MORE Snow??? Third weekend in a row with weather alerts.

Hi DD. Where are you in Maryland? I grew up in Baltimore, then moved to Columbia before moving to Virginia a couple years ago. I JUST learned that the advisory has been called off. We're supposed to get snow tonight, then rain tomorrow. No freezing rain or sleet! Yippee!!!! Hopefully, the rain will wash ALL the snow away, even what is still here from the snow two weeks ago. After the past two winters, I was hoping we'd be seeing very little snow but this year sure is making up for those last two, huh? Happy New Year to you, too! Take care.

I'm near the Fort Meade area been here for quite some time coming from PG County. Sorry it took so long to reply, but I was just so excited when the rain came and washed everything away. The only problem I had was on thursday morning when I got up to take my mother to work, it was icing and sleet and it was just cold and terrible outside. That was around 6 in the AM. I haven't told her yet but on the way back to my home I did a 360 on one of the road thank God that it wasn't busy outside yet. But I'm ok now and the car is ok it was just bad. I hope your New Year went great. Have a good weekend.

I think we're getting your weather, Gurl. However, I just learned that they've changed our forecast to snow tonight, then rain tomorrow. I HOPE that means no freezing rain, too. We got enough of that on Christmas day to last a lifetime! Still, there's a winter weather advisory in effect from 4 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow. I see they're calling for icy conditions in Washington, D.C. That won't affect me because we're about 90 miles from there but my husband works just outside of D.C. Come on, Spring!!!

Yea, but so hard to put away in the off season.

Hi uath. THANK YOU! A dragon would be perfect!!! I could feed him (her?). But, could I keep it until maybe the end of February? February is typically our snowiest month around here. That worries me since we've already had about 4 feet of snow since December started. With a dragon around for awhile, it might chase off (or eat) the wildlife around here that likes to chow down on my veggie garden every year. Wow! A dragon! What a cool pet!!! If it has babies, may I have one? Wow! So much cooler than a flamethrower!

Black snow? You mean black ice? I've never heard of black snow, except that stuff on the side of the roads after a few days of it falling when the plows and traffic have had a go at it. I can drive in snow but I do worry about other drivers. Some people don't seem to understand that you have to drive slower and use a LOT of caution when it's snowing. Braking fast is not an option in snow! Well, not unless you actually want to plow into someone else's car. I'd rather not. LOL I'm pretty sick of this stuff by now. We've had about 4 feet of snow already this month and we still have January and February (and sometimes early March) to go! I'm definitely not a winter person. Good luck in your travels! I hope you don't run into really bad weather, although the entire country has seen their share of it this year. Be safe!

With my luck, I'd move to Arizona and they'd have one of the worst heat waves in recorded history. I've heard that 110 to 120 degrees fahrenheit is not uncommon, at least in parts of Arizona. I don't care if it IS a dry heat, that's too hot for me! Guess I'll just stay here and do my best with the weather we're having. Well, unless it continues into the Spring. Last Spring was so wet I was thinking maybe it was time to start building another Ark. You know, it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't love gardening so much but this weird weather is affecting my gardening plans. I just received 3 new fruit trees (sent in their dormant phase to decrease the stress on them) and they're sitting in my garage right now waiting for the time I can get outside and chisel holes in the ground to plant them. This Thursday is supposed to be above freezing (34F) so maybe I can do it then or, more precisely, get my son to do it for me.

I'm just going to throw this at you...been toying with the thought for some time now, and would like you opinion. Do you think that perhaps...perhaps...that the continued shelling across the other side of the globe, has a baring on our strange weather conditions? I think it does. cdrxo

Hi punjab. We just did buy a snowblower. We have about 50 feet of driveway plus a large parking area, plus a walkway in front of our house. I want the rock salt because, even if we get all the snow off the walkway, it always melts from the grassy areas and runs onto the walkway, then freezes up at night so we have a nice, slick layer of ice covering it in the morning. Plus, our driveway is gravel so we can't get all the snow with the snowblower or we'd be throwing gravel all over the place. LOL Our driveway is rather steep towards the road and we've already had one truck and one car slide on it. Oh, cool!!! I JUST heard that the sleet and freezing rain aren't going to be an issue here, just snow. I can handle snow. They've called off the advisory! Yippee!!! But, still, we're going to get some more snow. I've already seen more than enough for the whole season, but February is typically our snowiest month. I can't wait for Spring! Happy New Year to you, too!

oooh, having a gravel driveway isn't the best. My driveway is made, it's not one of those black driveways. Mine's like the same colour as the sidewalk. I think it's like cement or something so that makes mine easier

Leenie, I've been all over the place looking for rock salt. It's sold out everywhere around here. I did buy a smaller bag of it before our massive snowstorm two weeks ago but that was gone in a matter of minutes. I had no idea we were going to get so much snow! I had a tiny bag of it tucked away in a kitchen cabinet for making ice cream and pulled that out but that won't be much good. We used half of that on the sidewalk last Friday with the freezing rain! But, thankfully, the forecast has changed a bit. We're now supposed to get only snow tonight and rain tomorrow. No mention now of sleet or freezing rain. So, hopefully, the rain we get will wash away the snow we get, along with the snow that's still hanging around from two weeks ago. Geez. I may be able to get to the dentist's office tomorrow morning after all! Well, not that I'm really looking forward to it, but, well, you know. It's a necessary evil.