Are you ready for a major winter storm?

[alternativeheat]

lol Thanks, this will be our second girl. Our first girl will be 3 in April.

Time flies , my oldest baby is a girl, she will be 44 in April It doesn't seem like yesterday she was born but it doesn't seem possible it's 44 years either. Enjoy every minute cause those minutes never return again. Each stage is gone forever, except in your memory banks and photographs. Your daughters will be Daddy's biggest advocates later in life, believe it !!

 

[hyfire]

Hope you battery back up lasts a few days?????? Sounds like your going to get a pounding!

 

[Harvey Schneider]

Hope you battery back up lasts a few days?????? Sounds like your going to get a pounding!

I have enough battery to keep the stove, water pump, refrigerator, and boiler running for at least a few days. And a small back up generator so that I can recharge them as needed.

 

[JoeS]

Need to make a liquor store run!

 

[pelletizer]

New combustion motor is in and we be ready!

 

[Harvey Schneider]

Need to make a liquor store run!

Got my bottle of Jack yesterday!

 

[hyfire]

I have enough battery to keep the stove, water pump, refrigerator, and boiler running for at least a few days. And a small back up generator so that I can recharge them as needed.

Nice how many batteries are you using? I could only get less than 2 hours out out a single optima battery on my pellet stove..

 

[Mr. Spock]

Got beer, plenty of pellets and enough power for 5 days in the dark. Gen for longer hauls. 12" of snow, ahh , just another day in NE.

 

[velvetfoot]

Looks to be bad ice down south.

 

[alternativeheat]

Got beer, plenty of pellets and enough power for 5 days in the dark. Gen for longer hauls. 12" of snow, ahh , just another day in NE.

I live on Cape Cod, they predicting mostly rain for here, so watch out ! This is the land of a prediction where normal is 2-12 if it doesn't rain or go out to sea. We know what we will get when it shows up and it may change then. I've seen ocean effects snow after a fizzled out snow storm that was plow able. Escaped the storm and end up with 6 inches of aftermath. Just never really know here unless it's really one of those dead on tracks that happens now and then. So bottom line ? Always be ready. Ready means gas for the blower and generator that may end up in the cars tank. And have your umbrella or rain gear on stand by. One thing is for sure, it will be windy.

 

[Harvey Schneider]

Nice how many batteries are you using? I could only get less than 2 hours out out a single optima battery on my pellet stove..

I have two 100Ah batteries for the well pump and boiler, one 100Ah battery for the pellet stove that will run it for about two days (the MVAE is a real miser when it comes to electrical consumption) and a 100Ah battery for the refrigerator and incidental use.
The two batteries for the pump is not for capacity, but for peak load. It takes a 5k/10k peak inverter to get the well pump started.

 

[BrotherBart]

Beer, food, Scotch, four generators, thirty gallons of gas, wood stove, pellet stove, one cord of this years wood and two tons of pellets left. Anything else I will have to ad lib.

 

[Bioburner]

What, didn't think the storm had ended. 17 days straight of sub zero. Will finally if the weather person is right see above freezing weather since well before Christmas. Power went down this morning early and old UPS on Bixby crapped out. New one on the Harman indicated the two incidents and kept things running with only a couple bleeps. This winter is getting expensive with equipment stress.

 

[DOLLARBILL]

Just celebrated third birthday of our oldest daughters three year old twins ! Tired oldman i was !

 

[pelletizer]

-11 here in Pellet county (North Rockingham county) NH this morning ! We are in a low valley type area.
Hoping we do not get any freezing rain here being low but ready with Gen and gas and pellets and beer and sleds and BBQ etc,,,

 

[joescho]

I hope my roof can take it. I've got about 6 inches on my roof now and if we get another 10 I'm going to be a little worried.

 

[bonesy]

I hope my roof can take it. I've got about 6 inches on my roof now and if we get another 10 I'm going to be a little worried.

I had the same concern so I actually contacted my home builder and they sent me the drawings for the snowload on my trusses. Mine are designed for 40#sq ft snow load.

 

[Bioburner]

I had the same concern so I actually contacted my home builder and they sent me the drawings for the snowload on my trusses. Mine are designed for 40#sq ft snow load.

Problem is if the weather decides to rain and soak the snow it will get very heavy. I got a electric snowblower and blew off two thirds of the roof to uncover the vents etc.

 

[hyfire]

The more snow on the roof the higher the R value, this will be saving your pellets...

 

[Bioburner]

The more snow on the roof the higher the R value, this will be saving your pellets...

Last four words of my last post are VERY important. Very large # of ice dams occurring now destroying roofs in MN. Art lit a fart and blew the whole house apart

 

[Phoenix Hatchling]

Backup batteries are charged and stoves are clean.
Seven degrees this morning and a major winter storm on the way

Looks like we're in the 6 to 12 range. First time I ever considered moving out of the northeast after living here my entire life. Nothing melts. Freeze your arse off every day. Only thing to look forward to is the pellet stove and the wood stove.

 

[Bridgeman]

The milk! The bread! The beer! Oh my! At least it will near the melting point for the first time in a week.
That ice damming thing is caused by lack of ventilation and not enough insulation. I you have ridge vents with a roof pitch under 12/12 get rid of those and put in gable vents. In this case bigger is better. There is very little heated air moving out of a ridge vent under a foot of snow.
If you have a thought that the snow load is exceeding the load rating on your roof simply cut a representative sample and weigh it. I'm responsible for several warehouses and when the snow exceeds 30" I do samples on every section of every building. We are in a 50# snow load area and 30" works for us. 30" may be way too much for some roofs. The samples must take the vertical stratification of the snowpack in to the equation. The bottom of the snow pack almost always is denser and heavier the the top so a complete vertical sample is needed.

 

[JoeS]

Got my bottle of Jack yesterday!

Got my bottle of Crown Royal today!

 

[Seasoned Oak]

Were gettin walloped . Looks like a foot at least. Edit: It kind of stopped after about 8-9 inches. Snow showers now.

 

[velvetfoot]

Better than the ice.