New Yorkers get ready...

Started here this morning around 5, ice pellets now, calling for rain or snow later, depends on temps. We either are going to get heavy rain or up to a foot of snow, along with the ice pellets and freezing rain. We are also getting pretty strong winds as well....coule be and interesting day and night...

Big storm, widespread and mixed precip, house rocked from wind last night, no school two days running, wind gusted to 132 mph on top of MT Washington in NH last night, woohoo !
Only 3 more days of crap to go.

We had some wind but not as much as I expected. The big surprise was how wet and heavy the snow was this morning. We broke out the snow blower and used the shovels, too so that DH could get to work. Our street hasn't been plowed yet...and I don't really expect it to be. Luckily our car has all wheel drive to get through the 12 inches or so that we got. While shoveling, more snow was coming down and it was so wet that water kept running down my face and in my eyes from my hair. The snow has stopped coming down for now, but they are predicting more, so I have to go feed the chickens and quail. I was supposed to have a Section 8 inspection today for one of our rentals, but I canceled it. That house sits on a dead end street. You can be sure that it won't be plowed until this evening.

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The wind was bad here...lost a dead elm tree that luckily hooked up on an oak tree on its way down....it would have taken out the chix coop & chainsaw shed that my car is parked beside....CLOSE CALL!

Another tree just missed the bunny shed....mostly rain here some short periods of sleet and snow that doesn't accumulate.

Surprising no power outages here. My parents lost power near Kingfield before they woke up yesterday and had already plowed by 1pm...

Our county has declared a state of emergency and "asked" everyone to stay off the roads. Everything is closed, schools, banks, govt. offices. We don't have the high winds, which probably helped keep down electric outages. Not sure how much more has fallen as my house is surrounded by huge Eastern White Pines and they tend to trap the snow in their limbs and then brake and shower me with snow and limbs.
It's definitely changed from the heavy wet flakes to dry, almost granular type of snow. Still falling but lightly.

Spring is how close?

I am in Mass but my daughter goes to school in New Hampshire and she was suppose to drive home last night to catch a flight out of Boston this morning but the weather was really bad last night.
There were trees down all over campus and they were warning students of the black ice out on the highways.
She waited until ths morning to drive home but she said there were trees down across the highways and they were detouring drivers.
We only had some rain and wind here but not nearly as bad as other parts of New England have reported.
We had a couple of big snow storms but nothing that kept us in.
Other parts of Mass are getting snow though that we haven't, my husband was suppose to drive to Athol (an 1 1/2 hours away) to pick up a side of beef on Wednesday but they had a foot of snow at that point and it was still coming down so we waited until yesterday or it would have been a much longer ride.
I am ready for spring though, my backyard is just one big mudpit.

How is everyone doing? Cowboy Joe, is your power still on? Sounds like a pretty good storm...we haven't had snow since before Christmas, and it's looking like an early spring here. Please don't throw snowballs at me for sayin' that, lol!

Boy, you'da thought the end of the world was coming. We ended up with 6" of slop, wind out of the north bad enough to move my gas grill and mild temps here 40 miles east of Watertown. My inlaws near Lake George got about a foot I hear.

Pfffht! Weather FORECASTERS!

Down in the southern tier, we got about 20" Thurs-Fri, another 2" Saturday, and it looks like another 2" overnight. It's wet, heavy snow, but not the slushy stuff you got up north. No widespread power outages, and roads were only in bad shape Thursday afternoon through Friday AM (NY does clear roads well, at least around here!)I think they got more towards the Catskills/Albany areas.

Finally over except for the 1-2" forecast each day until Wednesday. Offiically 14"...more like 21-24" in the places without drifts before it started to melt. Lucky for us, only scattered power outages on Friday.

Warming up and the snow is starting to melt. The plow is almost worthless with this type of snow as the weight with all the water just folds the blade over. Shovelled more times than I care to think about over the weekend as the snow kept coming down.

Had to shovel a path to the barn as the snow was up past my knees. Turns out there is a 'hole' in my farm plan as I would have to skid hay on a sled over to the barn during weather like this if I ran out. Better to find out know than once I have larger livestock. No way to get a truck back to the barn with all the snow...and it will be some time before the ground is firm enough to drive across. Doable with some effort for small quantities. Putting in a road or drive would be a huge expense. Thinking a small outbuilding or a one of those 'portable' garages' (pipe frame covered with heavy plastic or canvas) near the driveway would be a better option. At least then, the hay / straw would stay dry. Still would be a bit of work as I would have to carry bales over to the main barn. Second option includes adding more storage space to the exisiting barn, then making certain enough supplies were on hand to carry us through the winter. Might be a combination of both with the portable option available just in case we ran out. If nothing else, the storm was a learning experience.

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Just in case you guys missed these on the other thread i 'l post them here.




I am in Sullivan county. We got 56" since Tuesday. Luckily it is melting nicely.

I'm sure glad all the moisture had to go over the higher Catskills to my east. We ended up with about 6 from the first 22 from the second and another 5 or so on Saturday and Sunday. Here the storm really wasn't bad at all. We basically had snow at an inch an hour for about 20 hrs. But thats it. It could have been worse. We didn't even get any real wind.

Here are a few pics.

Well, that's probably a bit of snow for most folks. Glad you all are prepped and doing well through it.

We didn't get all that much snow this time, but added on to what came earlier and remained after our January thaw, the blowing and drifting of Feb, we have basically 2' of snow over most of the area, old and settled hard, with 8-10" of fresh, heavy snow over the past couple days, with drifts 5-7' deep. We essentially have a tunnel into the garage to feed the chickens there. Most of the 6' stockade fence in the back yard is buried. If the north end of the driveway wasn't in a wind swept place, we'd have a lot more than the 3' banks on either side, thanks to a snowblower - if it had been plowed, we'd have run out of room to put it long ago.

The picture window on the front of the house is all but covered (over 8' deep), and the one to the east has a 6' drift in front of it, with a snow curl from the roof that hangs about 2', making visibility a 16" slit. Not worried, as March will warm thing up (eventually), and by May the snow will be mostly gone.

This winter is only slightly worse than the last (and I've been in the area for most of 30 years), but still an easy winter by local standards - I only had to shovel the roofs twice, so far, and I give thanks every day for that. But we're still prepped for what could come, be that another 6", or another 6'.

And where is this, you ask? In the hills south west of Buffalo.

I'd post pix, but over dialup, it would take f o r e v e r.

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Beautiful pics! And I'm so glad it's you and not me. I'm basking in 60+ degree temps and working on the garden and orchard expansion project. I love snow...in December. Now that March is here, I have spring fever and don't want to even think about snow!

Andy, we are neighbors!

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