Seriously, WTF is with this Weather?

[Benm]

not sure what it means but the cat has been attacking the trail to the left of the six pack for the last half hr.

of course, right when i wrote that he just drove off...

Edited December 17, 2019 by Benm

[indiggio]

16 minutes ago, Benm said:

not sure what it means but the cat has been attacking the trail to the left of the six pack for the last half hr.

of course, right when i wrote that he just drove off...

Pushing out the whales on Home Stretch, getting ready to open valley Friday.

[toast21602]

Snowed pretty good here. 

[RidgeRacer]

Roads were terrible. Almost ditched out myself. Saw what looked like an amazon delivery van turned around, driving backwards going down the mountain. Thankfully he got straightened out. Definitely wasn't expecting that.

[JFskiDan]

Really bad accident on 80. Like 20 tractor trailers and cars. Serious shit. NE extension messed up too. 

[momskeeztoo]

Wow. On my almost 2 hour ride home from Blue thought maybe next time try the turnpike. Glad I didn’t. I don’t get why, when they make a big deal out of a storm that’s supposedly on its way, they are salting the roads, putting brine down. Then we get some slippery roads, and there’s not a salt truck to be found. WTF? 

[RidgeRacer]

Wow. On my almost 2 hour ride home from Blue thought maybe next time try the turnpike. Glad I didn’t. I don’t get why, when they make a big deal out of a storm that’s supposedly on its way, they are salting the roads, putting brine down. Then we get some slippery roads, and there’s not a salt truck to be found. WTF? 

Honestly I don't know if anyone saw it coming. Was basically a series of pretty serious snow squalls doing just enough to make roads really nasty.

[momskeeztoo]

I got one of those obnoxious alerts on my cell phone while I was skiing. Snowed a good amount at Blue. Roads weren’t bad til I hit Cedar Crest. It was like another world. 

[enjoralas]

Spent a couple of hours parked on Applewood Dr just before it meets Haasadahl Rd in Orefield. Road was an ice rink. Was sliding around and inching along, realized there was no way I could successfully negotiate the downhill into a T intersection. Too slick to back up on the downhill. Parked and walked down to investigate conditions after seeing another vehicle stopped ahead. She had been sitting there for a couple hours according the older couple whose driveway she was partially blocking.

 

On Haasadahl a pickup was off the road and a Cherokee stopped in the wrong lane. Apparently the Jeep had only been able to partially negotiate the corner on the downhill before being struck in the drivers door by the pickup traveling on Haasadahl. Another SUV came down the hill and went over the bank. One of South Whitehall’s finest arrived on scene and did not much for a couple hours.

 

Started back up the hill as another car came down and went into the driveway across the street from the downhill, thankfully missing the SUV over the bank and half in the yard next to the driveway. Realized the next person that tried would not be so lucky, so walked back up and grabbed my cones, walked about 1/4 mile up the road and used them to block the road at a good driveway to turn around in. Came across a dude in a BMW about 100 ft uphill of my van who was also smart enough to stop. .

 

Went back and told the cop I had blocked the road. He thanked me and said that he called for fire police to come do the same. They never did. A fire unit showed up and hung out. The SUV that was partially over the bank decided to keep going and was able to circle through the yard and make it back out. Car in the driveway couldn’t back up. Jeep eventually drove off. Tow truck showed up, hung out for a half hour. BMW guy and lady in vehicle partially blocking nice older couple’s driveway decided to walk to somewhere they could be picked up. Left their vehicles in the road. Began to resign myself to the fact that I was probably sleeping in my van, in the road.

 Salt truck showed up and laid down a triple layer of salt for the tow truck to get traction to pull the pickup out. Went back and and sat in my van as the wind picked up. After about 1/2 an hour noticed that it was getting darker downhill. Checked and the fire unit was gone, tow truck was gone, stuck vehicles extricated and cop was leaving. Left. 

Decided to give it a go, walked back to retrieve my cones (hope no one else went off the road there or hit the two abandoned cars) and started inching down. Dropped drivers tires off the road onto the grass and leaves and it did a nice job of controlling my descent. Bank on that side so wasn’t worried about losing it. Made it down and onto the cross street and finally got home at about 830. 

 

TL:DR - Shit was whack and people are crazy.

[JFskiDan]

We did not get any appreciable snow in MALVERN.  

[toast21602]

10° here and windy. 

[momskeeztoo]

About time we had some cold temperatures. We needed to get out of that torrential rain cycle. 

[PSUFrankenstein]

Yeah I was getting really sick of the rain.  There were a bunch of accidents near Reading due to icy roads, but no issues for me.  Did hit a couple snow squalls on the way home.  

A couple (probably 4 years ago?) there was a flash freeze one morning when I was driving to a friend's house in my Jeep.  Roads were fine, then out of nowhere, cars just start sliding everywhere.  Probably 50 cars wrecked total.  I pulled off to the side of the road and a Chevy Cruze plowed into my door.  Jeep was fine, chevy had both door handles ripped and was pretty messed up.  Anyway..kinda sounds like that's what happened last night.

[Shadows]

That's wild enjo. 

[indiggio]

42 minutes ago, PSUFly said:

Yeah I was getting really sick of the rain.  There were a bunch of accidents near Reading due to icy roads, but no issues for me.  Did hit a couple snow squalls on the way home.  

A couple (probably 4 years ago?) there was a flash freeze one morning when I was driving to a friend's house in my Jeep.  Roads were fine, then out of nowhere, cars just start sliding everywhere.  Probably 50 cars wrecked total.  I pulled off to the side of the road and a Chevy Cruze plowed into my door.  Jeep was fine, chevy had both door handles ripped and was pretty messed up.  Anyway..kinda sounds like that's what happened last night.

Sounds like a patch of black ice.  That shit is wicked.

[tarponhead]

Dropped drivers tires off the road onto the grass and leaves and it did a nice job of controlling my descent. Bank on that side so wasn’t worried about losing it.
 
TL:DR - Shit was whack and people are crazy.

Good idea that

[theprogram4]

years ago i missed this accident by about 10 minutes on my way to blue

 

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/Multiple_accidents_slow_traffic_on_I-76_I-95_and_I-495.html

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

In 2014-15 there was no snow until mid January and then LVIA airport ended up receiving 48” the rest of the winter, 60% more than normal. 

[momskeeztoo]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

In 2014-15 there was no snow until mid January and then LVIA airport ended up receiving 48” the rest of the winter, 60% more than normal. 

Hoping the weather at least gets colder. 

[toast21602]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

In 2014-15 there was no snow until mid January and then LVIA airport ended up receiving 48” the rest of the winter, 60% more than normal. 

Ok rain man. 

[toast21602]

This weather is great for the snow making ponds! Hopefully it will help clear up the algae outbreak that have been plaguing Vail properties! 

[Benm]

currently hearing thunder lmao

18330

it's loud

[Benm]

now hail.

lifts have stopped. i presume because it's the same cell.

Edited December 30, 2019 by Benm

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

5 minutes ago, Benm said:

now hail.

lifts have stopped. i presume because it's the same cell.

Oh hail no

[tarponhead]

Hoping the weather at least gets colder. 

Single chair weather blog has a big nope for most of January.

So we got that going for us