Polarbear

See there was some snow a top pikes peak today.. was in Utah last week when they saw snow way up top.

Even overnight? Nothing here during the daylight but I got 1.2” overnight

I’ve got a crabapple tree in my yard. It would meet your height needs but it’s a useless tree to me. The apples are worthless and mine at least, has no aesthetic qualities to me. I’m actually planning to cut it down one of these weekends. Plus I had these swarming last year when the apples were on they were mean looking guys… https://xerces.org/blog/an-unlikely-invasion-giant-hornets-in-north-america

Please no… I’m always on board for snow but not this time period… I’m suppose to be flying to TN to pick up my new truck on the 22 and I’d like to get home and undercoated before having to put it through salt….

Boo, I don’t have an alpha account….

I was out in looking into woodland park and then up in Boulder in early September . While I was a bit disappointed in woodland park, we stayed just north of town up in some hills. On our last night, a storm rolled in to our south and it was amazing to watch it roll in over the mountains and seeing the lightning down in town. Also some strikes it seemed like we were actually above the clouds/lightning. Was really cool to watch that he or so.

So I priced out 6-7 of the big names online over the weekend and followed up the last couple days. Unless something drastic changes I can’t see myself not going with geico now myself. They had the lowest auto by about 70 bucks/6 months but were a few hundred higher on my homeowners. I just got off the phone with the local geico in Batavia and he shaved another 30 off the auto and 250 off my homeowners. Using all the same criteria. I expected at least a few hundred dollars increade updating my pickup from an 07 to a 22. It’s only going up 163 dollars. I was getting pretty good numbers at State Farm and could get close to matching the auto but was going to have to sign up for their drive and safe which I wasn’t crazy about.

So I’m going to be getting a new pickup here at some point (deposit down, now waiting for transport I guess) Any of you guys deal with insurance or have any recommendations? I’ve used local small towns insurance til now but kinda considering going to a big name one. Geico, State Farm, etc… I went with a new company last April and this guy is just to incompetent. He’s messed too many things up in 10 months that god forbid I make a claim I’m afraid I’ll not actually have coverage or something.

Been in that exact stretch before in very similar conditions in a semi. Only difference was I did in the day time… talk about a pucker factor…

What’s the timeframe for the worst weather in the Buffalo area tmw?

Im always amazed to see how bright it in other places compared to my hole in the wall. It’s pitch black even with my motion lights on… lol

I saw and said the same thing to myself earlier…

I remember was it March 2015? we were in the 50s and wall to wall sunshine with a blizzard warning for the next day. I think it ended up verifying as well…

Half a dozen stabs around the yard with a tape measure yield an average of 15.4”… I’ll take it…. I was up at 100am with heavy heavy snow had just started… however at some point we must have gotten some freezing rain even here as there was ever so slight glaze on my gf car this morning

Got up about 10 minutes ago to decide if I want to bother with going to work. Maybe 1”/hr here currently. Looking at Radar and all you guy’s reporting the 2-4” snow just to my south and moving north. Nah no thanks, no driving today . But what I did notice and I don’t recall who said it but the snow sounds crunchy/icey as it’s falling . Wow in the couple minutes typing this things have exploded in the snowfall rate dept….

American rock salt out of geneseo/mt Morris area

Yes very true. Beet juice and molasses are common.

In addition to this a lot of salt is used perhaps more often than necessary because towns/countries/Dot budget X amount for salt. (just like anything else, no secret here) Well say this yr is a light winter they still keep spreading as much as possible so that there budget allotment stays the same. Then if the following year is twice as bad as normal there’s not as much of a deficit to overcome. municipalities are also required by the state as I understand it, to take X amount of salt no matter if they use it or not. I delivered some to places that had no where to go with it back in early December. I also do believe all salt orders go through the state in some form. Your local highway super has to “call”in to the state and then the order comes back to the mine. Sand seems to be more popular in areas with any type of hills (obviously) and also areas with a smaller tax base. Don’t quote me on these numbers but you can get say 400 ton of sand to one 40 ton load of salt. But all the comments on drains and whatnot I’m sure factor in as well. As for environmental concerns there are more towns using a treated salt that sticks to the rds better and isnt suppose to runoff as much as regular. I also believe it reduces the temperature at which it’s effective to as this is pretty widely used up in the adks. Someone with better knowledge of all this will probably correct me, as I’m just a steering wheel holder who delivers a lot of the vehicle corrosion enhancer around the state. You’re all welcome….

I’ll have a number 14 please…

I’d guess 8-10”, solid 3-4” on 81 at the Mexico exit coming back. Seemed like the band consolidated a little and moved N. Hit snow near sandy creek but out of it by central square

Hit snow just south of driver’s village. Lost sight of the rd around Cicero with the worst from about Oneida lake up to parish, especially closer to parish. As soon as I hit exit 33 shut right off and was more intermittent til near Pulaski where it briefly picked up again. Rds cleared up around pierpont roughly, dry in Watertown . Headed back down in a few minutes…

Ohhh yea I figured, I get to drive in plenty of them I just try to plan to miss as much or the worst of a band whenever I can. I just wasn’t sure when the 3”+ was going to get rolling as I could get going a little sooner Hope to be back to Syracuse and westbound by 6-630 if at all possible . Thanks for the info!

I’m sure I’ve missed it along the way but what time does the band look to get really cranking tonight/early tmw? Have a delivery in Watertown tmw morning around 5am…

I heard there was 2-3’ in the south Hannibal , granby area…? True?