SUNDAY EVENING UPDATE:
CLOSED MONDAY: PWC SCHOOLS, MANASSAS CITY SCHOOLS, MANASSAS PARK CITY SCHOOLS, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE DC AREA
UPDATE: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING FOR THE PRINCE WILLIAM AREA . 12/19/2000 9:30 AM
The weather forecasts are all predicting 20-25+ inches of snow is headed our way, right up the state. Charlottesville is supposed to be ‘ground zero’ whatever that means. That might be CNN-speak for ‘gets the most snow.’
We can use this thread as this week’s open thread (as promised) and also to discuss the impending snow storm which I now hear might just become a blizzard. Our last big blizzard was in 1996. Stay warm and let your fingers do the talking.
This has been so much fun! We were shoveling off our deck and the kids were laughing at me being buried in snow by their dad! We will be sledding tomorrow down our back hill. I may put GPS devices on the kids to make sure we don’t lose them in the snow 🙂
New post up on the racially motivated murder of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, PA. See below. We didn’t want to interrupt the blizzard chit chat with anything serious.
Still snowing at Howler acres, Laf.
Ivan, what kind of a problem are they having?
Everyone will be spending all day Sunday digging out from this snow storm.
@Moon-howler
I always thought Denier would be a great name for a car… “the 2010 Chevy Denier!”
Moon, some residents think the plow company should take the time to clean out their driveways and sidewalks. Lazy so-and so’s don’t want to get their butts out and shovel. complain, bitch and gripe, that’s all some people do. Like where is anyone going today anyway.
Ivan, you’ve got to be kidding. Does your plow company usually do the sidewalks and driveways. I can understand the sidewalks, but in a storm like this roads FIRST. I’m surprised that didn’t asked to have their cars cleaned off too. Indeed those are some “lazy so and so’s”.
No they don’t. They clear a path(one lane) to provide access to the main roads. Some people just don’t want to get out and shovel. Somehow 22inches doesn’t seem to mean that they don’t get special treatment.
Those lazies could pay some neighborhood kids to earn extra last minute Christmas ca$h. We always had our shovels ready in the winter and rakes in the fall, but the sad thing is I think kids today are lazy too. I swear my daughter is the laziest thing to walk the earth.
Everyone pace yourself and drink water. Don’t overdo. Safety tips at
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/snow.htm
Craigslist is full of people offering to shovel you out for $$$. My neighbor just plowed us out for gingerbread cookies.
This is a great time to check on your elderly and disabled neighbors and share resources!
JustinT, the ‘proof’ of global warming comes from the data models these ‘scientist’ have put together. However, in the code for these data models they have hard coded in values. As a general programming 101 rule you do not hard code anything, especially when working with data models. You let the data speak for itself. If global warming was 100% true then why the need to hard code values in the logic of the data models?
The only reason one would ever hard code values in the logic of any program would be to force a result or force the code to do exactly what you want it to. As a programmer I find this to be highly questionable and even immoral.
Believe it or not the actual code is out there on-line, here is just a piece of it… enjoy.
; PLOTS ‘ALL’ REGION MXD timeseries from age banded and from hugershoff
; standardised datasets.
; Reads Harry’s regional timeseries and outputs the 1600-1992 portion
; with missing values set appropriately. Uses mxd, and just the
; “all band” timeseries
;****** APPLIES A VERY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION FOR DECLINE*********
;
yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,’Oooops!’
;
*snip*
;
; APPLY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION
;
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)
densall=densall+yearlyadj
;
; Now plot them
;
Kids don’t get out and shovel nowadays. Life of priviledge. Ambitious kids are especially hard to find in older communities.
Ivan, looks like you need to start a kid team of shovelers and skim some money off the top for arranging it. 😉 You could be like a snow pimp.
Manassas City Schools are closed tomorrow–code blue.
Prince William County has not announced yet. Typical. It might be a nice touch to let parents know as early as possible so they can make arrangements for their kids. I don’t think the big melt is going to come along today for some reason. Only Prince William thinks it can make 2 feet of snow disappear. That would be world class.
C’mon PW grow a pair and close!! Just close for the week, and they should not have been scheduled for a couple plus hours Wednesday. Talk about yet another total waste of PWC tax dollars.
And lack of consideration. They know they cannot hold classes. They cannot get the lots and sidewalks cleaned on all those schools, much less run buses on these roads.
Total lack of consideration, Moon. SOP for PWCPS on snow days, geesh.
It looks like they got a pair afterall. PW schools are CLOSED Monday!!!
http://www.pwcs.edu/
Rumor has it that Mr. Owen withdrew his request Wednesday. Can anyone confirm?
Mom, come out, come out, where ever you are!! 🙂
MOM will have the straight story, I feel confident.
PWCS could have announced much earlier. Parents have to make plans, especially considering their own work schedules might be somewhat fouled up.
Manassas Park schools are CLOSED Monday too!
Did I hear it right? The feds are off tomorrow also? Any federal agency in the DC area?
Monday, December 21 – Wednesday, December 23, 2009
All Manassas City Public Schools will be closed.
Code Blue for employees. There will be no after school activities.
Liberal Leave for City Employees on 12/21/09
Federal Government Operating Status in the Washington, DC, Area
the following message applies only to Monday, December 21, 2009
Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are CLOSED.
This Means . . .
Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are closed. Nonemergency employees (including employees on pre-approved leave) will be granted excused absence for the number of hours they were scheduled to work. This does not apply to employees on leave without pay, leave without pay for military duty, workers’ compensation, suspension, or in another nonpay status.
Telework employees may be expected to work from their telework sites, as specified in their telework agreements.
Emergency employees are expected to report for work on time.
Employees on alternative work schedules are not entitled to another AWS day off in lieu of the workday on which the agency is closed.
Posted on December 20, 2009 at 4:35 PM
The City is smart and considerate to announce now. It helps parents make alternate arrangements early. VDOT says it will take until Wed. night to get all the suburban neighborhoods plowed. Additionally, thiknk of the money saved by not having to plow lots and clean sidewalks and get a bunch of grumpy buses out. Multiply that by how much, PWCS.
If I hear one more jackass on TV saying Washington doesn’t know how to do snow I am going to scream bloody murder. Many of those who got stuck here had disparaging remarks to make. They were all from northern cities that get a lot of snow.
We KNOW how to do snow. We just aren’t set up for it because snow removal costs a great deal. We don’t get huge snows often enough to make the huge investment.
GRRRRRRR