{"id":2912,"date":"2012-04-23T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2012-04-23T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:01:50","slug":"travel-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/travel-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIn the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.\u201c
\n~Mark Twain<\/p>\n

I thought I got a memo about the end of winter. Big Pink\u2019s Porter staff swept through the unit last week. They were checking the convectors in preparation for the cut-over from warm to chill-water cooling for the summer. I was sweating on the street last week, hobbling along on my bad wheel.<\/p>\n

I have broken the shorts out of long-term storage and been wearing them. Those are just a couple reasons why I am squirming a bit this morning. My pal Joe was the first to chime in on Saturday: \u201cSnow in Western Pennsylvania,\u201d he wrote, with the schadenfreude of someone who is not planning on flogging a rental Infiniti across
\nthe high plateau of the Keystone State to meet obligations in the Little Village By the Bay.<\/p>\n

I got up early to check Traffic land\u2019s highway cameras on the route west. I felt good about what I saw in Pittsburgh- just wet. No accumulation. I streamed National Public Radio from the Iron City to see the local forecast, and then clicked over to the Weather Channel just to check the detailed forecast.<\/p>\n

Crap. It hasn\u2019t started yet. According to the gleeful graphics- bad weather makes for bigger ratings, I guess- the savage low pressure front is going to back northwestward across New York today and tonight, funneling bitter cold air down into the back of the tropical moisture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis strong Spring storm will bring heavy rain to eastern New England and heavy, wet snow to western parts of New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland and northern West Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFive inches of snow,\u201d I read, and up to a foot in the higher elevations. \u201cMost valley areas should only see 1 to 5 inches, but a few isolated areas could get as much as twelve inches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crap. Rain I can take. Heavy wet snow is something else. Five hours to Pittsburgh on clear roads.\u00a0 Maybe I can get ahead of it- though I guess I will just have to take it low and slow and get over the mountains as best I can.<\/p>\n

Was that Infiniti FX35 all wheel drive?\u00a0 More from the road.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2012 Vic Socotra
\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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