Looks Like an Improvement to MePreviously I had asked you to comment on whether you felt the color(s) of this wall were appropriate to their surroundings. Well even though the color(s) of the wall was not what was originally agreed to City Council has …
Todo, I Don’t Think We are in Virginia Anymore?The Rappahannock River at the City Dock. This is not supposed to happen in Virginia! Next thing you know gridlock will end in Richmond and VDOT’s Six Year Plan will actually take six years to complete in…
A Parental MomentThe family “Metal Head” our youngest son Joshua, with his girl friend Anna, are inducted into the National Honor Society. Our daughter was the rebel, our eldest son was the jock, and Josh is the family Renaissance Man. All traits th…
After a low of 7 degrees this morning at Shannon airport it has “warmed” up to almost the freezing mark. That’s a good thing since it allows the bright sunshine to help soften and melt some of the snow before the next batch arrives Tuesday afternoon. …
With one more round of shoveling (which will be my fourth) I’m pretty sure I will have a clear path out to the street. NWS Sterling has listed reports of anywhere from 10.5 inches to 23 inches of snow within a few miles of us, and my best estimate – w…
I measured 16 inches at 3:30 PM. It’s starting to taper off a bit. We’ve shoveled 5 times; 6 PM and 8:30 PM last night, and 9 AM, 12 PM, and 3 PM today. I’m hopeful that the 6 PM shoveling pass will be the final one, at least until the plows deposit 8 metric […]
As I turned off the light last night to go to sleep the sleet rattled against the windows with a vengeance. This has led the NWS Sterling office to back off on snow depths for us down to 12-18 inches, closer to my original 14-16 inch forecast. At the…
At 8:30 I bundled up and trudged outside to shovel snow off the front stoop and the sidewalks. We’d had about 5″ of snow by that time, so it wasn’t too difficult to clean off. Before I was finished the precipitation had changed from all snow to a mix…
The Sterling NWS office debated issuing a blizzard warning for us but decided that conditions weren’t quite at that level, so they stuck with “near blizzard” as the descriptor. Either way it’s gonna be nasty tonight and tomorrow. Latest official snow…
It seems that I have been a bit pessimistic in my prediction of snow depths of 14-16 inches for Fredericksburg. The National Weather Service has been calling for 16-24 inches in its Winter Storm Warning text, and the model forecasts from this morning’…
