A response to Eggs’ Digging out in Dixie from earlier today….
Resident GM techie guru, TedJS sent in these photos from today. Eggs’ cars were in snow at 10am and thawed by 2.30pm. This is Ted’s dilemma at around 4pm today – around 15 inches of snow and counting.
It’s DVDs and home cooking tonight!
Glad to see someone else in Ohio is enjoying the white stuff. I’ve posted pics as well.
I backed our 9-5 out of it’s parking space to place it nose to the wind. Other wise, it would just have disappeared overnight. We already have over 400 cm (over 12 feet) of snow on the ground this year in Québec, but this northeaster is really mean with gusts up to 100 km/hr. Happy shovling everyone concerned!
My own back yard in Chardon with the infamous Aztek:
It does look kinda nice until you have to move it.
You referring to the snow or the Aztek there, Ted?
i pray he’s talking about the snow…
You have a huge driveway Ted! Glad to see the snowblower.
Good-looking SportComb, btw.
That looks like a Pulte subdivision.
I still think that’s the best assigned plate number ever.
First Officers personal log, stardate 3.8.2008 – it is now 9:56pm and the snow has finally (thankfully) stopped in Northeast, Ohio. And ‘FLY 1234’ is docked safely in a shuttle bay.
You are correct James – that is the Pulte development out in Brunswick Hills, OH off route 303.
Andy did a nice job documenting all the great weather we had in the Cleveland area this recent week. We are going to be digging out of this one for awhile. Chardon (saabyurk) probably has twice as much as I do. And to think baseball starts in three weeks…
Spring is right around the corner. Right?
I knew you lived somewhere in Medina county. My parents house is right down the street in Liverpool Township. That’s actually where my 9-5 is registered.
For what it’s worth, I live on the campus of Ohio State. It’s a cluster[redacted] down here. And for reasons that I don’t entirely understand, Columbus won’t touch residential streets until 48 hours after the last flake dropped.
Sounds a little strange about the 48-hour policy. Speaking of policies, let’s keep it family friendly, shall we? EnG
Oy. My apologies. I lived in New York too long. *blushes*
For what it’s worth…from today’s Dispatch:
“Because the snow will top 4 inches, the city will plow side streets but not until 48 hours after the snow stops, said Mary Carran Webster, assistant director of the public-service department.”
Interesting. Around here, anything more than a light dusting causes the whole city to shut down, and 2-wheel-drive SUVs to pile up on their backs on the sides of the road. I could never imagine that much snow.
4 inches? That’s a dusting in my part of the world (Edmonton, Canada). The city won’t even glance down your street for a few inches of snow on the ground.
But who needs a snowplow when you have a Saab with a full set of gnarly Hankook snow tires that’ll turn a blizzard into a Road Rules challenge. Bring it on!
James,
As an ex-resident of Columbus let me slpain it to you. The reason they won’t touch the side street for 2 days is because they only have a small number of trucks. It will take them two days before they have all the main roads cleared. Columbus does get cold (reaching about -10°F/-23°C at least once during an average winter) but it rarely gets any real snow (due to complicated factors involving, but not limited to, weather patterns and topography). After all, 20 inches isn’t much of a record as far as snow falls go. As a result of rarely getting buried the city just doesn’t have the equipment or manpower to handle a good snow… as you are finding out.
But spring break starts next week so just go someplace warm and have a beer. Go Bucks!
Speaking from the experience of my three years in the Denver, Colorado area, the snowy conditions in the eastern part of the continent are different from the snowy weather in the western part.
In the West, you’ve got a shot at driving on 4″ of snow, in part because 4″ is actually a smaller amount of moisture than 4″ in the East (denser, wetter snow) and thus will blow around and doesn’t compact as easily. In the East, that 4″ will be compacted and icy in about an hour, making roads difficult to navigate. Additionally, Columbus has rolling hills, while Edmonton is a great plains city, and those hills are a problem to drive in the ice, let me tell you.
All this to say: 4″ in Columbus (or in Nashville) can shut you down without the plow. Your snow tires are good, but ice is nobody’s friend.
I’m embarrassed to say that my 9-5 got stuck in my driveway (nothing a bit of shovel work and some rocking back and forth couldn’t handle) this morning. Although we got 52 cm over the week-end (Ottawa, ON), I thought that I’d cleared the driveway enough. My Green Diamond tires simply weren’t up to the task, pity.