This Snow Ain’t Going Anywhere

4:33 pm EST December 20th, 2009 | News | 10 Comments

My guesstimate for around my neck of the woods is about 14″, easily the most snow I’ve ever seen in Maryland (I understand there was a snowstorm back in 1979 but that was just past my 2nd birthday, so I can’t say I witnessed that).

I wish we had one of these when I was a kid, this is perfect snow play snow, and its sunny outside and everything. Memories that last are being made today in our area.

My guess is that the temperatures will assure us of a white Christmas this week. My mom’s on her way in right now, and while she’ll be happy to see me… she’s not exactly happy about the snow. Where she left from it’s about 77 degrees today. Hah!

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10 Responses to “This Snow Ain’t Going Anywhere”

  1. Randy Brown says:
    December 20, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Let’s hope she’s in before Xmas Eve…some reports of a SECOND snowstorm, this one from the west.

  2. justadood says:
    December 20, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    1979? hmmm… I remember delivering newspapers at 4:00am in the Blizzard of 1978, in my hilly neighborhood through thigh-deep snow and winds gusting to 60mph.

    which is among the reasons why I’m sitting here in California, in silicon valley, under a sunny sky and temps in the 50′s …I came to the discovery that I don’t like snow. Cold, Wet, slippery, dangerous, snow… Better to be able to look at it through binoculars than to have to live (or even worse, drive) in it…..

    On a diff note…saw ‘Avatar’ last night….Oliver, this is one flick you need to see, as soon as you dig yourself out…decent story, *amazing* CGI/effects (but you already know that). Worth the $13.95 for the 3D ticket….even worth a repeat show, when I get to it later…

  3. anotherbozo says:
    December 20, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    Play snow? I’ll take your mom’s Jamaican beaches any day…

  4. aarrgghh says:
    December 20, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    who could forget the blizzard of 96? philly was paralyzed for like four days. when the worst was over, all that snow evaporated as a nonstop visible steam that rose off the towering but doomed snowdrifts for three days straight. i’ve never seen anything like it since.

  5. Randy Brown says:
    December 20, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    NO MOVIE ON EARTH is worth that kind of theatrical ticket money, regardless of enhancement.

    In a perverse way, I’m glad we got the big storm in the East this weekend, as it put a dent in the potential revenue of “Avatar.” I read that the thing will need to earn $750 million just to break even.

    Hollywood has gotten way out of control with big budgets – and remember, they are spending, for the most part, OUR money that we pay for tickets, merchandise, and videos.

    Any movie that might have to become box-office champion just to break even, deserves to fail.

    (end rant)

  6. Randy Brown says:
    December 20, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    The President’s Day Doomsday Blizzard of 2003 dumped a record 26 inches on Baltimore – but at least the brunt of it was on a weekend.

  7. Athenae says:
    December 21, 2009 at 12:01 am

    Dear Oliver’s Mom: Please take me back to Jamaica with you. Love, A.

    Seriously, I don’t know when I got to be such a wuss about winter but for whatever reason I just CANNOT with the snow and the bundling up right now and how no matter what I wear it ends up covered in slush after two blocks and it’s all just too frigging much.

    I want to hibernate until May.

    A.

  8. ferd says:
    December 21, 2009 at 12:50 am

    Have a wonderful time together with your mom and any other friends or loved ones. If you haven’t already done it, lie back in the snow, flap your arms and legs, stand up and look at the snow angel.

  9. Ol'Froth says:
    December 21, 2009 at 9:56 am

    St. Patrick’s Day, 1993. Now THAT was a blizzard. My first year at my current job, and the attitude was “Kid, you BETTER be at work.” First indication that this might not be a good idea was the snow plow/salt truck on its side in the median of Rt. 28. Somehow I made it into work, and spent the next 36 hours unable to leave.

  10. Robert says:
    December 21, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    I was actually IN D.C. for the snows of ’79. My high school’s CloseUp chapter was there then. Being from Oakland CA, my experience of snow was as something you go to – not something that comes TO you. It was also the winter the farmers came to D.C. to protest insufficient farm subsidies, or some such. Farmers on tractors doing doughnuts on the frozen Mall – ah, memories. Here in Oaktown, there have been newspaper headlines about the weather – it’s rained, and the temperature is below 50 F. For us, that’s severe winter weather. Good thing we have earthquakes, or we’d have even more people moving here.

    Hope your mom has a good time, Oliver. Stay warm!