Comments on: Sunday afternoon/evening snow thread: 1-inch-per-hour rates, “thundersnow” possible

By: Gavin in Blacksburg

Gavin in Blacksburg — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:28:20 +0000

Thanks for a correct number of outages, Pistol Pete. I must have been snow-blind when I misread the columns! I saw forecasts of strong wind gusts for today that didn’t materialize. That would have made for worse power problems, but I saw hardly any wind at all.
Around 9″ here at 2,100′ in Woodbine.

By: Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County

Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:06:34 +0000

Thanks, Kevin Ray, I see Jeters Chapel Road in western Bedford County in Stewartsville area on my atlas. Makes one big, weird-looking loop, with lots of sharp turns at the northern (top end?) end of the road.

By: Art Hill

Art Hill — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:03:12 +0000

So much for gut feelings. It’s hard to like snow after running a plow for fifteen years but I must admit it’s beautiful.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:01:27 +0000

6 inches on the table out back that hadn’t been touched. I wonder what the total would have been if there hadn’t been any melting.

By: Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County

Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:59:59 +0000

About 10:30 PM, after I had come back in from shoveling and measuring, I heard a loud BOOM toward the east, and this one sounded much more like a transformer popping than the brief pop (or “PING!”) that I heard in late afternoon that I think was a snow thunderclap. We are fortunate …. still have power. In some thunderstorms, we are often one of the unlucky neighborhoods that gets a power outage.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:56:08 +0000

At my “official” measuring spot I have 5 in. here at outpost 1000 ft. However some parts of my yard that are in the shade have right at 6 in. Last night around this time I was thinking a bust, but I will take 5 in of snow. Still snowing, but very very light.

By: Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County

Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:53:20 +0000

Thanks, Dwayne. I just posted one more “surrender” comment, at 10:51. CONGRATULATIONS, SNOW LOVERS!!!

By: Pistol Pete

Pistol Pete — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:52:22 +0000

Power just came back on ..at one point over 50,000 people out in SWVA. I was sleigh riding with some friends and our kids and I saw a large green flash in the sky. My friend said that looked like a transformer explosion toward your house (2 miles away). He said, call you phone and see if your answering machine works, it didnt. I thought aliens had landed or someone had fireworks. It lit up half the sky.

Im guessing 6 or so in Giles..dont think we got as cold as everyone else. barely hovered around 32-33 degrees.

By: Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County

Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:51:16 +0000

Well, the storm shriveled up in eastern KY, NE Tenn. and even counties (Lee County, for one) in far, far SW corner of Virginia, but it continues here. Bands moving in from the NW. Enough! Stop! We snow haters already put up the white flag hours ago!! LOL I just realized that except for the 3 big snowfalls of the 2009-10 winter, today’s event is the largest snowfall since I moved to Roanoke. Here at my house, that is.

By: Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County

Doug Griggs of SW Roanoke County — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:45:35 +0000

I spoke with Bob and Lisa Macintosh of Lee, Mass. early this evening. Want to hear something wild? I have now received more snow than they have received since Halloween!! They are stuck at about 4 inches from Halloween through today. And two winters ago Roanoke received more snow than Boston. So that makes two of the last 3 winters that I received more snow than a New England location, and I think it is the only two times since we moved here late in 1997