winter driving carnage

[Reckers]

I can't speak for Bob, but I got no shame....*L*

[T-Man]

Power just came back on. All our snow is melted away. Today was actually a nice spring day.

Just wanted to let you know that I lost power for 24 hours. Last night(thurs) I came home from work and a power line was down. I do not know why they blocked the road for a power line that had no power???
We had stong winds and most of the region lost power. I spent almost an hour trying to get back home but three different roads had huge downed trees. So I drove back to the first road and parked at a local gym and walkes back home. They couldn't stop a determined pedestrian in the rain.
traffic was a mess that night because everyone was getting blocked and reversing direction. So that's my winter story.

I did work on trains, I got rails installed on two 022 switches.

I spoke too soon it's snowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Reckers]

Considering where T-Man and Ed live, we may not hear from either for a while. Everybody keep them and Rob Snyder in your prayers during this storm, please.

[stationmaster]

Storm? What storm? We get snows like this ever 10-15 years and everyone goes Schitzo....

Back when I was a kid we walked to school barefoot thru 5-foot drifts. Milked the chickens, gathered pigs, slopped the sheep, and sheered the cows when it was -20*.

Bob

[big ed]

Originally Posted by Reckers

Considering where T-Man and Ed live, we may not hear from either for a while. Everybody keep them and Rob Snyder in your prayers during this storm, please.

I went to Harve De Grace, MD.

Left the yard in the thick of it. A normal 2 1/2 hr drive took 4 hrs!
and all it was was from rolling road blocks plowing snow!
No accidents, no traffic!

A lot of folks stayed home which made driving nice if it was not for the plows!

And what snow they plowed to screw up all the traffic was not much at all. 10 mph! Around 8 plows with 10 pickups and cars and cops escorting them.

All on overtime because they spent the day before plowing water. As the snow they thought we would get on that day never came. All the salt they spread out was washed away with rain and you wonder how they spend 2 million bucks on one snow storm.

When it really snows you don't see them!!!

They got hammered Northwest NJ and NY, N west CT and the Poconos, but around here all the roads were melted by the time I turned around and came home. We got around 16" at my home.
One driver left an HR ahead of me and went to Brattleboro, VT and made it back before I did.

Everyone including the weather stations make more of some of these storms then they should.

T man you work?
I thought you might be retired?

What kind of work do you do?
Are you a car body repair man with the good old Epoxy?

Bob I used to walk to school in 8' drifts too! I don't think I ever had a closed for snow school day. If it was closed I had to walk there to find out anyway! There was no way to tell if it was closed. It wasn't the same thing like today with all the modern conveniences you got today to be notified of such a thing.
Now we get a recording the night before that school is closed and they don't even know what kind of storm it's going to be.

Sometimes it's nothing.

[T-Man]

Let's see. 6 foot man remembers 8 foot drift = 3 ft boy with imaginary 4 drift.

The south has got all the snow we only got a couple inches. Snow has never been a problem, you just wait it out. That is hard to do without power. The wind was the culprit this time, usually it is freezing rain.

This was a double header. The branch broke off( in the center of picture) and toppled a tree that leans into the back yard.

[stationmaster]

I think that everyone may remember the "Blizzard of '78". Everyone makes a big deal out of that one, and it was bad. But, I thought the winter of '77 was worse. We had Ice, then snow. Not as much snow as in 1978, but the ice under the snow in '77 made things much more treacherous.

Yes, being without power can be dangerous as well as inconvenient. That's why I would recommend anyone building a new home to figure in the cost of an emergency generator into the cost of construction. And, if one could afford it add wind generators. One could sell the unused power back to the grid.

The better half ALWAYS stocks up on essentials before a storm. A trip to the store for milk, bread, food, and TOILET PAPER is common with her before the Big 'Un. She always makes sure we have enough propane for the camping stove and grill, batteries for the lanterns and flashlights. I think she was a Boy Scout(their motto: Be Prepared).

Although I make jest, I do hope all are safe and sound.

Bob

[Rob Snyder]

We've gotten about 8 inches of snow and it still falling. No power problems yet. Just water problems yesterday. I need to get out and plow later.