The Pilgrims Landed!

7 hours ago

Holy crap! We are getting another 10-20 tomorrow!

Issued by The National Weather Service
Baltimore/Washington, MD
3:04 pm EST, Mon., Feb. 8, 2010

… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR… WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* PRECIPITATION TYPE… SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS… 10 TO 20 INCHES.

* TIMING… MID-AFTERNOON TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

Notes: 1 / 7 hours ago

This is what grocery stores looked like before the ‘Snowpocalypse’ - chive.com

This is what my brother and I encountered in our area market as well. The only meat left was ground bison…. which did make for killer quesadillas.

Notes: 1 / 8 hours ago

This past Sat. the DC area was hit with two feet of snow. Luckly, my brother was in town to help build this sweet igloo. 15*6*4 inside.

Notes: 8 / 8 hours ago from hotvvheels

hotvvheels:

Mopars is Mondays

Notes: 2 / 3 days ago

must watch - Jim Kosek - aka my favorite weather man losing his mind over storm

Notes: 1 / 3 days ago

I just took this picture. It is off my camera phone so sorry for the quality and if you can’t tell what is happening.

Anyways, D.C. is currently in mid blizzard and we are anticipating 2 feet of snow by tomorrow. This is a picture of 4 window cleaners doing what they do best. I guess they didn’t get the memo that they are in a blizzard hanging off a huge office building.

Notes: 12 / 3 days ago from benjaminjtaylor

Road biking never looked so manly.

benjaminjtaylor:

Hardknott Hairpin (Credit: FLEMING2009) Whoa.

3 days ago

Today I was emailed tips for shoveling snow... really??

Most at Risk

Julie Garden-Robinson prepared a report for the university’s extension service warning that shoveling causes a quick increase in the heart rate and blood pressure.

According to her report, those most at risk during shoveling are people who have had a heart attack, people with a history of heart disease, those with high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels, smokers and people who lead a sedentary lifestyle.

Garden-Robinson and Isrow give several tips for safe shoveling:

Use a smaller shovel
Make sure your shovel isn’t bent, tilting or otherwise damaged
Take frequent breaks, even if only for a couple of minutes
Stop and go inside if you become overheated
Drink fluids
Don’t try to fling snow long distances
Stop any time you feel pain

Notes: 4 / 4 days ago

Nice website.

4 days ago

Ovi setting all-time goals mark isn't far-fetched

Interesting post on ESPN.com by John Buccigross:

Let’s project Alex Ovechkin finishes with 51 goals this season. That would give him 270 career goals at age 24 following this regular season. That means he would need 625 more goals to break Gretzky’s all-time mark of 894.

Because of Ovechkin’s physical style of play, one would think he has a high probability of getting injured at some point. This would mean missed time and the potential of him being less of a player depending on the injury. Ovechkin’s off-the-ice penchant for fast fun could also curtail his production over time.

But let’s hope for the best and assume Ovechkin escapes serious injury during his career and slowly adjusts as he gets older. Players who have booming shots age slower in terms of goal totals.

We will attempt to project Ovechkin’s goal total over the next 16 seasons through the age of 40, which was how old Brendan Shanahan (656 career goals) was when he retired. Brett Hull (741 goals) scored his last NHL goal at age 40. Wayne Gretzky scored his last at 38. Phil Esposito (717) was 38. Steve Yzerman (692) was 41. So, 40 years old is a reasonable number.

Some of Ovechkin’s projected years might have unexplained lower goal totals in an attempt to compensate for some lost games like we saw this season, whether it be some kind of injury, slump or illness. Players who play like Ovechkin are not iron men. I will put his age and a projected goal total and see what we end up with. I don’t really have a final total number in my mind. I’m just going to take it one season at a time starting with next season at age 25.

Age — Goal Total
Age 25 — 71 goals (He’s got to have one monster season)
Age 26 — 66
Age 27 — 60
Age 28 — 51
Age 29 — 55
Age 30 — 48 (Gretzky’s last 40-plus goal season was at age 30)
Age 31 — 52
Age 32 — 45
Age 33 — 55
Age 34 — 40 (Yzerman had his last 30-plus goal season at age 34)
Age 35 — 37
Age 36 — 32 (Esposito had a 40-goal campaign at age 36)
Age 37 — 40 (Shanahan had a 40-goal season at age 37)
Age 38 — 32 (Hull scored 37 goals at age 38)
Age 39 — 28
Age 40 — 27

I swear I didn’t add as I went along. I think these numbers are pretty reasonable, as noted by some of the comparables. I do think Ovechkin will post a 70-goal season and I have it happening next season as all of this young Capitals talent keeps improving. Ovi just needs to keep shooting. OK, I will now add up my Ovechkin projected numbers to see what we have for a goal total over the next 16 seasons.

739 goals.

If you combine those goals with the 270 we project Ovechkin to have after this season, he will easily breaks Gretzky’s mark by 115 goals and would give him 1,009 career goals. This means we could even subtract seven goals from each of these projected seasons above and Ovechkin still has 897 goals at age 40.

If you took seven goals off from each of the seasons above, Ovechkin could end up having no career 70-goal seasons, only one more 60-goal season and no more 50-goal seasons after the age of 27 and still break Gretzky’s all-time mark.

This will take a lot of health, hockey love and luck, but it’s not farfetched.