Feb 2013 Storm thread

you should get the quad copter thingy up in the blizzard...would make for neato vantage point.....for all who own a strobe light, i suggest getting it out once it gets dark....point up into the sky and be blown away (figure of speach).

We are lucky nowadays to have radar weather for advanced warnings and determining wind speed and snow amount. Governor calls the order to be off the roads and it makes a huge difference.

Rewind to the 1970's and weathermen were pushing "H" and "L" across the weatherboard indicating fronts. Gotta love realtime reports now.

Anyone around here remember Don Kent?

Governor just called a state of emergency and ordered all traffic off roads statewide at 4pm.

All I have to say is God Bless Seafoam! With work and other stuff I literally shut my generator off and left it sitting in the garage when the power came back on about a week after Sandy left. When I went to check it last night I realized I hadn't even shut the fuel off and run the carb dry when I shut it down last. The fuel tank had about 2 gallons in it-"oh crap" I thought... It started on the second pull and ran like a champ

*Is home, and staying put*

I swear by SeaFoam. I use it in all my gas cans. Start ups are never a problem at my house.

Since Ive got the genny and 10 gal of gas Im not really all that concerned about loosing power for a while. What Im not looking forward to is potentially having to shovel a path through 2-3ft of snow from the garage around back to the inlet box in the back yard.

And rain for Sunday ! What the heck I was enjoying all the snow and of course the money from clearing driveways too.

Pete

Inlet box!? Cheater That was on my to-do list from Sandy...still haven't gotten around to it which means if the power does go out I'll be doing the extension cord rodeo I swear I'll do it this spring!

ha ha ha. I learned my lesson after the basement almost flooded in the crazy spring rains of 2010. Didn't want to be wading through water with cords rushing to get the pump back up and running.

Speaking of which I reallllly should do a battery backup for that.

I have a used battery back up pump I can send to you if you want (I won't ship the battery)

Heading out in about 15 minutes-I just looked out my window and there is some slush on the ground. Looks like my part of New Jersey won't start really getting it until about 8:00 p.m. The moonbats will probably out on the roads in force though-wish me luck!

Whopping 3" so far. Heavier stuff looks like it is at Long Island and southern CT.

What'cha all cooking tonight? I have homemade chicken noodle soup with tortellini and a grilled cheese. Toll House cookie squares for dessert. Yes, I sampled it.

Thunder and lightening coming into the mix.

We're due for 12" - 18".

Brought the snow shovel and the broom inside

And on the lighter side:

I really wish I could see this but all I get is a black rectangle. Maybe I'll look again for a solution (other than "use Firefox").

I'll be at work in NYC until almost 11 tonight. Then a 40 mile ride home. Should be interesting.

Link worked, really cool!

Still get black rectangle after clearing files. Have to look more, did it before but came up blank. Too lazy now. Maybe later at some point.