RandyHolt

I’ve got two sets of ice cleats! I’ll put one on the tykes boots when he goes sledding but the sleetcrete is not as slick as freezing rain fortunately. I have been offering up the big mutt tool to neighbors and recommending to friends and family that did a preliminary shovel job like myself to use a metal shovel to get up underneath the sleet as needed. Very effective and thrilled I figured it out

Anyone else shovel the snow and are facing a 3-5" arctic sleet tundra to shovel today - the Big Mutt tool dominates. Plastic shovel and salt was a failure. Bonus you can chop up blocks to make an igloo or get on one knee and scrape the ground to make shoveling a breeze. Folks with bad backs stay on one knee to shovel that heavy stuff away. Edit: A square point shovel or spade should suffice.

I am calling it 8" - ~5" of snow and ~3"... sleet rock. A loader cleared my culdesac at 5am and think I have enough sizeable sleet blocks dumped in my hard to make an igloo for the tyke.

Sleet bombs IMG_1148.mov

Randoms I have never seen NO snow on the sides of cars not even on door handles, yet snow is tucked up under the rear spoilers on SUVs. Shoveling the sleet off of my sidewalk, I see imprints of the concrete - it looks like a plaster mold. But 5 times as heavy. Its tough sledding as a shoveler today. The piles of sleet coming off my roof are pushing 3' and leaving ridges formed on my roof. And a bird just flew into my window. Fire is roaring game is on so its time to start drinking.

Sleet bombs? hitting the top of my car looked like rain drops hitting a deep puddle during that last surge

I just realized what I thought was drifting off of my roof... is actually a sleet avalanche. That is not going to stop anytime soon.

I think an auger style would chop it right up vs a brushless but report back! I am still surprised how heavy the first 5" were and at the drifting before the sleet took over. This is an impressive amount of sleet. The trails i carved out for the tyke to sled are all but gone.

I am surprised how heavy the snow was on my first pass at shoveling.

Woke up to see a panicked rabbit taking big hops across the yard right into a chicken wire fence. I guess he had limited visibility and his normal exits blocked with the ~4" of glorious white stuff. The tyke will be getting up soon and standard protocol will insist on going outside immediately - loves the snow like us junkies here. Maybe more hmmm I wonder why.

Woke up to an emergency govt alert here. I'm dreaming of the nightmare of muting ALL government alerts risking it so I don't get awaken by every squall going forward.

Camping at Little Bennett in Clarksburg may be interesting.

Use some of the bingo winnings on a hangover helper... 34 and drizzle in the West End.

It's 38 and I am freaking out, man. But not so much, since the Commanders won.

We are staged here as well. Send the younguns out with shovels and tell them you are not ready but if they shovel a walk etc you will take them sledding right away. At least that's my plan.

Yep plus its nice with yesterdays bonus squalls to have pre-treatment not be salt and brine this time.

Cold Rain and Snow

Everything common sense seems to take a back seat to unbridled capitalism in the US.

Agree their cone graphic is indeed dated and has needed a reboot IMO for some time. Don't make me bust out the sharpie. Potentially extreme (landfall) events - maybe they could at least expand on "M" (its buried in the bottom right corner? - it could be top dead center) or include very strong direct language to open eyes at the top. M = MAJOR HURRICANE FORECAST TO HIT FLORIDA Know that many people don't or can't read maps. Map reading seems a low priority in our education. They could include a drudge style siren gif. Make a gif version with additional info and maybe even pinpointing current expected landfall, timing expanding on more than just eye's landfall, expected rainfall BEFORE, spaghetti's, prep tips or specific risks to that area. The info/graphic doesnt have to be the exact same as for OTS NLT events. We are in the digital age yet using a jpg which just seems... antiquated. Yep take the extremely dangerous risk of creating "panic" for extremely dangerous events. Let's live dangerously. We do anyways.

Well said and no apologies needed. Main stream media is completely polarized and many most? have had to tune it out to keep their sanity. Even if one watched, we'd have found they were covering the same issues as they have for 8 straight years and make no mention of the dangers far inland enough to save lives. The only way to connect to most people is via mobile emergency texts and requesting the warnings be shared with friends family and neighbors. I have found emergency texts are far too localized. There was a tornado 10 minutes drive from me and I got no alert. Only those IN the path got alerts. I know, they don't want to cause panic and fear blah blah but a simple severe storm broad area alert was absent. NWS can only do so much. Only us weather folks read all the full NWS alerts.

Curious if anyone can track the particle matter and toxins aloft from the Biolab chemical plant to let us know if it is headed our way. I can't find the link I used for the East Palestine disaster but regardless that was way over my pay grade. I accept best guesses. Thanks. Fog or not in the thread below, the toxins didn't disappear. https://www.threads.net/@esg.hound/post/DAjbEbIPKiF?xmt=AQGzTCo8h_HIkLOZ21FEj75-tU3_Fp_kjJ-QuLuV4d72Iw

+1 also I didnt get any alerts here in Rockville nor when driving in Gburg around that time - hell let me know after the fact.

Its unhealthy for mods to embrace their mod role too seriously. Been there done that on a sports board - just walk away. People seem to have lost their minds more than ever in my lifetime - and its not just pecker heads pecking away on a keyboard anonymously. Just like our beloved climate - we are witnessing big changes across the board.

I didn't clear a spot to measure proper but I am in Rockville and it sure seems like more than 6" but I hadn't seen anyone else report over 6" until your post. I am going 6.4" but think its still snowing here.

the plane that landed on Loudoun County Parkway - live feed