Matthew McPhelin, the chef for Maize restaurant in Perkasie, said that while some people canceled reservations for the storm, others called in for a seat.
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“We had a customer just come in and get two in a series this morning so her daughter could have something to read on her day off,” Farley said. Many customers were buying multiple entries in mystery and other series for the snow day, bookshop co-owner Jennifer Farley said. That’s what we do.”Īfter digging out, Farley’s Bookshop on Main Street in New Hope had plenty of people coming in for page-turners before hunkering down themselves. We keep rolling along to try to make everyone happy. “It’s crazy,” Mammarella said as he and other store employees rushed to fill a big wave of meal orders during the lunch hour. The Wawa on Oxford Valley Road along the Falls-Middletown border did a booming business during and after the snowstorm, general manager Joe Mammarella said Wednesday. The transportation agency relies on forecasts when putting together its plans of attack and staffing, he said. The biggest problem of the storm was its “fantastically wild” early predictions - which swung from 1 to 4 inches Monday morning to up to 16 inches Monday afternoon, Metzger said. Once the temperatures dropped Tuesday night, calcium chloride was added to the salt to increase its effectiveness since salt loses its power at about 15 degrees, Metzger said. Traffic wasn’t a big problem since most schools and businesses dismissed before the heavy snowfall. 26-27, 2010, when some sections of Bucks were walloped with up to a foot of snow, Meola said.Īs major storms go, this last one wasn’t bad, PennDOT spokesman Charles Metzger said. The last time the region saw that much snow in a single storm was Dec. “An overachieving storm is one way you can describe it,” Meola added. Lower Bucks bore the brunt of the storm with snow totals ranging from 9 inches in Lower Makefield to as much as a foot in Bensalem, according to the National Weather Service. One good note was the winds weren’t as strong as meteorologists anticipated.Īt the height of the storm, the snow was falling 1½ to 2 inches an hour in most of Lower Bucks County, Meola said, adding that 13 inches fell outside the NWS forecasting office in Mount Holly, N.J. in northern Bucks County and about midnight everywhere else, she said. Tuesday and about an hour later in the southern part of the county, National Weather Service meteorologist Valarie Meola said. The precipitation started to fall in the northern reaches of Bucks County between 7 and 8 a.m.
There is also a 20 percent chance of more snow showers Thursday afternoon, but no accumulation is expected, Meola added.īesides waking up Wednesday to bitter cold temperatures - a low of 4 degrees and a high of 13, according to AccuWeather - residents also had to brave the most snow seen in the area since 2010. And the high will be 11 degrees at night or as low as zero with the wind chill factor. She said the NWS is forecasting temperatures in the lower 20s Thursday, though the wind chill factor will make it feel like 3 below zero. “They’ll be more below normal (temperatures) than above or even near normal,” she said. Temperatures will struggle to reach freezing in the next couple of weeks. That’s good news, because a continued cold pattern is in the foreseeable future, National Weather Service meteorologist Valarie Meola said. PECO Energy reported no significant problems with electric or natural gas systems, and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation crews were able to keep on top of the storm, which dumped as much as a foot of snow in some parts of Bucks County. We must be getting used to the snow and cold, since the region fared well Tuesday during the third major winter storm this season.
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