By URIAH KISER
This time, Old Man Winter showed up.
About two inches or more of snow fell across the region overnight and that meant schools in Prince William and Stafford counties closed.
Neighborhood streets remained snow covered early Thursday, but main roads in appeared to be passable. Snow plows were pulling in and out of the Virginia Department of Transportation Lake Ridge Headquarters about 7:30 a.m. At the nearby Chinn Park Regional Library, crews from Prince William County’s Public Works Department cleared snow from walkways and laid salt to make it safe for people to walk.
Children, who always seem to be naturally drawn to snow, grabbed pieces of cardboard and took to the nearest hill or slope instead of going to a school bus stop.
This snow is a powdery type, the kind that easily brushes off your car with one stroke of a brush or your hand. It began falling late Wednesday night as part of a clipper system moving across the area from west to east.
Stafford County appears to have gotten some of the highest snow totals with this storm, as the National Weather Service reports more than two inches fell there.
In Prince William County, areas like Triangle picked up an inch of snow. About a half inch was measured in Manassas, according to the weather service.
Not all schools were canceled as areas like Manassas Park, and Fairfax saw no more than one inch of snow.
And winter’s not done yet. Another blast of snow is due in, forecasters said, tomorrow night just in time for the evening rush hour. Another one to two inches is expected to fall between 1 p.m. and midnight.
Sunny skies and temperatures in the low to mid 30s are in the forecast for Saturday.
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