<p>DS is taking Amtrak from DC to CT Sat. morning…or so we hope. Maybe there’ll only be a few inches of snow by the time he leaves. This will be the first time either of my kids is taking the train in a snowstorm so I have no idea how well Amtrak handles that.</p>
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Waving to LakeWashington!! I’ll be off the road tomorrow, for sure, because I have no business driving in snow.</p>
<p>Hubby will be driving the snow plow and we’ll all be grateful for a little pre-Christmas windfall.</p>
<p>I think Amtrak handles snow better than the airlines generally, but it can get very crowded during peak student travel times. The trains can just slow down as needed - the biggest problem can be snow on the tracks really piling up.</p>
<p>I am with lje62 on being very tired with the constant storms at the shore. If we are settling into a pattern of nor’easters, we are going to have one bad winter, following a wet Fall, a bad summer and a poor spring. Hope 2010 gets back to normal. Someone suggested Jersey’s climate may be becoming like the Pacific Northwest. Yikes.</p>
<p>Let it snow let it snow.</p>
<p>Tega, you are now officially on my “Do not Google” list.</p>
<p>Lake, sorry I did not read that you have to be on the road! We might as well get some snow with this cold weather.</p>
<p>UGH! It is shleeting just north of Charlotte. The kind you can hear hitting your roof like little mini hail. some whitish accumulation on the ground. Really nasty crap! Son is flying in this evening. yuck!</p>
<p>One son is home all ready. Youngest son is on the road right now. He was going to drive home tomorrow morning because he didn’t want to drive in the dark (he had a late final today). Change of plans because of the threat of snow–he decided to drive home tonight. Hopefully, he’ll be home tonight sometime around 8:00pm. </p>
<p>NJers, My fingers are crossed that your son makes it home safely and within a reasonable timeframe.</p>
<p>Just talked to a friend in D.C. and they’re saying 10-20 inches for them, maybe as much as 26 inches. Glad I live in Canada, where we have none. ;)</p>
<p>I am grateful that my kids are home ,but worried about the bills I have to pay and count on the income that should be coming in this weekend.
I hope all of you out there worried about your family members safe travel</p>
<p>My D is flying in from Moscow (where she’s been studying for the last 13 weeks) to JFK. Her ETA is 5 pm on Sunday. H and I planned to drive down and bring her home to MA. Looks like the snow storm is putting a glitch in that plan. Sigh . . . . looking for another way to bring her home.</p>
<p>It is now snowing in Eastern VA. Hard.</p>
<p>Since it was already below freezing before the snow started, the roads are already covered.</p>
<p>It’s coming down FAST.</p>
<p>I mean, there’s already a good 1/4 to 1/2 in. on the ground and it’s only been snowing for about 45 minutes. </p>
<p>This is gonna be big.</p>
<p>ABC headline news- Monster Storm - Storm of the decade …heading our way. Winds could gust to 60 mph along the NJ coast, but higher amounts of snow inland, because the storm in the midwest should combine with the southern storm , and it’s going to be a White Christmas for many!</p>
<p>whew, just got S1 home for the holidays. Last year he arrived in a blizzard coming from west to east. One year ago today. The blizzard was in his area so his flight was cancelled then the blizzard hit our area as it moved east, after his puddle jumper they booked him on a direct flight that didn’t go through OHare and his plane took off about an hour late. I told my husband what goes up must come down and we crawled in the blizzard to the airport on a long 2 hour drive. Sure enough, out of the skis through the gray and snow and wind came his plane landing feet behind the showplow trucks on the runways. The only one to land that afternoon. My son said the pilot was joking about turning south and heading for Cincinnati at one point…the pilot was probably scared sh**less. This year he came in ahead of this possible blizzard thank heavens. They will make it home eventually. Better safe than sorry if they get cancelled just remember that.</p>
<p>Younger son made it home safely. He said that the traffic was crazy. What should have been a 3½ hr. drive ended up being a 5 hr. drive.</p>
<p>In Maryland. No snow yet! But it’s coming!
Went to the grocery store tonight, and they still had milk. I was shocked. Bought the essentials - TP, milk, bread, chocolate, beer, tomato soup and stuff for grilled cheese, hot chocolate and mini-marshmellows, etc.</p>
<p>D1 is due to fly out at 4 pm tomorrow from Harrisburg… Fortunately the dorms are open thru the weekend if she ends up having to wait a day or two to get out :)</p>
<p>intparent - Is she at a college in Grantham?</p>
<p>Both kidlets here are home. One arrived on the 11th and the other on the 16th. Thank goodness for decent weather both days.</p>
<p>NOW…in addition to hoping for the best for those traveling this weekend…how about starting to wish for decent weather for the return trips beginning Jan 2!!</p>