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  1. 28 minutes ago, cny rider said:

    A little above normal temps in September is delightful. October as well.

     

    Agreed.  
     

    We’re heading into kids’ field hockey and football seasons.  I recall two years ago having a game one weekend at something like 85° and high humidity followed by 45° and steady mist the following weekend.  You never know what you’re going to get this time of the year!  If I remember correctly, last year the games happened to land on almost all beautiful days.  Doubt we’ll see that again.  

  2. 5 hours ago, vortmax said:

    White Christmas?

    At 1,700ft we are usually “white” but it has been many years since we have had several inches of snow on the ground on Christmas Day.  It seems like it must be a pretty remarkable statistical anomaly to pick any random date between Dec 1 - Mar 1 and see how many consecutive years did not have more than say 2” of snow on the ground.  I think we’re looking at a decade or more.  The fact that it happens to be Christmas Day is incredible.  
     

    I’d like to forget Christmas 2020 where we got hammered with 2.5-3ft of snow exactly one week before Christmas, only for it ALL to melt Christmas Eve into Christmas morning.  That was almost as incredible as having it all fall overnight a week earlier!  

  3. 20 hours ago, cny rider said:

     

    You have no idea what youre missing.

    It's 49F here, solid overcast with intermittent drizzle and a brisk NW wind.

    Classic Trick or Treating weather.

    Our son had a double header for baseball yesterday in the Binghamton area.  It was in the 50s all day (exactly 50 to start the first game) with steady wind, clouds, and intermittent rain showers during the morning.  Everyone agreed it felt like an October football day, not a June baseball day.  

    Low of 39° this morning which is the 3rd time we have dropped into the 30s this month.  It’s shaping up to be a gorgeous day, though! 

  4. FWIW, I’m starting a new job next week which will have me spending a lot of time this summer in Syracuse.  I’ll still live in Delaware County and my work will be based out of my house by September.  The job has a sales element to it and my initial territory will cover roughly Broome to Oneida County and points west from there (and 4 northern tier PA counties).  I’ll be making regular trips to the Rochester and Buffalo areas once I learn the ropes.  Maybe I can meet up with some of you western folks some time this fall/winter. 

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  5. 15 hours ago, Jonesy56 said:

    FWIW I've used an EGO mower for two seasons now and I love it. Granted I have less than half an acre to mow, but it usually takes me about an hour, and the battery lasts long enough to get through it without having to recharge.  Also, my yard is pretty hilly (great for sledding, sucks for mowing), so the fact that its light weight and has a smooth self-propel is really convenient. The low noise and headlight feature comes in handy too for dusk mowing.. I'm too much of a baby to mow during the soul-sucking daytime hours during the summer.

    Thanks for the input!  I have been thinking about a battery push mower, weed whacker, and leaf blower, but wasn’t sure which brand to go with.  I was thinking Stihl just because I trust the name, now I’ll look into Ego.

  6. 17 hours ago, cny rider said:

    Our power came back on this afternoon after 2.5 days without.

    We have a Honda portable generator that I ran in the evening to power the furnace to warm the house up, provide water, and chill the refrigerator.

    It was still damn cold in the house when I got up at 0500 and restarted it.

     

    This was a devastating storm for Otsego County and adjacent areas.  Lots of infrastructure damage.  Even sadder are the fires burning down homes related to improper generator and other equipment misuse.

     

     

    I think this is one of those storms people will remember for decades.  Glad to hear that your power is back now!  We got ours back about 8pm Wednesday night, but it has been out again today since 7:30am. A section of our neighbors still haven’t had power back at all since it went out. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, DeltaT13 said:

    I assume you're on well water?  Seems like having a generator would be a top priority if a power outage cuts off even your water.  If you love extreme weather, you gotta be one step ahead of it!   Good luck with the cleanup! 

    FWIW I’m just joking with my whine about shower/brushing teeth.  But yes, we are on well water.  We still have water (whatever is left in the hydropneumatic tank) for now.  We can refill our toilets from the pond and creek.    The kids also brought snow into the bathtub that actually resulted in quite a bit of water.  We can also brush our teeth and get clean water down the road at my parents who get their water from a spring on the hill that flows to the house by gravity. 
     

    We lose power regularly, but this is the first time I can recall going beyond 24hrs. I consider a generator often, but then look at the never ending cost and maintenance and the fact that I’m in my mid-30s and don’t ever recall this kind of situation.  It’s a lot of money to just sit there for years and then possibly use it for a day or two.  The neighboring farm has one that runs off the PTO of a tractor and that is interesting to me. The generator part does not need much maintenance, and if the engine component is actually a tractor that gets used regularly for other things, then it’s less of a hassle.  I’ll be looking into that option when things return to normal-ish. 

  8. 15 hours ago, DeltaT13 said:

    Nice recap!  I must say I'm a bit jealous.  I haven't seen a late season storm like this in 30 years for my area on the lake plain.  

    Can my family of 5 come shower and brush our teeth at your house?  
     

    Back at work with electric and cell service.  Still no power at home and in most locations between home and Binghamton.  More than half of the gas stations I pass are closed with no power…..loooong lines at those with power and functional pumps. Passed many lineman trucks heading east on I88 coming in to help.  At least one was from Michigan.  

    No action near our house yet so I’m hoping for warm and sun today to help warm up the house for us.  That’s the one good thing about this storm….losing power (heat, water, etc) in late April is very different than losing it in January! 

  9. 2 hours ago, CNY_WX said:

    Last night on Facebook NWS Binghamton reported 3 inches between 1 and 2 AM at KBGM. 

    We had a dusting at 11:15pm, 10 inches of white concrete on the ground at 2:15am.  Also broke a bunch of branches and trees, and we haven’t had power since about 2:30am, not expecting it back for quite a while.  Maybe tomorrow?  

    A big branch took down our overhead electric service and pulled the pole to a 45° angle rather than pull the mount off the house!  

    The sound from 2am to about Noon when I left for work was wild.  At 2am we could hear branches snapping (and the following muffled crash down to the ground) in the dark every 1-2 minutes all around us.  By Noon it had slowed down to probably one every 5 minutes.  I started trying to put broken branches into a pile but quit after two nearby branches broke overhead and came crashing down.  Not cool.  We have quite a mess to clean up.  

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  10. 4 hours ago, wolfie09 said:

    It also has something to do with who's in charge..I was shipped off to my grandparents in suburban NJ in the mid 90s due to the high crime rate in NYC.. Before Rudy G flipped his top he did a lot of good things for NYC, especially with lowering crime rate..I also think 9/11 had something to do with it as the city came together..Now for whatever reason sexual assault has gone up while all other crime has gone down..For example in 1990 NYC had 2600 homicides and 112k robberies while in 2019 they had 550 murders and 18k robberies..Keep in mind population is higher now compared to the 1990s...

    https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm

    That’s a remarkable reduction!  It leads me to the same question, though.  Did all those people who were shooting and robbing others go get jobs and get straight?  Did a welfare check cover all their needs?  Were they all put in jail?  Or did enough of them get thrown in jail to chase many of them over to a different location with less severe consequences?  

    I should probably stop asking this question because it is going to lead to a political argument, but I am genuinely interested in an effective way to help people who are currently living “that life.” 

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