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  1. 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.
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    Yeah I just figured I'd ask the guys here in town first.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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?
  11. gravitylover
    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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
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    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.
  16. gravitylover
    How thick do you want your ice? I've got at least .1, probably a bit more. You can't go out without going down. My wife just proved it. She's hurtin' 29/29/N2/Freezing Drizzle
  17. gravitylover
    I'm not feeling the March snows so lets see what we can do to get at least 4 inches out of this to put me slightly above the annual average here. I can't have an near record month and not hit the annual average, that would bug me for a long time.
  18. gravitylover
    30/28 and it's been freezing mist for a few hours now. There was a solid period of freezing drizzle this morning that was a little messy but now it's really sketchy on anything that wasn't doused in salt. I'm nowhere near as entertained by ice as I used to be.
  19. gravitylover
    31 and freezing mist here. It's sketchy out there boyz
  20. gravitylover
    1/20/19 I had a very significant ice storm, easily .3" thick. It took out 5 trees in my yard and made a mess that I'm still dealing with today. Right now it's just that glaze that makes it scary to go out because you don't know when you're going to take a dive but you know it's coming.
  21. gravitylover
    31/29/NNW2/Freezing Mist Right next to the house it's only a little bit sketchy but move 5 feet out and it's slick as snot. The snowpack has a wonderful crust on it now. Everything is cold so the mist is freezing on contact. YAY
  22. gravitylover
    More than one. Mammoth and Alpine Valley have been open that late a few times. That year I lived there Alpine closed on 6/28 with 100" base on the upper mtn. Mammoth was open for skiing in July when the World Cup MTB Downhill was held, they used monster custom made snowblowers to clear the course down to the ground so it could be ridden. We were standing on our skis looking down 10 feet to the riders underneath us. That was pretty freaking amazing.
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    No I don't think so. I do know that watching it go dark in the house in the middle of the afternoon because the snow covered the windows is pretty awesome.
  24. gravitylover
    Aww c'mon, it'll be fun
  25. gravitylover
    Haha. Someone in here used it recently and it fit so I ran with it. That was "one of those winters" that the Sierra gets occasionally. There have been a few since and they just keep getting worse at dealing with it. That winter the roads didn't shut down often at all but now they bail out when there's a foot or two. It's pretty cool driving down a road with 15-20 foot banks along both sides shaved clean, even more fun when it's snowing and they're melting at the same time and the slush is hub deep. There were so many incredible periods in the western mountains when I lived out there, so many...
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