I didn't move south for this

[chas]

We got a little over two feet of snow, mostly Saturday. Lost power for around 18 hours, luckily we recently invested in a wood-stove fireplace insert, so we had one comfortable room and it wasn't below 50 anywhere in the house. (It's been in the teens at night for some time.) I settled south of the Mason-Dixon line specifically to get away from this kind of weather. Here are a few pics:

http://www.box.net/shared/lpv41tcj1p

I remember a photo of my brother-in-law, from around 1970, shoveling their driveway in Maine with a pile of snow almost taller than him. I didn't think this would ever happen to me, especially in Maryland, but it has.

http://www.box.net/shared/dhtphuc4i4

The swing set.

http://www.box.net/shared/oxdi4328at

This is our "squirrel-proof" bird feeder with a snow crown twice the size of the feeder.

[fearfaoin]

You didn't move South enough.
The Mason-Dixon line is political
not meteorological

I moved from NC to MD just in
time for the gobs of snow MD
got in 2003. I moved back the
next year.

[emmline]

My empathy Chas. Here's my Saturday worth of work:
(I can feel my biceps today. They aren't letting me forget.)

[Dale]

I live in Alabama and the Southeast had a winter storm in 1993 that people still talk about. We had 16 inches of snow at my house and temperatures of around 0 degrees for a few days. (Typically, Because that amount of snow had been, uh, unprecedented, to say the least, the snow brought down an incredible number of very old and large trees, many of which came down on homes and on powerlines, the latter taking down the power grid for the entire area. In addition, as discussed previously, the Southern states have very little equipment to deal with snow. At my house we had my mother, my wife, my three young daughters, and myself, all living in one room because of the cold. We had no heat except a fireplace, which I fed for 3 days. I ran out of firewood about the time the roads cleared. But, we were without heat or power for 7 days. Heated canned food over the fireplace. (I've since purchased a gas range!)

[chas]

One more thing: I live on a service/frontage/access road, so there are houses on only one side of the street. Of course, the plow almost always throws the snow toward the houses rather than toward the other side (in 10 years, I remember them plowing the other way once). But this time, the plow hugged the curb. On the opposite side of the street. So there's at least 10 feet between where the road has been plowed and all the mailboxes. I have no idea when or how we'll get mail. Nobody I've talked to has any plans to dig out another few hundred cubic feet of snow to make a pathway from the road to the mailbox.

[dwest]

It looks like great snow shoeing conditions, some people have all the luck!

[Pammy]

It looks like great snow shoeing conditions, some people have all the luck!

No sympathy then:)

[Caroluna]

Hi Chas and Em, I wondered how you were doing!
Here's my pics

Last week here was our St. Francis statue





On Saturday he was just a lump to the right of the seed tray.




The snow is pulling the gutters off the aviary / greenhouse.
On the other hand, the roof is very well insulated now!




We won't be getting mail for a while either....




Still coming down Saturday noon.




It was very pretty, fluffy snow that stuck to everything in an aesthetically pleasing way.




Well, maybe not everyone thought so.




...The blob to the right is my car...

[chas]

Great pics, Carol!

Latest from the National Weather Service, they're talking 10-20" beginning Tuesday.

[s1m0n]

(I've since purchased a gas range!)

The new ones usally have electric ignition, which means they still don't work in a blackout. I spent the five day Montreal Ice storm in an older apartment with a pilot-lit gas stove and furnace, which was unaffected. I ended up with about 18 friends sleeping on the floor.

[Denny]

bic

[s1m0n]

bic

If you can override the safety cutoff.

[Denny]

technique

[Thomaston]

I live in Alabama and the Southeast had a winter storm in 1993 that people still talk about. -snip-

I remember that well! I was about 13 at the time. I actually got stranded at my grandmother's house for a few days because my parents couldn't get on the road to pick me up. People here freak out at the slightest possibility of snow, and I've had a couple of people older than me say a lot of it goes back to that storm.
btw Dale- my coworker just told me Alabama might get snow Thursday. I'm sure I'll see the typical horde of folks stocking up on their bread, milk, and beer, the 3 storm necessities here.

[s1m0n]

Hi Chas and Em, I wondered how you were doing!
Here's my pics

Great! Now go shovel the roof!