Forecasting 6-12” for Baltimore, yikes! I stocked up on stuff Friday, fortunately. I hope (1) it is overhype by the weather forecasters and (2) it gets cleaned up real fast.
I remember the occasional big snowstorm when I grew up in Lansdowne many decades ago. Great times — and no school for a week. ... Although now things have changed a bit: School is closed anyway and I suppose you have to force your kids to wear a rag on their face when they go out to play in it! (those damn Chinese Cooties love the snow, y’know!)
“Forecasting 6-12” for Baltimore, yikes!”
So how much did you actually get?
In 1973 I lived right here, about 70 or so miles inland from Myrtle Beach. We had 17 inches of perfect powder of the sort that the skiers love. An hour south of here some places had up to 25 inches. People were stuck on the interstates waiting for helicopters to rescue them, I knew one man who spent three days at a gas station with his wife and children. I was fortunate to be at home with my wife where I stayed for a week before I could go back to work and we had food, gas heat and electricity. At the time I was assured that people further North dealt with that much snow as if it were nothing but now It seems that the same amount of snow is considered a major problem even far to the North of here at the intersection of I-95 and I-20.
By the way, shortly before the storm struck the weather report predicted snow with, “possible HEAVY accumulations of up to FIVE inches in some areas.”