Posted on 01/23/2016 12:02:03 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
Dear Northeast Freepers:
Please check-in to let us know that you're safe. If you want to share your blizzard experiences- whether funny or scary - we're listening. If you need something, please say so. Maybe we can help or get word to someone who can.
~Signed, Your Friends at Free Republic.
Suffolk County, Long Island: Snow coming down steadily, with gusty winds. It’s not a very pretty snowfall right now. We have several inches on the ground, but with the wind-driven drifts, it’s hard to tell just how much.
Everyone here is safe and warm, with coffee and hot chocolate at the ready, and a roaring fire going in the fireplace.
Our biggest challenge so far is keeping the cat from escaping to the outside whenever we open the door to let the dog out to do his business.
Stay warm, everybody!
Regards,
We went to the March for Life yesterday. Traffic was great cause all the Government drones stayed home.
The March went on as planned. Leading edge of the storm came toward the end of the march.
We took the Metro to our car and drove home to our home 30 miles NE of Baltimore. Since I’m originally from Detroit, snow doesn’t put me into a paralyzed catatonic state.
We also cancelled a sledding campout with our Trail Life USA troop. (bummer)
About a foot on the ground and coming down hard right now. I need to get out and shovel.
No worries. He’s not going anywhere.
My son is at a college near DC. They are confined to their college apartments today. The guys there are planning a major snow castle. It’s an engineering school so I’m sure it will be elaborate.
Good for you. We had some folks from Indianapolis down there I hope their trip back has been safe. It looked like they were driving into heavy weather.
LOLOLOL! Love a good, morning chuckle! Thanks!
There is no place in the US or Canada where “blizzards are the norm” nor where the walk to school and back are both uphill.
LOL but it sounds good.
That's a pretty smart thing to do. Some years back, a lady in South Park couldn't find her way back to her house after feeding her horses in a blizzard (only 300 feet away) and froze to death.
18” in NoVirginia and counting.. on par with the 2010 storm..
Checking in from central NY area.
Not a flake to be seen from this storm. Some white on the ground from a lake effect event a few days ago that shut much of the Syracuse area down, but we’re expecting some sun today.
Watching the radar, though I would have sworn we were going to get hit, but the forecast doesn’t even suggest it. It must be pulling pretty straight east off the coast.
Oh well.
That little car was indestructible.
Trust me, I tried.
From muddy river bottoms to raging snow and ice storms, it just kept going.
With 232K on the odo, *after* it stopped working, many months before, my stupid ex traded it in on a VW Rabbit and they hauled the Gremlin to Eddie’s Salvage in WV.
Two weeks later, my mother saw it tearing down I81 S in WV, a teenage by at the wheel.
For all I know, it’s still out there, somewhere.
Many years later, I had an AMC Eagle, which was basically a 4WD Gremlin.
Also invincible.
:)
Looks like God is covering DC with white. Really rather symbolic of the innocents of children.
I think MD outlawed them years ago.
Now, we only have chains.
Every winter, I’d swap out my normal tires for the studs on the Gremlin and be literally good to go all winter.
Since I knew how to change my own wheels, I’d normally swap them only when *really* bad weather was coming, around Jan-Feb and leave the regular tires on the rest of the time.
Sky looks like snow is imminent, but none is falling at present.
And people who have no experience with storms of this size will die or come close because they don't know how to handle it.
People have no business being out in it.
So although it's not likely to level someone's house, it is a major strong storm and will do enough damage.
Just because you decided to live somewhere where you can look down on others for not being used to what you always have to deal with doesn't mean everyone is equipped or able to handle it.
Your superior to thou-ness has been duly noted.
Nor'easter snow is notoriously wet and heavy. There's been times it's been like shoveling slush. The water content of that snow can be incredibly high and that does make it a problem.
FOX NEWS ALERT:
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, Mayor Stephen Reid says for people to not come out to the ocean because ‘it is an angry ocean’.
LOL
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