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Snowpocalypse: The Aftermath
By Greg L | 7 February 2010 | Prince William County | 31 Comments
And now the ‘dig out’ and recovery begins. The roof of the ice skating center in Dale City collapsed from the weight of the snow, as did the roof of a hangar at Manassas Airport. About 4,000 homes in Prince William County lost power at some point during the storm, and temperatures this morning were in the teens.
Stay safe today, and stay warm.
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Today would be a great day to thank a snow plow operator.
Still working on digging out…..
O/T
Caption from the article:
“Retired U.S. Air Force Col. O. P. Ditch shows his support for Palin (below) ahead of tonight’s speech”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1249002/Sarah-Palin-Tea-party-activists-gather-hail-champion-national-gathering.html
He posts here, correct?
Not to mention the repair folks at Dominion Power–we lost power at 2:30 PM and it came back on at 8:30 when the house start getting a little bit too chilly for this kid.
Losing electricity for a few hours makes you appreciate it a bit more.
Man, our ancestors who settled this country must have been mean, tough SOBs.
My electricity went out at 9:30 pm on Friday and is still not back.
The recording on NOVEC’s answering machine says it could be Tuesday before they fix it. I’m not happy.
Please offer assistance to your neighbors who are physically unable to dig out. They would appreciate your help.
I understand Giant Food is open. You might want to stock up. We may get round two of snow on Tuesday night.
How much snow are they expecting on Tuesday? Anyone know?
No predictions yet, although the snow window has widened from Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday. Previously they were saying it would only amount to a couple of inches, so let’s hope it’s not another whopper.
Monday and Tuesday it should be above freezing, so we might see some melt-off, and that’ll help.
If we get another substantial accumulation, it’s going to be real difficult to find places to move that snow.
Too funny not to share: Here’s Robert Kennedy Jr. from a column 15 months ago talking about how global warming has left Northern Virginia without snow during the winter:
Go see the Washington Examiner article.
The power outages should have everyone thinking about backup heat sources (kerosene stores well.)
Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints.
I loved the Tebow ad.
Two kids (maybe somewhere around fourteen years old) walking down the street, with snow shovels in their hands, while I’m shoveling my driveway. Across the street, my neighbor and his wife shoveling their driveway, very short double drive w/THREE cars parked in it so not much surface area to shovel.
I ask the kids if they’re making any money and they say, “No.”
My neighbor hears and asks them HOW MUCH they want to shovel what’s left of his drive and the sidewalk (maybe about 80-100 ft) in front. I didn’t hear what they said to him but HE said he’d give them FIFTY bucks to do what was left!
I think to myself, hell, for fifty bucks I’LL do it. I thought they’d JUMP at the chance to make fifty bucks in, maybe, about an HOUR?
Guess what, they wanted SIXTY???
After quibbling over FIVE DOLLARS (each) they continue to walk on by?
Two questions:
1) Do you REALLY think they wanted to shovel any snow?
2) WHAT race do you think they were? (As I have said before, I’m NOT a racist, I’m just HONEST and in NO WAY worried about “sounding” POLITICALLY CORRECT!!!)
When I was their age, I’d have done it for FIVE bucks!
My neighbors across the street had uncovered their cars and cleared their driveway to the street by 6 pm on Saturday evening. At approximately 10:30 pm, my neighbor looked out his window and saw two males attempting to break into their cars. He yelled at the males and took off after them. Unfortunately, he lost them.
So the snow didn’t keep the burglars off of the streets on Saturday….
Superb photo in the post.
What really bugs me is when people shovel the snow back into the street.
Anonymous said on 8 Feb 2010 at 10:18 am: Flag comment
What really bugs me is when people shovel the snow back into the street.
What really bugs me is when after hours of shovelling my driveway, the plow comes by and and plows the snow back into my driveway.
Interesting about the snow shoveling, white kid next door has been shoveling snow for about 3-4 hours per day since saturday and he’s not charging a thing. Yesterday I swear the kid was out there for 6 hours straight helping people dig their cars out, everyone started bringing him hot chocolate, cokes, food, etc…and he just would not quit. He just did it out of the kindness of his heart, and this was not wimpy snow shoveling either, he was shoveling mounds of snow that were 4-5ft high behind cars because of the plow.
Makes me hopeful for the future that there are still kids around like this, however few.
saw some hispanic guy last night stumbling home drunk, could barely keep on his feet he was so hammered..was taking the dog out and I could smell this dude coming up the path. he tried to get into a house on the corner, failed and continued to make his way further..Not sure if he lived there or not.
the black and mexican kids are the ones haggling for money in my neighborhood, and they are also not making any money. I’ll save the 50-60 bucks and shovel my own snow. It’s damn good exercise too and you get some fresh air.
Unfortunately, after waiting all day for two guys to arrive and clear my driveway, they balked at the job when they finally arrived after 4:00. A neighborhood high school senior was out trying to earn some money, so I offered him $100 (it’s a very, very long driveway). His father and mother showed up as well with a snowblower and stayed last night until it was all clear (missing the Super Bowl, of course, and with family waiting at their home). Even cut and moved a neighbor’s tree that had fallen across my driveway (the tree’s owner refused to do it). The mother said the money is going toward the kid’s college fund. I ended up giving him $200 and it was definitely worth it. Very nice family.
Around here the bean people are walking right through the deep snow to knock on doors asking for work. Great way to case the neighborhood.
Something funny - In Sterling they are have an Al Gore snowman look-a-like contest.
Ok folks…let’s cut out the race-based observations. I am sure there are the slackers and do’ers in every ethinic group. Haven’t had one kid of any race come by and offer to shovel for any amount of money. When I was a kid we’d be out before school, hitting the folks who needed to get to work, and if school was canceled, we’d shovel all day, making a couple hundred bucks each.
I’d invite those of you offended by assults on Democracy, censorship and oppression of free speech by moderation for politically disageeeing with the moderator of a blog to visit the hypocrisy and failure of true democracy and openess on anti-bvbl.net. This is the kind of scary thing our forefathers tried to warn us about anarchy and autocracy…
Seems I recall that blog was started because of the anger and resentment from one of its founders for being moderated and banned from this blog..here is an offering for your scrutiny and personal assessment that they are just as inconsiderate as anyone else they oppose and claim is inconsiderate to them….
Wonder what she is afraid of? Could it be free speech or the truth?
Read my thread “michael” on snow (the moderated thread) and the previous thread on Political Correctness, and determine for yourself if the moderator is being inconsiderate and resentful or is justified in moderating the following…
“I guess those who are afraid of snow have never enjoyed the beauty of Alaska….”
“I’m glad that global warming has made the large polar and tropical systems over the poles and equatorial belts unstable all summer and winter…I like the weather variety…that’s about the only thing I like about continued global warming impact on our weather systems…wait until the oceans rise, methane releases and we start something we can’t stop…my advice is to study history diligently, and study archeological records for this area (Virginia once used to be a cold barely inhabitable desert of -20 degrees, only 6000 years ago, and the entire planet was frozen solid over 650 million years ago, and had no oxygen above 5000 feet, 39 million years ago with temperatures typically at the equator 130 degrees and an average change only 2.5 degrees above what it is today, all changes no where near and occuring more rapidly now than at any other time in history, with the same conditions and extremes of the past only about 50 years into the future if we do not stop…we will finally learn when we first experience a global heat approaching that of the Eocene Epoch of 130 degrees (only a few more hundred PPM of carbon away from where it was then), and then a rapid dive to a period colder than the last ice age if the ocean deep currents stop due to fresh water melt of the ice caps…last proved as the Younger Dryess…
And of course “some” of you and probably “most” of you don’t believe this weather has anything to do with that Global warming crap, its COLD right?”
I belong to neither blog politically, but I am often shocked at the pettiness and similarity between both for outright anger at others for not being or saying what they want to hear..politics over truth…sad…very sad….
And yes since the 1100’s we did have more snow than we do in Virginia today, because we should be and were entering a minor ice age period started in the Middle ages, 6000 years ago Virginia was dry (no snow) but a cold dry desert of -20 degrees), today however global warming carbon burning has changed the weather patterns of both summer and winter to be larger and more unstable between poles and tropics, causing wilder weather swings between warm weather and cold weather, all a function of more heat and instability in the atmosphere and more carbon, water vapor and methane in the atmosphere…the extremes will be like the eocene epoch (lack of oxygen and high heat due to carbon) and the precambriam ice epochs (due to ocean current cutoff caused by fresh water melting and continental current closure….
But hey that’s science and not religion right, so most people who “believe” in what they are told, will believe what they are told and not study it for themselves….until its too late and obvious to even the densest and most ignorant among us…
So…..how many carbon credits do we get for shoveling all this snow?
Back in the 1600s Virginia was considerably warmer than it is now.
the anti-blog thing is considerably worse than this one mike…they keep a couple people around posting, beat up on them and then when they get tired of them “fire” em’…eventually another comes along to take their place. it’s a blog of full of “the mean women down the street” essentially the mean lady you avoided as a child because you stepped on her part of the sidewalk or something. that blog is full of excuses that call themselves people, every once in a while you’ll see a few “hitler” or “nazi” themed posts with one of the founders (who is jewish) chiming in with her infinite wisdom on the subject. that blog is rich in something but it’s sure not intelligence.
It’s a SHAME the way some people can’t tell the difference between RACISM and REALISM!!!
All you people who told the TRUTH, you’re not being POLITICALLY CORRECT!!!
Nowadays, political correctness comes BEFORE the truth!!!
kevin,
I completely agree, like the above mentioned article about the snow shoveling. I’ll agree that race is not generally an issue, but come on! When you have the black kids in my neighborhood charging 50-60 bucks to shovel your snow and the white kids are doing it for free (well, maybe a cup of hot chocolate) makes one start to wonder.
Last night at my home, we heard someone trying to enter our home through the front door, kept trying to open the door then the guy rang the damn doorbell. Opened the door with wife standing behind me with a shotgun…lo and behold…it was a hispanic guy, drunk, who couldnt find his way home. He got the wrong townhouse he was so hammered! Or, what about the hispanic guys in a 4-wheel drive who wouldnt stop to help a lady stuck in her mini-van in the snow? they rode right on by, even waving at her…laughing. Yep, white people again to the rescue by bailing her out. So it’s not racism, but realism..
Chicko - AMEN brother!