gravitylover

I took the train for about a year but it sukked! Driving is so much more pleasant. It really only takes me about 80-90 minutes each way which is less time than it took me on the train. It's also less expensive (sorta) now that one of my fireman buddies hooked me up with a parking permit. The biggest problem with taking the train is I need to leave my house an hour and a half earlier in the morning just to get a parking spot at the station that doesn't leave me with a $38-60 parking ticket. If you don't get there by 6:30am there are no daily pay spots left and since the stations aren't in my town I would have to pay $1200+ a year for a parking permit and the wait is a year or longer, then if you don't have the money available, and the day off from work to go pick it up, the day after they expect you to get the letter they sell it to the next person in line. When I was commuting that way I only saw my kids on my days off, 5 days a week without seeing your kids sux as does getting to work 90 or more minutes early. Today with the weather it's obviously going to take a bit longer to get in but I'll turn up the tunes and watch the sh*tshow that's bound to be going on around me. Back on topic - It's been snowing lightly here for almost an hour now. Schools are closed and I'm headed off to work in an hour or so. See y'all later.

That's cuz we live upstate I work downtown and the people I work with think I live in never never land. "Oh my god it's like 60 miles man, that's far."

56* this afternoon and now 32* and snowing (very lightly.) Hopefully this means winter is back

Traveling is fine until you get into NYC. It's a mess down here! There are still streets blocked with cars that have been there since Sunday, sometimes three or four cars on a block. This morning there were five cars on Houston St in the middle of the street that the plows just went around and there were tour buses stuck all over the place, especially Chinatown. If you need to come into the city don't do it with a car, there is no place to park.

Wow! That was some exhausting shoveling. This stuff, while being exceptionally cold and dry, was soooo dense. My forearms are still pumped and I finished almost four hours ago. I hope I moved it far enough from the house so if it rains next weekend my basement doesn't flood

Gonna get outside in a little bit here, need more coffee first It looks like I didn't get much more than a foot and judging by the 13" they reported in Danbury I think I'm about right, it's gonna be tough to get a decent measurement. I guess my early storm estimate was pretty good.

I think I'm a little over 8, maybe about 9" now and the temp is 16*. This wind is incredible! There are three foot drifts against the front of all the houses across the street from me. Those heavy bands that came through about an hour ago had a bit of sleet and graupel mixed in.

That's what I'm saying. No greed going on at all. I actually didn't allow myself to get my hopes up for too much because this kind of storm isn't supposed to happen in the strong nina (blah blah) and figured it would be cool to see a few inches and some wind. Don't get me wrong this is really nice to see! Anyway, I don't really expect much over a foot where I am so your E of the river estimate may be just a bit high. I'm hoping you're right but... Back on track - The wind is absolutely howling now!! I think I'll go out for another walk then come in, open another beer, make dinner and light a fire.

Heheh! Neither of us are willing to commit to that 2"

Closing on 2" now I'd say, this stuff is blowing all over the place. It's light and dry but the flakes are badly fractured and most are very small so it's not accumulating too well. The wind is easily sustained at near 20mph with branches cracking along the ridgetop above me. Very few uninjured flakes are making it down but the ones that are are just beautiful fluffy wonderfulness. I think the estimates of 18 or more may be too high due to this stuff being able to pack in much more densely thereby reducing accumulations. At least in my backyard...

1/2" on the ground, wind NNE and temp at 21*. Waiting on the thunder

That's quite a difference from HFD to POU! I hope my elevation gets me closer to the high end as I'm just left of center between te two.

Isn't Danbury KDXR?

Can someone run BUFKIT for Danbury?

I must be dreaming... The goofus ensembles have the lower hudson valley in 1.25"+

I have a heavy coating too. The difference here is there's almost no wind at all. Most of the main roads had dried off after the rain but most of the side roads were still wet and have to be kinda sketchy right now.

Hey guys Finally found my way over here. Yesterday morning was fun eh! I got about a half inch in just a few minutes and the roads went to ****. Of course I had the winter tires all ready to go on the car but couldn't find the right lug nuts for those wheels so I went slip sliding away to work. Managed to steer through a bunch of spinouts on Rt 6 on the way out. Welcome to another HV winter!