gravitylover

It's amazing how quickly things freeze back up when the sun goes down and the ground is frozen. I hit the ground hard getting out of the car.

Yeah that January storm turned into a memory too quickly but I was able to live vicariously through the LE reports out of Buffalo. They got dumped on a couple of times a week from early Jan through mid Feb when the lake finally froze. I even wrote a paper for school titled "If I had 16 feet of snow" and got a really good grade (for a change).

Yay rain The driveway is melting off pretty quickly now. Hopefully things don't freeze up again overnight.

The snowfall is getting showery now, a few minutes ago it had stopped but it's back to big flakes again. Nice wintry appeal morning. Rooting for a three day torch

This mornings snow has been surprising long lived. I figured maybe some flakes to start while it was still cold before it started transitioning but it has now been snowing for hours. While it was up to about a half inch it melted off most hard surfaces even though it has not stopped snowing the whole time, sun angle , and it stopped accumulating elsewhere but isn't melting off the pre-existing icepack and has put a nice coating on exposed surfaces. It appears to be letting up now, the sky has brightened and the temp popped to 33 a few minutes ago, maybe we avoid the wet stuff up here? 33/32/SE 0-1

Well that was a nice way to start the day, a half inch of fresh fluff making the dirty ice at least look nice for a little while. I sure hope the temp goes up and we get at least a few hours of warm rain. My driveway is a glacial disaster that's nearly impassable and that's after 40 pounds of salt and 50 pounds of sand.

30/30/ENE2/SN- Flake size is much smaller and it's falling very lightly now, temp is up 2* and there's a nice new .5" on the ground that did a good job of refreshing the dirty ice piles.

LB, how old were you in 1978? You can't just go off numbers, the impact was tremendous, my neighbor didn't get home for two days after and my street didn't get plowed for 4 days. We were all out there shoveling so people could get home after being stranded for a day or two. We had a two rail fence in our front yard, the top rail was about 32" off the ground and the snow nearly covered the upper section while the lower, more exposed section, had about 3" of post exposed below the top rail. It was a massive storm that really beat the place up.

Moderate snow that started with big flakes and it's accumulating nicely. The flake size got a little smaller fairly quickly and it's falling steadily now. 27/27/N to ENE light and variable

37 years ago that wasn't the way it was taught. Nassau Community College didn't even have computers the students could use. You would do your calculations on paper, type it into a card punch machine then feed the formula into a reader and it would print out (slowly) on a map blank in a dot matrix printer.

^^ Ditto. I took one met class and barely passed. The prof told me I had all sorts of potential and was the best map reader and creator he had for years but the fact that I got every math question wrong all semester pretty much meant that I should find another profession.

In many mountain resort regions there are also six and sometimes even seven seasons. You add in mud season, black fly season and stick season (the period between when there are leaves on the trees and snow on the ground.

For Ant there's an opportunity that many of us don't have,the steady income an LEO pulls in takes away so many of the issues that many folks face in places like that. IMO one of the best ways to live in a high snow zone is to live in the low snow area for the zone saving you some of the effort that goes into living in high snow areas but giving you access to the goods. I totally agree that it's pretty far out of the way though but there is medical care, businesses that have much (some?) of what you need, the schools are actually pretty good considering the remoteness and from the folks I know that live there and have steady incomes they sure do seem to like it. I also agree that the economy pretty much sucks up there so go into it knowing that if your good gig falls apart you may have to leave (like you did Matt).

Every week? Constantly Lowville is the county seat, last time I was up there they had signs advertising for LEO's for the town, county and at the jail. The peak snowfall areas for the east coast surround that town. You should look into it.

They started replacing the poles in my area recently and all of the new ones are 75+ feet tall so are generally higher than the trees. I have to wonder though how many huge trees are left to harvest to keep keep upgrading to the taller poles.

Are you paying for it?

All over this area there are 50+ foot trees within 30 feet of power lines leaning towards them. Every time it's windy, icy or snowy I just wait for the power to go out.

I'm going to go out and work on the car that's frozen shut now. I used a full 40 pound bag of sand and 20 pounds of salt and the driveway is still a disaster. Fkn neighbor won't let me trim the bushes on the south side and the driveway is perpetually shaded so the ground stays cold and once it ices it doesn't melt. Now the frozen crap is melting out of their bushes and coating the driveway in water that refreezes almost immediately. I have already had to move one of our cars that had almost slid out into the street so it's sideways and kind of jammed into the bank at the moment. I'm gonna go get a new hose (the old ones are frozen solid) and hook it up to the hot water heater drain and wash it all down, that should clear it up for a while anyway.

Still flurrying.

It has been flurrying here for about an hour now leaving a quick dusting that started to hide some of the ice. So, does that snow area down in WV/VA head east or does it make the turn and give us some snow overnight?

So 30 or so miles north of Times Sq is the fringe of the metro but 60 miles out in Suffolk isn't fringe? C'mon... I have tree branches bouncing off the roof now. Yup, non event.

This is a mess. 5-10mm of ice on everything, car doors frozen and the road below me is apparently blocked and has been for well over an hour now. 23° with moderate ZR and flakes mixing in.

I'm on the hill about 1/2 mile from Kings Ridge at just over 700 feet. Yeah that western side of town has a couple that top out just over 1k. I can picture what it's like on Kings Ridge right now, some people won't be making it home tonight, the roads are a disaster. There's easily a quarter inch of ice on the ground and exposed surfaces are solid ice now. It's loud with the ZR and crackling trees and the only road south off the hill is apparently a mess with cars scattered. There's one of those craters at the top and it's sending cars spinning down the steep twisty section right below it. I got the car doors open but no telling if I can again later but I have my heat gun ready to go. I need a fkn garage...

Ooh just wait until it gets cold tonight and over the next few days. The roads are going to be nearly impassable in some spots. Right in front of my house is one that the town has just been dumping hot mix into for 20 years and it's about 8" deep right now and filled with water so everyone keeps slamming it. By the morning it will be a foot deep and 4 feet across so there won't be any way to avoid it.

That temp spike I had a little while ago was pretty short lived, about 45 minutes overall. It's down to 26/26 with moderate freezing rain now and everything is icing up. PSA - The potholes that are opening up are epic. They are deep, some are several feet long and they are causing flats and significant vehicle damage here. Be careful out there folks.