Glad you are making it out busdriver (I’m in the Dulles area 
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My cleaning ladies just showed up, and I have a dental appointment at 9. Our office is open but most of us are working from home and I expect everyone else to be told to leave around noon or so. It takes a LOT to close our office, but this is a lot.
All stocked with food, wine, books, flashlights, t.p. and a generator. Gas tanks are full, snow shovels are ready, electronics charged. I think we are good!
Hunker down, everyone. Stay safe.
I stopped at midnight at the grocery store on the way home from the airport. There wasn’t a loaf of bread to be found. However I did get to buy the things I “needed”, cilantro, porcini mushrooms, veggies and chips and salsa. I also wanted to make a roasted chicken, but there were none available.
My delivery vans are out doing rounds early…hospitals never close, but the office is closed today. I probably could have just closed at noon, but if they declare a state of emergency and asked to stay off the roads I figure the road crews and office parking lot needs cars out of the way. We can’t work remotely, too much patient information, it’s just a paid day off for my employees.
@SouthJerseyChessMom --I’m really concerned for the Shore. We’re out of flood territory, too, but so much of the Shore is not, and still recovering. 
We have been “upgraded” again to 1-3 inches. I think this is going to be a “look out your window to see what happens” storm for our area. We are inland and north of where the bulk of the action is taking place.
D1 landed safely at 8 this morning in NYC from Atlanta.
Niece’s flight to RDU was cancelled this morning, she is going back to Atlanta this morning instead. Her flight is around 11. She is hoping Atlanta will still be open until 1 or 2pm for her to get back home. I am also secretly hoping she’ll get back home because I am excited at the prospect of good movies, books, food and wine by myself this weekend.
In the DC area, that grain of salt would be very valuable, since there hasn’t been any rock salt or other road-treating chemicals available for days.
Thanks SouthJerseyChessMom !
We live about the same distance to the shore as you do. I am not worried about our home , but a little worried about the shops. We know from Sandy that one of them was water in, water out…that one is literally across the street from the beach. It was built to withstand that type of flooding and it is closed for the season , so I am not worried there. Our newer place is a almost 100 year old building , but it had to be gutted and renovated to comply with the FEMA standards. My husband said we need 14 feet of water to get in there…they are expecting 8-9 feet. I am worried about the roof there though.
One more place had water inside during Sandy , but we don’t think it will this time. If it does , we don’t own that place so it will be the landlord’s issue if it does get flooded
That’s amazing to me, considering how early in the winter it is.
I drove behind a saline truck this morning in the Boston suburbs. We’re only expecting an inch or two so I don’t expect any issues here. Usually I’d love a good snowstorm but I think I’m still hung over from last year’s onslaught.
Home Depot here in MD had pallets of ice melt and tons of shovels and generators yesterday and were expecting more. I didn’t go anywhere else, but the grocery store still had a lot of Wed.
Am at Philadelphia airport en route to Boston and things seem to be running fine here right now. Not a flake in sight yet. It is predicted that Boston will be spared.
It doesn’t make sense. This is the first snow event this season. They could easily go to neighboring states. Many states are oversupplied with salt.
Shovels are running out, too. How long do people keep snow shovels and snow blowers? Don’t they last forever? We kept our last one for over thirty years. Replaced it with a lighter plastic one five years ago.
This storm was predicted a week ago. It is amazing to me that some stores would run of thing salt, shovels, food,etc. You would think they could stock up at those stores. For some of those towns not to be prepared is just incompetency, unless they totally missed the memo.
Incompetency seems to be the order of the day lately when it comes to service in this country. Especially in retail. You could probably get supplies quicker by ordering online and paying for express shipment.
Stay safe everyone. I hope you all avoid power outages and flooding, and that llife gets back to a semblance of normalcy soon.
My sister was at Dulles at 6 am for her 2:30 pm rescheduled flight. I thought she was lucky to have narrowly missed the 4 pm deadline, where United was cutting off all flights. Unfortunately, her 2:30 flight got axed, but she was in line to reschedule the rescheduled flight. I never heard back from her, so am assuming she ran to catch another flight.
Before she left, she asked her son, who is in college, but lives at home, to give her a shopping list. She was shocked that he only asked for bacon and cookies.
Yesterday I ordered shampoo and coffee from Amazon, they were delivered by evening. Same day delivery. Free for prime members.
Bacon and cookies! :))
If you go to a place that is out of salt, please don’t buy urea or any other kind of fertilizer. Urea will melt ice, but it has a nitrogen number of 40, which is super high, and when it runs off into the storm drain it will end up eventually in the Chesapeake causing algae blooms and fish kills.
Is there something else one would need for a snowstorm? 