Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:51:02 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A snow day!!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 10:09 AM 2/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>So, who is still snowed in?

Not me.  I was *never* snowed in.  I've been out every day during this
extended weekend.  (I *refuse* to snow-wimp)

>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.

Greenblet has done an amazing job with the snow.  We went to pick up Kindra
at Rise's house yesterday, and it was obvious when we hit the Greenblet
city limits.  Suddenly MD193 was 8 inches deep in snow with two ruts going
down it each direction.  On the way back, we went from our ruts to nearly
clear when we hit the city limits going the other way.  I'm really impressed.

I spent much of yesterday giving people rides to wherever they were
going.  We started picking up people as we were passing them walking on 193
and dropping them off a mile or so up the road.  I felt like I was doing my
good deed for the day.  When we dropped Kindra's best friend at her house,
we were sitting outside waiting for Kindra to get back from helping her get
her luggage in the house when a man walked up and asked if we could take
him and his wife to Giant to pick up a prescription.  Sure!  I was glad
to.  When Kindra got back to the car, we all piled in and when we passed my
street, I dumped the husband, kid and dog at the corner and went on down to
Giant.  Luckily, I had a book in the car, so when they went into the store,
I just sat and read until they cam back out.  When I dropped them at their
house again, they gave me some Ferrero Rocher.  What a nice surprise!

>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.

I have high hopes of having another snow day tomorrow, but if we don't,
I'll dump the husband at the metro and the kid at Katie's house and go on in.

>So, what's it like where you are?
>
>Nicki
>
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Candy