[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Thought I'd take Jimmy Valentine's sister-in-law's 4 wheeler to get the paper about 0730 EST. Forget about it!. Bumper was ploughing snow.

[Semper911]

Bump for more reports from the MidAtlantic...

[Ligeia]

I ventured out and didn't have any problems, really. Free enterprise and our tax dollars are hard at work both plowing and sanding. I drove out to Great Falls where the snow measures over a foot at this point. It's magnificent! I was so proud of my little SUV as I went toe-to-toe with a Hummer. One poor landscape truck with a blade strapped to the front had misjudged the edge of the asphalt and was in the ditch but all other 4x4s were doing fine. I stopped on the a one-lane bridge that crosses over Difficult Run to see the water freezing into a creek slurpee.

The only problem I had was the ice on the wiper blades. I hope GM has fixed that problem in the past few years. If not, someone in R&D needs to get busy.

It was good to see so many independent trucks out wearing the rust off their capital investment. Everything they plowed is getting recovered at the rate of an inch per hour. Funny thing, schools are out of snow days and Washington's Birthday tomorrow was supposed to be a make up day. Not this year!