[PRCo] Re: Septa Snow

[Dwight Long]

Fred

But down here in slower Delaware we got none of the white stuff, except in liquid form!  Our northernmost county was shut for a day--not us.

NOTE TO HERB BRANNON--Herb, can you tell me anything abut the Cuyahoga Falls & Hudson Railway?  Did it ever get off the ground?  Is it still active, if even in the planning stages?

Many thanks.

Dwight
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Schneider 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 17:44
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Septa Snow


  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
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2384350
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2384352

  36th Street
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2384353
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2384354
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2384355

  all on Girard Ave

  Frankford
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382957
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382958
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382960

  5th Street
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382962

  Front Street
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382963
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382965
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382966

  westbound leaving Girard
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382950

  eastbound leaving Berks
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382952

  three more at Berks
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382953
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382954
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382955

  westbound approaching Girard
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382967
  http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2382968


  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 
  > 
  > DF Cramer
  >