Elkridge takes the prize
12th udpate today from the SHA Operations Center in Hanover:
Communities all over the state were buried in snow Friday and Saturday but it is Elkridge that wins the bragging rights for the highest snow total for the 2010 Super Bowl of Snow in the Mid-Atlantic states.
Elkridge's snowfall was measured by the National Weather Service at 38.3 inches -- which may account for why a massive backup on Interstate 95 picked Howard County as the place to start. That even beats the 36 inches in Frostburg out in Allegany County.
A close runner-up in the in-95 corridor was Columbia, with 33.8 inches. Savage and Ellicott City also clocked more than 30 inches, as did several locations in Montgomery County.Crofton measured 34 inches. and Randallstown 32. Essex came in at 30.4.
If you're wondering who passed along these stats, it was Gov. Martin O'Malley -- after I asked him about the Virginia Department of Transportation's relative success in keeping I-95 clear. It trurns out Virginia's snow totals along I-95 were mostly in the teens -- for instance 13 in Fredericksburg and 19 in Alexandria.
OK, Governor, you made your point.
