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Sorry, it was that bad? I 'm glad you're on your way. Having VVS never makes things any less complicated.

Knowing you, you've probably already researched it. There's quite interesting history that goes along with opioids and opiates being used as cough suppressants that makes for some good reading while you're down. I've always found the history on opioids and opiates interesting to begin with. From Asia, Nazi Germany to the modern day streets of Kesington, Philadelphia, it has quite the interesting and horrifing history.

D*** brother, i'm sorry to hear that. Praying for a fast recovery.

The sun wasn't even close to coming up when I had posted this but it was all, but maybe thirty minutes after I posted that everything completely dissipated. NWS did mention in their forecast discussion that very little snow was reaching the ground from that first wave.

This baby looks pretty sweet.

The good news is NWS has Increased their confidence in a winter storm during Sun-Mon timeframe. The bad news is NWS has lowered confidence in the occurrence of precipitation Sun-Mon. Once again they're getting all the angles covered. Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service State College PA 444 AM EST Tue Feb 10 2026 .WHAT HAS CHANGED... * Increased confidence in winter storm during Sun-Mon timeframe * Holding off on any winter weather advisories for possible ice accums for E/NE this evening-SW later tonight && .KEY MESSAGES... 1) Light precip possible later today and this evening, with light post-frontal snow showers and gusty winds over the Alleghenies later tonight through Wednesday night. 2) Lowered confidence in occurrence of precipitation Sun-Mon. Confidence in timing of possible precip is slightly higher. Confidence in precip types/amounts remain low

Well, I'll be d***** . Looks like that might be able to sneak in here.

I think the end of the month and early next month look interesting, but until I actually see snow falling.this coming weekend I'm comfortable right here in the doo doo camp. The difference between me and some others not feeling the upcoming pattern, is that I want my intuition to be completely wrong. The way I see it, is if i'm wrong, everybody here that actually enjoys winter wins including myself. I'd rather be buried in snow than be right. I think this winter is far from dead just to be clear, which is a long ways from my DOA thoughts in November.

It was quite beautiful around here yesterday. I ended up with a dusting .The wind arrived here in Fareview township around 1:45AM and snow showers have returned just after 2:00AM.

Unfortunately there's no do all end all for ice and compacted snow, if you don't want to completely kill yourself or have it sliding off a spade shaped shovel you need to break it up with something narrow and scoop it up with something wide if you wanna make it easy on yourself.

I also forgot to mention that some of the roofing spades and shingle removers come in real handy for snow and ice removal.

This here is my forged steel ice scraper/chopper that I got at J&W Hardware in Etters. I've also recommended you guys try a six, tine, forged pitchfork like, in my picture. Obviously I use my chopper for chopping and scraping, but sometimes the pitchfork is the way to go for scraping if the ice is loose, or you have time to wait for magnesium or chloride to loosen it up.

My expectations for this winter weren't that high to begin with .The pattern has already verified quite a bit colder then I would have thought, due to my solar cycle biases. Hopefully, when we reap the benefits of the SSW later this month we're not in the hostile phases of the MJO and can time some other interactions properly. As far as any guidance goes, I don't put any emotion or thought into any qualitative or quantitative forecast this far out for a number of my own reasons, but mainly because I just can't handle the f****** ride. Until we're inside 96 to 72 I view most of the data as noise and look for other cues .