<p>D is on a Continental flight coming in to So Cal out of Newark, as I write. Her flight was not delayed, but did say that there were many (MANY) unhappy passengers trying to get south with no luck. </p>
<p>Here’s to all getting where they need/want to go, getting there safe and sane.</p>
<p>Doesn’t look like they are showing their hand about tomorrow yet.</p>
<p>Got my kiddo heading west on a bus to a different airport. No weather issues at all going in that direction (knocking on wood). The original flight needed out of Newark took off just fine Saturday afternoon, just couldn’t get that first leg from Syracuse to Newark. </p>
<p>Fingers crossed this pays off. Second year in a row for drastic maneuvers to get home for Christmas! Good luck to all with youngsters trying to get home.</p>
<p>vulture: glad to hear it all worked out…safe travels…</p>
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<p>Not that I left the house at all today, but I did get to open some doors, at least!</p>
<p>:: made chocolate chip pumpkin bread ::</p>
<p>:: has eggnog ::</p>
<p>:: will share ::</p>
<p>S wanted to come home today or tomorrow; I sent him an email yesterday telling him to stay put until at least Monday.</p>
<p>D has a flight out of Boston on Monday. I just checked Delta, and the same flight for tommorrow is already cancelled. Since there will probably be many people already at Logan due to cancelled flights, will my D’s reservation still hold, or will they delay her in favor of those who possibly won’t get out Sunday and put her on a later flight? Neither D or I have ever dealt with weather delays, so I’m not familiar with airline procedures.</p>
<p>It’s blustering up in a huge way here now! I had gone grocery shopping around 3:30 today and the store was mobbed, just wall-to-wall. I knew the snow started when all of a sudden, the store was deserted. They had 8-9 lines for check out and every one of them was empty. Amazing.</p>
<p>My son wanted us to drive him to his friend’s house. (21 yo and won’t drive if he’s been drinking, even if he just had one beer.) H drove him there but wouldn’t promise to pick him up. He’s probably walking home. Much safer that way.</p>
<p>The weatherman got it wrong, at least in central Jersey. 3" on the ground with light snow. Not worth firing up the snow thrower for. Maybe by morning. </p>
<p>So much for the BIG storm.</p>
<p>We wound up with 18 inches.</p>
<p>from South Jersey 10 miles from AC, about 14 inches-just guessing though. Inland Atco, 24 inches,so it varies depending on exact location.
Philly reporting second biggest snowfall of all time. </p>
<p>Update for parents with kids using Philly airport-
Spokesperson said that 70 % of flights canceled yesterday,
Today runways being phased in, with one opening at 7, then 10 ect.</p>
<p>It it finally done snowing here. I took the dogs out and they couldn’t tell where their yard is ( got a couple of yellow spots right outside of my door 
)
It looks to me like we got about a foot, but it is hard to tell.</p>
<p>SW CT, on the I-95 corridor was forecast to have accumulations in the low teens last night when I went to bed. Was up at four am to bring health care worker wife to work for six am, and we had seven to eight, and it’s over. A plow had not touched our road, and we had trouble getting out of our street even with 4wd.</p>
<p>The major secondary roads were plowed, but snow covered with packed glaze beneath. I-95 was well plowed, with no visible pavement, and virtually empty.</p>
<p>I guess we got lucky.</p>
<p>Hope everyone else fared well.</p>
<p>Well, my son came home from RPI (Troy, NY) to suburb north of Philadelphia yesterday.</p>
<p>He took Amtrak to NY City and then switched to New Jersey Transit to Trenton.</p>
<p>Trains were fine, but Dad had to drive 25 miles from home to the Trenton Train Station to pick him up yesterday afternoon.</p>
<p>The driving was a nightmare. It took over an hour each way.</p>
<p>I’m glad that he is home and I am not driving anywhere today!</p>
<p>We have over a foot in NJ. H is all excited to try out his new snow plow. It is a large, heavy duty plow. I am going to watch him through a window to give him moral support. D1 wants to take a train into NYC at 10 this morning. We’ll see.</p>
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LOL. Fun and excitement at 8:00 on a Sunday morning!! Stay warm inside, oldfort! You can give him lots of moral support from your side of the window!!</p>
<p>We’re in the DC suburbs and have about 20 inches. My daughter’s bus from college arrived just around midnight Friday night/Saturday morning, when it had been snowing for about three hours. It took us about an hour and a half to drive home from the bus stop (11 miles). We haven’t been out again since (except for my husband, who used his snow blower on the driveway every few hours while it was snowing because snow blowers don’t work if the snow is too deep).</p>
<p>The power went off for 4 hours last night, but the unreliable utility I like to call the Pathetic Electric Power Company (the first P in PEPCO actually stands for something else) seems to have things under control now.</p>
<p>My daughter didn’t think to bring her boots home from college. She has never needed them before – she didn’t even own a pair in high school. Oops.</p>
<p>I really need to get to work tomorrow. I hope it will be possible.</p>
<p>Owlice, I love your “time lapse” photos of your car and your patio table :D. Living in Florida, I just can’t conceive of what that must be like! </p>
<p>But we had 14" of rain here on Thursday night (which moved north and became your snowstorm) and had cars floating down the street in my neighborhood. I think I’d prefer 14" of snow.</p>
<p>It’s still snowing in Boston (supposed to stop around noon), but nothing to be really excited about., except that the airport will be closed.</p>
<p>D is - I think - sitting on a plane as I write this, waiting for her flight from Heathrow to JFK. At least, this is what I know according to Virgin’s site. She is supposed to connect at JFK to Detroit. All Delta flights to Detroit EXCEPT her 8:30 pm flight are canceled. I am cautiously optimistic … hoping her flight will still take off. Her travel was booked through a group travel agency (Butler U’s study abroad program). She has most likely already been on the phone with them … will find out later, I guess. She is scheduled to land at 4:45 at JFK. </p>
<p>I may be in the car, embarking on a long trip, later today …</p>
<p>Just started snowing in NH. Less than an inch of powder on the ground. Kids have finals until Tuesday and this looks like a minor hiccup right now.</p>
<p>We ended up with around 19 inches here in Maryland. It’s beautiful this morning. The sun is shining.</p>