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It seems that, conveniently, all of the VTrans cameras took their last images around 4:40AM this morning. 

4 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Happy Anniversary of the most fun snowstorm of my life.  This thing was a real storm.  I think it's the only all frozen QPF event at BTV with 2" of liquid equiv in the month of February?  

I will never forget that storm... epic it truly was. People were stuck everywhere, begging to get pulled out of the middle of the road. Cars getting quickly & completely engulfed in snowdrifts. The CB was crackling with municipal and private plow guys saying "F THIS!". I will never forget being down at the shoreline of Lake Champlain on Mallett's Bay in the middle of the night in a plow truck & not being able to see. one. single. thing. Sideways, whiteout, face-hurting ice & snow: intense blizzard conditions. A telephone pole and the rear right quarter panel of my pickup had quite the disagreement too, lol.

Memory-wise, second in line to that was the overnight instantaneous-fluff-bomb where those in BTV who woke up early had like 30 inches of the lightest, purest powder snow I've ever seen/felt in my life. I forget exactly how that anomaly happened but man that was nuts too. Who knew driving through 30 inches of unplowed snow could be so easy??

Wild winter stuff happened in the late oughts through the early tens... it doesn't seem to happen too often anymore... or maybe I'm just getting jaded in my "older" age.     

My plow truck PTSD just kicked in at the mention of V-Day '07. 

Wow!

No big reaction to shots #1 or #2. The day after #3 felt like all my joints were arthritic and I had a moderate fever and headache... basically felt like I had the flu without any of the respiratory symptoms.

Could you tell at what pace it was moving? Looks like a moose at a good trot in your hard packed snow.

That was the closest I could experience the power of the hurricane. I had a lot invested in seeing if it would survive long enough to make it into the eye. Pretty incredible stuff.

Seeing a lot more debris on the GI camera as well. 

Some of the strongest winds I've felt and heard rocked the house last night. Weather station had a gust of 42 MPH and we are relatively sheltered being on the lee side of the island with a north wind.

3 minutes ago, wishcast_hater said:

I just got out of the hot tub with my son. Heavy snow turned has turned to more of a frozen sleet type of dendrite all the way up here in Duchess. It’s not bona fide sleet but the characteristic of the snow definitely changed from powder to a more frozen type of precipitation. Not sure why. Hope that is short lived. 

Not to fear... it'll Build Back Better

1 minute ago, PhineasC said:

Won't be so epic when it melts by the end of the week. Jay still holds the retention crown.  

Ouchies

Holy chit backedge! That’s a buttload of snow.... oooooohhhhh baaaaasket!

Anyone get a chance to glimpse the Aurora last night or early this morning? Damn clouds....

It didn’t stop snowing all day in the Burlington area. Sure, some was light as can be but at times it was coming down pretty good. I certainly like the feel of the first few days of meteorological winter in spite of the warm departures we had for the month of November.

Where and what time horizon....lol?