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Just went down to the water, it's roughly low tide and very low on pilings but since it's ice covered not dramatic looking as blowout tides go. OTOH, stuff is happening and LWX verifying. I'm not sure when this occurred but the people's pier that is usually in my pics took a hit. Pier looks ok but dock at the end is kind of crumpled sideways.

Exactly. This is a no Fs to give event. Lighthearted entertainment. Thread in right spirit, lfg

FUN! (takes notes) (never too old)

LFG

Oh wow that must have been cool with a sloped driveway. Would like to watch a vid of this. Haha. Mine slopes away a tiny bit, on one side. That ice crust was (is) so slick though that the sheared off sheets slid away with a push, and small ones not bad to just chuck away. I may have been making smaller sheets than them. Doing this method with a team and big sheets sounds kind of fun! I liked not dealing with wielding a shovel for the ice chunks part. I hold my own but am not the biggest, strongest person out there, creativity paid off.

My method, though unplanned, worked well. Didn't shovel at all until the next day. Then methodically removed the ice crust in sheets with a hammer and my hands (no shovel). Then shoveled the soft, light snow underneath. Then moved on to next section of removing ice crust. Doing in sections kept exposed snow from hardening, and made a break possible. My back felt it, but could have been much worse. Caveat don't have a really long driveway thankfully. Ended up really glad I didn't shovel during the storm. Those who did had an easy final clean up but also worked during the storm so eh.

I've been trying to pick a night or two this week to spend in Columbia at my dad's. I'm such a pathetic weenie that WWAW is actually now part of my decision. Maybe an extra tenth down there!!! lol. Who knows. But I'm silly, and I feel silly.

The moonlight was so bright! I looked out at one point during the night and the moon looked almost ice-frosted, blurry, cirrus I assume, but still SO bright. It was almost creepy but pretty.

I've had the same bad decade you have. Terrible. Last year/two I got jealous of DC, AA Co...jfc even BWI. So I feel part of this take. But - and clearly ymmv - this last event I measured majority snow and in my subjective limited human faculties, I shoveled majority snow. Looking out now at a blanket of white. Duration and qpf are valid things to note. It's just...the conversation was not just about data...and this storm was the best in ages for mby. I made friends with it. People are allowed to crap on it though! I hope we get the powder storm of our dreams...I will take another sleet bomb if need be. Edit: not paying any attention to Charlotte or anywhere it is snowing rn. probably helping me out

Hey everyone's entitled to have their critiques of a storm. I prefer 100% pure cold powder of course. We all do. But I just can't perceive this storm as majority sleet. (I also happen to believe we were super lucky to get a hit, when we did/at all). We're all different. Imma enjoy the view of qpf outside my window

Haha no. But did you measure? Majority snow.

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Low of 8.

Oops! Have been watching this and am interested to see what significant blowout conditions might look like with all this ice (piers in my pics are not my own ha).

So did you live in a bunch of places in Minnesota before you lived in a bunch of places in Virginia?