Look Out Northeast Here It Comes Again

BeGreen said:

Thou shall not feed the trolls....

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;-P

The weather folks really had a bead on this storm. Up until yesterday afternoon this was supposed to be mostly rain, then the 1-2"'they called for this morning turned into 7 " . Then we got about a 1/4" of ice and now it's blowing and snowing like a banshee, hard to tell how much we got because I can't get out my front door, but it's probably at least 10" on top of the 7"'from the morning and still going strong. I'm just glad i brought in a few days worth of wood. Just loaded the box up with 3 healthy mulberry splits and 3 beech rounds, we'll be toasty tonight.

BrotherBart said:

Looks like 10,000 of us out of power. 18 on our leg so it is gonna be awhile. The woodpile cat is in her bed in the basement with her heating pad and her beloved light bulb shining on her running on the genny so life is fine.

And those famous words of a wood burner. The 30 is loaded for the night settling in at 650. And the old fool that the neighbors probably snicker about that heats with wood sleeps under a sheet tonight. Wonder what the rest of'em are doing. I have rooms for rent.

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Glad Michelle is cozy.


We've got that nasty rain/sleet /snow hitting the windows now.


One more trip out for Murphy & I, then we're hunkering down.

BB, I'm just across the river from you. We got 8 or 9" of really heavy mash potatos. Some roads are total grid lock. People been in their cars for 6 hours and only gone a few miles. A guy that I work with has been walking home for the past couple hours. I called him on his phone and he said that I could not get to him even though he is only 12 miles away because cars are still inching along on the road he is walking. 128,000 out of 300,000 are without power. We been dodging the storms up till now, but not this time.

Olso is cruising at 625 F with its overnight load. And we live in an area near the interstate lines and substation so we rarely lose power. So everything is normal around our place - everybody's on-line :-S

Yep, the power companies should be allowed to cut/prune any tree that can cause a power outage.
I've heard 1/2" hole in 3 places near the base of trees, fill with round up. Trees don't like it.
I had the same issues, 4 days for us 3 months ago. It is usually wind that gets us. It snaps 20" spruce about 4 feet up, breaks the lines.
My neighbor called last time, I talked to him at the mail box, He said he called & cussed them out real good. I think we went to the
bottom of the list for repairs after that. I cut the tree off the broken wires 3 days later so when they showed up, quicker fix.

On nat gas so cooking & hot water wasn't an issue. Thought about nat gas gen set, but next time may be the big earthquake so staying with gasoline.
Just ran the gen. to get water &l showers & watch football games. Was in the 30 deg range, so not a real bad one. Worst was 4 or 5 days below zero with wind.

Had one neighbor say his "trees were worth $200 a piece, nobody is cutting them". Wish they'd tax him more property tax, he had a few hundred trees. He moved to Vegas.
Power ROW is cleared much better now.

Sounds like most here know the drill, have at least 20 gallons of gas, some water, add some wood to the fire & relax & enjoy the quiet.

Worked with some native leaders in Manitoba for a short while, the saying was, "Big Snow = Little Snow, Little Snow = Big Snow" If the snow that is falling is big in size, you won't get much. If it is the tiny stuff, look out for some big time accumalation. sp

Woke up this morning to see a bout of Ice depositing Fog, Everything is covered in a thin layer of ice, EVERYTHING. 15-20cm on the way tonight with freezing rain coming behind it. Joy. Temps are decent at -12c but expect to get above zero tonight. odd day.

Woke up to another 12 inches this morning in addition to the 3" we got Weds. afternoon. Had to dig the wife'
s car out to take her to the commuter train. I actually like the spectacle of a storm, but we're running out of places to put it. The stacks on the side of my driveway are five feet high. We've had this volume of snow before but there was always a little melt off in between storms. Not so this year. Oh well.

We got a lot of tree huggers in my county. County Council has a law that says that the power company can only "trim" two years of growth to keep the power lines free from interference from branches. But I also think that the power company may have used this as an excuse in not keeping up with tree trimming and infrastructure. Because our county tends to have five times more outages than the surrounding counties with similar populations. This morning we have 130,000 outages with a total of 300,000 customers, about 40% of the county is out. I hear on the news that there is about 500,000 power outages along the east coast. That means more than 1 out of 5 of those outages are in my county. Just unexcusable - but what is the richest ironies is when the tree huggers go ballistic in trashing the power company.

On the up side, there should be good scrounging opportunities for the next month.

So frigan sick of these big storms going south of the snow belt, going on 2 years of northern new england gettign the shaft. Sucks because up here people actually enjoy the snow and bussiness relys on it for the ski resorts, snowmobile trailers, tourists, etc. Not saying we dont have snow, we have a good amount, but when i see CT with double the snow than NH, it gets on my nerves!

hopefully febraury will bring the snow line 150 miles north where it belongs.

ColdNH said:

So frigan sick of these big storms going south of the snow belt, going on 2 years of northern new england gettign the shaft. Sucks because up here people actually enjoy the snow and bussiness relys on it for the ski resorts, snowmobile trailers, tourists, etc. Not saying we dont have snow, we have a good amount, but when i see CT with double the snow than NH, it gets on my nerves!

hopefully febraury will bring the snow line 150 miles north where it belongs.

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Lol I hope it stays down here! We haven't gotten this much snow in awhile!
Now you know how we feel when we get flurries and you get feet from the same storm..lol or we get Nada and DC gets 2feet! Wtf.....Lmao
How bout we share?

ColdNH said:

So frigan sick of these big storms going south of the snow belt, going on 2 years of northern new england gettign the shaft. Sucks because up here people actually enjoy the snow and bussiness relys on it for the ski resorts, snowmobile trailers, tourists, etc. Not saying we dont have snow, we have a good amount, but when i see CT with double the snow than NH, it gets on my nerves!

hopefully febraury will bring the snow line 150 miles north where it belongs.

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You can come to CT and take all the show you want, I am running out of room to put it! The path to my woodpiles are like a WWI trench system. My wood hauling trailer is buried and trapped, I am out of the scrounging business for a long time........

took 3 hours to get home. a trip that is typically 45-min to an hour. i was having a blast minus being slowed down by people that just should not have been out in the stuff. had to turn around 2 times trying to get accross the upper patapsco. steep hills, 6in of wet stuff and a honda civic are not a good combination in this weather.

its nice to make fresh tracks in 6 in of snow. i would like to know what the plow guys thought of seeing those tracks.

I got 5". Pretty good for an Irishman. Commute to the burbs of Boston- the best one this week.

The amusement of this season has officially past. Now I am dealing with serious safety issues and access/egress around the house. After clearing a way up and using the 20' snowrake, I will be forced to get up on the roof to clear snow and bust the new ice dams out!
Be safe out there,
Jim

About 14" total for us.

sorry everyone....apparently the snow gods ARE listening and they do like chickens as sacrifices.....my bad.

We got about 6 or 7 inches but no place to put it in my 1/3 mile woods road/driveway. Time to dig out the snowblower, wish my tractor had a cab. No matter which way the wind blows you still get covered with snow. Ain't god's country grand or as my mother used to say, it builds character. Be safe, Really getting windy here in the hilltowns of western Ma.
Ed

We got the jackpot this storm. I havn't measured it but local reports on all three new stations are reporting 15" in the immediate area. One reporter said it was a thunder snow storm that dumped up to 5" in one hour. Sort of like those we have in the summer where you get downpours. Now the clean up begins! Easy work with a Toro Snow King 1028

iceman said:

Ahhhh its nothing, we live for it up here....4-8 inches for us might use the broom lol a dusting for sure!
North of me they get Snow vt,nh, and Maine oh yea west to upstate ny ... we always seem to miss the big ones, except for maybe every 10 years or so

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**update** news people say we got 10" I got a good foot or more in my back yard
And I can see any of my sewer pipes so looks like I will be climbing the roof in the very near future! There has to be over 3 feet of snow on my roof and the rake doesn't reach it