Monday's Snowstorm

[RayThom]

It may be enough to make you drink.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Maybe, just maybe, this storm will dump some significant snow at the lake house and I can get in some snowmobiling this weekend. Forecast for Beach Lake is 10-14" and staying cold for the rest of the week. So I am planning trip to Pa friday night to snowmobile this weekend.
Fingers crossed.


it's been two years since I snowmobiled

[Burning Petard]

round here, Northern Delaware, it looks like this one is gonna be very localized. I watch 'Weather Underground' web page for my best info. This storm first showed up about 10 days ago as 3-5 inches of snow. It changed to 8-12 a few days ago. When I checked it last nite it was back to 3-5. This morning it is less than an inch. Yet where Ray is located less than 10 miles as the crow flies, Weather Underground now shows 3-5 inches of snow and 1-3 inches in Wilmington DE, about 6 miles in another direction.

It has been a strange winter around here. There has been little snow and what we did get soon melted. But Southern Delaware has had lots more snow than here. Now I am sitting down the computer and off to the grocery store to do my part. By tradition , it does not snow in Northern Delaware until all the grocery store shelves are bare of milk and bread.

snailgate

[Sue U]

By tradition , it does not snow in Northern Delaware until all the grocery store shelves are bare of milk and bread.

Don't forget chips!

Forecast is for 8-12" of snow here. Enough to be a pain in the ass, not enough to be a crisis.

[Bicycle Bill]

By tradition , it does not snow in Northern Delaware until all the grocery store shelves are bare of milk and bread.

Don't forget chips!

Forecast is for 8-12" of snow here. Enough to be a pain in the ass, not enough to be a crisis.

The snow is not the crisis.  The crisis is being out of beer and chips... (if you have enough of these, who needs milk and bread?)

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

Forecast is for 8-12" of snow here. Enough to be a pain in the ass, not enough to be a crisis.

My understanding from what I've seen, the biggest danger from this storm isn't the total accumulation (though some areas could top two feet) but the rate at which it's going to be falling while it's coming down...

But I guess if people are stupid enough to be out on the roads while snow is coming down at a rate of 2-3 inches per hour, that may just be nature's way of culling the herd...

[Crackpot]

The problem is getting caught in it when it starts.

[MajGenl.Meade]

The problem is getting caught in it when it starts.

Problem? Gee, I'd have thought that was pretty easy.

[BoSoxGal]

I am home, my cousin is home, and school will be cancelled - so our biggest crisis will be entertaining the munchkin for the day! And shoveling the front walk plus cleaning off cars, because the one who usually does that is in Atlanta for business this week - lucky guy!

[Guinevere]

I have a client meeting at 8:00 on Tuesday night and they "rarely" close that Town Hall, so we shall see. But I'm guessing it won't go on, and in any event, my car will be safely tucked away down the street from my house (away from the flooding) and I won't be able to get to it and get out easily, because for me to make it by 8PM, hmmm, doing the math, road conditions, clearing the car, etc, I'd have to leave my house by 4PM, and the storm will still be going.

Yeah, I better call them this afternoon and let them know chances I can get there safely are slim.

[Guinevere]

Forecast is for 8-12" of snow here. Enough to be a pain in the ass, not enough to be a crisis.

My understanding from what I've seen, the biggest danger from this storm isn't the total accumulation (though some areas could top two feet) but the rate at which it's going to be falling while it's coming down...

But I guess if people are stupid enough to be out on the roads while snow is coming down at a rate of 2-3 inches per hour, that may just be nature's way of culling the herd...

Blizzard warnings, too. Which aren't related to the amount of snowfall, but the whipping wind blowing the snow and making for white-out conditions. A blizzard is 3 hours or more of winds above 35 MPH (I believe).

Heavy snowfall also makes it difficult to see and drive, but its the wind, wind, windy, wind. That's what drives the storm surge as well. Right now we are expecting 40+mph winds, and gusts up to 70, with three feet of storm surge. Tides are running close to 10 feet today and tomorrow, plus the surge, so I'm definitely getting flooded tomorrow.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Good luck Guin.
If my house gets flooded by the ocean and/or LI sound, 99% of Long Island is under water.
I am pretty much smack dab in the middle (north to south) of the island. And close to one of the tallest "peaks" on the island (that is I am well above sea level in comparison to much of Long Island).

milk and bread
bread and milk
must get
milk and bread

[RayThom]

Don't forget toilet paper.

[Scooter]

[Bicycle Bill]

What Scooter said.



Blizzard in the forecast?
East Coasters declare a 'Snowpocalypse' and start preparing for the End of the World as they know it.
Midwesterners put on their heavy coat and go 'Up North' for a weekend of skiing, snowboarding, and snowmobiling.

-"BB"-

[Burning Petard]

So far, about 2 inches of snow, followed by sleet that has left the trees coated. Power was out for about an hour, starting at 0745, for me and approximately 17.0000 others in New Castle county. There are two big pine trees next to my apartment building. About 0830, maintenance people were pounding on our doors telling us to move our cars if parked near those trees. Now there is a pile of broken limbs with one car under them and a spot showing clear pavement where someone did get their car away in time. Not me, my car was way on the far side of the lot where I knew it would be easy to get out.

Small modern crisis when my cell phone was dead because I did not plug it in last night and then this morning I could not charge it. But that was soon taken care of when the power came back on.

Local forecast is for continued intermittent sleet most of the day with temperature hanging around freezing, then dropping during the nite and staying below freezing for the next three days.

BB does have a valid point about Easterners. Yesterday our president called the German Prime Minister, who was due to meet with him in Washington today, and told her to stay home, this storm made travel unsafe in DC.

snailgate

[Jarlaxle]

Forecast is for 8-12" of snow here. Enough to be a pain in the ass, not enough to be a crisis.

My understanding from what I've seen, the biggest danger from this storm isn't the total accumulation (though some areas could top two feet) but the rate at which it's going to be falling while it's coming down...

But I guess if people are stupid enough to be out on the roads while snow is coming down at a rate of 2-3 inches per hour, that may just be nature's way of culling the herd...

Not everyone can stay at home when the weather turns bad! I used to be out all day on snowstorms, so was my wife. Her best friend went into work half an hour ago...she is a nurse.

[RayThom]

About 5-6" of heavy snow here. My sidewalk is already cleared and the roads have been plowed. The temp is slowly rising above freezing so I'll be cleaning off the car soon.

Much ado about very little.

[Guinevere]

Blowing hard, here, snow and mixed gunk so far. High tide in another couple of hours - so far, so good.

And if most of us who DON'T need to go in to work stay off the road, those who MUST go in have an easier time getting there. I'm fine with that. Or you would prefer this again?

[Scooter]

Thankfully we're not getting anything close to the amount of snow that was predicted - looks like the storm tracked a bit further east than was thought.

It's cold as a witch's twat, though.