My peeps in DC tell me that it is a huge snow event but the wind is not

[malaise]

half as scary as expected. Is this true?

[HipChick]

1. Lies!..The wind has been howling like a duppy

outside my window and keeping me awake..
it's finally dying down now..

[malaise]

2. Thanks

Stay safe

[HipChick]

3. 31.5 inches...Wray and his nephews taking good care of me as we speak..

[malaise]

6. ROFL

Hehehehehehhehehe - only someone who knows the family terrain really well would express it thus

[shanti]

24. lol

good old j.wray and nephews! work a charm

[Warpy]

4. The WaPo webcam showed a lot of blowing snow

that was drifting up against the building across the park. It doesn't take much wind to create deep drifts in light, powdery snow.

[Kingofalldems]

5. The winds have been fierce.

The good part though is snow is being blown off rooftops, lessening the chance of collapse and or ice damming.

[malaise]

7. That's very good news

Should be fun for the youngsters when the storm is over.

[countingbluecars]

8. The wind is not as bad as expected

and so far few power outages.

[malaise]

10. That's what my friend said

He said they turned off cable and were watching movies

[HipChick]

11. The Thundersnow was scary this morning

Snow storm with thunder..

[charlie and algernon]

12. Pfft, the snow outside my apartment has been blowing horizontally all day

I'm a couple miles north of Baltimore.

[madinmaryland]

14. YOIKS!!! Stay safe!!

Haven't seen you around here much. Hope all is going well for you (other than the blizzard).

[malaise]

16. But you still have power

So are there less power cuts than expected?

[MiniMe]

20. Yes

Can't believe I still have power, but I do

[charlie and algernon]

21. Yeah. Suprised I still have it

I stocked up on batteries and filled containers in the bathtub with water. But yeah, it doesn't appear that there were all that many power outages, at least in Maryland.

[JudyM]

25. In NoVA 15 mi west of DC, stunningly still have power.

This is the first storm of any kind where the power stayed on... For the 15 years I've lived here. It feels like a luxury!

Also no trees fell on my house. I'm beyond bliss.

[s-cubed]

13. Northern Virginia, inside the beltway.

Never got really bad wind here, but didn't expect it to be bad here. Enough to make some pretty good drifts. As best I can measure it, we got between 25 and 28 inches. Drifts make it hard to tell for sure. I did not hear the thundersnow, unfortunately.

My dead end street has been plowed several times. Quite a difference from Snowmagedden, when it took days to get to us. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon!

[Depaysement]

15. Much worse here in the Caribbean Capital of the World . . .

Central Brooklyn. We have been getting high winds and probably 25 inches of snow. Dying down now a bit.

[malaise]

17. Yep I'm hearing things are worse in New York

Stay safe. That's a lot of snow

[Depaysement]

18. Thank you!

Hunkering down inside where it is warm.

[countryjake]

19. The wind is blowing pretty good just north of there.

My nephew who lives a little southwest of Baltimore took a brisk walk with his anemometer doohickey (that I gave him when he was a kid), right at dusk, and he measured a gust of 45 mph coming East off the Bay. That was a few hours ago, but the snow was still coming down then, sideways, where he was. Drifts all over.

[MiniMe]

22. We got the snow

We have over 30 inches and it is still snowing. But thankfully we still have power. I live about 30 miles snorth of DC

[LiberalElite]

23. No. But -

it depends on location in relation to the wind direction- winds in NYC have been steadiily from the North-Northeast around 30-40 mph with gusts to 60. However, my apt faces south-southwest so the wind wasn't hitting my side of the building - the effect being that as far as I was concerned there wasn't much wind at all.

[malaise]

27. Makes sense

Thanks

[SoCalDem]

26. Blizzard-ness is hard to gauge in cities

To qualify, it must be :

35 mph SUSTAINED winds (gusts don't count) for 3 hours minimum
visibility less than a quarter mile for 3 hours

It;'s much easier to calculate on a desolate plain (Wyoming, Eastern Colorado, Western Kansas, etc)