Posted on 01/29/2022 4:33:58 AM PST by caww
1” +/- of snowfall.
Yeah, we getting hammered in my neck of the woods in SE VA.
Yep.
=.=
/s
Yes, that is strange
Yes; years ago I was in a job that made the mistake of telling us the day before that the office would close the next day due to the forecast - and NOTHING HAPPENED.
They never did that again.
After a November storm a few years ago in which people should have been released early but weren’t, many people who commuted less than an hour into work spent five hours or more getting home - so they just don’t come in if they think there will be serious snow (and COVID made that easier; many simply work remotely).
That’s one nice pooch!
That storm taught me a lot about preparedness. When Sandy hit, I was ready with food, gas, coffee, and ordnance. My power stayed on (miraculously) but three to four days later, with power still out the gas stations became donnybrooks. Everyone with generators seems to have only a few cans of gas. There were reports of fights breaking out, people cutting in line, and so on.
As such, it only takes 96 hours of no electricity for civilization to collapse.
I believe that is why they switched from “global warming” to “climate change” (which is more acceptable to me, though the human impact to me is not credible).
The worst part is many of those places seeing harsher winters never had plows or salt trucks; I believe some are in an ideal position to use “brine” (seawater) on their roadways (and they do).
BreadandmilkBreadandmilkBreadandmilkEGGS! 😫
Milk, bread, eggs & TP.
Leave now and get all you can carry!
An inch or two here in East TN (OMG!!!)...a nice day to stay inside and start a few trays of super-hot peppers. :-)
I skimmed the headline and thought it said winter storm KAREN LOL
Only the weather channel names these , they try to stay relevant in this dat of better info online i=with live streamers
They are WOKE anyway
The Weather Channel announced Friday it will no longer use the term “Dixie Alley” on its television network. The term describes a region of the Southern USA that’s prone to deadly tornado outbreaks.
“Effective immediately, we will discontinue use of the racially-insensitive term ‘Dixie Alley’ – and I call on others in the industry to do the same,” Byron Allen –
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/03/19/dixie-alley-discontinued-weather-channel/4770211001/
puppy needs a diet...
I drove to work in NYC before one storm. It wasn't THAT bad of a storm. But I spent a good 2 hours on the Palisades Parkway vs my usual 20 min trip, not just because of the conditions but everyone else on the Pkwy was going 20 mph. And even THEN there were spin outs etc.
Ahh, toxic masculinity...It's always the other guy's fault, and NEVER my fault....
We are getting hammed here in Eastern MA….quite a storm.
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In those days, kids were expected to play outside all day in the snow. No sitting indoors watching TV. At the school down the street, the snowplows clearing the parking lot would create these enormous piles of snow that we would tunnel through. My mother was terrified these tunnels would cave in on us and we wouldn't be found until April.
In the 1978 Blizzard, we had such snowpiles right in front of our house. I was 16 that year and my friend and I smuggled a case of Heineken into our snow cave. We'd drink the beer and jam the empties into the snow pack around us. We sort of forgot about that until a few weeks later when I came home from school and saw the telltale green bottles sticking out of the rapidly melting snowpile. I frantically recovered them before my parents saw them.
I’m a dozen miles west of NYC, and we were part of targeted power outages (as the damage to the power stations would be worse if they flooded while active). Because of the population density, we knew we would be among the first restored (and we were); I really sympathized with those who had moved out to the idyllic hills to the west, as the population was so much smaller they’d be the last to have power restored (and that is exactly what happened). Generators are like sump pumps; the former needs a reliable source of fuel while the latter needs reliable electricity.
Sandy taught us that the development we’d engaged in for decades wasn’t planned very well; like some parts of New Orleans, they either shouldn’t have built in these places or they should have built smarter. I’ve seen large new homes on the Outer Banks, and each one is perched atop its own hill with a steep driveway heading up to it. The streets could be under ten feet of water and these places would be dry as a bone; none had basements, either (so water that might get in would simply flow downhill out). It looks odd, but it works - and these homes were mansions.
Ha. Nice. I had one like that last year.
Same here in NOVA. Some accumulation on cars, but the roads are clear. Lots of pre-treating earlier this week.
Weather forecasts were calling for 1”-2” of “sweepable snow”.
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