Saturday - February 06, 2010
Blizzard Blogging?
Yup, it’s still winter out there
Here in St. Clouds ... I mean, here in western New Jersey ... the snow started around 10pm last night. The local snow plows woke me at 6am, and we’ve got about 3 inches. By the time I got out to my car a bit after 7, it looked like 4, maybe 4 1/2. Driving was slow but not too bad as I chugged down the hill to the store for some breakfast stuff. The town has the place about half plowed. As long as you don’t do anything silly like try to stop or turn corners or go more than 20mph then it’s ok. Coming back was a bit more of a challenge. Even though the incline is very slight, my little Satrun with it’s superb all season tires couldn’t manage the little slope outside our condo, so I had to drive around the long way. But I got my parking spot back, which I had just shoveled when I left. That’s a bit score when you live in a community like a condo park. But no one else is out and about yet.
At 7:15 it’s still snowing heavily, and now the wind is starting up. I don’t know where this is going, but the Chicken Little Weather Service is just going bonzo on the TV. They live for this mess. Looks like Washington DC is getting hammered with 2 feet or more maybe when all is said and done. I wonder if Al Gore is in town.
We have food, we have heat, we have underground wires so a power outage is pretty remote. Neither one of us has to go to work today, and there’s plenty on TV since our cable company does this On Demand thing. Which is cool! It’s like a built in VCR, so I can get any recent episode of any current TV show whenever I want, and a huge bunch of old movies for free too.
So let it snow. I don’t care. And if it snows through tomorrow or even into Monday, well, what can you do?
WASHINGTON - A blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region on Saturday, quickly dumping large amounts of snow that piled up on roadways and toppled trees onto apartment buildings and cars.
Officials urged people to huddle at home for the weekend, out of the way of crews trying to keep up with a storm that forecasters said could be the biggest for the nation’s capital in modern history.
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A record 2 1/2 feet or more was predicted for Washington. As of early Saturday, 10 inches of snow was reported at the White House, while parts of Maryland and West Virginia were buried under more than 20 inches. Forecasters expected snowfall rates to increase, up to 2 inches per hours through Saturday morning.Blizzard warnings were issued for the District of Columbia, Baltimore, parts of New Jersey and Delaware and some areas west of the Chesapeake Bay.
My sister in law and her man are supposed to fly out of Newark today for one of their vacation trips down to the islands. Good luck with that Gina!
10:30am update: Looks like about 6” at this point. We’re having a break between clouds, so it’s stopped snowing for the moment.
I just saw a hawk go floating by, gliding along maybe 50 feet up. I didn’t get very long a look at him, just long enough to think “Raptor. Owl? No. Hawk!” Dark head, white under the wings and chest, possibly mottled. Dark head and shoulders. Dark along the forward edge of the wing underside. Tail closed; couldn’t see if it was red. Decent sized bird, but less than half the body mass of the ubiquitous turkey buzzards that thrive here on all the roadkill. But much bigger than a crow; at least twice as big. I thought all the hawks migrated in the fall, but apparently we get Northern Harriers here all year long. Red-tailed hawks live here too. Still, it’s pretty rare to see one, especially in the middle of a snow storm. Kewl!
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