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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Snowmageddon.........Again!

Here we go again.................................as soon as we almost get completely dug out of the snow........at least in my neighborhood..............insult gets added to injury and we get dumped on again. If you have been reading this blog, you have seen the pictures of Snowmageddon.........the first round. Today, you will see the start of the second round.

It was like watching a tv in the 1960s..........no cable and lousy reception.............and all you can do is sit there and shake your head. We were only a few hours into this second round and already it looks like this.

Here is a shot without the flash.........I am disgusted at this point and head off to bed........fuggeddaboutit. Should I be shocked at what it will look like when I wake up?

Okay..........I woke up.........it is daylight..........and it is not good. Everything that everybody did to clear a way has been undone as if we never did anything.

The sad thing is it ain't over yet..........the blizzard aspect is just beginning to start........the wind has kicked up.

Our path is gone...........the cars are covered again.

If you are in Alaska or Canada or even Buffalo or Minnesota, you probably are laughing at us here in Baltimore...........but this is not a normal thing for us. You may enjoy this stuff but we don't.

As I write this Baltimore City has declared Stage Three emergency which means that nothing but emergency vehicles are permitted on the roads and streets. Other jurisdictions are following suit, one by one...........I-83 is closed.........and a fire station in Dundalk catches fire and their roof collapsed......go figure.........

Snow!

This is getting ridiculous.......................snowmageddon.............and then there is a news report that 63% of the United States has snow on the ground!...............and today Chicago has a 3.8 earthquake!.............what is next?...........LOCUSTS?

It will take some time to get rid of this.........

For now, we still have electricity........thankfully...................

.........all of the local tv stations have been non-stop reporting and aren't even bothering to show their regularly scheduled programs.

There is nothing like watching plows and reporters all day on tv.

There are some highways that look pretty good........for now. And on every station, at the bottom of the screen, there is a banner that informs us about everything that is closed or cancelled.............wouldn't it be better to tell us just what is actually open?

Classic Nor'easter.

Notice the red area...........that's the blizzard warning............

1:27 PM...............wind and snow = blizzard.

So they say that when it is all done we will have an additional 10-20 inches of snow..........and that don't even refllect how much of it that will drift into heaps well over 4 foot.

It's Snowmageddon!

More to come.......it ain't over yet and it is only 3PM.................aarrgghhh!

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Snowmageddon!

By the time this stops, Baltimore will have reached a new record for snowfall for a winter season.........also.......a new record for a single snowfall event.

They are calling this "Snowmageddon"..........and "Snowpocalypse".

Everything is pretty much at a standstill.

Do I need to explain just how much snow we have gotten already?...............

............SNOW!...............

..............and lots of it!

And it is still coming down..........

Al Gore should be arrested for fraud.

There is no global warming..................

It is gonna be a while for us to dig out........

.........Snow!.........

............everywhere...........

Get the picture?

It was a blizzard.........and still is as I write this.

The porch door opened easily because it is a slider..........

...........the dogs were ready to run on out the door but they were stunned when they saw this.

...................so we went to the front door...........

...........and could barely get it opened up enough to shovel anything.

Well over two feet of snow and more than that where it drifted. I won't be doing any shoveling............my son, Dash Riprock, has begun the huge task of cutting a path........it is gonna be awhile..........................it is still snowing...........................and another six inches is coming on Wednesday..........................SNOW!

Monday, December 21, 2009

It's Gonna Be A White Christmas

It was quite a weekend............there is nothing like a blizzard on the last weekend before Christmas.

In Baltimore, everybody panics when they are told that snow is coming........even if the forecast is only for a flurry. It's just a Baltimore tradition, I suppose. Hearing the word "snow" on the weather report triggers insanity, mayhem, and downright ridiculousness in Baltimoreans. Immediately, everybody heads to the grocery store and they buy up all of the bread, milk, and toilet paper.............yep......toilet paper! Hmmm........I have to wonder about that..........maybe snow causes people to poop more.........nahhhh......people might be afraid of snow but they can't possibly be scared poopless.

This time the weather people were spot on........usually whenever they say we might get a dusting it often ends up at least six inches of snow. Other times they will tell us that we will get dumped on and we end up with only an inch of snow. Following this kind of forecasting, we should have gotten about five feet of snow.........but as it was, we ended up with about an average of twenty inches of that frozen fluff. All one can do is watch it come down from the sky and stay tuned to every local television station........because every local station dropped all tv programming for "live, late-breaking, as it happening, alerts."

Yeah......I really need to see WBAL, WJZ, and WMAR reporters stand in the snow and tell us all exactly how much snow has landed in the parking lot of the Safeway in Canton........or those live reports from a 7-11 in White Marsh.......gee......how else would we know that it is very cold outside when it is snowing?......or how else would we find out that they actually put gas into the snow plows and trucks?