Another "Storm of the Century" to hit the Eastern US...or as we say in Michigan

Bet that Floriduh meet up is looking better than ever about now.

Everybody stay safe! ;)

Two feet? A mere dusting! I grew up in Canada, so this little flurry we're about to get here in DC is no big thing.

Now, bring me that coil of barbed wire so I can eat my breakfast... ;-D

Seriously, moto, thanks for the good wishes. There's a lot of folks down here who have no idea how to deal with storms like this one.

The NFC Championship game could be interesting.

Louisville (a city where even a couple of inches of snowfall has schools closing and roads covered and slick for most of the day) is projected to get up to a foot if the storm tracks "correctly," but only and inch or two if it changes by as little as 50 miles.

I stayed home from work today, not because the snow itself is worrisome, but these insane drivers here seem to think its OK to drive as if the pavement were dry and clear.

The Snow touchdown hard right now in western north Carolina

Nutz,

I just made a call to someone in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and they were already closed for the day.

Not that many years ago, national TV news was a 30 minute report provided by a total of three networks. These brief broadcasts competed for accuracy and coverage of stories in their efforts to increase their market share. Even those broadcaster's liberal bias was sacrificed to get stories on the air in the 23 minutes of available news time.

Now, the three broadcast networks also compete with more than two dozen cable networks offering national news or weather stories, three cable networks supposedly committed entirely to 24/7 news reporting and an exploding internet. Every story squeezed into the 30 minute (now 20 minutes of news, 1 minute of "station announcements" and 9 minutes of paid advertising) of ABC/NBC/CBS broadcast news has to be the "biggest," "worst," "record setting," story. The broadcast networks are competing with each other for a constantly shrinking number of viewers, struggling to sell advertising time and reeling from scandals which compromise their credibility. Now everything MUST be over the top.

Every weather story MUST be the "worst" storm, or blizzard, or drought ever. How else are they going to get you to watch tampon commercials, anti-viral drug promos and Cialis ads?

Central NC not really any snow a little ice but youd think it was a state of emergency. My office is open but there is nobody here.

@dallas...that sounds about right.


Where i live the weather people are consistently wrong. Especially this year. I used to know a metrology professor thst was always dead on with his forcasts. I think they fuck up the forcast and keep changing it on purpose for ratings.

We had one storm where they predicted 1-3 in. And we got 12. The next one they predicted a flurry to 1 in and we got 5.

Must be nice to be rong all the time and make the kind of money they do

Snow is snow, People get all bent out of shape. Move to Florida !! Clubber has couple of acres for sale. :)

Move to So.Cal and get rear ended the instant drops of rain hits the pavement

Mo head it's true..even the plant i work at is closed

^^^ you dont work in a plant...you live in a van down by the river

To Vince I got a bridge by the intercoastal I could sell cheap if you don't mind sleeping with homeless strippers.
BTW its best to date homeless women cause when your done you can drop them off anyplace.

welp...off to the city to buy my boots.

LOL, twentyfive, I know the place well, I have looked down from the bridge, never saw the place, but I know the authorities raid it periodically. Not interested in that bridge. I've a few bridges you might add to your collection.

Well we here in Miami haven't been spared; it's gotten all the way down in the low-50s overnight y'all – I ain't kidding – thus we're hunkering down too at night.

yeah, i'm in the richmond, virginia area and it's REALLY coming down. and its suppose to continue until sunday morning. i haven't seen this much snow in a loooooooong time

You guys in the snow, keep the rest of us updated

I remember 2010 or so being hunkered down in the Baltimore/DC area after being at a two week trade school for an extra half week. No flights available out of BWI. They ended up sending me to an extra two week class, so a two week session became a five week session, mostly because of snow. Spent a fair amount of time in the gym and a good part of my evenings at the bar, and unfortunately the school was ungodly remote from any decent strip clubs.

Just after I posted that I realized- the "Storms of the Century" are now 5 years apart..... Coincidence, climate change or short memories and news slots to fill.

GoVikings

Keep us posted. Virginia looks like one of the heaviest areas. Hope you have food!

At an average of 411.5 inches (10.45 m) per year, Donner Pass is one of the snowiest places in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Pas…

Not a place to be going thru during the Winter.

SJG

I turned on my car heater to melt the ice on my window at work this evening. It was the coldest storm of the year so far. If I was a governor or weather person, I would have to call it the storm of the century or a thousand year storm if we were not prepared for it. That's the only reasonable thing for people to do nowadays when the dams break and massive damage comes because none of them wants to talk about how they failed to fund inspections of infrastructure and or fund improvements needed to the infrastructure to prevent millions of dollars in damages.

The NWS is predicting the most snowfall for any storm for the last 90 years, so I guess you could call it the storm of this century.

Just shovelled the first six inches of the walks and driveway. Probably three more installments to come!

My brother remembers some snow storms in Ohio that had snow drifts 30 feet deep and that was less than 90 years ago. 30 inches is a lot of snow for one storm. I think that is close to what New England got Ina storm or two last year.

Mt Shasta got 189 inches of snow in one storm in the 1950's.
Congress could have a great reason for not getting anything done.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/…

30 inches would be one for the record books of it happens. I blame all the hot air spewing forth from all the politicians. Mother Nature Strikes Back.

I was being a little bit sarcastic. I mean I live in South Carolina and we had a thousand year storm just a few months ago. Over 2 feet of rain fell in some places.
http://www.livescience.com/52386-histori…

Second removal of 5 - inches of snow just completed. Two or three more left to go, plus clearing the compacted berm left by the plow when it finally comes through.

This is starting to suck, power out since 9pm last night. House is at a warm 49 degrees ha. No sign of the sun either.

^^^

That sucks when the power goes.

I feel for you guys. As I wait on the beach and wait for her to wake up. And now it looks like I might have to stay and extra day or two because of the airport situation. Damn.

Awwwww, John. Life sucks. LOL

Fuck you, John! Wish you were here and I was there! ;-D

DS could stay, though....

Light snow falling in the Atlanta burbs. Starting to get a little accumulation on the grassy areas but the streets are just wet so far. But the wind is brutal. No clubbing for me today.

So far, it's hardly shaping up to be "worst of the century" out here in NYC. Just seems like a regular snow storm to me. Maybe if Georgia or Cali or Floriduh! had NYC's current level of snow storm, then i'd be a catastrophe

Now if South Carolina got 12 inches of snow, the governor could call it the snowstorm of the century. I haven't seen that much snow in SC and I lived here a long time.

When I lived in Ohio, it used to snow there just about every day in the winter. Here in the south, a day with snow on the ground is like a national holiday with stores closed and people staying home, well except for everyone who doesn't mind driving with slush on the roads.
I remember one day in Ohio I got to go home early from school. I could not see the flag pole in front of the school and the snow was blowing completely horizontal and the wind chill was below zero and they were saying it was one of the worst blizzards in years. They got the school buses ready and sent us home early for the day. It was already 1 pm.

It doesn't snow much here in the South so southern cities do not have hardly any snow plows. They aren't going to buy a bunch of $100,000 snow plow equipment when it hardly snows. Everything just shuts down and people wait for it to melt here in the South. Up north, cities keep working as long as the snow plows can keep up. just explaining for any of the 18 year old dancers who haven't traveled much.

I'm so glad I live in the west coast and don't have to deal with the snow or the extreme low temperature. Stay safe fellas!

Round 3 to take out the overnight accumulation, about 8 inches worth, complete.

I opened the back door onto the deck. Holy crap! The snow had drifted against the door (on an inside corner) to a depth of about 3-1/2 feet. The pattern of the door was clearly visible in the drift, lol. The shovel that I had so cleverly left on the back deck was snowed in to the point I had to go to the front and bring the front shovel back and dig out the back shovel.

Thankfully, the snow seems to be tapering off!

I decided to spend my weekend in South Georgia in Albany and Valdosta to escape the snow and cold from the Northern part of the state. It's only snow flurries with little to no accumulation down this way but still cold as fuck outside and the strong wind gusts makes it feel like it is in the low 20's.

Wow. Even to get snow flurries that far south (Valdosta) must be pretty rare, I'd think.

Final report from the frozen wastelands of the DC metro area.

This morning, my wife had to leave for the airport to attend a conference in Chicago. The problem? Our street hadn't been plowed as of this morning. The solution? Call the cab company and make a reservation. Get dressed for the 18 degree F weather and 2 feet of snow still on the street and most of the sidewalks. Trudge one block to the street to the nearest cleared street carrying my wife's 40 pound suitcase and meet the cab. Trip out takes about 20 minutes; connection is made.

The benefit? A week during which I will be able to club. Now all I need is for that damn plow to clear our street!