~29" in Central MD at 3:30 PM Saturday.
Previous area records for 1-3 day totals are 28" for DC, 26.8" for Baltimore, 32.4" for Dulles.
I’m in MD and can see grass. Right by the 30 inch snow area.
It finally stopped here in West Virginia. H dug out and started his car. He’s getting antsy but they haven’t plowed our street yet. S2 went to a friend’s near his job yesterday afternoon during the height of the storm and is still there. S2 lives about a half hour away and fortunately doesn’t have to work until Monday. And I’ve been thanking God throughout that my mom is in assisted living, safe, warm and cared for.
Probably about 16" in central Long Island.
Bread in the breadmaker, a chicken roasting in the oven, twice baked potatoes in for their first baking.
Weather forecasters in NYC are predicting we may get around 20" last I checked.
Part of me is wondering why we’ve never had such serious snowstorms which could have given me a snow day or few off from school during my K-12 years from the '80s till the mid-'90s.
@Cobrat, You had either the fortune or the misfortune to have been a bit too young to have experienced the Blizzard of '78.
https://www.google.com/search?q=blizzard+of+78,+nyc&biw=1136&bih=717&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiaosi77sDKAhUJ2B4KHarqAi0QsAQINA#imgrc=iVA7S6d7b4p76M%3A
We have a couple of feet of snow here in my area of Pennsylvania north of Philadelphia. Blowing and drifting like crazy. We can’t tell where we shoveled three hours ago. The weather people on the local channel are quite excited and looks like we’re going to break a record or two.
I can say our local weatherman has been spot on with his predictions. I made a big pot of chicken noodle soup and a quiche…maybe time for a movie now
Thx, CT. I seem to be Mom Central today and it is kind of nice to be needed. I’ll send her the link and hope for her that MN isn’t shut down tomorrow. Driving and parking in NYC would be ridiculous.
The show is tomorrow and I see all Bwy has been cancelled today, but so far they expect to run tomorrow. So far. That dau does have a hotel in Manhattan tomorrow night. They’ve been sitting it out in some cheap place in Stamford for hours now, having driven in from Boston quite early. (It’s the other one headed to New Haven.)
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It’s 40 degrees in Augusta. Weather does not seem to be an issue there.
Oh, we had some when I was in high school in the late 70s. I don’t think I went a full week of school from Christmas until Easter my first three years, and we never made the time up. My senior year they finally told us that we would have to make up more than 3 days … we ended up having only three snow days that year.
I was way too young to remember.
Heard about it from parents and older friends. As a kid, whenever winter came around, I’d wished we’d get a blizzard like we had in '78, '96, or now so I can get some snow days off from K-12 school.
Over two feet in Berks County PA. drifts over the hood of my car.
If MetroNorth is shut down, can they take Amtrak instead? (Or Amtrak is shut down as well. That is, it is more likely that Amtrak would be shut down before MetroNorth would.)
DS once took Amtrak Acela Express from Boston to Baltimore (or NYC? Not sure.) He said it was quite comfortable and fast (and more convenient than by flight.) Do not know the cost of the fare and how long it takes to travel between Boston and NYC (or Baltimore) by Amtrak Acela Express.
Acelaborate is barely faster from dc to nyc. I have no plans to go anywhere, I have no idea what people were thinking who are stranded but had days notice.
I just had king crabs and champagne. I’m reading an actual book I bought in the airport by Marisa de Santos, I have been in pajamas since yesterday, showering and putting on new ones, and napping on and off.
It’s really coming down hard again in MD.
From Boston to NYC, Amtrak tends to take around 4.5-5.5 hours on average. Part of this even for the Acela is due to the fact there’s many heavily curved and older track stock which requires the faster trains to slow down at many points on the way. When there’s delays/issues, that time could be longer. A Boston friend going back after visiting me and other NYC friends ended up spending 7+ hours on his train ride home because of a track default which meant his train had to take a long detour through Western Mass and put up with the traffic issues due to having more trains than usual on those tracks.
Flights from Boston to NYC take around 15 minutes…but that’s not including travel time to/from airports and time one needs to allocate to get through security screenings. All the latter can add a few hours to the point IMO…one’s probably better off taking the Amtrak or bus.
Regarding prices, bus is often the least expensive and IME…often faster than Amtrak.
Trade off, however is comfort as buses can get quite cramped after riding for 3.5-4+ hours…especially if one’s taller than 5’8" or so. Even so…whenever I travel up to Boston from NYC…I’d always opt for the bus as I can put up with the minor discomfort while saving some cash and getting to my destination a bit faster. Especially considering both Amtrak and buses all end up at South Station in Boston unless one opts for alternate Boston area destinations.
When I did take a few trips to Baltimore, I did opt for Amtrak as the bus’ destination would have required much more travel time from the bus station to my final destination whereas the Amtrak station was within comfortable walking distance of my hotel and convention center in Baltimore.
Isn’t this thread about the snowstorm?
Still snowing here in NoVA. We will have about 3 feet when it’s over. I grew up in northern Illinois and have never seen anything like this.
So far, the snowstorm here in my area doesn’t seem nearly as bad as what I saw in my friend’s area in Boston while visiting him during the blizzard of '96.
There was so much snow back then that uncleared snow came up to my chest and snow piled on the sides of the roads towered high above me…and I’m a smidgen under 6’.
^ the snow piled up on the sides of my driveway (H and I have been through 4 rounds of shoveling and there are several more inches to be shoveled) is already well over 6 feet.