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Brian Bilbrey

9 Feb 2016

Disappointing. Snow fell for about 18 hours, leaving a total accumulation of ... nothing. A smattering on the grass, a damp road surface. It was just too darn warm coming into this event - the storm never had a chance. It didn't even frighten the schools in my county into closing - and they frighten real easy! * * * A challenging day at work, with Internet issues external to our sphere of control, but massively annoying, taking center stage. That, plus a failed piece of hardware, made the first half of my day disappear. I'll get caught up, somehow…

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Brian Bilbrey

7 February 2016

I see that I missed y'all last week. No particular reason, at first, I was just busy. But as I broke into the last week, a strong cold hit me like a tonne of bricks, then morphed into the flu. Today was my first properly upright day since Tuesday last. I'm gonna have to talk to the doc about this shizzle at my next physical (a couple of months 0ff). After a good couple of years, I've been running into a bad stretch of health, and I can't figure why. Oh, well. Life goes on, until it doesn't. * *…

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Brian Bilbrey

25 Jan 2016

Snowzilla, revisited. Here's the "view" of the mailbox on sunny Sunday morning at 10° F, 12 hours after the storm ended. The driveway and sidewalk I'd cleared out had refilled pretty well: After Snowzilla

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Brian Bilbrey

24 Jan 2016

"Snowzilla" - that's the name some of the local weather liars gave to this storm, and it was a doozy! The closest local airport to us, BWI, had record snowfall of 29+". I'd say that here, we got a total of 22", probably a bit more. Hard to tell more precisely than that because of drifts and wind. Here's the view out our garage door Saturday morning around 0900 EST: I measured 14" accumulated in the middle of the driveway. That drift next to the door was about 3' high. I cleared the driveway and the sidewalks once on Saturday.

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