<p>I don’t think I’ll ever get used to how pretty it is when it snows on the Jersey shore. Everything is pretty gray and desolate this time of year, and the snow just puts a nice blanket on it. Nice that it held off until I got my groceries on the Mainland.</p>
<p>Are you on LBI, my mom just called and said they have 3" of snow. Very prettty!</p>
<p>Yes, in Beach Haven. My only concern is the rest of my family is in various places on the Mainland, and my H did not take the truck. No plowing around here, yet.</p>
<p>Oh no, it means it’s coming our way.</p>
<p>I was surprised that it started to stick immediately when it started, but of course it was about 20 degrees, 16 now.</p>
<p>We’re down near Cape May, my goodness there’s a lot of snow out there. And it just keeps getting colder and colder. Up in North Jersey we’re used to it, but I think that down here, there are a lot of amateurs driivng around. it is pretty, though.</p>
<p>Darn right about the amateurs on the roads down here in sj…we are in Cape May county and went from Cape May Courthouse to Vineland…nice forcasting from every weather source today…after 6" the weather channel was still running the " coating to an inch " forcast…Philly failed miserably too, but they just don’t care about us people on the fringe…oh well, we ended up having a remarkably good day for our business, even compared to the last snowstorm back in December, so no real complaints…just a little tongue in cheek mocking…that darned Glenn " Hurricane " Schwartz had better be quiet about his usual puffing up about his forcasts :)</p>
<p>Weather forecaster is the only profession I know of could be consistently wrong and still be employed.</p>
<p>Oh no…my pipes are freezing ! No water flow…husband in the crawl space :O</p>
<p>Only us Jersey folk use the term: “The shore”. To everyone else it’s: **“The beach” **</p>
<p>Oh, toblin, I grew up going ‘down the shore’ from New York; and my kids would spend part of their summers ‘down the shore’ from Virginia. But the expression only refers to the New Jersey shore; everywhere else we go ‘to the beach’ ;)</p>
<p>Wow, this expected one inch of snow has turned into 7.9 inches in Atlantic City, you folks down in Cape May got 9 inches.
Philly, lucked out with 2 inches. </p>
<p>My sister was one hour north, in central NJ yesterday, and thought I was joking about the 3 inches we had by 4:00pm. Had to send photo to convince her.</p>
<p>It’s beautiful, fluffy, powder type snow, and still clinging to the trees, but here we go again. And, it’s really COLD!</p>
<p>Eight inches here on LBI, but it has gotten up to 24, from 14 degrees early this morning. We have the one pipe frozen that always freezes when it gets this low and I forget to leave it dripping. This snow is so light and fluffy, it was almost fun to dig out the cars, in contrast to that heavy, wet December snow.</p>
<p>Cape May Times says we got 10 inches. Absolutely gorgeous out there. Took a beautiful walk along the Delaware Bay (nearest water to us.) Had to climb through deep drifts to get down to the beach–never had that happen before. </p>
<p>We’ll be driving up the Parkway today (boo hoo), and hear that up at the other end where we’re heading, there’s none at all. What a switch.</p>
<p>Interestingly, as you all say, we drive “down the shore”. However, once we’re here, we walk over to the “beach”.</p>
<p>I am a Jersey Girl at heart (Bergen County) so my family comes up to the shore every summer. We have been renting a beach house in Beach Haven for the past 21 years.</p>