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  1. gravitylover
    23/21/NE1/SN Slow start but once it got going it accumulated right away and pretty quickly. I need to go out and check but it looks like over 2". Even with the very small flake size it's really fluffy and easy to move which is good.
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    I'm south of 84 and have nothing going on. It started early this morning, I had snow falling at 3:30am but apparently that was just a tease. What I thought was wet is nothing, barely even damp (frozen) but I can see it precipitating south of me because the southernmost ridges are gone and the closer ones are fuzzy. 22/16/NE4/OVC I'll be ok if it doesn't snow at all, my wife's ankle is totally wrecked, multiple fractures and a torn ligament, and I can't carry her down the stairs and out to the car. I started shoveling a path up the front yard yesterday but with the snowpack being frozen solid I only got a few feet and still have 90 more to go plus the frozen 4 foot thick plow pile to get through. I really need someone with a plow blade to come help but nobody seems to want to, the two I spoke to said they're afraid of getting stuck on the hill and they won't even try.
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    Just woke up, I have nothing falling and the ground looks wet but at 21° it probably isn't.
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    22/10/NE2/SN- Flurries falling for a little while here.
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    Nah at this point we need it to hold through the end of the month. The sun is starting to put a hurt on the snow but we can push it a few more weeks before it's futile so lets see it happen. Things have that stale winter look now and need a refresh. I went out to move the snowbanks back or at least shelf them to make some room for tomorrow's snow but everything is frozen solid and I don't feel like working that hard to break them up. Maybe the sun will soften them somewhat. Yeah I was thinking it's time to plant inside, gotta get that up and running ASAP, headed off to Amazonia now to go get some grow lights.
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    Nope heavy snow at night when it's cold so it's fluffy and accumulates better due to ratios and you get more. If you want it photogenic just go outside and play in it, who cares what time it is. Don't go gettin' all old guy I gotta stay in at night on us now It made all the difference today. My driveway is 100% ice free. I'll take it. Actually when I was out I noticed that a lot of S-SW faces are melted off so yeah, it's a thing now.
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    First they need to make people just a little more intuitive. "The whole place is covered in snow it's been cold, the ground might be frozen and it's misting so that might actually be ice not water so maybe I should move cautiously and find out..." But no. Yeah it's like that. @WG yup. Early next week, maybe Monday or Tuesday.
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    Ankle is broken with possible ligament damage. We'll find out more tomorrow. Everyone including whatever local media she checked downplayed the ice so she thought it was just wet when she went out and BOOM down she went. Looks like I'm down to a 6-9" pack with spots of 15 and bare spots. It should be locking up now, hopefully we top it with the next two storms to insulate it and it ought to be on the ground into next month. For the winter that wasn't supposed to be it might end up hitting my top criteria, long duration snowpack. I'm good with that, it can be warm all it wants as long as I get a month or more with solid snowcover.
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    I saw 48 on the dashboard on the way home from taking my wife to the doc. Got some really great melting around the area today and the blocked storm drains across the street I was worried about melted out. I got the driveway and around the house done so it shouldn't flood and the roof is completely dry and ready for the next round.If you haven't done the same think about it NOW. I don't think I'm getting the path dug out up the front yard before the lockup tonight which kinda sux. Gonna run to HD or Lowes now and get a few more bags of sand.
  10. gravitylover
    43° and climbing with filtered sun. Ice is gone from the critical spots which is good but the amount of water pouring down the hill that could freeze tonight is worrisome.
  11. gravitylover
    The lowest 2-3" of the snowpack are dark grey and slushy. All of this rain has soaked through and this stuff is gonna be here forever after it locks up tonight then gets insulated by a half foot on Thursday.
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    Thanx WG. 39/39/RN-/Fog-Mist This rain and mist could stop now. The snowpack is thoroughly waterlogged, at the bottom of shovel cuts the lower 2-3" is dark grey and soggy. It looks like I lost 4-5" in most spots and there are some areas that were thin from the wind that are starting to show grass through the snow. This is gonna be a whole bunch of no fun shoveling that path out to the street
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    Yeah it doesn't appear to have hurt the snowpack too badly and it will surely lock up tight tonight with temps in the teens. My worry is all of the standing water out there right now that has no place to go because of all the snow and ice blocking storm drains and watercourses. Things could get interesting.
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    37/37/W-NW3/RN and Fog It poured again for a little while and now the fog is building quickly. As it gets light out I can see that there is a huge amount of standing water blocked in by snow and ice banks, all of my gutters are overflowing partially because of ice on the roof but also because the leaders are likely frozen under the snow and the water has no place to go and the storm drains in the street are blocked so the neighbors downhill are getting soaked. edit: All of the piles of salt on the roads are getting washed away. While it will be good for most of us and our cars it will be no good for those living downhill and downstream as it piles up in their yards and the environment.
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    The temp is going up quickly now, if you watch the thermo you can see it jump a tenth or two every minute. I sure hope all of this water goes somewhere today, the puddles are impressively deep right now in their little ice dammed holes. If this just sits and freezes tonight it's going to be a disaster. Hopefully my driveway is melted off because I have to get my wife out today to go to the orthopedist to deal with the broken ankle and a few other things that must get done and I don't have the patience for the ice again today. I'm realizing that the next few weeks while she can't do shit are going to be stressful...
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    35/34/E3/RN It was pouring a little while ago, lighter now.
  17. gravitylover
    Yeah I just figured I'd ask the guys here in town first.
  18. gravitylover
    30/30 no noticeable precip unless you look for it in the light. It probably isn't enough to be bringing branches down but the damage is done, its a skating rink out there.
  19. gravitylover
    Well that's better than my friends in Austin TX that have been in the single digits all day with no power since 8am. Most of them have been sitting in their cars with it running all day.
  20. gravitylover
    Thanks. It's broken Now I desperately need a snowblower first thing in the morning. I can't get her down the 14 steps to downstairs and then down the ice sheet driveway so I need to dig a line 100 feet up the front lawn so I can get the truck up to the house. @SNOW or @DRVTS do you have a blower I can borrow for an hour?
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    I used almost a full 50 pound bag of sand over the last few days, will probably finish it tonight and have to scramble to find more tomorrow.
  22. gravitylover
    Yeah I'm on the ESE slope of one of the tallest hills in town. We get Taconic High Country weather but are far enough south and east to be strongly maritime influenced so it tends to be cold and wet.
  23. gravitylover
    6 hours straight freezing mist and drizzle now. The roads suck everywhere other than on Rt 6. I know because I just had to drive to the local urgent care because my wife went down outside the back door and wrecked her ankle.
  24. gravitylover
    The ice is a problem! It's terrible here. Easily over .1" thick on everything but thats what you'd expect after 6 hours straight freezing mist/drizzle. My wife went down outside the back door and we're at urgent care now. The roads pretty much suck everywhere other than Rt 6 and it's 10mph slippy slidey sketchy shit.
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    The ice is currently being downplayed. I've had freezing precip for nearly 5 hours straight now and the whole place is frozen solid. It's easily .1" thick, probably a bit more.
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