H2O Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 How I feel right now. Thats just turrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 5 yr old girl in Sykesville was killed today when her sled went into the street and she was hit by a car. Awful story and why in the hell would you make a sled path pointed towards a road? Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clueless Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Clueless, how are your roads? You got a TON of snow up there on Route 9, are your roads passable yet? VDOT did a good job getting them clear in a short amount of time. Monday I managed to get out and take a drive around town. They are just okay. Neighborhood roads are basically one lane. There is just so much snow and no where to put it. We at least need to get the main 'hood roads to two lanes before Monday when school starts. Huge piles of snow at intersections make for driving interesting after a storm. Today's commute should be interesting for the govies. Anyway,I am still amazed we managed to shovel our way out of the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Can I get props for how well my snow map verified? Kthx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Awful story and why in the hell would you make a sled path pointed towards a road? Ugh. Agreed, but it sounds like it was a complete freak accident with a car that just happened to be coming down the otherwise quiet cul-de-sac at the time. But yeah, first rule in playing near a street, always have someone on the lookout for cars. With a car traveling slow there's likely only one horrific way the kid was fatally injured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodhi Cove Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Can I get props for how well my snow map verified? Kthx I must have missed the zombie reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I must have missed the zombie reports. People couldn't see them. Low viz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Saw that loudon county schools are done for the week. AA Co schools won't reopen til Friday. And Carroll Co. may not open this week either. Driving into Leesburg from Winchester this morning I was actually impressed with the road conditions. The left lane was pinched a couple of times on 7 near Mt. Weather and Purcellville. But overall the crews have done an outstanding job in the RT. 7 corridor. Now the back roads of Leesburg are still pretty disastrous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arlwx Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 For those of us (including me in Arlington VA) who have been plowed in: When will the plowberg blockade melt? This month? February? March? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 For those of us (including me in Arlington VA) who have been plowed in: When will the plowberg blockade melt? This month? February? March? It this rate. I'd say by next week it will all be history. I'm already seeing grass on a few south facing slopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vance1167 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 The huge piles with all the chemicals mixed in will last weeks if not months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I've got the post storm blues as well. Especially watching it melt. I savored every minute of it while it was here. I pulled my hat off, flipped back my coat hood and just lived it lol. I was outside for as long as I could take it. Warmed up and back at it. I can't say I didn't get to experience it. I lived it. Love this! Me, I'd have gone out in a t-shirt. I am a HARD-CORE snow, cold and wind lover. I would have also found a place where I didnt think anyone could see me and rolled around, wallowed around in all the deep snow like a walrus in the high Arctic. Snow melting? You can still go out right now and shovel snow! Don't put up with the Plowberg Blockade! Get empowered the Jebman way and power thru those bergs with a stout, rugged, square-edged, built for the construction of the MGM National Harbor Casino Jebman Shovel! Free your fellow neighbors from the clutches of the greatest Blizzard of the ages and enjoy digging massive amounts of snow at the same time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Waiting on Fairfax, but both Loudoun and Prince William County Public Schools are closed for the rest of the week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuki neko Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Still looks like a MECS/ borderline HECS. Full snowcover on the ground. Residential streets are still more or less one way only and some state maintained streets are still missing lanes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Still looks like a MECS/ borderline HECS. Full snowcover on the ground. Residential streets are still more or less one way only and some state maintained streets are still missing lanes Pretty amazing that there are still unplowed roads in our area: https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 We've lost a good bit last few days but def still lots of snow out there. I guess it's partly the drifting. It sure seemed like more snow than Feb 5-6 2010 even though I measured about the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuki neko Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Pretty amazing that there are still unplowed roads in our area: https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP They better get through before what's left of the sodden snowpack glaciates tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 JI getting some local press - http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/with_jays_wintry_mix_leesburg_man_becomes_a_local_celeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vance1167 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 JI getting some local press - http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/with_jays_wintry_mix_leesburg_man_becomes_a_local_celeb Surprised he didn't say winter is cancelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Fairfax County schools closed through Friday. Add Howard County to Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Baltimore County closed rest of the week . Carroll closed tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clueless Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Nice looking maps in the LR thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ji Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 remember when i posted the JMA from 192 hours that showed a severe HECS. Maybe that storm was too easy for any model to miss it but the JMA showed the most extreme solution that far out from any model that i can remember in this storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Baltimore County closed rest of the week . Carroll closed tomorrow Friday was already a scheduled day off so no school for the kiddies until Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Nice looking maps in the LR thread If only............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 It amazes me as bare spots start to appear in the lawns that the main secondary roads still aren't full plowed yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 It amazes me as bare spots start to appear in the lawns that the main secondary roads still aren't full plowed yet. Places that have bare ground are probably the areas that had little snow because of the wind. And all that snow went somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Places that have bare ground are probably the areas that had little snow because of the wind. And all that snow went somewhere. My comment was more of an indictment on how poorly heavily-traveled secondary roads have been plowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Lot of melting today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 My comment was more of an indictment on how poorly heavily-traveled secondary roads have been plowed. While I understand frustration at not having all lanes available for travel (it was annoying during my midday commute today), there are only so many plows and so many crews in this area. They need to refuel, resupply, and test at some point, and many of the plows simply aren't big/powerful enough to handle 20"+ of snow on the roads. Try as they may, a guy in a pickup truck with a blade on it isn't going to make much headway against that kind of snowpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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