HIPPYVALLEY

This is a good example of how difficult and uncommon it is to get good ice accretion. We had hours of steady light rain today with temperatures in the mid to upper 20s, yet trees and powerlines are not too compromised. I would say definitely over .10” here on most surfaces though.

Yeah, I think it’s coming down just hard enough that it’s only building on bigger surfaces. Fine with me.

Ray with 12” and areas 10mi NW of him get 25”?

Fortunately the rain is coming down hard enough so that ice is not really building up on powerlines or branches too much. 28/25.

28° so about 2° in the past hour, hopefully we are above freezing by noon.

Hope ya’ll have a great Christmas Day and enjoy whatever you are doing. Hopefully power stays on for everyone.

26/23. -FZRA. Everything already coated up. Driveway is quite slick.

I'm sure that will verify as shown.

You don’t think it will warm above freezing as we get later into the morning?

Yeah, there is almost no reason to buy a new boat. Plenty of great used craft out there at half the price of new.

Yeah, that would need a 275 or 300hp on it. Are you going brand new? Grady’s are awesome but real spendy, especially with a lot of the add-on features.

Since it’s your money were spending, I would get one of these with a Yamaha 150hp. https://www.gradywhite.com/models/center-consoles/fisherman-180/

That’s not what I wanted to hear, hoping we were going to trend warmer not colder.

Watch the meso models tonight to see if they speed up the trend of ushering in the surface warmth. I have a feeling that’s what’s going to happen.

That would be from Boulevard brewing in Kansas City. They have one of the biggest and best barrel aging programs in the US. Fantastic barrel aged ales. Their “rye on rye” is one of my all-time favorite beers, as is the Belgian quadruple that you mentioned.

Somehow we grabbed almost an inch here even though radar returns were putrid.

Yeah, I was drinking Lawsons triple sunshine last night. Nice beer but you could feel the alcohol as it went down. Lol

I was just shoveling the driveway and the sedan pulled in. I thought he was probably just turning around but it was actually a retiree delivering for UPS in his personal vehicle. I chatted with him for a bit. He was contracted for October to January. Said he was getting $22 an hour plus $150 a week bonus if he worked 30 hours per week. He was also getting $.56 per mile for personal auto use. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that part time UPS drivers get paid more than EMTs around here. edit: i’m not envious of UPS holiday drivers pay scale I think it’s appropriate but a friend of ours son just became an EMT and his starting pay was only $17 per hour. It’s funny to look at the pay scale of different jobs and our economy as a whole.

You and I are in those orange zones. Hoping the lower end of those numbers verifies. .25" and you are beginning to risk no power on Christmas Day. Especially in heavily treed neighborhoods like mine.

Yikes, tomorrow looks icy out this way.

Congrats to those down in Connecticut. -SN here with about .75” otg. Better than 0” otg.

I still text her once in a while. Maybe tomorrow I’ll ask her more specific thoughts on it. It’s possible the Boston accent reminds her of some area of England.

I used to have a coworker from Brentwood England, which I think is pretty close to London, and she always thought the Boston accent was quite normal.