Survived the Latest "Snowmageddon," Such as it Was

Sunday
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It's hard to tell from the official weather guesser websites but all told it looks like the Annapolis area received anywhere from 7 to 10 inches of snow on Sunday. Using the MK I Mod 0 eyeball, my estimate is 9 inches at my location, before the sleet and freezing rain began. Fortunately that latter event started later than predicted and also ended earlier than predicted.

So we had that going for us.

As you can see, both above and below, the street across the way did NOT get plowed, Sunday OR Monday. The main street through the neighborhood probably had at least five plows and/or sand/salt trucks go up and down on Sunday. That street is pretty clear, the side streets?

Not so much.

Monday
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Another key thing is that we didn't lose power during the storm. However, we did lose it for an hour or so BEFORE the storm.

The Nuke was preparing Tuttle's birthday supper when everything shut down. Took a while to get the generator up and running, the CO detector kept shutting it down. Apparently that enclosure needs a bit more work. But we did stay powered up, as the stove takes a lot of power, we opted to order pizza.

Apparently the pizza place was running low on tomato sauce so they skimped on that rather than tell anyone. As a result, the pizzas semi-sucked. First world problem, neh?

As to the loss of power, seems a squirrel had crossed two wires or something, toasting itself and blowing the power. Bummer, I've seen that happen.

We stayed warm and cozy on Sunday, watched a lot of football, and woke up to a sunny cold day on Monday. Everyone worked from home (except Your Humble Scribe of course) and the kids had no school.

So Monday was also calm and cozy.

We're just waiting for the sun to melt the ice on top of the remaining snow in the driveway to clear that up.

I'm not sure how Little Rhody fared, they got a lot more snow than Maryland though, of that I'm certain.

The long range forecast is looking at more snow, next weekend.

Sigh, we might be here longer than planned.

Ah well, someone has to spoil the kids.