WxKnurd
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Don’t worry, I’m not there so 6” is a lock for us SW Mtn folks lol. 4” is our best total in the two years I’ve been in Balsam Gap. Hoping next weekend holds and I can experience a big storm. Looking like 2-4” up here where I am working near Bluefield.
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The sunset up there, it’s something everyone should experience just once. Watching the orange orb just slowly disappear beyond the horizon and then, top 10 memorable moment for me. Those are some great pics, I’m jealous!
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I could only get a spark out of the igniter occasionally when I had all the logs off trying to diagnose what was going on. I did clean the thermocouple off a little because I know about the carbon build up (had to deal with that on a part in my furnace in my house in CLT) but didn’t have any steel wool to do so and was unable. Rush anyway, I can’t even remember what I used. I did get it to about light after that but I just saw a flash of blue flame and then it went out, then no more spark. So you saying that reminds me what I had meant to do last week while off work, clean that off better
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Thanks for the air compressor tip, I’ll try that when I get home. It’s a pain to deal with due to having to take a big glass piece off to get to the logs and thus mess with the igniter and I was so frustrated the other week because it was making me late from heading out of town for work. I started to use a lighter to light the pilot while I was in there that day but honestly messing with gas always leaves me a little nervous. Same with electricity. Guess the safety part of my engineering design class back in college is seared in my head, some of the pics from not taking proper precautions...
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I actually think it’s my pilot igniter assembly. I’ve purged per directions and can hear/smell gas while trying to light it and will occasionally get a spark but it’s not consistent in doing so. Just need to bite the bullet and have them come service them as it does give us back up heat if we lose power or the heat pump stops working like the other week (dang fuse I didn’t even know existed on the handler unit popped).
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That’s good. We have gas logs (that I can’t get to light) and had never planned on getting our tank filled when we moved in two years ago but Blossman did it anyway even though we told them not. So I have had a full 200 gallon tank ever since. Plan is to add a gas line to the kitchen and upgrade to a gas stove when we get a new one, love cooking on a gas stove.
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You are gonna be waiting on propane til Mid-March at this rate
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I noticed it was a strong inversion, if you were around or below 3k it was upper teens and if you were above that it was 30’s. 32-33 at the weather station closest to my house and same elevation (3300’-ish) and 18 down in Hazelwood around 2900’. Y’all reel in the weekend storm, my dogs will be happy even though I’ll miss out on it.
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The highlands are an awesome place. Was up there mid-June one year and it barely got to 40 overnight. Had ponies running on the AT by my camp and woke up to a doe and dawn behind my tents. Great pic!
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Made for a brutal opening morning of Turkey season, brrrr.
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I agree and I know us SW mountain folk are craving something more than a few inches. Otherwise I’m moving to some Wyoming foothills or mountains sooner rather than later
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What was your total @Met1985?
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Jealous of you guys in the favored NWFS areas, from Weaverville to Erwin, TN you could tell drifts were deep and it was a solid event. 2-4” up here in Southern WV, maybe 4-6” north of Tazwell, VA on my way to where I’m working.
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Man, Weaverville looks like a solid 3-4” here where I’m getting gas. Roads are a mess. In Haywood, Junaluska to Canton had the most on the 74 corridor and what looked like 2-3”. Going up Sam’s Gap will be interesting.
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Right at an inch for a storm total since we picked up another 1/2” or so after it started up again yesterday evening (unless something else falls and accumulates today). We just never got flakes of any size here, just heavy dandruff stuff.
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Dandruff still flying here, been doing it about 3 hours now and only managed another 1/4” or so as it looks to be 1/2” or a little more on the deck (this mornings never melted up here as opposed to down in town)
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It started back up, driveway and car are frosted over with a dusting of powder with light dandruff-like flakes falling.
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Gonna need you to send a band over this way so I can at least hit an inch lol.
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All quiet in Balsam Gap. Hopefully get something to pop over here at some point. I’ll be in southern WV for this weekend so I’m rooting for that storm to set the stage for the one midweek. I can dream at least can’t I? Lol
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Down to flurries and the sun wanting to peak through to my south-southwest
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Woke up to 1/4-1/2”. Dandruff light snow falling now.
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Cloud deck has lowered after a foggy day, I’ll take Hunter’s 2-4” call for my area for this event and run with it.
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Truck (which was clear when I went to bed) looks to have a 1/4” of melting slush on it. So I think it’s safe to say 3/4” total from yesterday afternoon and overnight/this morning. Penny, nickle and dimed to ~13” for a season total so far. Crazy totals for the NWFS. Can’t wait to get some obs from @snowbird1230 on the Cherohala Skyway totals.
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Looks like we got some slop after I went to bed last night that is now starting to melt off and wash away in the rain along with the snow from yesterday afternoon. Ready to see what happens in my neck of the Balsams with this flow.
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Wind is howling out there here in the Balsams.
