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

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.

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.

31 and freezing mist here. It's sketchy out there boyz

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.

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

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.

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.

Aww c'mon, it'll be fun

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...

Nothing burgers for the win.

I saw a few crystalline entities drifting lazily down around 1:30-2am but nothing that mattered. I'd much rather have a nothing burger than ice.

That rainstorm was just part of a much bigger picture. It started snowing at 1am on 12/5 and only stopped for a day or two here and there. By January 28th we had more than 30 feet in town. The base (settled snow) at mid mountain at Kirkwood was over 240" and Squaw was well over 200". At one point several of the ski areas couldn't turn their lifts off for several days straight or they would have been buried. The snow was coming in bursts of 2-4 feet at a time. Before we left home we'd make notes for the things we needed to do because you couldn't make left turns out of parking lots so you'd go to the end of town and turn around in the KMart parking lot then go back towards home. The banks along US 50 (the main street through S Tahoe) were 10 feet high up the center suicide lane and higher where the sidewalks used to be. Nearly every day the town and state would come through with huge blowers and dump trucks and cart the stuff off to a snow dump that still had 20 foot high piles on July 4th. Homes along side streets had their front windows boarded over so the blowers wouldn't take them out and many homes used their second floor entrances for weeks at a time because the first floor was 10 feet under. The biggest storm of the season was 128" in 30 hours in my driveway, 12 straight hours of shoveling, a case of beer and a big bag of weed got me through At the time it was a state snowfall record for Incline Village at 15"/hr for nearly 4 hours straight.

I initially left in 1984 but was back for a few months late 85/early 86 then again from late Nov 93 to April 1 1994 so I was on LI for that winter. I worked at the old ski shop that was on Northern Blvd in Little Neck so got to commute from the no zone to the snow (ice) zone 4 or 5 days a week. That winter of 93/94 was pretty amazing for the NY Metro especially after the wonder of the 70's and 80's. I saw more rotten weather in the space of a few weeks than in the years I lived in VT and CO before that, obviously not more snow but more unpleasant and ugly weather. If I didn't drive an old Jeep that winter I'd have hated being there. Because of that Jeep and the job I had I could get out skiing often and for little or no money. I skied some of the best powder of my life on night at Vernon Valley (Mt Creek now), it was frzg rain early afternoon in Queens and when it flipped to snow I jumped in the Jeep and headed there. When I got there it was already nearly knee deep and just got better all night. The liftie at South tried to shut the lift down twice so I had to smoke the guy out to keep the chair running for me Whoda thunk, balls deep fluff at 14* in NJ. Anyway... that winter had the worst ice storms and driving conditions I had seen in O'side and that included some of the other great ice storms of the late 70's because it was constant and long lasting rather than those because they never had any real staying power (that I remember). Now, I have seen considerably worse weather in Tahoe, try torrential downpour into a 15 foot deep snowpack at 28* and when the rain ended the wind did it's thing and the temp dropped to 4*. The whole place locked up solid. It was awesome

I see all this ice/sleet/freezing rain stuff written and in my head I hear lalalala more snow

I have light snow falling now. It's mighty dry out there with a 16 degree spread for it to be snowing but there it is.

Those first 5 months or so of 1969 were incredible in New England. I think that's the year that the snow depth in Tuckerman Ravine reached 100 feet and they were skiing right through the summer and into the next year. I distinctly remember this at 7 years old in Oceanside where I grew up. I have hazy memories of earlier snowstorms but this ice storm knocked out our power and made life difficult and kind of scary to a little kid listening to trees exploding outside the window at night.

23/7/NNE2/OVC The ceiling appears to be lowering slightly but that may just be pollution getting trapped underneath. Being up on a hill I have a fairly long view and get a different perspective on some stuff than if you're down on the flats.

I do it for the cookies. @wdrag yup, 19 degree spread here right now also.

Oh man, you're right but I just shaved most of the banks for visual appeal yesterday. I'll just use the pusher shovel and put it all in the street

26/7/N1/OVC We have eggs, bread, milk and beer. We're good.

Boy I hope so. I really don't feel like dealing with ice and power outages and all of that. Maybe I should go wash my car

I spent two hours yesterday moving deep snowbanks away from the house preparing for the incoming ice and wetness. I still have at least 4-5 more hours of the same. I'm sore but it feels good to be outside working hard. This covid thing and not being out working and doing stuff is wearing on me. I do what work I can do sitting at my desk, sometimes walking around the living room while on the phone, that's not sufficient movement and I'm going stir crazy enough to be truly enjoying shoveling snow. That's fkd up. I also shaved the driveway banks yesterday to make them look better haha

Lets just scoot this puppy a bit south. I want to go totally over the top for a monthly record.

I forgot to post, I ended with 1.5" of pure fluff. Blow on it to clear the windshield kinda stuff. Temps were in the teens during the bulk of it and stayed in the low 20's for a while after. It added to the driveway bank height nicely