[PRCo] Re: Not a streetcar, BUT

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> By the way Dennis et al
>
> I wonder what Monsier Vogel is photographing in the storm today!
>
> I suspect SEPTA has totally collapsed by now.
>
> By now there is 15 to 16 inches of new snow in my front yard on top
> of the 18 1/2 inches we had last Saturday.   The southern end of
> Lancaster County has about 20 inches now on top of the 24 inches they
> had on Saturday and that is close to what Philly has now.   It's
> still coming down at 1 to 2 inches an hour.   Winds are now supposed
> to go to 40 to 50 miles per hour.   In the Harrisburg area, I-83 to
> Baltimore .... closed.   I-78 to Allentown and New York ... closed.
> I-581, the bypass around Harrisburg, closed.   That means that even
> if the turnpike is open, the exits are closed.   Of course we don't
> really know how bad it is because we have no newspapers.

I'm actually getting real-time updates via the internet; The twitter
short messaging service has
rather than being merely social proven its use as the Port Authority
has been providing near-real-time
service status updates as routes are established and need to be abandoned.

East Carson St is passable and a 53 Carrick (sorry, 51C) is sitting
outside now, heading down to make the trip up the hill. More
surprisingly, a cyclist just passed me. I've been walking.