SNOW!

ferd · February 16, 2003 6:24AM

Non coin topic. I am hearing you folks around D.C. are getting up to two feet of snow! Anybody in the DC area have any snow stories for us?

MadMarty · February 16, 2003 6:29AM

White, fluffy and a pain to shovel...

No snow in Chicago!!!

FC57Coins · February 16, 2003 6:31AM

Good - maybe "Dubya" will declare that terrorists are responsible for the snow and declare war on Uzbeckistan!

BSqr · February 16, 2003 6:33AM

I'll take Dubya over the zipper any day

ksteelheader · February 16, 2003 6:33AM

About 6 inches here in Southern PA and they say the heavy stuff is not here yet. It is blowing hard and 9 degrees! In other words, Cold. Ken

FC57Coins · February 16, 2003 6:38AM

<< <i>I'll take Dubya over the zipper any day >>

When in the annals (*note the correct spelling) of this country have we had so much fun with president???? Dubya is just sooooo depressing!!!

jbsteven · February 16, 2003 6:40AM

man, it got down to about 40 here last night.............BRRRRRRRR

MadMarty · February 16, 2003 6:45AM

<< <i>man, it got down to about 40 here last night............. >>

Bite Me!!

dddangerousdan · February 16, 2003 6:45AM

JB I hate you it was -8 here last night

DAN

ajaan · February 16, 2003 6:47AM

Thank God for Syracuse! It makes Buffalo look like the tropics.

CThomas · February 16, 2003 6:52AM

It's about 82 outside but I don't dare rough it Might catch a cold!!!

paigowjohnny · February 16, 2003 6:54AM

Really crappy out here in San Diego today...about 60F..

And my parents in Ohio wonder why I've spent my Navy career in the Pacific....

dddangerousdan · February 16, 2003 6:54AM

ajaan we have over 120" so far. how much over there?

DAN

Legend · February 16, 2003 6:56AM

I live on the north Jersey Shore (by Sandy Hook).

We are getting 40-55 mph sustained wind gusts. The snow is actually coming down side ways. I can't see across the street. AND, they are predicting bigtime flooding in my neighborhood PLUS 20 inches of snow!

I doubt I'll be in work tomorrow. Days like today make me wonder why I live here!

Laura

P.S. Since I am stuck inside, I did update our NEWSLETTER and Hot Topics pages on Legends web site. Yeah, its a cheap sleazy plug-at least I admit it.

dbldie55 · February 16, 2003 7:04AM

My local ski area (10 miles away) got 6 feet last week. I shovel everyday. I was getting worried. While snow may be a pain, it is soooo much better than the forest fires that happen when we have no snow in the winter. Since the enviro's have made it so you cannot manage the forests to prevent fires now, we just have to deal with smoke (unless we have good winters).

Hope we get another 10 feet before May (it is not uncommon to get snow through May). I used to love it cold too (like 20-30 below zero), but now that I pay my own heat bills, I would just as soon it stayed a little warmer (I don't turn on heat unless it is below zero)

merysu · February 16, 2003 7:14AM

FC57COINs, speaking of annals of history, I hope you didnt get that cigar you are smoking from Dubbya's predecessor.

ajaan · February 16, 2003 7:17AM

Dan, 93.1" so far.

Baley · February 16, 2003 7:19AM

i hear there's some fresh in Utah. good. heading back out there next week

EVillageProwler · February 16, 2003 8:56AM

I live on the east side of downtown Manhattan, not too far from Laura (I imagine). It's coming down right now, but it's still better than this morning!

No snow this morning, but it was 8 degrees NOT including the wind chill!

EVP

CoinAddict · February 16, 2003 9:05AM

I live in Tell City, IN. and it has been snowing and sleeting most of the day today. The temperature has been in the upper 20s. More then likely we will be getting out of school tomorrow due to the bad weather.

KlectorKid · February 16, 2003 9:10AM

Here in south-east WI, it is 19 degrees and the biggest snow fall this winter has been like 4 inches.

1956Quarter · February 16, 2003 9:11AM

Yeah. Been snowing horizontal now since 4:15 AM. We had 5 inches on the ground from last weekends snow plus 2 inches we got Friday night. At dusk we had 18 inches and no let up in site. Winds gusting about 20 mph, and snow drifting. My front yard has a drift of about 5 feet in the middle. Pick up truck is burried half way up the doors. This is expected to continue until noon tommorrow with total accumulations of up to 24 inches from this storm alone. I think we'll easily break 30" plus the 5 we already had.

The pic shows my back yard. Winds have erroded snow away from close to the house, but the yard depth is about 18 inches. No drifts here, just snow.

Note. In the upper left of the photo in the background is a semi container, its 1/3 up the sides.....

1956Quarter · February 16, 2003 9:26AM

Yup, its still snowing. I am standing at the door. Snow is a foot up the post. Post is on the porch which is about a foot above ground level.
What ground?!?! Drift barely visible in the snowfall is about 5 feet tall as my yard slopes down toward the street, where ever that is!!

ajaan · February 16, 2003 10:17AM

CoinAddict - tomorrow is a holiday, President's Day. No school anyway.

1956Quarter - where are you?

KlectorKid · February 16, 2003 10:23AM

We have school!

CoinAddict · February 16, 2003 10:24AM

Ajaan- Tomorrow was going to be a make-up day for the days that we missed due to snow.

ajaan · February 16, 2003 10:34AM

KK of course. Those of you North of the Border have school. The assistant prinical of the school I teach at lives in Fort Erie, ONT. She makes a habit of taking Canadian holidays off.

KK you in WI or Alberta?

dbldie55 · February 16, 2003 10:36AM

Damn snow. Just when I say I want it, my satellite starts to mess up - I open the door and it is snowing.

KlectorKid · February 16, 2003 10:37AM

WI, For a second I thought that the border changed! We have not had a snow day in 4 years, and dont get hardly any Holidays (Didnt get Martin Luther Kind Day off either)

DanC · February 16, 2003 10:43AM

I wouldn't wish that nasty white crap on even DCAMFranklin!

You all can keep it! Hasn't snowed here in almost a year. With any luck - we won't get any this year.

Dog97 · February 16, 2003 10:45AM

We worked in the white stuff all week last week. It was drifted up under the houses, in the road, and over our stack of lumber. Every once in a while you would see a car with Michigan plates that pulled off the road and got stuck in it. Several of my men actually took their shirts off and worked. It was 80 degrees at the beach last week.
Supposed to be 35/60 tomorrow. We'll be cold & miserable all day.

Bulldog · February 16, 2003 10:51AM

Dog,

You poor thing. We are doing a metal roof and soffits tomorrow, Deadline is Tuesday at noon. Highest it got here today was 9 degrees and it is starting to snow, we are expecting 2 feet of fresh snow. Man you guys down south are soft in the trade.....LOL

Bulldog

EVillageProwler · February 16, 2003 11:20AM

I just got back from walking my dog, and it is brutal out there. The "snow" is falling nearly horizontally, and there's no way to hide the face unless it is nearly fully covered. And, it's not really snow, or at least it didn't feel like it. The wind is blowing so hard that the snow hurts when it hits you.

There was barely any salt on the ground, and my dog's paws started hurting rather quickly! Fortunately, she did a few #1's and a #2 quickly so we can get back in without staying too long out there!

Imagine the life of those servicemen who are stationed inside the Arctic Circle...

EVP

Legend · February 16, 2003 11:41AM

The wind out side now sounds like a freight train. What scares me more is they are predicting severe flooding here.

Looks like we are closed tomorrow (thank goodness for emails)!

Dog97 · February 16, 2003 11:45AM

Bulldog-
You couldn't get any of my men to work in the snow. They won't even come to work if there is a 20% chance of rain.

Ronyahski · February 16, 2003 11:48AM

I live outside of D.C. We've gotten 22 inches or so since early this morning, and it's still snowing! Supposed to keep snowing throughout the night. Right now it is a freezing rain/snow. Shoveled the driveway twice already, %$$#@!!. Virginia has declared a state of emergency, roads closed, etc. Last time we had anything near this, the kids were out of school for 3 days.

Of course Buffalo would be plowed out by now, business as usual tomorrow. Not around here, we can't handle a dusting.

FC57Coins · February 16, 2003 11:50AM

<< <i>You couldn't get any of my men to work in the snow. They won't even come to work if there is a 20% chance of rain >>

Sounds like you need a rough tough cigar chomping HR manager down there Dog97! - You can pay me in some of them there dirty Morgans!

marcmoish · February 16, 2003 11:57AM

just dropped a raw Merc into a snow drift by my front door....guess what? I've got a blast white example now, and totally chillin'

..sending it out to be graded, something tells me it'll come back in a body bag..shucks. Dang snow!

Marc

Mike921 · February 16, 2003 12:28PM

There is about 4 or 5 inches of ice/sleet here in Richmond

Dave99B · February 16, 2003 12:29PM

It's raining in Seattle

Dave

FullStrike · February 16, 2003 12:36PM

Brrrrrrr It's too cold out there for me. Just looked out at the thermometer a while ago and it's up to 20 degrees. The winds still blowing really hard so I'll not go out in the stuff.

I went out this afternoon and walked through some drifts that were about 2 feet deep. Fired up my trusty Ram 4X4 and went for a spin. Went pretty good but there was nowhere to go. Everything was shut down cause of the "State of Emergency" here in Delaware ( I live in Dover ).

We sure as heck aren't used to this kind of stuff. I remember some high drifts like this around 1962 ( I was 7 way back then ) but normally 2 or 3 inches is heavy duty winter for us.

I'm tempted to throw some proof sets outside but I'm just too suspicious that the only thing that would get "frosted" would be me.

Don't know how people up in the far Northern States can put up with real winter conditions. I can see why Florida draws such a heavy "snowbird" migration every year.

beartracks42 · February 16, 2003 12:57PM

here in SE Ohio we have 18" on the ground and still coming down at 1"/hr. rate. They say it will quit sometime tomorrow.

Geoman · February 16, 2003 1:00PM

man, it got down to about 40 here last night.............BRRRRRRRR

Don't come crying to me.

We just got over 3 weeks straight of having it between -20F to -30F below zero at night. You should try northern MN out for cold! Of course, most of us love it. Every heard of exploding spit? That's when it is so cold, that it freezes and explodes before hitting the ground.

I do wish we would get some of the snow the east coast is hogging this winter. We are way behind on averages.

Good luck out east, and have fun!

DanC · February 16, 2003 1:03PM

<< <i>It's raining in Seattle >>

Dave...

It's ALWAYS raining in Seattle.

Tootawl · February 16, 2003 1:18PM

Southern Maryland report: 10-12 inches of snow that turned to sleet. It's now a snow/sleet mix with more snow than sleet. More snow to come later today. Good thing I have enough beer and pizza for a few days.

oldcameoproofsguy · February 16, 2003 1:21PM

Bring on the snow, baby!

Shot this pic last week. There is never enough!

Right now it's dumping in the mountains!!!! B@lls deep powder days to come!

Tootawl · February 16, 2003 1:26PM

You couldn't PAY me enough to go skiing again. The last time I went skiing was on a 3 day New Year's Eve vacation several years ago. It was a lot of fun. The day and half I spent in the hospital afterwards was very relaxing. I fell down on the last run.

K6AZ · February 16, 2003 2:08PM

Right now, it is 19 degrees and has been almost non-stop snow and sleet since yesterday. We have eight inches of snow and sleet on the ground, with about six inches of that hard packed sleet. I am 30 miles west of Richmond VA. Here is a picture I took Saturday evening, I didn't take any today figuring I would wait until it all ended tomorrow to show the final result. At this point, we had a couple of inches of hard packed sleet on the ground.

barney · February 16, 2003 2:43PM

I've seen ice and snow (grew up in New England and lived in Oregon for 7 years), but now all I see are palm trees (San Diego).

It's about 55 here right now.

That is just the way it is.

Be careful over there in DC, I lost a friend to a patch of ice on a Maryland freeway.

Barn

Twowood · February 16, 2003 8:55PM

Oldcameoproofsguy....WOW, watta great ski shot!!!

We're up to 10 inches here on Long Island! Twowood

My humble Peace Dollar set.

cosmicdebris · February 16, 2003 9:03PM

Snowing like crazy in CT.

My Precioussssssssssssssssssssssssssss new Icon! Has been hijacked.

SNOW!

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