<p>The posts are making me feel a little better about the commitment to Plan C. Putting the kiddo on a bus west to a more weather friendly airport!</p>
<p>^^And the Baltimore stations are reporting some rule about teams coming in the day before, but the rules don’t apply for snow delays. They do have 700+ people sleeping at the stadium so they can clear the field when it stops snowing.</p>
<p>We have a good foot of the fluffy stuff on the back deck. I commented that the table looks like the first cake I ever baked for my husband (lopsided). </p>
<p>I sure hope everyone’s kids get home soon. If I lived closer to a college, I would sure take some in, but we can’t even get out of the development.</p>
<p>No snow yet in central CT. DS’ train should be in within a half hour, only 2 hours late from DC. He’s lucky he got out when he did…his 9:30am train left an hour late & lost another hour along the way. The next train out, scheduled for 11:30am, left DC 4 1/2 hours late. But at least the trains were running…I hate to think about what would’ve happened if he were flying home.
Happy holidays to everyone & may all your loved ones make it home safely.</p>
<p>The forecast for central Jersey:</p>
<p>ACCUMULATIONS OF 10 TO 15 INCHES… WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS AS HIGH AS 18 INCHES… ARE EXPECTED. SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 4 INCHES PER HOUR… ACCOMPANIED BY THUNDER AND LIGHTNING…</p>
<p>Big snowstorms with thunder and lightning are uber cool</p>
<p>I had to pick up D1 at the airport this morning - incoming from Atlanta. The smartest thing I did was change D2’s flight out of Hartford to Monday (from Sunday). Thank goodness there were no lines at the San Diego airport for rebooking. The agents were really nice. And I got a $50 refund because the new flight was cheaper.</p>
<p>S was at work in central NJ until after 4, and his boss was pressuring him BIG time to drive up to Elizabeth to do extra work tonight. He kept telling him “no”, finally called us, and his dad told him not to drive, roads very bad, just to get himself back to campus. S told employer that it was his parents’ car, their insurance, and if they said “no”, he was not driving. He called us from the parking lot to tell us he never intended to go, but had to jump through the parental hoops for the boss. He is supposed to be there tomorrow morning at 9:30, but that too is very doubtful…our best guess is that things will ultimately be canceled, but the boss claimed that would not happen. </p>
<p>S is back to his apartment, said the roads were worse and worse as he drove back, saw two wrecks in the last quarter mile. Whew…I am so relieved. Happy hour can now begin, no one to rescue!</p>
<p>^ I hate to think about what would’ve happened if he were flying home.</p>
<p>Ha! Ours is stuck in Denver after the flight into DC was canceled. I’m just hoping our back roads are plowed by tomorrow afternoon so we can get him home. No sign of a plow since before dawn. ~18 inches on the ground and still coming down.</p>
<p>We’ve been getting about an inch an hour and it seems like a pretty hard snowfall to me. So 2-4 inches per hour must be quite intense.</p>
<p>Just read all the runways at Dulles are closed until 6AM tomorrow.</p>
<p>I just stocked up at the store (including buying a standing rib roast and rack of lamb to cook in the next few days if anyone is in the neighborhood). No kids are stuck at Hartsfield-Jackson?</p>
<p>No rain today (the snow up north was our rainstorm yesterday) - just a light srizzle on occasion. Its cold and damp, but nothing like yesterday.</p>
<p>Enjoy the snow all you northerners. I miss it.</p>
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<p>shellfell, LOL, guess whose kid was on the train that was delayed by 4 1/2 hours (originally the 10:20) ?! She was supposed to be on your son’s train, too - not sure what happened, something about the cab not showing up. They were sitting on the train for a l…o…n…g time. H just left the house in the middle of this blizzard to pick her up - hopefully they will make it home without too much trouble. </p>
<p>It’s a real winter wonderland out there where I am - very fluffy snow and coming down since last night and getting much heavier now in the past few hours. I will say that the way they are talking this up on the news is so funny - it’s like no one here has ever seen snow before. I still remember the blizzard of 1978 in Boston - now <em>that</em> was a snowstorm!!!</p>
<p>Yay! D’s plane took off from Harrisburg! She has been at the airport all day (boyfriend could only drive her early for her flight because he had a final, then the first flight was cancelled). There was one more flight; fortunately, the plane was already on the ground when the storm hit. I had a backup plan of a high school friend in the area with a 4WD just in case, but it will be much better if she can get home tonight. Now if she can just make her tight connection in Chicago…</p>
<p>16.5 inches in MD suburbs of DC…and it’s still coming down.</p>
<p>Wow! Jealous!!</p>
<p>We have nothing right now except for a truck which sprays salt every couple of hours. I’m going to go out for an errand and am happy not to have to worry about snow. It should arrive in an hour but I think that we’re not going to get more than half a foot.</p>
<p>No snow trucks through our subdivision yet, and our house borders a road that school buses use. Whaddaya bet no school on Monday?</p>
<p>I think they are deliberately not plowing so people stay off the roads, and then they’ll work on the roads overnight instead of having to pull people out of ditches, etc.</p>
<p>No snow here yet…I think we’re going to get about 6 inches too as we are inland…not near the coast where the most snow is expected. DS just went to the grocery store to get a movie. No snow…and no people out either.</p>
<p>This is an amazing amount of snow for the Jersey shore in December. What kind of winter are we in for?</p>
<p>Son sitting in a dorm in DC, flight out of National tomorrow, but the Metro is running only on very limited stops and who knows if he can make it to the airport. He is going overseas next semester so he had cleaned out his room entirely, so he is sitting there with a backpack and a carry on. He shipped everything else Friday morning. Luckily he has his computer and the dorms and dining hall are open until at least Monday.</p>
<p>Spent HOURS rerouting cancelled flight for my kid flying in from the west coast. Continental cancelled red-eye flights Friday even if they were due to arrive before the snowfall got heavy on Saturday. Then told me that all northeast corridor Sunday flights were to be cancelled too…and that we were very lucky to book a seat on a Monday flight. My kid was kicked out of the dorm when it closed this morning and ended up in a hotel. It looks like we have 2 feet already and it is still coming. This is a Philly suburb.</p>
<p>Does anybody know if Continental has cancelled any of tomorrow’s flights yet out of Newark? early morning flight still says on schedule and the equipment is already here ready to take off…</p>
<p>Proxy: I knew alot of dorms were scheduled to shut today but many opted to stay open to accomodate stranded kids; surprised that didn’t hold throughout the country…lots of people involved…</p>