Snowbound?

[DrStraw]

So how many of you who live in the eastern US are snowbound? We have about 20 inches and it is still snowing. My driveway is 1000 ft long and steep and ends on a private road which will not be ploughed. With some luck I may get out by Monday as it is supposed to be clear and warmer on Sunday. I just hope I got enough firewood in as the woodpile is not easily accessible in this weather.

[mbv]

I live in the UK and although I am lucky not to have a river running down my road, I find something even more surreal than the weather. Last Christmas I seem to remember it snowing in the Middle East. It's such a sad state of affairs.

[Tyvex]

Lots of snow in the DC and Baltimore area. I'm hoping the roads are cleared in time for this weekend's Chinese New Year tournament in Northern Virginia.

[Rowen]

I live in Georgia and right now all the ice we have has melted or is in the process of melting. I'm around the central area and lots of tree limbs have come down and further north tons of trees fell. We were lucky it was only limbs.

[RBerenguel]

My local weather here. I like cold weather. Crap.

[Fedya]

Eight inches today on tup of eight that hasn't melted from the previous storm, and with another five or so to come tonight.

However, a week or so ago I had four deer right outside the back window. Unfortunately, three of them were outside the bedroom, which has a screen in the window:



The fourth, I was able to get a better picture of:

[DrStraw]

We regularly have deer at our bird feeder, ten feet from the door, looking for dropped seeds. There is a large group of them spends a lot of time on our land. But today those deer would have problems - there is over 24 inches of snow under the feeder. I guess they stay sheltered in the woods.

[hyperpape]

We had several inches in North Carolina, but amazingly even my cul-de-sac was plowed--I can't figure out who thinks plowing a cul-de-sac the same day it's snowing is a good use of resources, but it is quite nice. I'm working from home because there are still quite a lot of wrecks happening, with slick spots and lane closures going on.

[Mike Novack]

We had several inches in North Carolina, but amazingly even my cul-de-sac was plowed--I can't figure out who thinks plowing a cul-de-sac the same day it's snowing is a good use of resources, but it is quite nice. I'm working from home because there are still quite a lot of wrecks happening, with slick spots and lane closures going on.

You are probably not used to getting much snow? Up here the town road crews work through the night to keep all the roads open if they possibly can. That's not so that people can quickly get out to shop or work the next morning because they won't be able to do that till their individual drives are plowed. But at least the emergency vehicles can get through and hopefully close enough to where needed.

A house fire isn't less likely on a cul-de-sac than on a through road.

[oren]

You are probably not used to getting much snow? Up here the town road crews work through the night to keep all the roads open if they possibly can. That's not so that people can quickly get out to shop or work the next morning because they won't be able to do that till their individual drives are plowed. But at least the emergency vehicles can get through and hopefully close enough to where needed.

A house fire isn't less likely on a cul-de-sac than on a through road.

In Seattle, where plows are nearly non-existent, only major roads are taken care of. The last major snow storm that hit my area had a good amount of snow on my cul-de-sac until the weather melted it 3-4 days later.

Firetrucks have chains on them, so they're a bit less concerned I guess.

[hyperpape]

Indeed--this kind of snow is rather rare around here (you don't get any accumulation more than 1" most years), so plowing is always quite spotty. The first "plow" was actually a backhoe, later on an actual plow came through.

[DrStraw]

Reports said that we ended up with the third biggest snowfall since records began in this area. Not sure when that was. Our daughter in WS-NC only got 10 inches.

[hyperpape]

I can't get Winston-Salem, but that would be the sixth or seventh biggest snow that the Greensboro area has had since 1903, according to NOAA: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=rah

[tj86430]

Strange times. The whole southern half of Finland (south of Oulu-Joensuu line) has very little snow (less than 10cm), some places less than 1 cm. Unusually warm, too; about to 0 centigrades. I have started my tractor to plough snow only once this winter (normal winter = ~20).

[Mike Novack]

In Seattle, where plows are nearly non-existent, only major roads are taken care of. The last major snow storm that hit my area had a good amount of snow on my cul-de-sac until the weather melted it 3-4 days later.

Firetrucks have chains on them, so they're a bit less concerned I guess.

Chains are good to keep you from getting stuck. You think about this differently than we do because while you can get snow sometimes in Seattle, not very often and not very much. Different here in the hills of New England.

The storm Thursday-Friday left us here with 14" of heavy, use for building igloos consistency snow (cut a block and it holds together). That's one sort of plow job when kept at it as coming down but quite another when trying to blast through where it hadn't previously been cleared. The truck that plowed out our drive had chains but still couldn't do more than a few feet at a time.

PS: For us here a decent snow storm, but not unusual.