mattie g

Not so sure about the bolded part, but everything else...I think I'm with you.

I feel like it's been a long time since we've had a really big forum divider - one that drops 10"+ on places within 20 miles north and west of the cities and a slushy inch or two (and/or rain) cities and east. I'm not just talking about HighStakes and PSU and the Shenandoah folks getting hit and everyone else fighting for scraps - I mean like the smash zone being painfully close to the cities. This looks to be the one to break that streak.

I hear ya, but I mentioned yesterday that we’re in the most amazing neighborhood right now. We had looked at places around Warrenton a couple years ago, but there’s just no way we could leave.

Some Google functionality is available, but some services are down. and yup...it's everywhere.

It’s raining in Burke.

F this storm already. I’ve got my eyes firmly on the big Christmas rainer.

That’s the one I mentioned yesterday (pretty sure I said it was 12/5/2002 though). I got like 4” or so at about 325’. I remember it never really flipped when I fully expected it to.

Looks promising...

I don’t believe you.

We’re so due that it gave us two.

With this year’s move to telework (even for projects requiring a clearance) and the possibility of moving to a new project with 100% telework, I’d absolutely love to move west - for both a little more space and a little more snow. The problem is that our neighborhood is about the most idyllic you could imagine for the kids, wife, and me, so there’s basically no way we’re leaving. Good problem to have, I suppose!

The worst

It blows when a couple days of runs sets your expectations of seeing 8-12” of mostly/all snow only for a couple of subsequent runs forcing you to extrapolate the RGEM to see whether you’ll get an inch of deform after 8 hours of pouring rain, during which time folks north of us are reporting disgusting totals.

Hick

Pretty sure that DT brought up “liberals” yesterday.

Elevation, latitude, and longitude obviously all play a part. I’m pretty far west, all things considered, but at the lower end of elevation and with latitude not in my favor. I do see the benefits of being west of the fall line in a lot of situations though. I’ve done better than folks inside the Beltway in marginal events, so I don’t have huge complaints in that regard. I think 12/5/2002 was one - I got like 4” or so and places 5 miles east may have gotten a coating. I’d love to be farther west, but there are a lot of benefits to being where I am right now. I just wish more snow were one of them!

I’m at like 325’ and 4-5 miles west of 95. Definitely west of the fall line and at some elevation, but too close to feel that climbing-a-pole feeling in these situations.

Not liking where this is going...

Ponies

F**k’s sake...

The pizza around here is utter garbage. Best I’ve found is Wise Guys in DC - that’s a damn good pie. Italian Store is decent. Everything else is poor to crap.

Nice! I’m a bit of a pizza snob (grew up near Philly) and I have a neighbor up the street from New York, so we’re both really into making our own pizzas and we compare our pies all the time!

^ Equilibrium is a really good brewery. My only issue is that a lot of their beers have the same tea-like thing going on. I can only assume it’s a water chemistry-related issue.

I have to admit that I did miss that massive, wound-up bomb sitting in the spot that we all look at when trying to determine what the setup looks like. I’m most appreciative to Jakkel that mine eyes have been opened.

But at least I can feel good about *trying* to piss in their cornflakes.