Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:55:14 -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 01:51 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

Well, Schools-out.com just sent us email.  Kindra's off tomorrow.  I still
don't know if I am.

Candy