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I did open the doors and thought they had dried sufficiently. I was wrong 2 door car with thick doors and the latches are well protected deep in there behind the apparently also frozen molding. My old Volvo you could open the window with the key, I did that once then was able to pull on the door rather than yank the door handle and break it off. Who thought that designing a trunk lid that drains around it and is ringed by thick rubber molding and putting the latches in such a well protected area was a good idea The drains must be blocked enough with leaves and such that there are actually icicles growing up out of them

I thought about lifting it from the tow hitch but it's parked on dirt so I doubt the steel wheels on my floor jack will roll. Such a silly thing to be dealing with I blame it on IrishRob for issuing a door freeze warning on Friday

Just pour it in from the top? Would that bubble the paint off?

The lock cylinder works fine with the key on the drivers door and trunk (passenger door doesn't have one only electric), it's the door latches that are frozen and all around the molding that's frozen. Yup tried lock deicer with a hose to direct it in, no go. Heat gun on medium temp is useless at these temperatures because it has to heat so much metal without bubbling the paint. If I had wheel dollies I'd be able to move it away from the street at least but I don't. Hmm, wonder if Auto Zone rents those like they rent tools...

My car is so frozen shut I can't even get in through the trunk and crawl into the front. I'm so bummed because it's parked at the edge of the driveway and when the plow comes by it's either gonna get clipped or at least damaged I called a tow company I know and they won't even try to put it on a flatbed because it's in gear with the e-brake pulled and they won't take the chance at damaging it.

Friday afternoon when we were moving the old man into his new place I saw 64 on the dashboard. 58 degree drop in ~30 hours! Yeehaa I think a couple of spots up north win though, Burlington was 61 on Friday and below 0 last night. There were probably a few even more dramatic I just haven't looked. It's fkn cold out there now. I'm loading the car to move the kids and only good for a few minutes at a time before my hands give up and say 'back inside old boy'

Brrrr chilly this morning. Looks like it got down to 6 here. Warming up in a hurry though which is nice

I've been out and about all morning and the roads aren't drying at all just glazing over. It keeps snowing on and off keeping them wet. It's snowing lightly again now and the temp is down to 30 and my driveway is already frozen on the shady side.

It's snowing What a horrible day yesterday was. Man, it rained so hard a few times, 1.99" total. No snow left at all but there's lots of mud. The top surface of the ground completely thawed but it's still frozen underneath so there's a ton of standing water that's in the process of freezing up now. The roads are still soaked and there's no salt left at all so as this snow falls and the temp drops the whole place is going to turn into one big block of ice

Boy it's gross out there. 50+ is nice but it's soggy and foggy and tough driving with all the water on the road, branches flying in the wind and rocks falling out of hillsides and rolling into the roads.

After it gets wet on Friday?

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You wouldn't normally think that walking out into 17* would be pleasant but...

Wow, KDXR hit -14

We did it! -12 in Brewster, -11 here and -6 in Somers.

Down to 1* and the wind is down to 4mph. Almost there.

2. Need the wind to go down. If we're gonna have extended cold like this at the lowest sun angle, shortest daylight time of year we deserve a double digit below night at least once. It just won't be fair to have burned so much home heating oil and had so many outdoor plans thwarted if we don't see some kind of crazy low temps out of it.

I was thinking of going outside but... nah Don S mentioned possibly seeing temps as high as the mid 50's before the end of the warmup but then cooling back off before the end of the month. Seems reasonable and typical. I have a feeling though that it won't get as warm as advertised and high 30's to low 40's is where we end up. We're looking at neutral to slightly positive Nino like conditions upcoming and that puts the warmth more in the midwest than northeast and the pervasive snowcover ought to help hold the cold in a bit better too.

Just missed that band Woohoo it's almost 10* out there now I saw 3 around 7am. It's cold out there today kidz.

Haha I really don't have a great place to put one or I'd have done it years ago. The front is a totally open and wind exposed hill and the backyard is trampled by the dogs and filled with 50-75 foot tall trees. I walk around and stick the ruler in a bunch of spots both on the ground and flat surfaces, sometimes on the cars and sometimes in the bushes. I use the driveway which is pretty unreliable other than in one spot towards the street which is where I've gotten the best measurements over the years if it's not terribly windy. For example today my front lawn had almost no snow on it until the last few hours of the storm when the wind shifted and now there's about 6" there but at 1pm it was pretty much bare ground and it had been snowing for 5-6 hours.

After a good solid round of shoveling I decided that we got more than 6". My snowbanks are more reminiscent of a 9-10 incher and the additional accumulations after my initial round of shoveling was about 4" so I'm going to call it at 8" rather than 6". Pretty impressive drifting, they're not as tall as some previous storms but they're dense and it's scoured right down to the ground in a lot of places. All in all a really nice storm no matter what the final totals are determined to be. So what's next? Cold then another storm next week before a mild up? I'm diggin' this winter so far.

I was saying yesterday that the limiting factor for accumulations would be how the flakes would get beat up. I think I probably would have seen more like 9-11" if the mid and upper level winds weren't so extreme. There were periods of intense snowfall while that band sat over me with a fair number of large flakes mixed in but there were more mangled and fractured micro flakes so it packed in tight and dense. On the upside it will be on the ground for a while especially after it dries out a bit more with the upcoming cold and then crusts over during the slight warmup afterwards.

I just went for a lap around town and the roads are absolutely horrible. There are cars stuck in the middle of Rt 6, car parts scattered all over from accidents, plow piles from people cleaning lots and driveways and pushing it into the streets that are bumper deep on my Durango, drifts across the roads and big branches down all over the place. @Juliancolton it's far from a non-event down here. Accumulations won't tell the story from this one.

Boy eastern Westchester and western Fairfield counties are going to see some impressive totals from this. That band sat over them for quite some time on its way westward and now has been there again for well over an hour and doesn't seem to be going anywhere soon. Glad I chose not to drive to work in Ridgefield or Westport today

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