Rain/Snow/Ice/Amanda has a day off, so you get updates, part 2

My heart goes out to the people of New York and New Jersey (and really, anyone affected by Sandy).  The images online and on Good Morning America are so devastating (the one that got me the most was of the nurses/hospital workers evacuating the NICU babies).

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All that being said, its time for updates!

I saw this picture and had to laugh!  From Google image search for "Frankenstorm pictures"

7:30---I took my dog out, and it was icing.  Nice little balls of ice.  Wasn't sticking to the ground though.  We are still under a severe weather alert for high winds, the western side of my mountains are experiencing blizzard like conditions. 

8:30---chili in the crockpot.  House smells awesome.

9:30---a friend who lives in the next county north (Shenandoah), also where I teach, posted a picture on Facebook of it snowing there.  I get a text from another colleague asking if I thought we'd go tomorrow.  In looking at the local weather map, it looks like I may be getting some snow soon, too!  The Carlton Dance paid off!  

2:30---Aaron and I drove up to school because my objectives are due tomorrow and I hadn't inputted them into the system yet.  After that, we took a drive around the county to see what it looked like.  It's snowing on the mountains on both sides of us.

I hope this means we'll be off again tomorrow, too. 

Here I am, rock you like a hurricane

Because I'm off (already one day more than I had off last winter), and because I know people are wondering about how people are fairing during Sandy, I thought I'd do a post (and keep updating it throughout the day) with how things are looking here in Harrisonburg.

First, Harrisonburg is located about 2 1/2 hours southwest of Washington DC (take 66 west to 81 south).  We're about 4 hours west of Virginia Beach/Norfolk/etc.

look towards West Virginia, then go down the blue interstate line to find Harrisonburg

Please note that even though the light is green, I was not actually going at the time.  I was stopped and it had just turned when I snapped this pic.

This is at 10am, on my way home from the gym.  Nobody was on the roads.  Its rainy, about 42 degrees, and wind is light.  You can barely see the mountains in the distance.  We're not scheduled to really feel the brunt of the storm until later tonight/tomorrow.  They are calling for snow in higher elevations (I can only hope I'm in a higher elevation!)

I'll try to update every two hours.  Stay tuned....

12:30:  My hurricane reads...

but, I just found Dr. Who on Netflix, and I've always wanted to watch...so we'll see :)

2:30:  just got a schoolsout.com email saying we're closed tomorrow too.  Then got an emergency alert on my phone (never happened before, must be those new fangled iPhones), that sounded just like one on the tv.  It said we were under blizzard conditions until sometime tomorrow.  Meanwhile, this is me...