garr tree68 Meanwhile, in DC, they've got two inches of snow (with a little more coming) and they're closing up... Two inches? Sheesh. We just leave a little earlier to get where we're going. The only reason schools close (or delay) is because they have parking lots to clear... If that is all it takes to shut DC down, I say we get some snow making machines, place them thru out DC and run 'em full bore 24/7/365 (366 in the leap years)! Jay
tree68 Meanwhile, in DC, they've got two inches of snow (with a little more coming) and they're closing up... Two inches? Sheesh. We just leave a little earlier to get where we're going. The only reason schools close (or delay) is because they have parking lots to clear...
Meanwhile, in DC, they've got two inches of snow (with a little more coming) and they're closing up...
Two inches? Sheesh. We just leave a little earlier to get where we're going. The only reason schools close (or delay) is because they have parking lots to clear...
If that is all it takes to shut DC down, I say we get some snow making machines, place them thru out DC and run 'em full bore 24/7/365 (366 in the leap years)!
Jay
The 'Greater DC Area' including suburban Baltimore got up to a foot of the white stuff and air temps have been in the single digits with breezes in the 10 to 20 MPH range. Wind Chill and drifting!
When it comes to driving in snow, ones ability gets diminished by the near proximity one is to other drivers. When you are driving by yourself and no one else is on the road - you can make a error in judgement and have the space to take recovery actions and not do any damage. When you make that same error in judgement and other traffic is mere feet from you in every direction - you have no room to make recovery actions without hitting someone or something.
One would expect that with all the HOT AIR the comes from Congress the Capital Area would immunized against cold and snow.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Around DC they start closing stuff up based on the forecast of winter weather. Was there two successive weekends some years ago when winter storms were forecast. Not a flake of snow in the air yet (Thursday evening) and the schools had already thrown in the towel.
Here in the "northern woods," it takes a pretty serious forecast to cause such an action. Usually the school transportation people head out about 4AM to see how things look. As I've mentioned before, the biggest issue is usually getting parking lots cleared, not the roads.
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Below freezing, light sleet and rain which froze on the overpasses and ramps to the freeways…FWD trucks (four wheeled dummies) all forget that even if all four wheels are pulling, if none of the tires have traction, ya can’t stop once you start down the overpass…lots of spare truck parts near the freeways now, all ya gotta do is stop and pick them up!
¼ ice on most of the road surfaces that have any elevation, swamp folks have lost all common sense…heck, they can’t drive in the rain, much less on ice.
Gonna be a fun day!
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edblysard Below freezing, light sleet and rain which froze on the overpasses and ramps to the freeways…FWD trucks (four wheeled dummies) all forget that even if all four wheels are pulling, if none of the tires have traction, ya can’t stop once you start down the overpass…lots of spare truck parts near the freeways now, all ya gotta do is stop and pick them up! ¼ ice on most of the road surfaces that have any elevation, swamp folks have lost all common sense…heck, they can’t drive in the rain, much less on ice. Gonna be a fun day!
Morning Ed.... It took me an hour and a half to make the 18 mile drive to work here in San Antonio. It took a while to get my car chiseled out...saw 7 accidents on the way in...mostly overpass spinouts....including a 5 car wreck on US 90 just before I-10.
IF any of you are down in this part of Texas....please be careful if you absolutely have to go out.
On the downwind side of the Lake, northwest Indiana and western Michigan are getting clobbered by lake-effect snow above what everyone else is getting. The snow can fall in narrow bands with whiteout conditions not uncommon, which may have been one of the causes of the pile-up on I-94 just south of Michigan City.
The rail mags are going to have a real publishing bonanza with all the winter weather photos this season. Ice in Texas will give a once in decade picture opportunity.
Yesterday we had a high of roughly 16 above.
Today - in fact just a short time ago - it was 52...above
I raced out of the house at 12:30 to go trackside w/o a jacket. Didn't even think to grab one.
Sunny and light south wind.
2:30 coming home - cloudy and west wind - but still 52. No snow yet - so part of this dream is wonderful!
Gonna wake up soon and be back in the Land of Oz and Auntie Em!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
rvos1979Well, a 20 mile stretch of I80-I94 was plugged solid today, Gary, IN, got nearly two feet of snow. I wisely decided to avoid the mess, IN DOT could not even plow the interstate, so many vehicles were stuck.......
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