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Our snow totals varied wildly last night. Same coworker with the vehicle crashed into her yard got 24”, highest in the area. That’s 13 miles SSE. Couple others same distance SSW got 12”. Me about 9 miles SE got 2”.

Still got this weekend. Supposed to be in the teens, strong winds, and more snow. 40s for the holiday is out of the forecast. Now they say 25-35 with rain. = freezing rain. Good thing I will be off.
 
Seafood should not be frozen; it's much better fresh :)
Late to the game here but the same goes for meat.
I once got a whole filet that I then started to process from a butcher. I could immediately tell it was previously frozen. First off, it isnt as jiggly. Second there is a smell that you get from previously frozen meat. Third, it doesnt cut the same and the fat is easier to trim off. And finally and most importantly, it doesnt taste as good.
 
I know it's the kid in me but I would love to see 48-60 inches of snow out my window.

Edit: Although I have to believe my roof might collapse lol. Does that happen up there much? I assume building codes up there account or heavier snow loads but 4-5 feet?
When we first moved here we received more snow than we get during these winters, the codes up here do account for heavier snow loads, just not sure how much.

The winters we have now, when we get some heavier snow, it seems the rains come in after. Last year when we finally received snow, it stayed. We didn't receive much rain last year during the winter which is nice, we don't need a skating rink for a driveway.

The Lake Effect is staying south of us so far, we have had the power go off and on twice today, the last time was around 9:30 p.m.

I have more dead pine that we planned on getting c/s/s so the heavier snows can wait until I get another two or four face cord stacked. I would like a total of six face cord of pine stacked before the heavy snows come in, I have two of the six already up.
 
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Just saw that some places have had 6.41 feet fall! That’s going to be hard to move!
 
And hard to figure out where to move it....
 
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If it’s all piled up at your door the only place I could think to put it would be the tub!
 
Just saw that some places have had 6.41 feet fall! That’s going to be hard to move!
Sure is, we lucked out with the Lake Effect staying south of us most days and today it stayed along the St. Lawrence River which is northwest of us, we did get another 3 or 4 inches of snow overnight.

This is a ways off but if you have that much snow you better think about getting it moved, the weather for this coming Friday is rain, for our area they're calling for 0.77 of rain which usually gets drops down to below 0.25 of an inch before Friday.

I'll be hooking up the 3 pt. sander on the tractor, our driveway might look like a skating rink if we get it.

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In 2014 we went out to visit relatives in Watertown NY. We were warned about the lake effect snow, and anticipated being dumped on. As we were driving north from Syracuse, it wasn't until we were 10miles away that we saw any snow at all. Green grass all around. Then white out. Fell in behind two snow plows and were escorted to the Watertown exit. It looked like a war zone with ditched cars everywhere. 4 snow plows worked on a rotation, 10miles down, turn around, 10miles up. They got 4ft or so. All night every available thing that could be reconfigured with a concrete slab and a plow had the place cleared by morning, snow hauled to the river, roads were cleared and it was business as usual. I have a picture of brother in law with the snow blower. The only part visible is the snow flying up and out from the sidewalk. The previous year those sidewalk tunnels that didn't have the insulating snow had frost 7ft deep and broke buried water lines all over town. I was told not to worry about it, we do this all the time.
 
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We had 20.2 for a low this morning, the basement was 70 and the temp up here was between 66 - 67 depending on what room you were in.

I started a nice pine fire for some quick heat, the basement hit 79 before I headed up here, it's 70 up here with the outside temp at 23.3.

I started a fire with some ash and pine about 40 minutes ago. The last I had looked, our temp tonight should be around 9 degrees so we'll use the pellet stove for heat overnight.
 
Woodland -sounds good to me especially with that temperature and just think about how much money your saving. Pretty soon I will try my stove out again with a different type of wood that I bought in a store. See how that goes after my last bout of burning--last year...I am sort of "stove shy" at this point but I am so glad you people are getting pleasure out of your home warming..clancey
 
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Woodland -sounds good to me especially with that temperature and just think about how much money your saving. Pretty soon I will try my stove out again with a different type of wood that I bought in a store. See how that goes after my last bout of burning--last year...I am sort of "stove shy" at this point but I am so glad you people are getting pleasure out of your home warming..clancey
Last year we only burned just over an 1/8 of a tank of oil and the end of December through January were really cold. The other day we received our first propane delivery in 18 months so we're doing pretty good on that end too.

We were hoping that we could burn mostly pine until December, we have had some overnight fires with hardwood and we used the pellet stove but still have saved on both.

I think from looking at some winter forecast for our area, we'll have a winter with snow and rain....that will make our driveway look like a skating rink.

What are you getting for temps in your area?

Was your firewood not seasoned or was there a different problem?
 
I also had 20f this morning, and weekend temps have been in the 20s. Brisk winds too, sometimes up to 45mph according to the forecast.

The insulation I put in my attic sides this spring is definitely working. I would have been running the stove on 2, or even 3 at times with that wind. I had it on 2 Friday night but it got too warm in here, so I ran it on 1 all weekend and it stayed 70-72 in here. Also I’ve been able to shut it off all day while at work. With any luck I might save an actual ton over the season. We shall see. Next summer I’ll finish it off by blowing insulation into the peak.
 
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Insulation is one of those things where we fret about the cost until we do it, then kick ourselves for not doing it sooner.
 
WL. We are getting into the 26"s or so at later night and today I believe we were about 40 or less - it was cold but nothing freezing for now only in the early morning. Some snow the other day about I guess 2 or 3 inches but it is melting off. (In the city). Lots of sun shine for two days and all this week it will be good and Thursday I believe will be overcast. (Happy Thanksgiving) But the temperatures at night are really beginning to "drop"..I tell my birdies to put "their winter feathers on"-lol. Last year I got sumac poisoning from the wood that I bought from another state and suffered "greatly". I cleared it all out and had my installer "clean my stove" as well as the wiping down the house with soap and water because of the smoke that might have left a hint of it. I suffered greatly. But I will try it again with the commercial type of wood but I sure did love burning for it was relaxing and beautiful and very warming..My firewood was kiln dried and registered about 11% on my meter after it was split again by my carpenter. But I put one "big chunk in there that acted like it was wet for it smoked a whole lot and it rained that night as well and it was so so hard to get started and the smoke just laid on me when I opened up the wood stove door. But I like my stove...clancey
 
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Today they're calling for over 1.3 inches of rain on Friday, things will be a mess around here and the brook should fill up pretty good if the forecast stays the same.

I did buy some 60 pound bags of sand today, hopefully the rain melts all the snow on the driveway.
 
This is for our area tomorrow, the last winds we had left a widowmaker on the northside of the house over a trail. It would be nice if this wind brought it down but usually that doesn't happen.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 6 PM EST SATURDAY...

* WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
expected.

* WHERE...All of northern New York, Grand Isle and Western
Franklin Counties in northwest Vermont.

* WHEN...From 5 AM to 6 PM EST Saturday.

* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
 
The winds are picking up in our area, the power just went off and then back on with power outages starting to show up in some surrounding towns.
 
I’m hoping we can get some snow back! I’d like to get some skiing in this month!
 
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I’m hoping we can get some snow back! I’d like to get some skiing in this month!
That would be nice, I think some up here thought the snowmobile season would have a good start to it but we lost what little snow we had.
 
I never even thought of the sledders! I've seen businesses fail when the anticipated business they bring didn't show up due to a low snow year.
 
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I never even thought of the sledders! I've seen businesses fail when the anticipated business they bring didn't show up due to a low snow year.
It seems we're in for a winter with snow and rain, hopefully they get a good base down before the rain comes.

If we don't get the snow here, Tug Hill usually has it so some people up here will head down.
 
If we don't get snow, I'll be ice fishing. If I end up doing that, my phone is going to be filled with pics of 3" dink perch that somehow swallowed my hook.

I'd rather be skiing!
 
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On porch having cigar. Very windy here metrowest Boston.
 
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We have a possible storm coming in this Friday night according to Accu, the forecast hopefully will change for us, they have us getting an inch of rain and then about a foot of snow.