lowell melser is like. where are you, and what are you working on?>> i am reporting live from canton. we'll have the latest on the road conditions and conditions all over the greater baltimore >> our coverage of this major snow event continues, and we have a team of reporters all around that area. >> we are at the long date shopping center. -- lawngate shopping center. shirley, tell us what the roads are like. >> the roads are very slippery. i am heading back to pennsylvania, so i will see how the roads will be heading home. >> are you worried because of looking at what you see right here? >> yes, i was just in the restaurant, so i am kind of scared heading home. i hope the roads will be clear. >> we are here at a gas station at the shopping center and montgomery road. here at the shopping center, let's show you that the snow is getting heavier. we are starting to get some accumulation now. we want to go out to montgomery road. here comes a second plow going by right now. they are starting to plow the roads here, the 4300 block of montgomery road in

. >> we are going to lowell melser. >> we are down the block from her condominium. this is the snow accumulating, giving it that slushy appearance. it is possible, as you can see, but what is odd is the fact that usually, this is a parking lot right now with cars, especially on a friday with folks trying to go places. it seems that people are heeding the word and staying out of the way. i have not seen any city plows come out, but it really does not need it right now from that standpoint. you can see behind me, and they are assaulting the parking lot. there is a lot of snow removal, going on -- they are salting the parking lot. they are going ahead and letting the folks park for free in a number of the city-owned parking garages. that would be fells point, federal hill, and over in little italy, so you can go and part in this parking garages for free. do not worry if -- and park in those parking garages for free. do not worry if they are not for regular parking. you can park there. people can walk to a number of their favorite places, and that includes the grill beh

let's check conditions with lowell melser o. >> i was going to tell you that the winds died down a littlebut they are starting to pick up as i am talking to you. the snow has dissipated and the skies seem to be clearing in northwest baltimore. the story we are covering is storm damage like this from downed trees. it came dangerously close to a power line right here. this is something that bge was watching last night through today, and luckily it was not as bad as they thought it would be. >> i know the wind will be blowing me almost into the middle of the street, and i am a young man. >> another cold, chilling blast from mother nature, this time more in the form of wind and snow. >> my car was going all over the road this morning on the way up here. >> the morning rush was a little messy, but there were not too many problems. there were not as many problems with falling trees, which was good news for bge. >> we have not seen as many allergists as wheat potentially could have seen. -- as many as outages as we potentially could have seen. >> there's still a lot of work to do. >> the biggest