Electric heater that we used in our bedroom over the garage is not keeping up for my daughter. I had to run out and get a new infared quartz heater. Dr Heater is sending us a new power board for the existing one, but who knows how long that will take and whether or not that will be the fix. I'm not a fan of big box stores like Home Depot. Our local hardware store did not have what I was looking for. As a result I ended up at Home Depot. Yeah me. Coming home the flurries started as we pulled in the driveway. Good timing for me as I still had time to get in a couple arm fulls of wood to put on the fire for the next couple of days. I then loaded the last of the firewood I split last year into the wheelbarrow and put that into the rack. That is all I have for the rack for this year. It's 2/3's full. Which isn't bad considering that t still about 40% of the blocks from the first ton left over. Now the stove is loaded and we are settle in ready for a warm night watching a movie together. It's strange because we already know that my wife is working from home. The odds of the state shutting down is slim to none under normal circumstances. One positive thing from COVID is that my wife can now work from as needed. Before that was never an option.
Any snow out there yet? We got 1/2" and snowing pretty good. Started flurrying just past 6. Im one town above New Haven.
It was really coming down earlier this afternoon, had a brief break. Now it's sleeting with more snow later tonight. Maybe there's 7" or so. Just came in from riding the quad around the back roads with the boys. Now Im sitting looking at the Christmas tree and watching the dance of the woodstove fire, enjoying the warmth. These moments makes all the hard work in hoarding worth it.
.... I'm 2400 miles from you guys to the west and am looking forward and jealous a little of your snowy weather.... We have a small snow storm coming in tonight but nothing substantial.... Looks like another cold, dry winter. Still get to run my stove thankfully...
I think we are almost up to 100 inches so far this winter. We sure need it. I helped a neighbor dig out today. Wind is piling it up.
About 4 inches on the ground where I am. Local ski hill opens on Friday for the season. Much less snow than normal for here. Mild winter so far too which usually means our Feb-March will be bitter cold and snow.
Ok here we go: Looking down to the west the mother-n-law apartment above my dad's shop. That is where my son is staying. Extra car in the driveway with his girlfriend here. This is looking east towards the other end of the driveway. Right at 7". Haven't checked to see where the line is, but I'll let you know. I'll put a couple of pics post cleanup after I am done. The chute on the snowblower clogged with slush. The ground was not cold enough.
Your snowstorm made the news over here. The link is a video showing how not to drive in snow. Snowstorm brings road chaos to north-eastern US
Depends where your at. Some places don't have the infra structure to handle 2 inches. Here in Northeast Ohio 10 inches in a day is a lot. Go about 150 miles Northeast from here and thats normal lake effect.
There are places in Ohio that cannot handle 2" of snow? I expect that from a place like Norflok, VA. I was there in 1994 during my time in the Navy when 2" of snow crippled the Tidewater area for about a week. I would not count on Ohio to have that problem.
Haha, yep...flurries in tidewater and they loose their chit driving. We're about 2-2.5 ish hours west of there...a couple inches here and a lot of stuff stops. They start calling for accumulating snow and schools start talking about closing....and no bread or milk at the store.
Sounds like here, we average 24-30 inches of snow a year, but not all at once. With all the California transplants we have (who can't drive already...) if we get a few inches that sticks.... our roads become ice rink destruction derby... Our school district delayed school time by 2 hrs for today, calling it last night and I woke up to a fresh blanket of nothing..... just a little rain
I wouldn't call a northeaster that blows through in less than 24 hours much of a storm worth over-hyping like they have either. We got between 3.5 and 5.5 inches here, which is neither a lot nor a little as we often get a high percentages of rain during a typical northeaster, being south of the average rain/snow line that runs between Boston and Providence and sometimes more south than that. Deluxebury and Plymouth often get slammed on the tail end of the storm and can get a lot being on the East coast rather than the south coast/Cape and Islands. That 3-5 is heavy wet slush that's like shoveling cement. I did just my front steps and walkway down to my driveway and my back is telling me to knock it off. About two inches on blacktop and bricks and I'm guessing the ground was warm and the first couple of hours of snow melted. I put driveway markers in at sunset/last minute yesterday and all but one was into un-frozen turf/slid right into the ground.
