I'm in Southern Maryland. It's still coming down at the moment but from what I gather some southwestern winds are supposed to push the storm back down our way for a second pass around the middle of the week. The worst of it was southwest of me (I heard east-bound Route 66 was shut down). We're being hit pretty hard too though. I dug my car out last night to move it from the street to the driveway and again this morning to get it out of the driveway. I managed to make it all the way to work only to get stuck in the parking lot.
I usually work the night shift (I'm a dispatcher) but I'm covering for a coworker that lives on backroads that probably haven't even seen a plow yet. If the county is plowing we're working through an SoE. State of Emergency definitely applies too! All across the board here I'm receiving power & phone line outages and absolutely nothing is opening. One of the warehouses we monitor actually collapsed about an hour after I got on the clock. It sucked having to relay that information to the owner. They have three or so more that we monitor and the snow is still coming down. I really hope those ones hold up.
I'm in for a long shift.
I'd take some pictures but I only have a camera phone and there is literally nothing to see anyway. I imagine all that the little 1.3 megapixel camera would pick up is white and glare.
it is up to my belly in some areas... our deck was even overflowing (above 3 feet) Insanity ><
At least we still have power though, my poor Uncle in Westminster (MD) has had no power since 6am, and will be stuck there for several days it looks like. I tunneled a path from the porch to the driveway, but not sure where to go from there lol..
I live about 10 minutes from Dulles Airport (about 35 minutes West of Washington D.C) which reported 32.4 inches of snow by the time it ended around 6pm tonight.
gives u an idea of how massive the snowbanks are getting. I climbed this one in the middle of a intersection of a typically busy road and it was desolate at 4pm this afternoon.
Every time I see things like this I am happy that I live in a country where we are totally prepared. Every car is forced to get winter tires, every road is ploughed, almost every walkway is sanded etc.
I miss the days when I was younger where school would be out and we'd just have snowball fights and build forts all day in the snow. We'd then go home and drink hot chocolate with no worries of that giant report looming
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