I’ll tell you what, if we can get a decent storm in January or early February I’ll be able to forgive Mother Nature for this. But if this season is like last year where the only storm we get is in march when it’s 33 degrees and the sun is vaporizing my snow into a disgusting compacted mess before it even stops snowing...I’m gonna lose it.
GFS also with a minor adjustment north, looks like the SS s/w amped heights up a little more and cancelled out the fact that the dumb clipper/confluence/whatever over Canada.
Where is my best bet if I wanted to drive down to somewhere in st Mary's county and do some snowshoeing or XC skiing? Is st Mary's river park pretty nice? Does it have some trails? I know point lookout is nice but I don't recall it having many trails.
Getting word that Columbia Heights Education Campus may have to be relocated for repairs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-schools-insider/post/gray-most-but-likely-not-all-schools-to-open-thurs/2011/08/24/gIQASgZZbJ_blog.html
13th and Monroe
Also there was structural damage to Columbia Heights Education Campus.
And Best Buy was flooded from broken pipes and is closed indefinitely.
According to Washington Post "D.C. Fire officials were investigating reports of significant cracks in buildings at the Ecuadorian Embassy and Bell Multicultural School, said Pete Piringer, a spokesman."
DCPS hasn't decided to close schools or not, they say they are doing an inspection of all 126 buildings tonight. Why does it seem like inspecting 126 buildings in one night is impossible?