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Holy Mother of Pearl! DC could get Another 20 inches!
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DC Could get another 20 inches!
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Hmmm.
Bets are Algore in is DC, and this is Cosmic Revenge.....
Bets are Algore in is DC, and this is Cosmic Revenge.....
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Basil said:
I just cant contain myself anymore..
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Awesome. Wish I was home!
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Uhm, I LIVE here, and attempt to run a tiny business here. Any more of this white cold stuff and I might have to throw in the towel. It took 3 days for the snow in the alley in DC where I live to get compacted enough to get my quattro out and 2 hours to cover the 12 miles out here to see what the shop looks like. This is snow of epic proportions for around here. Our local govts are not prepared for snow like this as it happens so infrequently. I just read that 25% of DCs plows as US, and they can't get parts. Most side streets in DC have one lane down them, mostly made by cars. The more major roads are scarcely better, but they have at least had a plow driven down them. Maryland is not much better. We have State owned roads, County owned roads, and Park Service owned roads. Each is responsible for clearing their own roads, and it seems as though there is very little cooperation among the various departments. In DC the city Govt has let every house be turned into condos. The problem with that is that every rowhouse that used to house 1 family (1 or 2 cars max), now house 3,4,5, families with tons of cars. There is very little off street parking and that compounds the problem. And if you are lucky enough to have alley parking (like me), DC NEVER plows alleys. Wheeee!!!!
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British car shop. What else? I am a lone ranger though. My partner here, the lovely Ms Tracy helps a lot (and does killer detailing), but it is just the two of us.
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Looks like we're getting between 8 to 14 in the city itself, a bit more towards Baltimore. Yeah, it's a bloody mess down here, but I've had a BLAST navigating the Jeep through the unplowed streets. Like being home in Vermont!
While I've been having a lot of fun, the hardest part was actually getting into town on Friday. We were in Egypt on business, and were scheduled to fly into Dulles Friday afternoon via Frankfurt on Lufthansa. We had no problem from Cairo to Frankfurt, but once in Germany, we found that every single airline was canceling flights into Dulles, except for our Lufthansa flight. Every time we approached someone at the airline (in person or on the phone), they confidently assured us that our flight would leave on time and land in Dulles. Nothing we said had any impact. Believe it or not, we actually told Lufthansa over the phone and in person that we simply wanted to change to an earlier flight and go into New York, and also indicated that we would be happy to pay for it. The response was that because we were already "in transit" they wouldn't allow us to change or to purchase different tickets. Yes, you heard it friends, they simply *refused* to change our flight or to sell us new tickets.
After this continued for about an hour, we found someone who admitted that there was a chance that the flight would be cancelled, but that they would simply put us up in a hotel for the night, and then fly us out the next day. I calmly looked at the ticket agent and told him that DC was not Frankfurt. We don't have the ability to clear snow the way Frankfurt does, and that with 25" of snow coming, Dulles would be closed not for a day, but for several days, and that they'd end up paying for us to stay in Frankfurt for half the week or more, especially with another potential storm coming.
This seemed to have an effect, and they re-routed us to New York on a much earlier flight. Of course, in typical airline style, Lufthansa refused to cancel the DC flight until they were just about finished loading the New York flight. Moreover, the New York flight was about 3/4 full. So, they left numerous passengers bound for DC stranded in Frankfurt (including a client we were traveling with who they refused to help), and then let the New York flight take off with seats available.
Anyway, we made it into New York Friday at 2:00, cleared immigration and customs about ten times faster than I ever experienced at Dulles, and then grabbed a cab to Penn Station. We managed to get on the Acela at 3pm (rather than 4pm, which we had booked before we left Frankfurt). We hit Union Station and got into a cab, with five or six inches of unplowed snow on all streets.
Now the fun really began. The cab driver couldn't navigate the streets, and bailed on us about a mile from our house (but thankfully, only two blocks from our office). So, we were put onto the street in the middle of the storm with two suitcases, our computer bags and no winter coats (remember, we had just come from Cairo). We trudged to the office, where I left my fiancee and I walked home. After all, she's from Tennessee and I'm from Vermont, so a mile in the snow didn't bother me. I wrapped my tweed jacket around me and headed home to retrieve our Jeep, and then I drove back to the office to pick up my fiancee and our luggage.
All the way from Cairo, and the last mile was the hardest!
Hang in there, DC!
While I've been having a lot of fun, the hardest part was actually getting into town on Friday. We were in Egypt on business, and were scheduled to fly into Dulles Friday afternoon via Frankfurt on Lufthansa. We had no problem from Cairo to Frankfurt, but once in Germany, we found that every single airline was canceling flights into Dulles, except for our Lufthansa flight. Every time we approached someone at the airline (in person or on the phone), they confidently assured us that our flight would leave on time and land in Dulles. Nothing we said had any impact. Believe it or not, we actually told Lufthansa over the phone and in person that we simply wanted to change to an earlier flight and go into New York, and also indicated that we would be happy to pay for it. The response was that because we were already "in transit" they wouldn't allow us to change or to purchase different tickets. Yes, you heard it friends, they simply *refused* to change our flight or to sell us new tickets.
After this continued for about an hour, we found someone who admitted that there was a chance that the flight would be cancelled, but that they would simply put us up in a hotel for the night, and then fly us out the next day. I calmly looked at the ticket agent and told him that DC was not Frankfurt. We don't have the ability to clear snow the way Frankfurt does, and that with 25" of snow coming, Dulles would be closed not for a day, but for several days, and that they'd end up paying for us to stay in Frankfurt for half the week or more, especially with another potential storm coming.
This seemed to have an effect, and they re-routed us to New York on a much earlier flight. Of course, in typical airline style, Lufthansa refused to cancel the DC flight until they were just about finished loading the New York flight. Moreover, the New York flight was about 3/4 full. So, they left numerous passengers bound for DC stranded in Frankfurt (including a client we were traveling with who they refused to help), and then let the New York flight take off with seats available.
Anyway, we made it into New York Friday at 2:00, cleared immigration and customs about ten times faster than I ever experienced at Dulles, and then grabbed a cab to Penn Station. We managed to get on the Acela at 3pm (rather than 4pm, which we had booked before we left Frankfurt). We hit Union Station and got into a cab, with five or six inches of unplowed snow on all streets.
Now the fun really began. The cab driver couldn't navigate the streets, and bailed on us about a mile from our house (but thankfully, only two blocks from our office). So, we were put onto the street in the middle of the storm with two suitcases, our computer bags and no winter coats (remember, we had just come from Cairo). We trudged to the office, where I left my fiancee and I walked home. After all, she's from Tennessee and I'm from Vermont, so a mile in the snow didn't bother me. I wrapped my tweed jacket around me and headed home to retrieve our Jeep, and then I drove back to the office to pick up my fiancee and our luggage.
All the way from Cairo, and the last mile was the hardest!
Hang in there, DC!
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I live in DC (right where my shop used to be. ), but the shop is in Rockville. We ventured out yesterday to get the lot plowed (Plow- an insideous device made in Canadia or some such place designed to convert virgin show into a replica of the moons surface, constructed out of compressed ice) We fed the cats . boy are they unimpressed by snow. They were rescued as feral kittens , so they are weird anyway. They sit at the door, "me out, me out..." Open the door and it is the bobble head thing, and then they walk away. For about 5 minutes, until they want out again.....
So they don't plow alleys in DC at all. Side streets are hit and miss. We took Mass. Ave out, intending to catch the beltway. When we hit Maryland, Massachusetts ave was a sheet of ice. Snow emergency route as well. Fortunately the quattro does OK, so no big deal for me. On the way back, after it started snowing again, we stopped at the grocery store for a few things for us, and some for a neighbor. Thr rest of the trip was OK, except that you could not see where the hidden 6 inch thick potholed ice pack was, Man, some spots of major roadways were worse than your average dirt road. Today it is snowing fairly hard, and the wind is blowing hard. I might get out tomorrow, might not. At least I was able to get some work done at the shop. I cannot afford to be closed for a week....
So they don't plow alleys in DC at all. Side streets are hit and miss. We took Mass. Ave out, intending to catch the beltway. When we hit Maryland, Massachusetts ave was a sheet of ice. Snow emergency route as well. Fortunately the quattro does OK, so no big deal for me. On the way back, after it started snowing again, we stopped at the grocery store for a few things for us, and some for a neighbor. Thr rest of the trip was OK, except that you could not see where the hidden 6 inch thick potholed ice pack was, Man, some spots of major roadways were worse than your average dirt road. Today it is snowing fairly hard, and the wind is blowing hard. I might get out tomorrow, might not. At least I was able to get some work done at the shop. I cannot afford to be closed for a week....
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This afternoon we went to phase 3 of the snow emergency plan. Never before in my memory -such as it is- and it meant ALL the city streets were closed. Only emergency and city vehicles were supposed to be out. Made me wish I had the option. Tomorrow will be spent with shovel in hand. Makes my back ache to write that.
