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

Eric Wanderweg Another thing to note: from living in this area for 35+ years, when a true nor'easter comes thru we get absolutely DUMPED on with the following lake effect after the dump from actual storm. For us to possibly get only 1-3" makes me wonder if they are just using terms for the scare factor?

 

Weathermen get paid by Big Dairy and Big Bread, and new car salesmen are out driving the trucks salting the roads. "More salt, rot those old junkers into the ground!"

 

For sure there's an element of that. But the term nor'easter itself is a reference to the direction of the wind (around here, coming from the northeast) when the storm hits. It doesn't necessarily mean blizzard conditions, just a storm following a certain pattern.

 

Where I'm at i think the term nor'easter despribes a storm starting in the plains, like let's say Iowa. The storm then moves northeast across Michigan and northern New York, Buffalo to be specific. Then the follow up winds after the storm create massive lake effect.

That's what a true nor'easter is in my mind. What we have going on at the moment seams more like a tropical storm at the wrong time of year.

 

That's exactly what a nor'easter is, an extratropical cyclone. This particular storm just isn't one for the history books.

 

I guess my point is that they're using the term incorrectly to sell more milk and bread as you say. I'm not a smart guy and can see the manipulation, it's just suckening. I know, from where the storm started, that it really shouldn't produce much. Definitely nothing these areas haven't seen before and 20-30 years ago was normal. We have better equipment, more experience, and have dealt with huge snow loads before so they already kinda know what to do. Idk i just don't get it.

I'm just so tired of things not meaning what they once did. 20yrs ago the media would say nor'easter and it was guaranteed you would be ditch banging and just straight, ride on the roads with snowmobiles. I'm not even that old and "they" make me feel like an old man with the way stuff is described to the extremes now a days.

Guess i should get off my soap box and get something done today.

 

Well after doing a quick Wikipedia read it seams I'm wrong in my thinking of the term nor'easter. According to Wikipedia its a storm from the Atlantic Ocean.

 

LOL no I get it, and I'm only a couple years older than you. Nor'easter conjures up images of emergencies. If nobody watched the news, we'd all be blissfully unaware of any massive (not strong) storm stretching from the tropics to Canada. It would just be a little winter weather.

 

I was a kid in upstate New York during the blizzard of '77 and that's what I imagine when you talk about a snow storm. 3 inches shuts down Atlanta where I currently live but should be a big yawn to you guys up north. Everything is media hype as you guys describe.

 

I agree, it’s crazy how much hype is involved in this weather “event”. The pics I posted earlier are of stuff we normally do to be prepared for life. A bit of snow is just a bonus nowadays.

 

If people weren't fearfully going out and spending all sorts of money on various things to make them feel safe, we might have to acknowledge we're in a recession, or at least really, really not in good shape.

 

Hey now, don’t go looking outside the projector show.

 

Here in Manistee Co, MI we got maybe 3/4" of snow overnight. Not enough to count. Forecast doesn't look like much for the next few days, either.
Outside temp is 33F.

 

Yeah a nor’easter is cold from the west hitting warm moisture off the Atlantic that develops a large swirl pattern over New England. That’s without looking it up LOL as I understand it.
Was it 2011 we got the last big snowfall? Sounds about right. I had 40” at my house. What a nightmare. Took me 15 minutes to walk to the barn and fire up the 2wd Mason dump with 7 foot plow. Took another 15 to get it hopelessly buried. Another 15 to burn all the belts off the snowblower Not fun

 

Coming down pretty decent here and has been for hours.

 

Put this rubber on the plow last year. Didn’t get enough use to develop an opinion. I think it helps with a stone driveway but nothings perfect on stone. Plowed a convenience store lot last year with a steel blade. Not fun either. Every tank fill was raised.
Dang piece of rubber had been hanging around the house for years. Found it on the job site. 2” thick x 2’x4’. Was laying near the dumpster waiting for a machine operator to lift it in. I had never seen a piece of rubber that big, had no idea what to do with it but my trick was there loading up pallets. I’ll take that. About 100lbs of rubber. Used for expansion joints on big concrete walls.

 

Ya the weatherman plays with the reports at times.I notice when they give a bad storm report and they are smiling I don't take it seriously.When they look worried then I prepare.A few times when planning a fishing trip on the Cape the weather folks would say rain all weekend with a smile on their face.When I get to the Cape nothing but sunshine.I also notice that traffic to the Cape was very light.They conned a lot of people to stay home that weekend.

 

Time to start preparing for Finn.