NeonPeon

Snow is gone. Only the shady man made piles remain. Torch never really torches here, but it's beautiful out and walkable without a jacket. It's definitely the case that it's a completely subjective thing, but this winter gets an A+ from me. More than a month of continuous crosscountry skiing around here is nuts. My primary exercise for the month of February. And an all timer storm. I needed it too. My dad passed away. My team is shyte. It all blows away for a moment if you pile drifts up to the windows.

Two records in a row here, yes. Two awful seasons in between. A+ winter this year from two events and 2 months of snowpack. I'll shut up for a while. I mean, realistically I'll shut up until next season.

It's very situational, we had got down to grass across all slopes and sunny spots, so there is no bullet proof anything under those parts. On the other hand, the shady spots still did have, it was definitely higher moisture when the snow started, and the compacted shoveled piles are rock solid. There's also already grass in places, where they were scoured out by drifting. A huge part of the median next to the beach this morning is grass. I think it'll be winter on one side of the street and spring on the other by tuesday, anyway, bar the ploughed spots, but we will see. I find it substantially more interesting watching it stack in 26 hours than to melt over the course of a week.

Because the drifted snow was the driest fluffiest stuff, the speed with which those drifts have settled and melted, especially after the rain, is insane. I have a 4 foot wall across from my house that runs for most of the block along the sidewalk. It was enveloped by a 6 foot drift, you couldn't see it. There is maybe 2 feet there now. Late Feb means most of this snow is gone mid next week.

I know an alternate source of hot air.

You have to admire the dedication to the con. I mean, all the heavy equipment they used to construct 12 foot tall snow piles all around Newport. They should have just used a leaf blower.

It's not going to die a slow death at this rate. Between settling, the bit of rain, and the sun, it looks like half what it was all fluffed up.

Newport schools closed for the week. I know the bottle neck is availability of heavy equipment to deal with drifts, but this is one of the weaknesses of car dependent civic architecture. All the main roads are cleared.

My older kid is off school tomorrow. My youngest in Pre-K is out till Friday. This is obviously not related to any additional snow down here Obviously it's ruining my ability to do work. But on the other hand we made a 6 ft snow fort and it's got a flag on it. My kid turned 9 today and has had three days off. For all the talk of jacks on here, that's a 9 year old jackpot.

"RI bust"

Neither do I.

My best guess was 28 or so at the end, Newport ap says 32 but that's Middletown basically, and also tends high. It's the all time storm for me living here, 14 years. It's storms like this that make me love the winter here. The floor is low, as we've seen in the last years, but the ceiling is high, and dramatic. What did you see around Bristol for downed trees? In my tour around town yesterday I didn't see much wind damage. Downed branches, not downed trees. The trees weren't plastered as much as in 2013, and my power never went out. I also found the wind here impressive but not crazy in the context of Newport. They were also very straight line.

One last note, these big big snow storms are such an event. There were lots of people out walking around town, just taking it in. Every snow shoveler you pass will stop and chat, if only to take a break. I see people helping each other out. I see community. It's frighteningly rare.

I probably had one of the lower totals for Rhode island as well, to tell the truth I'm not really sure because it wasn't measurable for me, and it was great. I'll be honest and say it looks like you probably did get significantly less but I don't know. It's hard to say based on that video though to be honest, because I don't understand the topography, and I couldn't take listening to the tone. The thing is, if we swapped positions you'd still be wandering around with a ruler, having unhinged rants, and complaining how x y and z got more, and id still have been in the best fucking mood, made a snow fort with my kids, and cross country skied for miles with my wife. Snow and weather is cool. For me it's cool because it enables different activities. Walking around with a chip on your shoulder can be done in all weather. Do you know how embarrassing this looks to someone who lives where I do. I've had storms where I got 2 inches where literally everywhere around me, including fucking block Island and Nantucket, got many times that. That's a bust. I've come on here and looked at cool pictures, and had a gripe or two, and moved on. There are people on this forum who were forecast to get feet who got a few inches. That's a bust. Not your 19 inches. Nobody gets to bitch about 19 inches of snow.