{"id":3038,"date":"2009-01-28T00:06:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2009-01-28T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:32:54","slug":"snow-sleet-freezing-rain-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3038","title":{"rendered":"Snow.  Sleet.  Freezing Rain.  Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Not exactly your foot deep snowfall&#8230;but enough to keep <em>Traveler<\/em> at home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"550\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/photos\/IMG_8214.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t it look adorable in the snow?&nbsp; Well&#8230;<em>I<\/em> think it does.&nbsp; And I&#8217;m here to tell you owning a forty-five thousand dollar automobile does make you think twice about driving it in snow and icy conditions.&nbsp; And tonight they are forecasting a freezing rain.&nbsp; Swell.&nbsp; If I had studded tires (which are illegal in Maryland anyway) I would not move that car.&nbsp; I can walk to two grocery stores and to work, and in really bad weather, the Institute encourages us to either telecommute or take leave.&nbsp; In a really severe situation they will close down the Institute altogether, for the safety of staff.&nbsp; But you have to understand the work we do is in support of space missions that don&#8217;t pause for bad weather on earth, and some folks just have to be on call no matter what.&nbsp; If the power goes out due to ice bringing down lines, or trees onto lines though, I doubt I&#8217;ll be able to telecommute.\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sleeting now as I write this.&nbsp; The forecast is for ice accumulation up to a quarter inch in the city.&nbsp; That&#8217;s&#8230;pretty bad.&nbsp; The city seldom if ever plows or salts the sidestreets (we have no money) but distributes salt boxes all around the neighborhoods, which I&#8217;ve never seen done anywhere else.&nbsp; I am responsible for my own patch of sidewalk&#8230;all sixteen feet of it&#8230;so I shoveled mine and salted it down before bed.&nbsp; I also put out some extra seed for the birds.&nbsp; Hopefully the feeders won&#8217;t be so iced up they can&#8217;t get to it.<\/p>\n<p>If the power goes out tomorrow, because some tree somewhere upgrid from me came down on some lines, I probably won&#8217;t be blogging.&nbsp; BGE is usually pretty good about getting the power back on here in the city&#8230;but if the ice is widespread it might take a while.&nbsp; Hopefully, once again, it won&#8217;t be as bad as the worst case scenerio the forecast is predicting.&nbsp; A quarter inch of ice is a lot.&nbsp; That&#8217;ll bring down some tree limbs around here for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly your foot deep snowfall&#8230;but enough to keep Traveler at home&#8230; &nbsp; Doesn&#8217;t it look adorable in the snow?&nbsp; Well&#8230;I think it does.&nbsp; And I&#8217;m here to tell you owning a forty-five thousand dollar automobile does make you think twice about driving it in snow and icy conditions.&nbsp; And tonight they are forecasting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-adventures-in-home-ownership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}