gravitylover

Seems to me that the bottom line is you can't plan where you're going until the afternoon before. This isn't tracking a storm, it's looking for a clear(ish) sky and you can't predict that more than 12-24 hours out. I've been looking forward to this for 30 years and have run through a million scenarios and it keeps coming down to leaving home by midnight and heading for the choice spot to be there before most people and before local LEOs have closed stuff off. There are only 2 things that will change my plan and they're both revolving around our fathers whose health is rapidly fading, my dad is in hospice and my FIL could leave us at any time.

Yeah the downslope areas of the 'Daks might be the clearest. @Superstorm I expect 87 to be terrible so if all goes according to plan I'll be off it by about sunrise. It might be nice to sit in the park on the lake in Plattsburgh.

If you're driving you can stop anywhere in the zone that you find a good place to park.

Who cares if it's a big town or not?

That storm gave me more than triple what I'd gotten the entire winter.

There are a couple of Mennonite bike shops on farms that I work with that I can hang out on for the day. I warned them that I might be there early in the morning already They're scattered all around so I have my bases covered for quiet spots. It might be fun watching the animals be confused when it gets dark during the day.

I'm going to point it towards the clearest area within 8-10 hours. I'll leave here the night before and drive overnight so I get wherever by sunrise to avoid the worst traffic and find a place to park. As long as there's cold beer and a bathroom I'm good.

IF we can go a few weeks while everything is leafing out with minimal rain and a fair bit of wind the top few feet will dry out nicely.

My plan is to decide the day before where to end up based on the weather. I hope to leave home so I get there by about sunrise to beat the traffic and find a good place to park with easy access to cold beer and a bathroom.

I got lucky with the rain on Saturday and the basement stayed dry, maybe the early budding and beginning of leaf out is drying the soil somewhat?

Tell us you wouldn't enjoy a snowstorm at the end of May? Of course you would. I'll wishcast that storm right now

33/30 with some good winds from time to time. I had a period of windblown snow as the clouds were breaking, got just enough to coat the minivan roof

2.7 today, 8.5 for the month.

I topped at 37° 2.7" here.

The creeks and small lakes and ponds were in ok shape early this morning but now most are bursting at the seams. The amount of water coming off the hills is impressive considering I'm only at 2.5. Everything is just so saturated...

So I'm almost a half mile north of the flood watch, does that mean my basement won't be wet No, there's not much I can do about it unless I can figure out how to dig French drains into rocky soil by hand.

Yeah the surface has dried out nicely but a foot down is a different story. It is really nice that my yard isn't squishy anymore.

Dry? Not here. I'm at ~5" for the month. My basement was a half inch deep last weekend with that nearly 2". Any time it rains more than a half inch or so the water just seeps through the walls from about 3' off the floor and up through the floor drain. The ground is still saturated, creeks are still high and most local ponds and NYC reservoirs are still totally full and the overflow dams are still running strong.

I can't deal with another wet weekend It's really gonna suck if it's as wet as some of the models are showing.

We'll be out in a few years, come and get it. Right? I was looking at the garden area today and started cleaning up but kept sinking into mildewy ickiness. I'll probably just do hanging stuff with fresh soil this year.

As nice as these days have been my driveway is still wet and the sides are still soggy, not to the point where water comes up around your shoes when you step on it but it still squishes. Someday my neighbors will move and I can cut the thicket down so the sun and wind can get to the ground. Until then as long as this wet regime hangs around I guess I'll just watch the moss grow and crumble the terminally soggy pavement

Not at this point it isn't. All it takes is a couple of tenths for my basement walls to start seeping again. When it rains an inch or more I suck 100s of gallons out with a shop vac over the next couple of days. We usually put a car in front of the house to make it easier to deal with the driveway but I can't because the mud is tenacious and I've been stuck several times now. The backyard is spongy and the garden is too wet to plant anything. #bringbackthedrought for a month or two

Heh, dad used to talk about 5 year old him stepping off the top step of the porch and sinking right up to his eyes.

The way the wind has been a steady roar for hours is kind of at odds with most of the stations around here (on WU), it seems that it should be higher than 6-9 with gusts to 13. The local mesonets are ~20/G30-35. Are most homeowner setups just too low to get decent measurements when it's like this? It sure is nice out of the wind in the sun

I'm so tired of saturated ground and water coming up through the basement floor and seeping through the walls.