow are expected to hit New York and parts of New England.

South Carolina had its first Christmas snow since records began in 1887.

L/Cpl Bill Rhyne, of South Carolina Highway Patrol, said people were heeding warnings to stay off the roads.

Transport officials in Washington DC deployed 200 salting lorries, snow ploughs and other equipment to tackle the expected 6in of snow expected across the Mid-Atlantic region.

Blizzard warnings were in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston. Forecasters predicted more than 1ft of snow from midday on Sunday until late afternoon.

States of emergency

Up to 18in of snow was predicted to fall on the New Jersey coast, with wind gusts of more than 40mph (64km/h).

Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina had declared states of emergency by early Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: blizzard; braced; unitedstates; winterstorm
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To: NormsRevenge
pretty lights.


21 posted on 12/26/2010 2:33:46 PM PST by McGruff
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Ski areas will be thrilled.. the Sierra got hit bigtime too.. we have some nice weather to get there,, nothing like a falling snow, the freshness of the flake on the tongue.. great stuff,, ‘til its depth reaches the rafters . ;-) Enjoy!!


22 posted on 12/26/2010 2:34:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: McGruff

wow,, pretty cool..
Vikes get shuffled again tho..
just as well.

Vikings-Eagles moved to Tuesday night
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ApWZfaMEXQC27dVFD_A3Fyk5nYcB?slug=ap-viking-eagles


23 posted on 12/26/2010 2:38:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: proxy_user
I think you meant to say, "I put the BMW in tha garage...", right? And, too, you left out "Greenwich.". You're supposed to say, "we left Greenwich at 7:10 am, having left the help with instructions to call if the roof sags," or something like that. Oh, and you left out "Park Ave.". You're supposed to tell us that your building is on Park Ave.
24 posted on 12/26/2010 2:38:56 PM PST by the invisib1e hand ("Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than 200 swords" - Napoleon Bonapart)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m 30 miles SW of Philly, and we have about two inches total, despite it having started snowing at 1:45 p.m. It’s now 5:30. And they cancelled the Eagle’s game for this.


25 posted on 12/26/2010 2:39:50 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: NormsRevenge

I just went out to shovel the driveway, to make sure I can get out for work tomorrow. We already have about 4 inches here in Suffolk County Long Island.....but I couldn’t find my gloves (as usual).

I lasted about 10 minutes outside before my fingers felt like they were about to fall off! It feels like sub zero out there!!


26 posted on 12/26/2010 2:40:52 PM PST by NoGrayZone (What we conservatives call the privates, the liberals call public access! (thnx Balding_Eagle)
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder if he cheats at golf like Clinton did?


27 posted on 12/26/2010 2:41:33 PM PST by Cisco Nix (Real Conservatives stay sober and focused)
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To: NormsRevenge

Snowed in Jacksonville, FL this morning.

Nothing stuck.


28 posted on 12/26/2010 2:42:42 PM PST by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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To: the invisib1e hand
I'm the guy that eats squirrels when things get thin on work around here. I did another 6 year enlistment after 9-11 after an 18 year gap in service (required waivers). I've worked in commercial kitchen. I can speak kitchen spanish and juggle knives.

A year ago, I spent 2 weeks in intensive care after a fall, and I'm back to normal today, minus a kidney and spleen.

I'm not a sissy-boy.

I didn't suggest making a law. I do however shun and castigate those that let their dogs go splat on the highway, whether by lack of training or bad judgement or whatever.

And I don't want to run over anyone's dog after it already did the bounce/roll thing on the highway at > 50MPH.

Seriously.

I'm not trying to run anyone's life, but I'll damn sure comment, when it's stupid.

Lord knows I've recieved lots of unsolicited advice when it was appropriate.

/johnny

29 posted on 12/26/2010 2:43:14 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Amberdawn

It’s called teaching folks to understand authority.


30 posted on 12/26/2010 2:45:30 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: proxy_user

Stay warm inside. I read NYC may get 17 inches!......


31 posted on 12/26/2010 2:45:45 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Your thread title gives me an idea.

All of this snow is a big “Shovel ready project”. They should take from the stimulus funds, and give the unemployed jobs shoveling/clearing snow.

However, I doubt many people would sign up. They would rather stay warm and collect their checks. Might get a few takers from those dropping off UE.


32 posted on 12/26/2010 2:46:25 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: NormsRevenge

How did we every survive without the 24Hr Weather channels and radar maps? But somehow we did.


33 posted on 12/26/2010 2:47:30 PM PST by McGruff
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To: NoGrayZone

Through two decades of living along a rural road (fortunately, no other driveways close to mine) I have learned:

1 - Plow so that my blade pile is to the left of the driveway as I face the road...the plow truck will not be putting that back into the lane.

2 - Scrape down a bit of the road on each side of the driveway so there is less the township truck blade when it does get to the driveway.

3 - MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL - since there will be some plowed back in, get out and remove it as soon as possible after the plow truck leaves. It will never be less compacted and easier to remove than at that moment.

BTW 1/2 inch in the lower Susquehanna valley of Pennsylvania.


34 posted on 12/26/2010 2:47:39 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: Keith in Iowa

I bet you guys in Iowa are experienced in this stuff.
The MSM, being from NYC -DC, is in full Snowpocalypse mode!....


35 posted on 12/26/2010 2:50:59 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: NormsRevenge

That’s what we conservatives like to call, hope and change in global warming theory.


36 posted on 12/26/2010 2:53:19 PM PST by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Minus a kidney and a spleen?
You sure they didn’t sell them on eBay?.........


37 posted on 12/26/2010 2:54:29 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Well, it wouldn’t take two hours to drive from Greenwich, particularly at nearly 80 MPH.

And I put my 12-year-old beater in the garage, and I am now safe in my one-room apartment.


38 posted on 12/26/2010 2:54:43 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Red Badger

Had a foot here Thursday into Friday. And a full scale blizzard less than a week before - 9”... with 5” not long before that. Media goes into stormgasms here too... but since this one is happening in NY,NY - it will be America’s Storm to End All Storms on the nets and news channels on TV - so I’ll watch something else :)


39 posted on 12/26/2010 2:56:04 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: eyedigress

I ‘member that one as well here in Michigan, boy, those were the days!!!


40 posted on 12/26/2010 2:57:03 PM PST by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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