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Last gasp snow still snowing decently here. Measured the snow on my backyard bar (concrete top) and it had 9.5" on it. That's untouched since the storm began. So total storm total has surpassed dd's, considering compaction/settling. Finally, the drought is over, lol. And a minor rant, which vortex probably shares, but the few local observers around really don't know what the f*ck they're doing with snow measurements. Always some nonsensical amounts. One county CoCoRAHS observer reported 2.7" of snow on 0.71" precip this morning at 5:00 AM. The storm was 99% snow. And the ratios certainly weren't that sh*tty.

On derecho weakened tree limbs.

Lol, it still going. No final yet, but approaching 9” storm total. Finally got my driveway completely shoveled out, and now off to the backyard...so the dogs can find a place to “go”.

Who knew this was going to be a 30+ hour snowstorm (first to last flake)? Coming down rather hot here right now. Loving it. And great pic Alek. And everyone for that matter.

LOT jackpot

Measured 7.3" here. Got about half the driveway shoveled. It's not wet snow per se, but pretty dense. Snow picking back up now too. Looks like the HRRR, RAP, and NAM's want to put down another 2-4" today. Need the top to verify...but dd's in play.

Love the vids

Yes sir. Done well here so far. Back to ripping now. Stack 'em.

If you can believe it, we actually switched to sleet/heavily rimed small flakes for about 15 minutes. Back to all snow now. I was curious to see how much we picked in the hour since my last measurement, and we had 1.4". So, not too shabby.

Totally missed this. What's up my friend? Long time, no chat. Congrats on the thunder!

If it keeps up like this...that's a lock.

Parachutes in this sh*t. Awesome.

Just measured 2.2”. Rip city continues. My dogs are loving it.

Clean snowstorms don't exist in Indiana. You know that. But yeah, so many storms...so many starts with s****.

Pounding snow here right now. Better sized flakes getting mixed in too.

Coming down pretty nicely here right now. And blowing sideways.

I moved back to IKK in June 2015. Feb 28-Mar 1, 2015 was my going away present. It got close to dd's, but not quite. Nov 2015 was about 8" here, so I thought I'd see one quickly. I was wrong, lol. And I do remember that Feb 2016 storm. Such a super close miss. Eastern edge of the county here got buried.

Yep. Been snowing for the past hour or so. Nothing heavy, yet. Keep waiting for the returns just to the south...

1"/hour at IND. 0.12" in the bucket. KIND 302254Z 11013KT 1/2SM R05L/3500V6000FT SN FZFG OVC007 M01/M02 A2998 RMK AO2 SLP160 SNINCR 1/1 P0012 T10061017

Same here. Winds getting gusty too. I was trying to remember the last storm that I saw 10"+...and pretty sure it's Jan 5, 2014. This storm won't do it either for me, so the wait will go on...but geez, that's really awful.

In the LAF

Back to all snow here.

New LOT AFD slashes totals to 2-5” here.

I’m downtown today, and it’s been lightly snowing for an hour or so. Mostly rimed flakes. But as you said, flake size is real nice right now. If we can hold onto to that for the meat and potatoes of this event, then...