[PRCo] Re: Septa Snow

[Fred Schneider]

Tell me 'bout it Dennis.   
This was the first year I can remember when Bing Crosby's dream about a white Christmas came true.   And it just will not go away.   

The wall of snow along the side of my driveway is two feet deep and they are calling for more "Caucasian" (my wife's term) today.    Several more inches due today.  I have not seen the ground in my yard for several weeks.  About the time I think it is going to melt or sublime away, we get another Noreaster.    When you have 8 inches on top of 3 inches on top of 6 inches on top on top on top on top, you should see the piles in the shopping centers!

And if you think it's bad here, Washington DC got between 4 and 10 inches depending on the part of the city.   Those people don't know how to handle a single snow flake.   A high school classmate, still loving his job at age 70, said his normal 15 minute commute became 2 1/2 hours on Wednesday afternoon.   Ed Lybarger's daughter said something nice about working from home ... Beth didn't have to suffer the sting and arrows of outrageous fortune on Wednesday commuting to work in Bethesda.  I suspect if she had, it would have taken her four hours to get home instead of 30 minutes.    Friends on the Arlington side talked about having no power, no heat, no water for a day.   Alan Schneider claims the explanation given by WMATA (Metro) given is that its a southern city so so fighting equipment isn't needed.   I would prefer to quote Ed Lybarger regarding shutting government down in the snow:  "Be thankful you don't get all the government you pay for."

Maybe the worst storm this year was the one in New York where the mayor didn't announce a snow emergency.   That was in December.   My sister-in-law had three feet out in her yard in Summit, NJ.  

Here are some of Bob Vogel's photos in Philadelphia in the last few days.   The views of the River line were yesterday.   The PCCs on Girard were before the service collapsed on Wednesday.   Remember that PTC used to have snow sweepers; SEPTA got rid of them.   

northbound at Cove Road/CP HATCH
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36th Street
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all on Girard Ave

Frankford
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5th Street
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Front Street
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westbound leaving Girard
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eastbound leaving Berks
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three more at Berks
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westbound approaching Girard
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On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Dennis F Cramer wrote:

> Philadelphia has had to deal with several major snowstorms over the past 30 days or so.  Here in the western part of the state, we have only had to deal with nuisance snows--an inch or two just about every day.
> http://nomis.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=64097 
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> DF Cramer
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