Still lightly snowing on and off. Enough to make I-89 a little slick. I was on my way back from W. Lebanon and had a car spin out in front of me between exits 5 and 6. The guy did a good job keeping it between the guardrails without hitting anything. I bet he wanted to change his pants afterward, I almost had to. Luckily we were both going only 55 or so and I was keeping some distance between us.
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Winter wonderland out there. I think somewhere between 8”-10”. I haven’t checked the PNS yet to see what my NWS employee neighbor has reported. She had 5.1” yesterday morning at 10:45.
I think we are about at 6". There was a brief period of mist/sprinkles with some sleety stuff but it went back to snow for a while. Mostly shut off now. It is man snow though. I didn't even attempt to use my snowblower at the top of the driveway, I used the snow scoop. Roads are a mess.
It's still HCS but they changed the platform. Not as many posting there. There are a few FB groups. New England Sled Talk is one and a guy I know started one for Vermont called Vermont Hardcore Sledders. I don't like the FB groups as much and I still check in on HCS in case there are any questions I can answer in the VT forum.
Woke up between 7:00-7:30 and there wasn’t much snow. Fell back asleep until 10:00 (I got sucked into a Law and Order marathon last night) an woke up the second time to 3” of the heaviest snow imaginable. Still snowing at a good clip.
Back then though people were riding around farm fields on Jags and Citations or Sno Jets like my wife and her brothers, when snow was low. Times have changed.
To add a little anecdotalness to you step gradient theory, my house is at 1250ft. It is not uncommon for the battleground to be in my vicinity, down the hill more rain, up the hill more snow and mixing back and forth here at my house.