February 06, 2010

24 inches of AGW

Looks like the Washington DC area really got hammered last night.

RACS is near there, or at least near enough to be caught in the same storm. I wonder how bad it was?

UPDATE: The roof of an ice skating rink collapsed from the weight of the snow. The place was open at the time, too. The owner saw the main roof support beam was begining to give way, and got everyone out in time, so no one was hurt.

UPDATE: Dan Riehl says "This should be illegal in Virginia."

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1 It's the worst I've seen since moving to Arlington VA over ten years ago.  The trees behind my apartment have about 18 inches of snow on them, and at least one (a tall pine in the wind/sound break) has collapsed.  I haven't gone downstairs to see how deep the roads are yet, but we don't have many snow plows, so it'll probably still be there Monday morning.

I'd include a picture, but Luddite that I am, I don't have a digital camera or picture phone.  However, Ace posted one of the local weather forecasts here.  The actual weather we got was a bit worse than the forecasts, at least for my area.

Posted by: Siergen at February 06, 2010 01:48 PM (3R6Xp)

2 That weather guy is a real maniac.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 06, 2010 02:58 PM (+rSRq)

3 Where I am, it looks like we got about a foot and a half.  Which, given its DC suburbs, is pretty damn a lot.

Posted by: metaphysician at February 06, 2010 05:30 PM (vM63Z)

4 I'm not looking forward to digging out my car tomorrow.  We got somewhere around 29", apparently the second worst blizzard ever in the area.   And total snowfall for the year is also approaching record levels (we had one big storm earlier this year).  Power outages don't seem as widespread as I would have thought...  Much worse than the forecasts though...

Posted by: Mark at February 06, 2010 08:14 PM (1y5ce)

5 No serious power outages in Fairfax, although there has been some flickering.  I'd give odds that the Federal Government offices in the DC Metro area are open tomorrow as less than 5%, and the odds for Tuesday as less than 50%.

Posted by: Civilis at February 07, 2010 06:00 AM (9nl1R)

6 Given they are predicting more snow in the DC area on Tuesday and Wednesday?  Yeah, I'd buy it.

Posted by: metaphysician at February 07, 2010 08:52 AM (vM63Z)

7

Dan Riehl's pictures look like just another winter in Western MA or Green Bay.

Posted by: RickC at February 07, 2010 09:54 AM (8GbPX)

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