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  1. Just now, JerseyWx said:

    They should just take away spring break, that's five days right there.

    There was no spring break scheduled this year. They were going to have 4/2 and the long weekend on Memorial Day instead so off from Friday to Tuesday but those were already taken back. This district also gives them for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur in the fall so that was 3 days. They got 2 or 3 days this winter where it didn't snow at all so they kind of screwed themselves like they did today. 

  2. They still have to hit the state minimum of 180 days or whatever the number is. I heard a teacher talking about it in the supermarket the other day and she was saying that their contract requires them to hit that number of days so they have to work whether they like it or not. She was saying that both her and her husband are going to have to turn down their summer jobs at a sleepaway camp because they will be missing the first week. 

  3. Yep todays school closure here puts them into July. I kind of feel bad for the kids and teachers because the state tests will be held on the days they're scheduled no matter whether they've had time to cover that stuff or not and those scheduled dates are now 2 weeks before the end of school. I'm glad my kids graduated last year. We're hearing these kids around town complaining about what's going to happen and how they'll be done with all of the testing but still have to sit in school for almost 3 weeks with nothing left to do but they have to show up. Lots of disappointed kids that won't be able to work their summer jobs, lots of camp deposits that won't be refunded even though the kids won't be there, final grades for seniors that won't get to colleges before the end of June deadlines... all sorts of problems. Missing 8 days when the power was out and the roads were too choked for the buses to get through really screwed things up here, even without that they would have used 4 or 5 more snow days than were built into the schedule. 

  4. 4 hours ago, DRVTS said:

    Has the line declared itself????

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    If it has it's south of me and I wasted a day where I could have been out traveling and working. I want it to make it at least up to here so we can put the annual average well behind us but won't really mind if I don't have to shovel.

    1 minute ago, Juliancolton said:

    I'm pretty much resigned to no accumulations here... might as well strive toward futility and root for no flakes. Sure would be nice if the board worked reliably so I could at least live vicariously through other weenies.

    Yeah what's up with that? I couldn't get in for over an hour. Busy place I guess.

  5. I can't figure out how to play tomorrow. I need to get out and make some sales calls and can go west, north or northeast but don't want to deal with rotten driving conditions. It looks like pretty much all 3 areas will be good for the bulk of the day but coming home is where the problem is. I'd really like not to have to take the 15mpg suv so the question is what time is this mess going to start around here and how far north will the precip be by ~7pm?

  6. I had the same effect on Wednesday afternoon coming down off my hill. The road faces north and it was a gray wall in front of us, couldn't see past the north side of the lake less than 2 miles away, and it was bright blue sky and sunny where we were. Usually at that spot you can see clear to the hill where DRVTS (;) ) lives which is about 10-12 miles away. 

  7. 20 minutes ago, DRVTS said:

    Hey G.  I grew up in Patterson.  Is that behind Thunder Ridge? 

    This week should be fun coming up.  Keeping the plow on the quad, and keeping the generator on stand by again.  

    Had at least 36 inches over the past 3 storms at my place in Carmel up Near Ninham mountain.  Much less at my business in Mahopac

    Still have about 12-14 inches in my yard,  Nellie (frenchie) is not too thrilled about the prospect of adding more to the pack....

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    Yup Cranberry Mt MUA/Wildlife Mgmt Area. That and the county land across the street are one of my favorite spots in the area and I try to spend as much time there as I can. Where are you by Nimham? I need to get up in there again soon, it's been too long. I live in Mahopac and we've gotten the same 36" but due to the new/old measuring methods it's technically only 27-28" at the top of my hill. It's not lasting the same way here as some other spots around the area though because of my ESE exposure, my front yard is burned off but the back is still 6-14" deep. What business is yours, I"ll stop in and say hey ;) 

  8. 12 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

    Nice stationary area of light snow up the Hudson Valley atm as the stiff westerly flow gets blocked up against the Taconics/Berks, with instability aloft from the intense cold pool. The HRRR says it continues for most of the night.

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    Looks like the ride up the Taconic or Rt 22 would have been challenging. I wonder how much the top of Petersburg Pass got, they tend to do very well in that setup.

  9. 3 minutes ago, Isotherm said:

     

    They're not supposed to as per official guidelines. They should be taking intermediate depth measurements to capture maximum depth. Unfortunately, there is a ton of miscommunication on this issue.

    Yeah there can be significant differences in max depth and regular clearing amounts. Like was mentioned in that writeup, 30" was out of line. 

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  10. Yeah this time I actually did set a board down on existing snow after sunset, a few hours before the snow started so it would cool and accumulate from the get-go. The board had 5", cars had 1" less and the front yard part that melted off and turned to a muddy quagmire yesterday had 3". This pretty well proved (at least to me) the melting from underneath thing I was debating with the scientist yesterday ;) 

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