Severe Weather 2021
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rottiman
Minister of Fire
Yeah Zap, I believe we are in for a good soaking and blow. We had gotten about 3" of snow last night. I plowed off the driveway today figuring the rain should wash the rest off and hopefully not become Ice.
@rottiman , I saw your post about the winds, the above is for our area, we could be in for wind gust between 50 - 60 mph with half an inch of rain before the winds.
The getting the snow off the driveway before our last warmup and rain worked for us, we were down to gravel. I didn't do it this time but we only had a few inches of snow on it this morning.
Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
Under a tornado watch until 11 tonight. We had 2 pretty wicked storms that just blew through. The weather man said these storms were moving 70mph. This was right before the first one got here. After it past it turned into a tornado the next county over.
Edit: I would have sent a longer video when the wind came in but it said file size too large.
Edit: I would have sent a longer video when the wind came in but it said file size too large.
tlc1976
Minister of Fire
Same here, I snowblowed tonight to get the 2” off the driveway before the warmup. Supposed to be a mess this weekend but then pushing 60f by next weekend.
velvetfoot
Minister of Fire
I'm counting on the warm temps tomorrow to melt the snow. My electric utility sent me a text about the winds.
The rain and the higher temps have pretty much cleared our driveway of snow and ice, hopefully mother nature doesn't drop a big ole pine across it.
Pretty sure I’ve had rain blowing straight against all 4 sides of the house since 2am here. Went out to feed critters this morning and no matter which way I turned it was blowing in my face.
rottiman
Minister of Fire
Got a strong dose of rain that lasted about 2 hours. Temp was @ 32 so there was a ice build up. Temp is 33 right now. Hoping it warms up so more before the predicted strong winds hit later today. With 26 mature white pines on my lot I could do without a mess of icy wet branches to deal with.
Just over 55 here and the rain stopped, don't say that nasty word.....pine!
rottiman
Minister of Fire
What a pretty picture beautiful home...I have had the weather channel on and the five or six states have taken a hit..(Mo,AR,TN,KY,IL, so far) and lots of people have died as well--terrible situation and it is not over yet so buckle down and think ahead here for your safety for it was a real scary night for some of you last night...God Bless All of You....clancey
Very nice, The Compound! 👍
The power company for a big part of New York State (they're in our area too) are offering dry ice in certain parts of the state but not ours, Watertown is the closest to us. I think NYS made them do this after a very long outage happened.
It keeps getting warmer, we hit 57.8, when that cold front hits we'll be in for the forecast high winds.
The Buffalo area is getting hit.
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The Buffalo area is getting hit.
Upstate NY Power Outage Map
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Windstorm downs trees, closes highways and blacks out more than 90,000 in WNY
A powerful storm front blasted through Western New York, sending trees crashing down onto homes and vehicles, closing highways and blacking out more than 90,000 power customers.
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rottiman
Minister of Fire
We have jumped up to 44 here. They say we may even get thunder storms this evening. No wind so far.It keeps getting warmer, we hit 57.8, when that cold front hits we'll be in for the forecast high winds.
The Buffalo area is getting hit.
Upstate NY Power Outage Map
Windstorm downs trees, closes highways and blacks out more than 90,000 in WNY
A powerful storm front blasted through Western New York, sending trees crashing down onto homes and vehicles, closing highways and blacking out more than 90,000 power customers.
rottiman
Minister of Fire
I was in a zoom meeting with some folks up in Brushton around 2 and they were having wind up there.
On 12/16 we're in for another day of warmer temps, 60 down to 34.
Small town with good people. I had some pretty good times at the Legion after we played their baseball team, always a very good time.
We always played a double header, 9 innings per game. Our catcher was around 55, he couldn't hit a curve and the pitchers knew that but after getting two strikes on him throwing curves, they would try and sneak a fastball by him, he would hit it a country mile and almost hit the horse beyond the center field fence.
His name was Frank Chatland and he had some good sized wrist on him, he picked up the old heavy milk cans from the farmers full of milk for a living.
They say the area that got hit will be warmer tomorrow and the storms tonight seems to be past and headed east sort of with a dip towards the south--just storms nothing major so far...but there are thousands and thousands of people without electricity all through that area and going to be out of electricity for a long time and they are telling people not to run generators inside and gosh you see areas "flattened" and right next door for about two or three houses no damage at all--weird...Saying prayers for the people--stay safe everyone...clancey
rottiman
Minister of Fire
Had a zoom meeting with Jim and Brenda Gordon and their daughters. I follow their you tube blog "Working Horses with Jim". He farms and logs with heavy horses up there. Very enjoyable viewing every day.
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