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Valentines Day Blizzard '07

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Here it Comes! Started snowing here in Vermont around midnight. There is a couple of inches on the ground already. Forecasts are calling for as much as two feet in the next 24 hours or so. I have decided that today is a snow day and am staying home. I am sure i could make it into work, thing would be getting home tonight... Nahh, think i will just relax and hang out here. Maybe i will take som pictures of the stuff and sell the snow on ebay as "Rare Vermont Snow-Made with an old Colonial recipe" lol We sure could use it, It has been about the most snowless winter i can remember, and the ski areas are really hurting for business. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif


mark
 
We have the old Virginia Valentines day ice storm going. 25 car pile up on Afton Mountain on the interstate; I-64 from Richmond to Afton Mountain clogged with downed trees and car wrecks. It'll be a long day for the state police and state DOT workers.
 
I well remember the Virginia ice storms. Would drive the MGB or Elan from Hampton to Pittsburgh or Philly and back, once or twice a month for a few years.
Some of those trips were kinda long. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Ice and a little snow here. *Very* slippery!

School's closed, so I'm home.

I may sneak in to our engineering lab today (if Security will open the building)and work on our FIRST Robot...it has to be finished by Sunday (we've been working on it seven nights a week for the last six weeks).
 
Ice here, shoveled/salted the two houses. Going into work 1 hr late.

Patrick
 
The snow is done here and on its path to the east coast. Champaign ended up with about 13", and I believe that Springfield (and BAZ) got about 16".

The winds were a killer here, and the County pulled all of the trucks of of the road until early this morning...all county roads and highways were/are closed.

My lane is about 2' to 3' deep with drifts...and I'm about to go out and begin tackling the chore of clearing it.

All schools were closed yesterday and today, with many businesses closed as well. (My clinic closed at noon yesterday and will not open until late moring today).

If all goes well, I'll be able tomake it to Champaign later today.

I hope that you listers east of me fair well in this storm.
 
Snow day for me as well. Good thing, too - last night I watched my buddy get t-boned in an intersection and go sliding into the car directly in front of me. He's okay, his Odyssey did a good job of protecting him. Nothing worse than seeing people you care about in danger and being unable to help.

12 degrees here, according to the t-stat. Charlotte must be freezing her SUs off.
 
DrEntropy said:
I well remember the Virginia ice storms. Would drive the MGB or Elan from Hampton to Pittsburgh or Philly and back, once or twice a month for a few years.
Some of those trips were kinda long. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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Some of those trips could turn into epic journeys on the old Pa Pike!! hehehe!!!!
 
It came through here last night....Got about a foot or so....but with drifts much higher. Both the caddy and TR6 had 3 foot drifts on them this morning! and I guess the snow didn't like the truck, cuz it was clean! Tried to get to work....got to the highway on ramp....saw about 3 cars in the ditch and the lanes completely snow covered, turned right around and now I am working on refinishing our bathroom.
 
Well...I just got done clearing the lane to the road. Thought that I would be able to "muscle" the 4WD to the end...but alas, got it stuck 6 foot from the road (on a 200 foot lane).

The snowblower worked well, and I can now get to the road from the house with little effort....but have to drive through the yard a little to get around some major drifts between the house and the barn.

I'm heading off for work in a few minutes....hopefully the wind will stay low and not undo all of the work that I did this morning.

Stay warm!
 
Tough here in Seattle as well, a bone chillin 50. There might be a sun break. Need to find my sunglasses.
 
Noon. I'm home from work. Kinda hard to work on cars when they can't get there so they sent all three of us that made it in, home. I never noticed how dirty the walls in the shop are.
We're at about 10" and it's coming down rapidly. Plows can't keep up,
I wanna go back out in the CJ. I have some really good snow tires on it and it's an absolute blast to go and play in this stuff. I was having a hard time seeing by the time I got to work. I was laughing so hard I was crying. That old bomber just eats this stuff up.
I'd take the dot out sledding, but it's only 11 F and there's a pretty stiff wind, and she's just gettin over a cold. mebbe this weekend.
Hope all are well!
Let it snow
Let it snow
let it snow!
hehehehehehe
 
Banjo said:
I wanna go back out in the CJ. I have some really good snow tires on it and it's an absolute blast to go and play in this stuff. I was having a hard time seeing by the time I got to work. I was laughing so hard I was crying. That old bomber just eats this stuff up.
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Agreed, I love my Jeep in this weather. Heats up real nice, and loves this weather. She has no problems with snow!
 
I got nuttin for heat in that thing. But if I bundle up it dosen't really matter.
 
Around here they made such a big to-do about it and it really is not that big of a storm. Hope all is well for those of you that are getting the brunt of the storm.
 
Snowed yesterday, but it had stopped by around noon. Roads were mostly cleared (or merely packed snow, which is fairly manageable). Problem was the high winds, which undid all the work the plow drivers did. I think the various cities I drive through on the way to and from work called in their plows in the afternoon till the winds died back down.

Same problem in the parking lot at my apartment. Lots of spaces didn't get plowed the first couple of times because there were cars parked in them. Those that had been cleared were full of drifted snow. I lucked out when I got home (around eleven pip emma) and found a slot that was only half filled with snow. A distinct advantage of driving a Miata is that you can fit it into unfeasably short spaces!

-Wm.
 
got 6+ inches in two hours
its really coming down now, not much traffic on the main road. been trying to get my yard tractor with the plow on started, guess i better put a little more effort into it...



mark
 
The best part of a fresh snow storm is how nice it looks and how quiet it is. This to me is great.
 
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