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This is the heaviest I’ve seen it snow in the Fan all day.

On the bright side, as far as winter totals go, I’m pretty sure this is the closest we’ve had to an average winter in a long time! At least for RVA and surrounding counties, that is.

It can always be wrong. It’s Richmond. But we have many, many more hours of this event to go.

We don’t actually know that.

Hopefully it’ll do the same in the city soon. Been snowing at varying rates all day, but was surprised to look out the window just now and see it has almost stopped entirely.

The event is literally just getting started. I mean, sure it could bust. But we’re not in the bullseye. We have time. Let’s not get lost in our cynicism.

Actually insane that The Weather Channel still says Richmond is only getting 1-3 inches as of this morning.

Back to a very fine, light snow in the Fan. AccuWeather’s “future radar” keeps trying to dry slot the city hard around 12 Noon. Hopefully that doesn’t happen.

Lightly flurrying in Carytown now.

I’m not sure where you’re at, but for Richmond, this feels pretty classic, missing the good stuff both to the northwest and to the southeast.

What god do we need to sacrifice a virgin to, to get that to stop happening?

That’s good to see. There’s currently a dry slot opening up over the city. Snow has lightened up and slowed down significantly for the time being.

Oh, yes. I’m totally reading too much into you going out of your way to hand select a reaction labeled “crap” on a comment that challenges the narrative you’re pushing. I come here because I typically enjoy the discussions about the various model runs, and from the last storm to this one, the energy you give off in your responses is often rather jaded and negative, and you do seem to exhibit a pattern of clogging up the thread with it from time to time. It’s dumping snow here in the Fan now, btw. I can barely see the lot across the street.

I am. For the record, your reaction you left on my comment is a bit juvenile. At the end of the day, it’s just weather, and it either will snow to amount to a hill of beans, or it won’t. You seem to take people being optimistic about snow in this city very personally, IMO.

Just started snowing in the Fan neighborhood of Richmond. Light snow, but a lot of it. Let’s see what happens before we cry storm canceled.

So, what’s the latest for Richmond? We still thinking a few inches, or are we on the outside looking in?

Yeah, I’d take this in a heartbeat over anything with more ice. Richmond *STILL* doesn’t have water in most neighborhoods.

My question is, when will we finally have a pure snowstorm again? Especially after the ice being responsible for this water fiasco in Richmond. We certainly don’t need more ice.

Dec. 2004 + Dec. 2010 redux? I feel like every so many years, there’s a monster storm, and it very narrowly only clobbers Hampton Roads and no one else. Don’t get me wrong, of course. Good for them! They get snow even less than we do!

Vast majority of RVA is without water access right now, and under a boil advisory because the water plant that supplies pretty much the entire city, plus parts of Henrico and Chesterfield lost power, which caused a pump failure. No timeline on restoration yet. Carytown Kroger and Publix apparently have both already completely sold out.

That would be quite the change. Have seen that anywhere, unless I missed something.

Does anyone within the city limits (RVA) have a measurement of what we’ve gotten so far?

Not sure how much we have, but the grass looks mostly covered in the city, and the sidewalks and side roads are covered. Cary St. is getting very slushy.

Dumping snow in the Fan now. It’s really pretty!

If we can avoid dry slotting for too long, and it does this until the early morning hours, I could see us getting at least a few inches by then.