Who's prepping for the supposed Snow-pacolypse 2024?

Oof. Nothing like a last minute wrench thrown into the mix.

 

Gonna text the neighbor and see if I can borrow his.

 

The only preparation I’ve done (and am going to do) was to start up my tractor yesterday just to make sure it’s running. It had sat idle for several weeks and needed a little coaxing to get going with temperatures in the low 20s. Should be good to go when the time comes to plow tomorrow. I did bring in half a face cord of red oak heart wood splits yesterday, but I planned to do that regardless as the rack under my deck was getting pretty low on inventory.

 

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"MikeInMa, post: 1512668, member: 4025"]Acquire ingredients for milk sandwiches. Check!
Verify rocksalt on hand. Check!

Tomorrow
Double check oil in snowblowers. Check!
Add gas to snowblowers and start. Run until warm. Check!
Put up several gallons of water, in case of power outage. Check!
Top off wood rack on deck. Check!
Re-walk areas to be snowblown, to minimize shear-pin usage. Check!! But not guarantee.

Sunday
Take down Christmas tree while watching it snow.
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We'll be heading out for a bite, early afternoon. When we get back, the cars will be staged away from normal parking area. Once that area is cleared of snow, the vehicles are moved.

I'll also unstrap our mailbox and bring it up from the street. Being on a state highway, the big plows can push quite the amount of snow. The mailbox was separated from it's post, once, a few decades ago.

 

Bummer, dude. Tough post to like.

I hope you have a backup. Or, an in at the power shop.

 

Well..... any snow flying anywhere yet?

How about the temps to support it if it does decide to come down?

Currently 31.7 in the very southwest corner of michigan. Light breeze with a gust now and again. Visible is somewhere around 8 miles at the moment.

 

The guessers were wrong here. Said it would start at 10. Didn't start till 10:15. Gave me some time to saw and haul 2 more buckets from the BIG ash down back.

 

Good pre-storm activity!

 

Cloudy here, temp hovering around freezing. Snow isn’t supposed to start till 9 pm. Patiently waiting…

 

It's hovering around 30 at my house right now, so whenever it decides to start coming down it'll be snow. The temperature when I got up at 7am was 22 so the ground is solid and conducive to accumulation. I'm cautiously optimistic I'll have at least 6" of snow to test my plow on tomorrow.

 

Just when is this snowfall supposed to take place?

Today?

Tomorrow?

Next week?

 

For the mid Atlantic right now. For New England, later this afternoon into this evening, going until the afternoon tomorrow.

 

Look at these people over at the weather channel, changing the background of their website from the usual blue to all red, trying to get the last of the bread and milk sold.

 

Sounds like you might get some then. Was maybe 25 here overnight. Probably closer to 28. Currently 33. We're only supposed to get MAYBE 1-3"

 

If you look at the satellite imagery it really is a massive storm, stretching from the upper midwest to the gulf of Mexico. It's not the blizzard of 1993 but impressive in scale nonetheless.

 

When people describe how wide the storm is i expect to look at the radar and see green from Mexico to Maine. My radar doesn't show anything like that yet.

 

I dunno, according to that map the precipitation goes from about 150 miles north of Cuba all the way up to southwest Ontario, with the center of circulation somewhere around Chicago. It's not like a front moving through, it's more like a cyclone.

 

I suppose if i imagine it like you say it's a big storm.

I've been watching the radar the last couple days and the green that's below Toronto currently, was a seperate storm that came across Tennessee from like theTexas area? The blue above Chicago and Minneapolis is the inflow from that low pressure system moving toward the northeast. So really it seams to be a cause and affect thing. Not one big storm. Idk im no meteorologist tho.

 

We have flurries starting *yawns* they're out there dumping salt on the roads like they are trying to pave with it!