Too many power companies seem to think that their job is to spend as little as possible on their distribution network. The main power company in Maryland was notorious for not trimming trees around their lines. VA would be fine when a storm rolled through, but MD would have tens of thousands without power due to fallen trees. They finally got enough heat to start doing more - when their proposed rate increases were rejected...
I didn't measure the snow this morning, but eyeballing it it seemed like maybe 18 inches. We had about a 3 hour lull, then it started up again a few minutes ago. I just got back from walking Sophie. We walked in the streets that had been plowed and it was fine. I decided to take a shortcut through a park to get back - that was a workout. A few hundred yards of virgin snow nearly up to my knees. Sophie was hopping the whole way. It was a workout for her too - with luck it will keep her from wanting to go in and out every 10 minutes the rest of the day... ;-)
Lots of sidewalks and driveways have been shoveled or cleaned out with a snow blower. I haven't done ours yet. I was thinking of doing so after resting from our walk, but the way it's snowing and blowing now I think I'll wait...
We've had more snow here than this - I can still see railings on our deck that have been buried before (when we had over 2' in the span of a week or so). But it's not quitting...
I hope we don't have too many more weird swings this winter. I'm worried about how the trees are going to survive (it was 70F not that long ago). It looks like we're supposed to get rain and snow on Tuesday... :-/
Here's hoping the rain and snow in the West continues in a way that helps to break the drought!
Cheers,
Scott.
I didn't measure the snow this morning, but eyeballing it it seemed like maybe 18 inches. We had about a 3 hour lull, then it started up again a few minutes ago. I just got back from walking Sophie. We walked in the streets that had been plowed and it was fine. I decided to take a shortcut through a park to get back - that was a workout. A few hundred yards of virgin snow nearly up to my knees. Sophie was hopping the whole way. It was a workout for her too - with luck it will keep her from wanting to go in and out every 10 minutes the rest of the day... ;-)
Lots of sidewalks and driveways have been shoveled or cleaned out with a snow blower. I haven't done ours yet. I was thinking of doing so after resting from our walk, but the way it's snowing and blowing now I think I'll wait...
We've had more snow here than this - I can still see railings on our deck that have been buried before (when we had over 2' in the span of a week or so). But it's not quitting...
I hope we don't have too many more weird swings this winter. I'm worried about how the trees are going to survive (it was 70F not that long ago). It looks like we're supposed to get rain and snow on Tuesday... :-/
Here's hoping the rain and snow in the West continues in a way that helps to break the drought!
Cheers,
Scott.