February Blizzard 2: Piling it On (Updated 10pm EST)

First 6 inches shoveled, more falling

Let's hope everyone stays safe and warm as a second blizzard sweeps along the East Coast. Tonight it seems to be tapering off in the New Jersey-New York area after snowfall in the 10-15 inch range.

Here at Birch Street, Christine and Andy had a snow day off school and Dan and Julie worked from home. After shoveling a half-foot of snow off the driveway in the morning we watched another half-foot fall by late afternoon. Dan took a picture-taking walk in the mid-afternoon; Christine went over to Matt's house for a while, where they and Matt's sister made a snowman. Tonight we got word that school is canceled for tomorrow, too.

Andy measures 12 3/4 inches at 4:25 p.m.

Andy measured 12 3/4 inches as of 4:25 p.m. See more photos, including some by Barbara of the snowy scene in Hamilton, in the slideshow above (double-click on it to go to the Picasa album and see larger views).

Shanna reports from Yonkers that 9 1/2 inches of snow had fallen by 5:20 p.m. Here are photos taken by Shanna's dad, Kevin, around their house.


John and Genevieve visited Cornell in Ithaca this week, where John did some recruiting for Facebook and the they got to visit with Vivien. Genevieve flew back to California on Tuesday and John was supposed to fly Wednesday but his flight was delayed, even though only a few inches of snow fell in Ithaca.

Check the current conditions in our family's various hometowns on our Weather Station page.

We look forward to hearing more from our East Coast correspondents! As always you can e-mail dispatches to Birch Street HQ; or post your photos at Picasa and send an e-mail to let us know.