{"id":190227,"date":"2009-12-19T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/19\/likely-record-snow-today\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T18:44:00","slug":"likely-record-snow-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/19\/likely-record-snow-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Likely Record Snow Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img697.imageshack.us\/img697\/3894\/photo121909001741415936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img697.imageshack.us\/img697\/3894\/photo121909001741415936.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Apologies for the crappy cell phone camera pic<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;re getting a lot of snow here, it&#8217;s still coming down, and the estimate is that it will be in the range of 18-24 inches when all is said and done should beat the December record of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/education\/bal-md.forecast19dec19,0,3388564.story\">11\u00bd inches in a single day and 14 inches in a 2-day storm<\/a>, and may actually break the all-time record set in February 2003 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_American_blizzard_of_2003\">North American blizzard of 2003<\/a> of 28.2 inches if it exceeds what the weatherman are reporting by a bit.<\/p>\n<p>We still have not seen a snow plow on my street, though it has seen the more heavily traveled streets in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Snow is expected to continue until tapering off sometime tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>[<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">on edit<\/span>]Not a big deal for me, but with 1 week left to go before American Greed and Conspicuous Consumption day, it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/18\/AR2009121804126.html\">this will hammer retailers<\/a>, because for much of the Eastern seaboard, this weekend is done, and there may still be a lot of closings, etc. on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Apologies for the crappy cell phone camera pic Well, we&#8217;re getting a lot of snow here, it&#8217;s still coming down, and the estimate is that it will be in the range of 18-24 inches when all is said and done should beat the December record of 11\u00bd inches in a single &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,973,976,1089,1185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-economy","category-family","category-recession","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}