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[rivka]

Holy crap! They've been predicting a snowstorm for a few days now, but now the NWS prediction is for 10 to 20 inches of snow. In Maryland. Starting tonight.

The city is going to completely and utterly grind to a halt. Baltimore is not at all capable of dealing with a snowstorm like that.

I fear for my Christmas pageant! There's no way that the kids are going to make it to church Sunday morning.

Also, we have now slipped from "good luck trying to get anyone at work to get anything done early next week" to "there isn't a chance in hell that anyone at work is going to even be there to get anything done early next week."

At least I have finished my Christmas shopping and gotten packages into the mail, and we have food in the refrigerator. And Alex is going to be in seventh freaking heaven. The past two years have only ever seen a dusting of winter snow in Baltimore. Four years old and almost two feet of snow at Christmas!

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[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

Wow. Let me be the first to pre-commend you for what you're about to endure. We might turn up our noses at a foot of snow here in Rochester, but two feet and more is worthy of respect, and we have the infrastructure for it.

Full refrigerator is good. I also like having emergency movies that stay shrink-wrapped so that I have fresh entertainment when I'm housebound. That probably goes triple for kids. In a pinch, maybe Alex could get one of her presents early??

Regarding the Christmas pageant, embrace the concept of Christmastide. It will be just as magical a week late if need be. Heck, the Magi themselves were almost two weeks late.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Did the burst water main yesterday cause you any problems?

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Looks like a good time for me to be in Arizona.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

:-o

STOCK UP ON BREAD, MILK, AND TOILET PAAAAAPERRRRRR!

As it were.

Yow, what a mess.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

And Movies! And BEER!

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

They're forecasting 14-22" (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/?hpid=dynamiclead) for us. I always stock up for winter, though, because I can't walk on ice or snow, and I have more than usual because this was forecast to be a heavier storm season than most. Not quite this heavier, though.

[moobabe.livejournal.com]

I know! Hannah's eye doctor's staff was talking about who could make it in tomorrow and I checked the weather and FREAKED OUT. We absolutely do not have the infrastructure for that out here for that kind of weather.

[eeyorerin]

*looks out window at Niagara Falls and its inch of snow*

...you seem to have gotten our weather and we yours. We don't really want it back, so maybe you could send it along to someone else?

[lerryn.livejournal.com]

Ouch. That sounds almost as fun as Seattle's Epic Snow Fail where a foot of snow shut down everything because it stayed frozen and the city didn't have either salt or an adequate snowplow plan, so nobody could get anywhere. I knew travel by car was hopeless, so I got my heavy winter coata nd boots and walked when I needed to get anywhere.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

How fun! Go sliding!

I remember vasty snowstorms and temps in the 70s at Christmas in Maryland in the far off years of my youth (not the same year), so I know snow happens there.

Serious. Go sliding, make snow angels, when it starts coming down put out a bowl to make snow ice cream.... make a snow man!

K.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I grew up in upstate NY, so I know how to play in the snow. :-) And we actually have a yard (unusual in the city), so there's a place for snowman-building and everything.

I am trying to figure out if I can get Alex to St. Mary's Park, which is a giant open field several blocks away. We don't have a sled for me to drag her on, and it's probably asking too much to expect her to tramp through waist-deep snow for blocks and blocks. She doesn't own snowpants. But we'll have an awesome time in our yard and on our street.

NWS says that if the snow tops 14 inches it will make the top ten snowstorms ever to hit Baltimore. One of the others hit when we were living in the suburbs - we got something like 30 inches and were stuck for three or four days.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Most years we get a couple of two foot snowfalls here in north Colorado Springs, so we don't really freak until three feet are forecast. Hope Alex and the rest of have a lovely time being snowbound.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

Alex is going to remember this Christmas For The Rest Of Her Life.

[(Anonymous)]

DC/VA snow policy is "It doesn't snow here, we are in the south. Wait, what is that white stuff falling from the sky? and why is the road so slipper-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh {crash}".

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

bosssio here - not sure why I logged out

[sm255.livejournal.com]

So how is it going today???

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

we got 24 inches!