A Sea Of Red

I have 14 1/2 inches on my road, never been paved and no word on LU closing or delaying. Anyone have any insight?

Employees should report at 10 AM tomorrow.

Hope that Equinox was worth it.

Sorry Bob, didnt see your thread on my blackberry when I posted the announcement....but I think you saw it on Twitter anyways.

Smart decision even roads like Greenview and Enterprise were completely covered and very slick.

That brings up a bigger point:


How insanely terrible has Lynchburg handled this storm? Campbell wasn't plowed very well today. Enterprise isn't plowed. Greenview wasn't that great last I checked. These are some of the main arteries in Lynchburg. How can they not be plowed? That's not even mentioning the neighborhoods that haven't seen a plow yet at all.

And I am not going to work tomorrow, there are sometimes I love working for the state.

SuperJon wrote:That brings up a bigger point:


How insanely terrible has Lynchburg handled this storm? Campbell wasn't plowed very well today. Enterprise isn't plowed. Greenview wasn't that great last I checked. These are some of the main arteries in Lynchburg. How can they not be plowed? That's not even mentioning the neighborhoods that haven't seen a plow yet at all.

Wow...I don't think any locality handled this storm well. 2-3 hrs after it started, 419, 581, or Peters Creek Rd. in Roanoke hadn't been plowed, salted/sanded or anything. Some neighborhood streets out here still need plowing.

Yeh....I wonder where are the trucks are. 460/29 and others are fine but you would think Greenview and Enterprise would be taken care of. If my car wasnt all wheel drive Greenview would not have been fun.


I live right beside VDOT and dont see any coming or going, and normally I do.

ATrain wrote: Wow...I don't think any locality handled this storm well. 2-3 hrs after it started, 419, 581, or Peters Creek Rd. in Roanoke hadn't been plowed, salted/sanded or anything. Some neighborhood streets out here still need plowing.

That's okay on Friday. We're talking Sunday afternoon and they're not plowed yet.

At 4 p.m., the back roads of Wyndhurst — near the Jamerson YMCA — had yet to be cleared. Many were completely covered in snow, except for tire tracks left behind.
By 5 p.m. in the Wildwood subdivision in Campbell County, roads were beginning to ice over with the dropping temperatures, and plows had not yet come through to clear the streets.

That was today.

I can understand my road not being plowed. There are 15 houses on it. Wyndhurst not being plowed though? That's a ton of people living over there who can't get out if they don't have four wheel drive. That's just bad.

That's what happens when you invest in road graders instead of actual plows on large trucks. A plow can clear a road in like a quarter of the time of one of those graders.

got about 12-14" here- it stopped snowing about 0200 Sun AM, by 0800 all roads were down to blacktop and mainly wet; we had no problems getting to church and had 20 or so family over for a party at noon.

local plows and the state were out throughout the storm and kept up with it tho. And they put down a lot of brine early. Not sure if your guys do that.

roads look pretty much dry this AM.

Hold My Own wrote:Yeh....I wonder where are the trucks are. 460/29 and others are fine but you would think Greenview and Enterprise would be taken care of. If my car wasnt all wheel drive Greenview would not have been fun.


I live right beside VDOT and dont see any coming or going, and normally I do.

29 was a mess about 10 miles North of Lynchburg. The airport section of Greenview is clear, but making a right off the exit(towards Timberlake) is a mess.

81 had a 20 MILE backup. YESTERDAY. This is a joke.

They "plowed" the main road my street runs off of twice and it still has loads of snow covering it. Normally the road is clear after one time.

I will say though, with all of the complaining we do about the lack of road clearing, I'm kind of happy with the lack of road clearing equipment. That junk is expensive and it snows here like twice a year and it's normally 2 inches that are gone the next day. It just sucks every 10 years or so when you get a big snow.

SuperJon wrote:That brings up a bigger point:


How insanely terrible has Lynchburg handled this storm? Campbell wasn't plowed very well today. Enterprise isn't plowed. Greenview wasn't that great last I checked. These are some of the main arteries in Lynchburg. How can they not be plowed? That's not even mentioning the neighborhoods that haven't seen a plow yet at all.

Agree - this town is not very big. There is no reason they couldn't have got the main streets done earlier. Bedford was no better either. They just plowed my street for the first time - and I live in a very large development - and now they can't take off the snow, because the under layers have turned to ice, so they take off the top layer of snow and leave us with an icy mess:(

prototype wrote:and I live in a very large development

prototype wrote:They just plowed my street for the first time - and I live in a very large development - and now they can't take off the snow, because the under layers have turned to ice, so they take off the top layer of snow and leave us with an icy mess:(

THIS is why we get the "Southerners can't drive in the snow" crap from the yankees.

Its not that we don't have the ability to drive in snow......snow is not a problem. Its the ice that forms underneath because we don't have plows (or the operators don't know how to use them) to clear the roads correctly.

A few years ago in Raleigh, a freak 5-inch snow storm caught Raleigh by surprise. The entire city let out at noon. Took me 4.5 hours to get home...normally took me 20 mins. The slush became ice very quickly. The most memorable part....seeing SUVs with New York, Connecticut, New Jersey plates in ditches or smashed into other cars. They actually interviewed some transplanted yankees on the news that had wrecked & they were saying how surprised they were at the horrible road conditions. "Its not like this back in New York." Well no-freakin'-duh.

Hold My Own wrote:

prototype wrote:and I live in a very large development

OK HMO - Large, as far as LOTS of homes. I have 2 single wides that I converted into a pretty nice double-wide. It's pretty nice though - duct tape come apart in the middle and can get pretty breezy at times...BUT we call it home.

I will try and be clearer next time - we live on a street with many homes located on it, with many cars, that have many children, that have many extracurricular activities, with many friends, which could have many potential medical needs.

So everyone in your development can afford "many many cars"




I kid I kid....I'm a billionaire who am I to judge

LOL. Many many cars - only a few that run - most are up on blocks...

I think we're neighbors....

...nice touch adding the Santa hat to the flamingo in the yard.....but could you please shovel the snow off your astro turf porch...you have 24 hours according to the HOA guidelines

prototype wrote:I have 2 single wides that I converted into a pretty nice double-wide. It's pretty nice though - duct tape come apart in the middle and can get pretty breezy at times...BUT we call it home.

"You can take the boy out of southern Ohio, but you can't take southern Ohio out of the boy."

Hold My Own wrote:I think we're neighbors....

...nice touch adding the Santa hat to the flamingo in the yard.....but could you please shovel the snow off your astro turf porch...you have 24 hours according to the HOA guidelines

This coming from the guy that lives in a box near our community bathrooms... Please move your box - you're smelling up the bathrooms!!!

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LUconn wrote:Hope that Equinox was worth it.

I drove it the entire weekend. I was more concerned about my staff. On a side note, they just plowed LU today. What were they thinking?