Posted on 02/05/2010 12:00:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Shoppers jammed aisles and emptied stores of milk, bread and shovels Friday as a massive snowstorm blew into the Mid-Atlantic. Forecasters predicted a record 30 inches or more for the nation's capital, and authorities already were blaming the storm for the deaths of father-son Samaritans in Virginia.
The region's second snow storm in less than two months could be "extremely dangerous," and heavy, wet snow and strong winds threatened to knock out power, the National Weather Service said.
Flakes started falling around noon in Washington, where the federal government sent workers home early. The storm's wide swath and predictions of historic proportions for an area ill-equipped for snow had airlines canceling flights and school districts closing hours before any snow arrived.
The last time D.C. got at least 28 inches of snow was in 1922. The city has seen more than a foot only 13 times since 1870, according to the National Weather Service. The storm was expected to track through Virginia and West Virginia, across Maryland into southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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I have to say it: Global Warming! Global Warming!
As long as it is south of central NY, I am fine with it....
PaniC!!!!! My boss wont let us leave yet....Everyone else is at the bar.
I just had to go outside and scrape all the global warming off my satellite dish so the internet would work...
Green Energy Jobs. :-}
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Workers assemble shovels at a garden store in Merrifield, Virginia February 5, 2010. Demand for shovel soared with a major snowstorm under way in the entire Washington D.C. area. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)
> I have to say it: Global Warming! Global Warming!
God does have a sense of humor, no?
You know I see a lot of similarities between the AGW crowd and the Tower of Babel crowd.
Climate change. Really, only it’s not GW. It’s the typical climate cycle we’ve enjoyed all along. Only, I wish those dead heads in Congress and the WH would get a clue...
Snow on the ground
Snow on the ground
Lookin' like a fool drivin' through the town
Drivin' real fast
Car spinning round
Snow on the ground
Call yourself a cool cat
Lookin' like a fool
Drivin' downtown with the snow on the ground
Car in a ditch, hey!
Get the snow off the ground
Looking like a fool
Drivin' downtown with the snow on the ground
Car in a ditch, hey!
Get the snow off the ground
Lookin' like a fool
Drivin' downtown with the snow on the ground
A fresh layer of snow covers the grounds at the White House in Washington,
February 3, 2010, following an overnight winter storm. REUTERS/Jason Reed
(UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
Been snowing for a couple of hours here. Just starting to stick. Lord, just let the power stay on. That’s all I care about now.
The east gets all the neat storms while we suffer here in the PNW with cloudy days and drizzle - hey all, keep safe ...
When a car slides on an icy road into a ditch, most Americans say “Oh, no, watch out!”.
In DC they say “Here, hold my beer and watch this”.
...I've got it all under control
I would like to thank everyone for fixing the problem of Global Warming.
How come no one is out taking the credit?
Love it! Great!
Well where are you?
Here in the swamps of Delaware....nothing yet.
I’m nervous....sheesh...last year we had NO snowfall except a short storm on 3/1/09.
MAY THE GOD OF ISRAEL SHOW HIS MIGHTY WONDERS !!
In June it’s Global Warming, in January it’s Climate Change Ice Age That Was Brought On By Global Warming.
Or as we used to call it, “the seasons”.
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