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Haven’t left my street yet. No downed trees in my immediate neighborhood.

31" Bristol, RI

Updated Public Information Statement with Snowfall Totals and Wind Gusts is up: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=box&issuedby=BOX&product=pns Heh - gusted to 65 MPH here as well in the AM. Looks like my 30 burger holds up to the spotters in my area. Amazing.

To paraphrase Jim Morrison - just broke on through to the other side. Going with 31”. Hard to gauge but measured a few spots and subtracted some pack.

Cleanup commencing. Above my waste.

Another 30-35 dbz band incoming here... insanity...

I'll be honest, I'm only judging based on whats close to the house. Sometimes that's denser because it melts a little from the heat leaking out and making it settle. I'm actually hopeful it's more powdery so I can try and cut through it with my very undersized snow thrower if I chop it down appropriately.

RI State of Emergency extended for another 24 hours (at least).

Could build an addition out of this stuff, eskimo style.

Yes pretty sure my shitty "Snow Joe" electric snow thrower is not going to handle this well, lol.

Just does not want to end here… jeez…

It’s dense and sticky. Not sure what I’m going to do to tackle this. That’s snow stuck to the frame of the door when I opened it.

Yes and it made it that much more of a big deal to end up with so much. Some locations started with light rain or drizzle, if I remember the lore correctly.

That sucks.

Just opened the door to peak for the first time…

We may not see another blizzard of 78 in our lifetime. It's like the hurricane of 1938 of winter storms. The way that low tucked in and then closed off and stalled - yet all the other pieces fell into place in 1978 seems to have not come close to have been replicated since then. Today if we see a low that close to us on the models, we're thinking where is the mixing line going to setup!

Not at all. That didn't even enter my mind. I'm thinking government waste and corruption, bridges falling down in disrepair, high taxes and cost of living. But if that's what entered your mind first, that's something for you to address, not me.

It's okay to be disappointed, and put it down in words here. It's the tone that matters. I feel bad that the storm was not as prolific for others as it could have been. That being said, there's always winners and losers in these big storms. It's rare that everyone wins because what produces the snow on the north west side of these storms is banding, and it's almost impossible to have bands that cover our entire region to make everyone a winner. It truly is like going to the casino - only a few are going to jackpot. Usually for my area to win, somewhere else has just cashed in their last snow chip without a good return. At the end of the day, it's just weather, and we aren't in control of it. It's nice we see all four seasons in New England. I can't imagine, even when I get a 20" winter, living somewhere where you don't get the variety of weather you get here.

Clearly you have angered the snow gods with your accordion playing debauchery and they have blown your snow to the far ends of Manville and Albion. You must sacrifice a virgin Victoria and repent to please the gods and fill in your snow hole.

This may make it number 1 all time. I believe 1978 was around 27.

If you don't end up at around 24" then it's only because you don't have a good spot to measure. Your location wasn't in the middle of the death band but you have several consecutive hours of 30 dbz stuff on radar, and some parts of the heavy band made it your way. I've got two personal reports of around 2 feet in Cumberland area from friends. Plus we have the reports from Attelboro, and I have a friend in Smithfield reporting two feet to the west of you. There was no prolific snow hole over your house. Even if we knock a few inches off due to drifting, there's a good chance that this number verifies. It's seriously time to relax now and enjoy what you got. We already have enough things giving RI a bad name, and your whining on this thread is insufferable. You don't know how many times I've had friends in the northern and western parts of the state with significantly more snow than my own backyard. There's 50,000 people with no power in the state, that may not get it back for a couple of days, and you're complaining you didn't get 40" on top of your fake fucking mountain. Seriously, get a hold of yourself, and at least melt with some world championship worthy dignity.

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