Ugh! We are, indeed, very close to the worst of the snow this time around. It got nasty around 1 pm and just let up - make than 10 hours of nonstop, wet snow. The white out conditions lasted for about 3 hours.

South Coventry has 26" (west and slightly south of us). This time, power lines are going down around the county. So far, so good in our neighborhood. Keeping my fingers crossed we keep the power and the heat! We expect much stronger winds, a bad combination with frozen wet snow on power lines. Just in case, I cooked a few extra things today should we need them tomorrow. There are isolated reports of roofs collapsing over in southern NJ, who had much heavier snow over the weekend.

In the midst of all this, amazing things. We had routine doctor appointment visits in NJ scheduled tomorrow. They called to tell us they won't be open befor noon tomorrow. Talk about service! Our builder must have a dedicated snow team for our community. The guys have been at it since 5 am this morning, and are still going strong to keep the roads and sidewalks clear. I got busy and made them cookies - they are dead tired at this point. The snow service is fast and thorough.

The interstate highways are closed up here, except for I-95. Why, I ask myself, when the worst of the snow blew its way up the I-95 corridor. It must be because Marc is single handedly keeping those roads open,since he's the only guy with snow tires. As far as I know, those are pretty much outlawed.

Gary has been getting nonstop calls today from the Red Cross. They are in need of folks to run the shelter operations for the areas without power. Lots of the greater Atlantic City area had much worse snow last weekend; some of those folks still don't have power. The winds are already at 48 mph, so the power crews cannot safely go up in the cherry picker trucks to repair the lines. We're not sure how they would even be supplying the shelters, given the states of emergency and the difficulty of traveling along the major (let along side) streets and highways.

Cheers, Anne