Snow is really coming down hard within the last ten minutes....here in Southern Chester County, Pennsylvania.......just north of Delaware.
It just started snowing in southwest Jersey. I hate snow. Go away.
Snow just started here in south jersey outside of Philly.
I'm now at the garden center complex, 14 miles south of where I live in York, PA, and it's snowing to beat the band, here. Because it's only 7°F (-12° wind chill), the snow's very fine and powdery. Not quite a "whiteout" yet, but getting there quickly.
I'm setting-up the cat with extra food and water, and heading back home within an hour, before the roads get so bad.
I noticed that people I passed on the way down here, were driving 45mph+, without regard for the conditions. I expect to see lots of accidents on my return trip. Idiots!
No point in putting anymore birdseed out under the Lath House, as it'll be buried in a matter of minutes. Tomorrow, when I get back in here to plow and shovel, I'll clear-off their usual feeding spot and put out another 40lbs of seed.
Getting ready to leave...
Reporting from West Michigan. Without any exceptions the falling snow is absolutely 100% white and it all seems to be falling in a gentle swaying fashion from the clouds above and settling on the ground, rooftops, cars...............it's simply amazing, what a sight. Oh the humanity, we have no bare spot of ground left, what will we do???
Ya'll are such weenies. I'm living in Belize now and ran a thread about the 2 Day Shut down of the country in protest of government corruption.
Here is the report from Belize TV on what Belizians thought necessary to stock up on during our "man-made" shutdown:
"......But that's only a small part of tomorrow's worries as schools and businesses will be shut down all in protest of the Musa administration's new tax measures. We'll have comment from the teacher's union leader in just a few minutes ago as our news team caught up with the NTUCB group at a special planning meeting that is going on right now. But, first.... today, the fear of shortages created a consumer panic across the city as shoppers thronged stores buying the kinds of supplies that typically would only be used in a hurricane. 7NEWS was on the streets for the disaster readiness shopping frenzy.
Keith Swift Reporting,
Today Belizeans were preparing for the worse.
Shopper #1,
"Preparing for this thing like it is a hurricane because without water and light, you can't eat and you can't bathe and you know women have to bathe."
Shopper #2,
"This reminds me of when they had Heads of Agreement when all the stores were broken up. I could remember because I got tear-gassed and I can remember about it. All the stores downtown, Orange Street, Albert Street, King Street, all the stores were broken up. It was a real riot and I can never forget about that."
It is not the Heads of Agreement or a natural disaster but today Belizeans were filling carts and reaching deep into their mid-week pockets to prepare for a mass shutdown of businesses. So what were people buying? We looked into the carts of frenzied shoppers at Publics Supermarket.
Shopper #1: I am stacking up on a little food because I need to feed my grandson. I don't worry about me but my grandson. I have some eggs and things, which I could use. Like for bread I bought my flour because I can knead and make my little fry cake. But I am telling you water is gone so I had to use a little milk pan to wash my underarm.
KS: What are you expecting to happen?
Shopper #1: I am expecting the worse to come and no better; the worse.
AN: Where is the money coming from to buy this?
Shopper #1: Well I had to go borrow a little money. This is money I borrowed to do some shopping because I am broke and I have to work tomorrow so this is like hurricane.
Shopper #3: The water is already cut off so I am just stacking up on supplies to last me the next few days because they say water going, light going, and phone going.
KS: What do you think will happen?
Shopper #3: I am really not sure man but I am just preparing.
KS: So what are you buying?
Shopper #3: Well just little groceries man, the basics.
Shopper #4: Well brown sugar and basic things.
KS: What are you expecting? Are you expecting for us to be blacked out from everything the next couple days?
Shopper #4: Yes.
KS: So how are you able to afford all this in the middle of the week?
Shopper #4: Well something has to happen. I have to get money from somewhere.
KS: So these are the necessities?
Shopper #4: That's right. You know you have like your noodles and macaroni and cheese…
KS: How long do you expect all of this to last you?
Shopper #5: Well I have some home left over from the Christmas holiday so this is just to add on to what I have.
KS: You are stocking up on candles.
Shopper #2: Yes, I am getting candles because I heard no light and you have to have light right.
KS: And then I see you have flour and…
Shopper #2: Flour and rice. These are the staple foods right and I could make fry cake and tortilla.
But tortillas is not the only concern of the people, today lines of cars cued up to fill up on gas as the frenzied mood of uncertainty possessed city dwellers as well as those living out of the city.
Driver,
"You need that for transport because I live up north and if I want to go out this weekend now is the only time I can buy gas."
The mass shutdown will be a mass inconvenience but for one driver it's worth it.
Driver,
"I'm glad people are taking a stand though. We need to take a stand as a whole country together. Me personally I think it is a good move so we just have to keep on praying and ask the Lord to guide us and guide our Ministers and thing. I believe this country really need prayers right now."
Here is the thread address, if anyone wants to read more about the country-wide protest: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1324309/posts?page=5
Laugh if you like - I've been out and gotten milk and bread (we were down in DC for the inauguration so we needed them anyhow) and toilet paper (a family of five can burn through rolls pretty quickly). I'm a boy scout, and I am prepared. Here on the Connecticut shoreline we are forecasted for up to 21 inches, and I've seen the storms of '68, '74, '78 and '96. Once in a while we really get dumped on. In '68, my neighborhood was at the top of a steep hill and the plows simply couldn't get to us. The men and boys of the neighborhood all got together and shoveled the streets. We didn't get out for four days. One pregnant woman was brought to the bottom of the hill on a tobbogan to meet the ambulance.
But you forgot one thing. In addition to milk and bread, its a requirement to top off the gas tank. It amazes me how on the one hand people get ready to be snowed in for weeks and on the other hand they have enough gas to cross 5 states.
Up to +8 in Bangor now, a 32 degree rise since 5:30 AM.
Missing Pennsylvania this morning?
You folks have my sympathy.
I was born and raised up in Northeast Ohio, right on Lake Erie, and I remember all too well how much snow you can get. We had a blizzard when I was about 8, and the snow was so heavy it collapsed our garage! Thankfully the car wasn't in it at the time, because the driveway was 3 feet deep and my Dad couldn't shovel fast enough....
Make yourself a hot toddy, build a nice fire, and just enjoy it.
15 seconds ago there was nothing to be seen out the windows (Northern NJ) then in blew the snow! Not a few flakes as it usually does, but a full blown shower of snow!! It has started!
I was down in DC with ELS for the Ball, and was supposed to come back today, but we decided to forfeit the cost of the extra day and get home a day earlier. RebubMommy did the same. Smart us!!! I hope the rest of the Tri-Staters followed. One thing to drive in the snow --- another to drive in blowing snow!
As Mark Levin said -- have plenty of Wonder bread and TP and you'll be all set. All I have to do is refill the bird feeders and then I will sit by the fireplace, read all the stuff on this thread and watch the snow build up OUT THERE!
That is the funniest and most cynical yet the most accurate description of weather people and reporters that I have ever read.
It's noon on Saturday and it has just started to snow here in northwestern New Jersey.
Snow just started coming down on Long Island :-)
Checking in from Long Island.. started snowing and the folks are driving crazy as usual.
It just got going good a few minutes ago here in Herndon, Virginia, a stone's throw from Dulles Airport. Starting to stick to the streets and coming down at a fast clip. Why do I always get the urge for a pizza when the streets are unsafe for the poor Domino's guy?
My water pipes are frozen solid. :(
Just moved from Long Island to Lehigh County Pennsylvania.
It started snowing here around 9:00 a.m. this morning. We've got plenty of supplies and my neighbor has a new tractor with a snow plow that he loves to come over and do our driveway with.
My husbands with NYC Sanitation, the "Greatest Snow Removers" on the east coast. He's home recovering from a heart attack and groaning about all the overtime he's missing LOL.