Voyager

My night shift truck partner had a fear of God moment last night. She was north bound, empty, on 309, just about to the base of the Blue Mountain when all hell broke loose. Blinding rain and wind so strong that she thought our taker truck was going to lay over on its side. She parked and waited. After it passed, she managed to get up over the mountain, but she said it looked like a war zone with trees and wires down up the entire Lehigh County side. End result of that was a 16 hour closure of 309 going over the mountain for clean up and utility repairs.

So I look outside and find out that a squall went through and dropped 3/4 inch....

I haven't heard anything yet. I went up the mountain after my last load when it finally opened, and you couldn't tell that anything even happened.

Yup. They opened it up sometime around 5pm.

Whatever ripped on the Blue Mountain out my way was nasty. 309 was closed for 14 hours for cleanup. My night shift partner hit it and thought it was going to flip the truck.

Not sure if it's wind (downed trees) or snow related, but 309 over the Blue Mountain has been closed all night. Trying to get a hold of my night shift truck partner to find out why.

Just a ho hum day of showers in the Skook. Got .40" in the bucket, but nothing in the way of wind. 10.4 mph peak gust so far...lol

That complex in MD looks intriguing. If it can hold together, the current motion and trajectory looks as if it could run right up I-81 into the Skook. Guess we'll see. But I didn't bring my video cameras with me. I'm feeling like crap and running a bit of a fever, and didn't feel like dealing with setting up the cameras and lugging my equipment around.

I was just reading the mid Atlantic forum, and many school districts are closing early tomorrow in anticipation of the severe storms.

I just finished reading it, and it's an excellent write up. One thing, though, is that the biggest threat seems (per his post anyway) is south of the M-D Line. If I'm deciphering it right, things might not be as bad up this way as previously thought?

Wow... I did make a couple posts on Facebook for friends and family. First one was the graphical maps of the threats as depicted this morning. The second one quoted you anonymously (but indicating a friend's thoughts) a so as not to plagiarize, but to convey the potential severity of the event. Hopefully it's not as bad as what's possible. My caveat...whenever I post about storms (severe, snow, ice, etc) I usually end up jinxing it and eating crow.

When a Texas native, who is used to severe events, is deeply concerned about the set-up and potential for this one, it really makes me take notice.

No don't be. Its ok, I'm just frustrated. If we weren't so locked in since Thanksgiving I wouldn't be so upset. It's just been so relentless, both our cold and their heat. I guess it didn't help that the two winters I spent out there with my mom were cool and somewhat wet. Both before and after my arrival and departure, the winters were warm and dry. Gives merit to when I say that wherever I am, there too, shall the cold be.

Actually, this wasn't good to bring to my attention. It made me look at the forecast for Sun City, and the highs for late next week will be around 105 degrees. It set my anger and depression into overdrive, and if my stubborn wife would have been willing to give it a chance out there, I wouldn't be here suffering this misery.

So does CTP. My forecast says snowfall accumulation of less than one inch, which to me says that they think up to an inch could be possible.