Nearly 40 inches of snow in Maryland
Source: Washington Post
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Saturday afternoon continued to urge residents to stay safe, stay indoors and stay off the roads as the the winter storm continues to make its way through the region.
Our state employees, law enforcement, National Guard, emergency responders and highway workers are working tirelessly to respond to this storm, and I know that Marylanders will do what Marylanders always do and that is look after one another, Hogan said in statement.
State officials said snow totals ranged from 2 inches on the Lower Shore to nearly 40 inches in parts of Western Maryland. Up to 12 more inches are expected in some areas.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)elleng
(130,156 posts)The hardest hit with power outages live on the Eastern Shore.'
shenmue
(38,503 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)Stay safe east coast DU'ers!
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)but it was not to be - Now they are back, they are blowing horizontally.
Still have power.
I've never seen a blizzard as big or long as this one.
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)Is this the wet snow that's dense and heavy?
elleng
(130,156 posts)Large geographical area, so quality of the snow surely varies. I haven't stepped out to 'measure' it.
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)I've seen equipment break at 32F and people have heart attacks trying to move concrete at that temp. 26F is good because it sticks less.
Be safe, hunker down and wait it out.
elleng
(130,156 posts)and won't try to move anything. It WILL turn to slush in a few days, tho.
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)The water will have a place to go vs backing up.
paleotn
(17,781 posts)...we were predicted to get 24" here in northwest NC, but only got 15". I'm not complaining.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)We are lacking snow again this year.
elleng
(130,156 posts)This will start melting in a day or so, and leave us with VERY messy footing (and then freeze overnight. UGH!)
ReckedRalph
(21 posts)That is a whole dam lot.
elleng
(130,156 posts)but keep in mind it's a state with wide geography. NOT 40" in DC suburbs, more like 15 or so.
Igel
(35,197 posts)It has Ocean City and such, Atlantic beaches. Snow there is a rarity.
It's flat and low and between two large bodies of water in the SE. It was plantation country back in the 1800s. Not much snow here, either. Ever.
In the South-SE, it's tidewater. Along the Bay its economy was largely fishing. Some large islands, lots of low coast. Brackish marshes with lots of inlets.
It has Piedmont, with low rolling hills on a plateau, some of which are rather far from the water. Good for raising horses, up north from Baltimore. Some snow.
It has mountains in the west, which are very much like Appalachia. Because they're the Appalachians between West Virginia and W. Pennsy. The mountains catch a lot of the snow.
It's not a reasonable state--all the geographic regions are small, to boot.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)sweetapogee
(1,168 posts)in NE PA. I think that is all were getting though.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,029 posts)It started snowing a little before Christmas. The next day our door was completely blocked. I remember how surreal it was when we had to pull snow into the house start a path out. Dropped 6+ feet in under 24 hours. The next week rained all week and flooded both Reno and Sacramento bad. I thnk they call it The Great New Year's Flood of 1997 in Northern California. Snow is different up there.
Stay safe.