Feb 06 2010
White Out
Sorry for the lack of posting. We have been shoveling snow for two days now to keep ahead of this. Never seen anything like it in the DC area, and I have lived here almost 50 years. Soon as we get a break from the white stuff we will be back.
Update: We got whacked good, would guess around 30 inches (hard to tell with drifts and all). All I know is those are the largest piles of snow we have ever built in the 18 years in this house.
We were pleasantly amazed with VDoT last night as we went to check on my parents – who are without power but have a gas fire place keeping the place toasty. The main and secondary roads are clear and wide and easy to travel (though .  Tertiary+ roads will be hopefully done today. Excellent job  folks at VDoT!
My mom lives about 100 miles East of you. She dug out the car (she’s in her 70’s and did it by herself!) and says the snow on the sides of the driveway is up to her chin. The snowplow is stuck about a block up the road.
Looking at the RADAR, you should be coming out of it soon but she is still in the thick of it for a while.
fascinating article on the supposed Climategate “leak” in the UK Guardian today; remember, this up until now has been one of the most pro-AGW voices in the MSM.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/04/climate-change-email-hacker-police-investigation
Coincides with a lot of what you have written earlier on this topic. One piece of new info buried in this article that I had not heard before – time stamp info in the files appears to indicate that the files were accessed and collected by someone shifted 5 hours from GMT, ie on the US East Coast.
But the most important point is that so far, the official investigation has turned up no evidence whatsoever that the CRU system was actually hacked. It appears that their “security” was so poor as to be nonexistent.
What a great irony it will be, an approriate metaphor for the entire AGW fiasco, if it turns out that the entire edifice came tumbling down simply due to the technical incompetence of the scientists who were in charge of things!
“time stamp info in the files appears to indicate that the files were accessed and collected by someone shifted 5 hours from GMT, ie on the US East Coast.”
I pointed that out more than a month ago on several blogs.
Stay warm!
Linked at Bread upon the Waters.
I think it’s God smiting DC. Every time Obama says “Global Warming” God dumps another foot of the white stuff on the liberal coast.
I’m in Alexandria, VA and our trees took quite a beating from this heavy, wet snow. I agree, it’s tough shoveling!
well I’m sorry I missed your tipoff, crosspatch.
AJ is on the east coast, and is technically competent, hmmmm….
naaaaaahhh. LOL
oh and it was a pretty cold day here, too. It only got up into the 50’s! And we might even have another freeze later this week.
I’m in Arlington. We have about 28 inches. The total at Reagan National is 25.6-inches (8 yesterday, 17.6 today). We lost power at 5 but got it back at 7:14 this evening. With the low tonight going down to around 15°, I’m really happy to have the power back.
I’ve been reading this site since the 2008 campaign. I’m a centrist/liberal Dem who’s appalled at the leftist takeover of the DNC. We voted for McCain in 2008 after meeting him in June of that year. I wasn’t too pleased that he was a member of American Friends of Bilderberg but thought he’d be better than Obama.
I thought it was about time I registered and said hello. 🙂
We Alaskans wish you’d stop hoarding the water and send more snow up here…
AJ, I’m surprised at you. This is bad, but we’ve both seen storms just as serious. The 1979 blizzard….THAT was hard. Because the National Capital area hadn’t seen more than 6 inches in living memory. 17 inches was a back-breaker, especially with another 8 inches falling a week later.
The biggest problem is that this is the third major snowfall in six weeks…and we’ve run out of room for snow.
Just curious.
Does Virginia have the equivalent of the “Dear Diary” note I published in Snow ?
(I’d be awfully surprised if it doesn’t. 🙂
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MikeM was that blizzard of 79 the one that happened along in Feb or Mar of ’80?
just did a little googling, seems the blizzard of 79 was mostly in mid west (chicago area) blizzard of 80 was in Va. 2/29 and 3/1/80
That sounds right. It was the winter of ’79-’80. Nasty affair, as nobody was ready.
Mike M – what are surprised about? I just did not have time to blog with all the shoveling and checking in on others.
Yeah, I have been here for them all (’80, ’96, etc)
’96 was the last one for me. That’s when I loaded up the truck and headed for Californy.