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The Walk

I walked to Margaret's house just down
the street from mine.

BGE got out power back on BUT left
part of the tree RESTING ON THE WIRE.
Half-ass job I swear. I bet tomorrows snow
will knock that tree down bringing the wires
with it.

I caught her again. Almost 100 years old
and there she was SHOVELLING this
heavy wet snow.

I told her I'm taking her shovel away from

her. She's too OLD to be doing work like

this.

JUST TONIGHT on the six o'clock news

I heard that someone I know, her husband

DIED from a massive heart attack shovelling

snow.

Looking out on the creek.

Ducks or geese have been on the end

of the pier.

Welcome to the 'hood!

Blizzard No. 2

Foot's Forecast was very accurate for the Snowpocalypse

and now they're calling the next one the Kahunageddon!

6:00 AM MONDAY 2.8.2010 KAHUNA UPDATE # 1: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, another major winter storm is in the Mid-Atlantic pipeline. Ready for Snowpocalypse 2.0? With Winter Storm Watches and Warnings now stretching 2,230 miles from New Jersey westward to Utah. The Forecast Team expects snowfall by 7 PM Wednesday to reach or exceed 12 inches along the I-95 corridor from Baltimore north to Philadelphia as well as southeastern PA. We expect many locally higher amounts near 20". NOAA's HPC Snow & Ice Team has already throw the B-word into the mix.

Our attention turns to the potential for heavy snow Tuesday into Wednesday.

TIMING & IMPACTS
ARRIVAL By 2 PM Tuesday 2.9 across Virginia and central MD.
AMOUNTS 6 or more; if current computer model trends continue, the potential exists for accumulations to reach or exceed 12 inches, based on projected liquid equivalents of approximately 1.0 - 1.5 for Maryland and northern Virginia; ratio of ~16:1.

34 more hours until the NEXT STORM

.....and I live right at the bottom of the red band

which means WE'RE SCREWED AGAIN.

I'm doubly screwed. My snow shovel broke yesterday.

So today I have to get out and find a a new one, plus

get some cold cuts and bread so I can at least eat a

sandwich, and get a big gas can and some K1 so my

grandmother's Kerosene heater will work when we

lose heat again.

The Big Dig

Gracie is not amused with her poop path

And on Tuesday the walls with be 12
inches taller

Yes, you have to go pee-pee!

A view over to my neighbors yard

Then trudged through the snow to

fill the bird feeder

Danielle was trying to find her cars

Kylie with the neighborhood husky

Sherry lives across the street

Miss Frannie

On Tuesday the additional 12 inches of

snow will mean Miss Frannie will be

shoulder deep to the snow!

It Finally Stopped Snowing........

.........now I have to hurry up and dig out the car

before it SNOWS AGAIN on Tuesday-Wednesday

No Electricity

Snow was up past the front
window!

So I shovelled the Snow away from
the front window and door........

Then climbed out the bedroom window
and cleared a good three feet of snow of
the roof of my patio

There was no electricity so no heat and
my dog looked cold so I put my jacket
on her. She liked it. Plus it smelled like
daddy.

I couldn't cook anything so breakfast
was a cold pop-tart, lunch was a cheese
crackers and chewable aspirin--to help
prevent a heart attack from shovelling snow--
and dinner was pop tarts with crumbled
cheese crackers!

Beer and for entertainment my $5
Hurricane Irene radio---which still
works

I brought the ironing board out to
hand my wet clothes on just inside the
front door!

Later I walked down to Margaret's to
LEARN she had a generator but she
REFUSED to use it because --get this--
an animal might get inside her house.
Then she said a bird, like in the movie
THE BIRDS! Because to run the generator
you must run an extension cord which
would require a door or window be cracked
open 10mm at most. I tried to reason we
could tape the cracked open space but it
was no use trying to convince an old lady
who was convinced she would be swarmed
upon by BIRDS

The Birdbath Snow Meter

Totally Screwed

That's the ZONE I live in but at least did hit
the liquor store!

And not only is gonna be 30 inches of now but
a blizzard with sustained 30 mph winds too.

So I parked my car and truck at the end of the
driveway close to the street and not the other
end where they usually park side by side, this
way I have less to shovel.

Downtown

I went downtown to visit the doctor at
Mercy Hospital this morning. He called
me "middle aged and fat " I think. Not exactly
in those words but he said what happened
to me for someone in their 30's would
be a precursor for a complex migraine, for
someone in their 50's it would be a
precursor for a stroke. And for me in my
40's it's a grey area. So since vascular spasms
in the brain aren't good he wants me to add
an aspirin daily to my drugs, lose weight
and everything else doctors tell you.

Driving through the tunnel on my way
back to the office

And here's my office

Darian's 8th Birthday

I stopped at Barb and Teri's after work
and it was perfect timing.....there was
a perty going on!

Barbara's grandson Darian is 8 years
old now.

Here's Barbie arriving with the Pizza

Babs

T

Darian's mamma Jessica

and Lots of presents!

I caught Her

After shovelling my snow I went to check on
my grandmother. And there she was with the
shovel in hand. 82 years old and out there in
the cold shovelling heavy-wet snow.

The Baffroom

The weather was better and the road
.....well, snowed smashed down so I
drove to Jim's.

Rob, you're in BIG DEEP TROUBLE
(whatever that means) just look at all
that snow

Jim's Birthday. He got a book about
Peru and a Burt Bacharach CD

New Floor in the Kitchen

Jim's new bathroom in the

basement

Then we went to Mangia in Marriottsville

to eat.

Snow

This is Solley Road. I started out to
Jim's house but the roads were worse
than I thought.

The main road was nothing more than
a goat track

So I went back home and then to
Margarets.

My grandmother

When I left I was surpised at how much

more snow there was and then had to scrape

ice from my window.

I couldn't find my driveway from the

street!

She's so Pretty

Gracie loves her Hippopotamus baby

You can't be made at this dog even if she does
wake you up every two hours and farts every
5 minutes.....because she's just so pretty!