I got propane, so I can bbq. Whenever I see a Dominion Virginia Power truck in the
neighborhood I go thank the guy. We've not had an outage over a few hours since I
moved here in 1995 (knock on wood).
Greg's comment about him being in DC for a "number" of these 2'+ snow
falls got me curious, so I did some reading. According to this website
which lists the 10 worst DC area snow storms in history, the last time
the DC area had over 2 feet of snow (in a single storm) was in 1922.
All others on the "worst" list are less than 2 feet, most of them in the
14" to 17" range. So, either Greg is a lot older than he admits or he's
counting the results of multiple storms. :-)
As I just told john. It was when you had a week or more of constant
snow. Technically it was separate storms but it just looked like it
was just one big event. That was when the place was gridlocked for
over a week. If they have not cleared off all the old snow and new
snow falls, Who cares?
Unfortunately I still had to work.
It was still rare enough that they did not have the equipment to deal
with it. You saw construction equipment out there clearing snow.
Big rubber tire loaders seem to work the best but we did see 6 wheel
graders and all of the salt trucks had plows on them.
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