Snow!!!!

[valhalla]

Snow report from the south:

8 inches Sunday morning in Taylorsville, NC - reports from Raleigh, NC weren't good, so since our path led us east, we didn't leave until 2:00 PM for our good condition 8-hour drive home.  The roads west were just about dry, but the got progressively wetter heading east.  I-40 East and I-85 North in NC had no traffic to speak of.  Durham to Richmond was not good - ICE closed I-85 south of Petersburg.  Rich was suffering because we were listening to the Giants fiasco on XM, but it did make the 1.25 hour stopage bearable.  East of DC (pretty much at Andrews Airforce Base and Rt 4) the snow came down!  Hard!  Fortunately, we were less than 20 miles from home.  Followed a truck that was smoking, stinking, and obviously lost almost all the way home (couldn't get around the fool - roads weren't good).  4x4 up the driveway (maybe 2-inches blowing hard) and we were home in a bit over 8.5 hours!  Amazing what no traffic can do!

Cold and sun is coming out from the Chesapeake today!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[Carol P.]

Snow report from the south:

8 inches Sunday morning in Taylorsville, NC - reports from Raleigh, NC weren't good, so since our path led us east, we didn't leave until 2:00 PM for our good condition 8-hour drive home.  The roads west were just about dry, but the got progressively wetter heading east.  I-40 East and I-85 North in NC had no traffic to speak of.  Durham to Richmond was not good - ICE closed I-85 south of Petersburg.  Rich was suffering because we were listening to the Giants fiasco on XM, but it did make the 1.25 hour stopage bearable.  East of DC (pretty much at Andrews Airforce Base and Rt 4) the snow came down!  Hard!  Fortunately, we were less than 20 miles from home.  Followed a truck that was smoking, stinking, and obviously lost almost all the way home (couldn't get around the fool - roads weren't good).  4x4 up the driveway (maybe 2-inches blowing hard) and we were home in a bit over 8.5 hours!  Amazing what no traffic can do!

Cold and sun is coming out from the Chesapeake today!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

It could have been worse.  You could have been listening to the Bills fiasco!  

[Tokira]

I've been wondering how everyone else was faring with the storm.  We here in the Eastern Panhandle of WV have apparently really lucked out 
When I looked at the satellite image the night before last, it *looked* as though we were on the western edge of the system, and all we got here was a few episodes of flurries, and that INFERNAL WIND!  Now the WIND ADVISORY continues 
Carol
in sunny and cold WV

[valhalla]

I've been wondering how everyone else was faring with the storm.  We here in the Eastern Panhandle of WV have apparently really lucked out 
When I looked at the satellite image the night before last, it *looked* as though we were on the western edge of the system, and all we got here was a few episodes of flurries, and that INFERNAL WIND!  Now the WIND ADVISORY continues 
Carol
in sunny and cold WV

We almost came home via the I-81 Corridor, but knew we had to turn east in Northern VA, which is(as you know) often an adventure in and of itself.

[Kris G.]

I got maybe 3-4 inches by my house.  The roads are clear but a little slick.  Took me an extra 15 minutes to get to work.  People who could walk here are calling out due to weather.  I just don't get it.

Ei

Ei! You are actually working today?? OMG! Ireland will be all tucked up til this time next week... which probably goes some way towards explaining why the IMF is taking over..

Well, we're used to this.  You're not.  And I work in health care.  


Ei

There were a few times in my 38 years of nursing when the hospital I worked at sent an ambulance out to get me and a few others when the roads were closed. We had to relieve people that had been pulling doubles, were tired and needed to get home.

[Dumpsterkitty]

There were a few times in my 38 years of nursing when the hospital I worked at sent an ambulance out to get me and a few others when the roads were closed. We had to relieve people that had been pulling doubles, were tired and needed to get home.

I remember one blizzard where the NYC buses weren't running, so I walked to the hospital.  I think I wound up working 20 hours.  Thankfully, I hitched a ride home with a friend-in her husband's police car!

Ei

[Tokira]

There were a few times in my 38 years of nursing when the hospital I worked at sent an ambulance out to get me and a few others when the roads were closed. We had to relieve people that had been pulling doubles, were tired and needed to get home.

I remember one blizzard where the NYC buses weren't running, so I walked to the hospital.  I think I wound up working 20 hours.  Thankfully, I hitched a ride home with a friend-in her husband's police car!

Ei

I never had to get picked up by the hospital, but more than once I was one of those who worked doubles.  And, are we ALL (retired?) Nurses here???
Carol
WV

[Patti from Kentucky]

And, are we ALL (retired?) Nurses here???
Carol
WV

No, I'm a geek instead of a nurse, so I can actually do my job from home when the streets are impassable.  My sister and brother-in-law are both hospital pharmacists and my sister-in-law is a nurse, which lets me enjoy lots of health care talk vicariously.

Patti

[schlaf374]

And, are we ALL (retired?) Nurses here???
Carol
WV

No I'm a retired telephone employee. In 34 years I only missed 1 day of work because of snow.   I lived in a different telephone territory, so they couldn't send in a truck to pick me up.  They also couldn't count it as an unexcused  absence because my town  closed all the roads 10 minutes before I was going to leave for work.

[Donna]

It's snowing here!!!!! shhh! 

[valhalla]

It's snowing here!!!!! shhh! 

   The girl is Nuts!    I have open toed heals on today    Just heard thunder, lightning, and hail are SW of Arlington 

[Donna]

So far, this is what we are getting.

[MAK]

Pretty Donna, thanks! You gonna build a snowman?

[Donna]

It's a very wet/heavy snow. Not enough yet to build anything.

[MAK]

The rain coming behind it will just melt it anyway!