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.
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Travel with animals, keep them penned up.
Personal opinion, no force of law, but I'll say it out loud.
/johnny
Still waiting for the President to share the NYC pain... still... still...
/johnny
/johnny
/johnny
...while stopped in traffic...
So it's safe for Fido to jump out and chase around the interstate? Dogs do that kind of thing. When traffic is stopped.
Personal opinion only, no force of law, no interest in making law....
Hark back to John Wayne: "Hold that horse, pilgrim".
And keep the dog penned up when travelling, because nobody wants to deal with your brat.
/johnny
/johnny
Thanks very much, McGruff!!
If you're planning to watch "Sarah palin's Alaska" tonight. it's the "LOGGER Episode" and the one pic of her with a chain saw can't be posted here, (Getty Image) so when I post the thread in about 75 minutes, I am asking members with the capability, to try to capture a couple of screen shots of her sawing down huge trees!
FINALLY!!
Obama’s “Shovel Ready Jobs” are here - shoveling snow!
Shoveled a path for the dog to go out and do her duty just now and it’s coming down at a high rate right now it Connecticut. This could be a big one if that rate keeps up.
They upgraded it to 18”- 24+” north of Boston, some areas as much as 30”.
Yikes! Prayers your power stays ON!
Yep. Now calling up to 2 feet of snow from New York to Boston.
We didn’t get that much snow in South..... Vietnam during the winter of 68-69?
Have any of Zero’s Christmas photos at the Marine Mess Hall shown anyone in uniform?
GUESS WHAT?!!?!?! The planet’s got a fever! And the only prescription is more cowbell!
Warm globally, cool locally.
I was wearing gloves while shoveling. Problem was, one finger tip had a hole. I only managed to clear half of my driveway when my dog begged me to stop. When I took off the glove, that finger with the hole hurt all the way up to the elbow. It was weird feeling that. I rubbed my dog's paws till they warmed up.
I'm so grateful for global warming. Without it, it would have been much colder.
It is now 1am here on Long Island. This was my third time out. I must admit, I did cry when i walked out for the last time because it looked liked I did nothing the other two times i was out there.
My boss (God Bless his heart) texted me and said we wouldn’t be started till early afternoon. One thing I did notice is that my landlords windshield didn’t have as much as mine did (we were face to face).
I warmed up the truck before I started my 3rd shovel, then turned the truck around. Perhaps it was the wind blowing those snow drifts onto my windshield.
Tomorrow will be heck. However, I am grateful I can still with hold my own when it comes to these kinds of things (although my lower back hurts, so here’s comes the heating pad!).
The one good thing about this blizzard is that I am almost out of butts.
I do have my electronic cigs to turn to though, maybe this is His thwap upside my head!
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