From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A snow day!!
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:33:55 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: "N Lynch" <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:09 PM
Subject: [WSFA] A snow day!!

> So, who is still snowed in?
>
> Rich and I spent yesterday morning shoveling 18" of
> snow out of the driveway.  Then the snow plot when by.
>  We spent the afternoon clearing the driveway of the
> snow the plow left.  The driver was having a lot of
> fun driving up and down the street blowing his horn
> and filling driveways.  So we have about a lane and a
> half cleared where there isn't a buried car, on this
> part of the street.  The half of the street not near
> the middle school had less plowing and if you live on
> a cul-de-sack off our street, you're there until
> spring or the plow decides to come back.
>
> What little we saw of Gaithersburg was not
> encouraging.  Quince Orchard, normally a two lane
> divided road is one lane each way, no right hand turn
> lanes.  The local PO is open, but all the trucks were
> parked in the parking lot making it hard to get in.
> It didn't look like much, if any, of NIST was plowed.
> We had no trouble getting into Giant Food, but there
> were few people there.
>
> Unless a lot more plowing is done, I doubt there will
> be school or the Fed opening tomorrow.
>
> So, what's it like where you are?

No "plots," but Falls Church has plowed its streets.   I moved my car from
the back end of my (long) driveway to the street Saturday.   I shoveled
both the walk to my house and the sidewalk along the street (two and a half
lots long) three or four times on Sunday, but had to do a major shoveling
job again yesterday (it was much heavier from the sleet mixture).   I dug
out a path from my back door out toward the drive through 18 to 14 inches
of snow (it drifted -- up four steps and half a foot up my back door).

I dug my car out and drove it out onto the street and then back into its
spot, where it remains for now.

There was another inch of fresh snow this morning, but the sun and
above-freezing temperatures are melting the snow nicely, exposing bare
concrete where I shoveled the walks.

Old Town News was closed yesterday but I expected to go in today. However
manager Dan Steffan called to tell me to take another day off.  He went in
and opened the shop but is closing it at 4:00 PM today.  He tells me the
parking lot we (pay for and) use has not yet been plowed open.

--Ted White