Voyager

It's disgusting and depressing.

Not a bad day today. 59 in the backyard, and even 54 where I am today up in Hazleton.

If only we could get that to the East Coast...

Me too!

Sunny and 50 in Fogelsville.

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?