Also, for the second week in a row our our street hasn't been picked up. The plows come by and push a wall of snow in front of the cans, so the garbage collectors won't pick them up.

Ska_baron wrote:


We got a big dose of rain in Annapolis prior to the snow, but man was it coming down for a while there. I left DC just as it was turning to ice, but as I headed east I outran it and got home without too much difficulty.

My boss in Rockville said you could get on to I-270 but the off-ramps were all snow and ice. They filled with accidents and the highway came to a stop. He was in a Jeep and was able to work around more than most, but his 14 mile commute was three hours.

DC has grown too big too quickly on the tit of the U.S. taxpayer. Half of the agencies in the city should be moved to other parts of the country.

S.

ubarose wrote:


Burn it for warmth....

The plow here in MO finally plowed our street after 3 days. This just put a big hard patch of ice in front of our driveway that I haven't been able to shovel. So we have been driving over a 6 inch ice bump in and out of the driveway for a week now.

Nowhere to put the snow or trash? That's gotta suck.

I'm so glad I leave work at 4PM, an hour before the clusterfuck. Saw it turn from rain, to sleet, to snow on my way home yesterday and was happy to be home before the great mass of morons hit the streets. Everyone at work this morning was bitching about the commute, but I think mine was only like 3 minutes longer than usual.

billyz wrote:

That's a bit too dramatic, IMHO. But I do agree that someone driving an AWD vehicle without the knowledge of what it actually enables will probably do all the wrong things unless instructed otherwise. In slick conditions, if the rear gets loose or people start sliding, usually their instinct is to dynamite the brakes out of sheer panic and/or turn the wheel in the wrong direction.

I'm simplifying, but it's basically "point and shoot"--get the front wheels oriented in the direction you need to be going and get on the gas. The idiots in SUVs on the side of the road are the ones who think it gives them some super powers while braking, when the D in AWD does in fact stand for "drive." :)

Oh, and winter tires are a night and day difference from even the best all-seasons. It's just a hassle for most people to have two sets of wheels and tires and swap them twice a year.

Weird weather. See, we're at 4500 feet here (and 5000+ at my house outside of town).

You'd think we'd get some snow this year. Jack. Shit. Snow line has been happily hovering around 6000 feet or so, except for one brief storm before Christmas.

There's plenty of snow to ski on if you want to drive up there, but here in the valleys we're going on a week or more of days in the 50s.

And yet the East is just being pounded. Score one for the desert, I guess. The worst part is that we're always prepared for snow, so we rarely get days off when it does happen. We need a massive surprise storm on a Sunday night to get a day off, generally. I think the last time I got an official one was when we got 3 feet over New Year's about five years back.

Stay safe and warm, everyone.

We are having to shovel around the fence now since the snow reaches the top of it and the dogs can just run across once it freezes. This is the most snow I've ever seen on the ground at once short of maybe ski mountains.

For a couple of weeks now, we've been getting light or trace amounts of snow every day, on top of the 60" that we already got this winter. Today, the roads were all greasy with a fresh dusting of snow on top of salty, dirty slush. As I was brushing snow off my car, an old woman walked by and said "I can't wait for spring." I laughed and said, "This feels like spring. Next week, it's supposed to be below zero." She laughed.

THis winters been crazy. So glad I'm not a bike messenger or a structural iron worker any more. On the plus side the missus got today off and we've been having a blast with junior in the snow. The bar was jam packed last night too with late night revelers who assumed they had today off.

MattLoter wrote:


The snow is higher than our fence. You can make out where it is because there are little hills of snow where the taller fence posts are. The Man managed to dig us a path from the door to the street.