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It's a blizzard! Biggest storm we'ver had here since Feb. '79! We've got 14 inches already and it's only 1:00 pm, and it's supposed to keep snowing until Monday night! Now they're talking up to 30 inches! Holy moley! Had Milo out running through the deep drifts on the beach with the driving snow coating his face, and the husky in 'im loves it!...never saw him so happy!  Mush!
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Every full moon has a name, and tomorrow's is the Snow Moon!...fitting.
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Dear WO'N: Depends on to whom you are talking. From an Astrology site:
January: Wolf Moon
February:
Storm Moon
March: Chaste Moon
April: Seed Moon
May: Hare Moon
June: Dyad Moon
July: Mead Moon
August: Wort Moon
September: Barely Moon
October: Blood Moon
November: Snow Moon
December: Oak Moon
What I think of Astrology is not fit for posting.
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February Storm Moon...I'll second that...and how. 
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Had 20 inches by 5:30 pm. We're under a State of Emergency statewide, and in Cape May, Atlantic, and Cumberland Counties vehicles are now banned from the roads except for snow clearing equipment and emergency vehicles, and Lower Townshio, which encompasses the extreme southern portion of Cape May County, has has declared a mandatory curfew from 7 pm to 7am. Now the northeast winds have kicked up (45-50 mph, gusts up to 70) and they're projecting an 8.5 to 9 ft. tide tomorrow, which could be serious. National Guard is on standby and the NJ State Police have been authorized by the Governor to close major highways if need be.
Philadelphia area had its pojected total upped to 20-30 inches.
The thrill is gone...you couldn't even walk out there now if you wanted to
Boby, hear you're really getting socked in Maryland, too...you hanging in there okay?
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Dear WO'N: I can remember big snowstorms in early twenties, when for several days my father
made house visits on snowshoes. Instead of plowing, pungs, wagons on side ski llike runners,
carrying heavy ballast, would be pulled along main streets packing snow down so that then
sleighs' funners would not dig in too deep. I remember my father taking me is a horse drawn
sleigh to house visits up to five miles away. And in the evenings, gangs of us kids were taken
on sleighrides, in wagons with clean straw as insulation. If you were lucky, you might get an
invitation to warm your hands in the most amazing place, while smooching.
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But Bill ... not possible. You couldn't kiss the horse and have your hand up its ass at the same time. Pull the other one!
- Pfranz
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We're all ice here in central Virginia. Don't know why we haven't seen snow. It was in the lower twenties most of yesterday and last night. Why no snow? I don't know.
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In New Hampshire, too. And I live a few strategic blocks from the Atlantic...so we will get high tides and all that jazz. We are starting now with flurries BUT tonight winds pick up and we could get anything from (lucky) six to (yuk) 16 inches of snow. Glad I am not in the news biz anymore. Blizzard of '78 I went to work on a snow plow!
I am all tucked in with food and a quart of Ben & Jerry for comfort. Yummy good with a topping of real maple syrup and bananas. Getting reports now it's going to be two inces an hour. Only hope is - with the cold front lodged over us - it will be the fluffy stuff, not the heavy wet stuff. Lucky for me I have a next door neighbor with two sons who have me on their shoveling list right after their house!
Pearl will be over her head in the snow. She hates that so the boys plow paths for her .... not toooooo spoiled.
Stay warm!
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In reply to:
You couldn't kiss the horse and have your hand up its ass at the same time. Pull the other one!
Depends where you're kissing it, of course.
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True, Bingley, true.
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Well, it's now Tuesday 5:30 pm. Storm started Friday. First time I set foot out of the house was Monday 11:00 a.m., when it finally stopped snowing. 26 inches. My wife and I took 4 hours to shovel off the front steps and a path one shovel-width down the sidewalk to my car at the curb, a distance of about 25 feet. I also went 6 feet in either direction sideways (i.e., parallel with the house) so the dog would have a place to do his thing, as the snow was too deep for him to get through (and he's not a small dog). The last 4 hours of the precip consisted of icy rain which soaked into the snow and made it heavy as lead, so shovelling was really frightful for someone as out of shape as I am and with a very bad cold and having already had one heart attack and not intending to have another. I had to stop after about 5 minutes and take 10 minutes to catch my breath and after about a half hour had to rest for an hour. It went that way.
Last night (Monday) it snowed another 2 inches, just to put icing on the cake.
Today the cavalry arrived in the person of my son & daughter in law. While we watched their girls and I went to the supermarket (after they dug my car out) they did as much shovelling as my wife and I would have needed about a week to do. So we're now OK.
I went nowhere Sat. or Sun, not to church (don't imagine many people did). The governor of Md issued a proclamation (on what authority I have no idea) banning nonessential travel on any public roads. No one has anwered the phone at my place of employment yesterday or today.
You may have seen on network TV the collapsed roof of the B&O Railroad Museum. It's a round building built in 1887 surrounding a central cupola. The cupola survived, but the torus which surrounds it collapsed under the weight of the snow. The locomotives under it, some from the earliest days of railroading are said to be imperilled by the water and damaged by the structural parts falling on them. That's a real shame. The B&O is now gone, absorbed into CSX and there's no money for repairs unless the state picks it up. I doubt insurance will cover it.
Speaking of that, the snow on the roof of my house is forming an ice dam and about to tear the gutters and downspouts off as the stuff melts. In fact, nearly every house in the neighborhood has the same problem; saw one with the gutters half off on my way back from the supermarket. That happened about 10 years ago in a bad storm and anyone who might have been standing at our front door when it fell would have been killed. A large gutterfull of ice and slush weighs a ton. That's covered by homeowners insurance. Last time it cost the ins. co. over $3,000.00 not only for new gutters and downspouts and fascia but to replace 15 slates which it ripped off. Back then it cost $25 per slate; it's now up to $50+ per slate to fix a slate roof. Only good thing about slate roofs is they last a long time. Ours is the original roof. House was built in 1925.
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Storm didn't blow up quite as ferociously as first feared, so it spared us the 9 ft tides...crested at 8ft. Lots of major beach erosion and back-bay flooding, but not too much property damage, thankfully. However, there is now a problem with lots of roofs collapsing all over the region (South Jersey, Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania)...apartment buildings, private homes, schools, restaurants, factories...a real mess...not many injuries, though, so that's good. problem is the snow compacted in the late sleet/rain mix into the heavy, thick type after first blowing in all fluffy and light...and with a amt of slush underneath. Then it all froze up again without melting much. So the weight is wreaking havoc with area buildings, as Boby mentioned. Guess I'll be doing some roof clearing tomorrow.
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I learned something new today...shoveling 3 foot drifts of crusted, heavy snow off the roof is no fun, no fun at all.  
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Well, we got about 20-22 inches of snow but all light and fluffy. My "man" came and plowed ($25)and the boys next door took car of my car and the path to my door, and then shoveled paths for Pearl. ($15 - they are really good kids!) The last three days were at 40-45 fahrenheit and the roads are in good shape. The sun which shines on all parts of my roof have taken care of most of roof snow, although my neighbor was out with a roof rake on his garage as it gets no sun. Handy gadget that roof rake! Never seen one?
It's a square of poly-something about 18 wide by 10 inches deep attached to a long flexible rod that allows him to stand on the ground and reach waaaay up on on his three storey high roof. Works like a charm.
So all OK here. Sounds you folks further south got what we got in Blizzard of 1978!
Hang in there, Spring is just around the corner.
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Hang in there, Spring is just around the corner.
Yeah, and floods.
Although I am one of the champions [aka apologists], for trying to keep these fora to words and language (ha!) I must chime in and say that the only comfort this southerner can derive from so much snow is, as I understand it, our well won't go dry next August.
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So all's well that ends well.
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No, no--it's not all's well; she just said it's their well. 
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