Email alerts all day “National Weather Service issues stern warning”
“as dangerous as winter weather can get”
No one wanted to leave the bar. Chances of anyone getting back out this weekend were slim. Staving off the much feared “cabin fever” we lingered. The goal, to delay wall climbing due to temporary insanity of a forced weekend at home. Inevitably we had to leave. Walking, almost blinded to home, on streets which, when you could see them through the sideways falling snow, were impassable, unmarked by tire tread, snow plows nowhere in sight. The walk was more of a trek, almost dangerous (if anything of this world I live in can be called dangerous), a wonderful last hurrah before a blizzard forced incarceration.
Once home I had much to do.
Fill the bathtub and sinks with water. Check for working flashlights and dig out the candles. Charge cell phone, lap top. Check on everyone I know and don’t know, and answer all text messages and emails from concerned family and friends. Food, water, alcohol. Sacrifice something to the goddess of electricity in exchange for a weekend without a power loss. Still working on that one.
Be safe my east coast blizzard buddies.
peace
After almost a decade in L.A., the last place you’d find me in a blizzard would be indoors. Lordy but I miss heavy snow. If I were in Maryland, I’d have a family of snowmen outside your window dressed like the Palins.
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I was out walking it int whenever possible.
I went out at 5 this morning to do the drive and the sidewalk because it would be impossible to do it if I wait. The wind is kicking up. Not a car on the road it was great.
I got in around 10, we hung out as long as we could too.
I can’t believe you were up that early.
I lost power last night for 4 hours. It’s more windy this morning but the power is on.
Nice walk if you can find a place to walk.
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I know a few people who lost it in the southern part of this county and in MoCo. I’ve been lucky though …I think Pepco is less efficient than Allegheny power.
ECBBs? Is that like BFFs?
Fill the sinks with water? You’ll have to forgive me, I’m from a temperate climate :) What kind of ritual is that?
I think I’d have to go out and play in the snow, too. At least for a couple minutes.
Hope you stay warm and manage to appease the electricity goddess.
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The streets were full of people trying to walk as soon as they could get out, no one likes to be cooped up, and it was beautiful.
If anybody can appease the electricity goddess I know it’s you
I’m very impressed with your organizing. When we had our unexpected black out last week I couldn’t find the flashlight that was next to my computer and hence next to me.
So far so good, it when the snow starts falling off the trees and lines that we will probably lose it.
It’s been an exhausting day of snow blowing and shoveling here. Exhausting but fun. The roads where we live are not plowed but we haven’t lost electricity. Some friends further toward D.C. lost their power for about 4 hours last night but so far we are good.
The man across the road has some heavy equipment if things really get bad and I have a generator. The difference in snow amount in a ten mile radius is strange and as much as ten inches.
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I bet your son loved it though.
I filled the tubs with water because I use well water; never did that when I lived in the city. But then, you live in Baltimore. ;-)
You called people you didn’t know? But my phone never rang. …
Tractor chose this morning to break down so I spent most of the day doing it by hand. Lost one shovel along that way. The Wal*Mart shovel, of course.
25.4 inches of the stuff along the mountain.
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I live in a small city forty miles from Baltimore and I go to school in D.C. so technically I didn’t need to fill the tubs I do have city water.
This county has from 24 to 30 inches of snow depending on if you are east or west.
i can’t shovel because of the wrist, so I am more or less a director ……
Lucky you, I’m sure you direct well.
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We were supposed to get the worst part of the blizzard with winds and all, but as it turns our the snow part left of wanting at least compared to you all. I think maybe 18 because we had a lot of rain and sleet originally.The winds were bad. The plows destroyed my mailbox though an I’m thinking of camping outside making an igloo and roasting marshmallows.
I couldn’t imagine that much snow. It rarely snows here. When we get 2-3 inches everything shuts down. Though I would take snow any day over ice. We have hellacious ice storms.
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I smiled when I read about the phones and laptop. When snow hit here a few weeks back our main concern was just food for the kids – but otherwise we pretty much did the exact same things you did.
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It is amazing how much snow you managed to get. 45-50-60 inches!
Take care and make a snow castle that will last for a month!