alex Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Down to -11 already. Geez it's cold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 6 hours ago, alex said: Down to -11 already. Geez it's cold You can keep that. 4° here is bad enough. Should be a nice recovery today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastonSN+ Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 1.1 inches of snow today. 12.1 on the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanks45 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 42 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said: 1.1 inches of snow today. 12.1 on the year. half inch here....it is amazing how much snow it looks like this year, lol...almost feels like half a foot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastonSN+ Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Just now, Spanks45 said: half inch here....it is amazing how much snow it looks like this year, lol...almost feels like half a foot Your in much better shape than me for tomorrow's event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanks45 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 13 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said: Your in much better shape than me for tomorrow's event. Just give us the moisture, it seems like we have enough cold air around this time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo1 Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 I’m hoping both miss. I’m done with clearing shit with a shovel. This upcoming season I will invest in a snowblower like it or not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 CAR still digging out Imagine crossing that road on the sled. YipeeSent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 I was looking through some footage from one of my game cameras and I had a clip from earlier in the week with all the wind that I just had to share. I know we're always posting pictures of fallen over chairs in the wind but check this out: lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 3 minutes ago, MetHerb said: I was looking through some footage from one of my game cameras and I had a clip from earlier in the week with all the wind that I just had to share. I know we're always posting pictures of fallen over chairs in the wind but check this out: lol stay strong. T&P to you and your family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 10 hours ago, Lava Rock said: Imagine crossing that road on the sled. Yipee Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk A guy I know was riding the north shore of the St. Lawerence, northeast of Quebec City in this last storm. It got so bad they couldn’t ride in the trail and since the road was closed to non-emergency auto traffic, the police let them ride the road. They did 120 miles of road riding in one day. He posted in the New England Sled Talk FB group as the Winter Traveller. Was quite an adventure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 A guy I know was riding the north shore of the St. Lawerence, northeast of Quebec City in this last storm. It got so bad they couldn’t ride in the trail and since the road was closed to non-emergency auto traffic, the police let them ride the road. They did 120 miles of road riding in one day. He posted in the New England Sled Talk FB group as the Winter Traveller. Was quite an adventure. Wow, that's crazy. Been trying to get on that FB page but can'tSent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Unbelievable hatred among some posters..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 14 minutes ago, weathafella said: Unbelievable hatred among some posters..... It is very odd. It’s just snow. Many don’t even go out and enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 23 hours ago, Lava Rock said: Imagine crossing that road on the sled. Yipee Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk Imagine driving that road during the winds - not fun. Some snomo trails closed in N. Maine due to too much snow. Groomer operators who've gotten one track off the previously groomed trail have gotten thoroughly stuck. CAR was reporting 43" a couple days back; but it's probably that "low" because they're on a hilltop where the stuff blows away. I'd guess there's 5-6 feet in the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 9 hours ago, tamarack said: Imagine driving that road during the winds - not fun. Some snomo trails closed in N. Maine due to too much snow. Groomer operators who've gotten one track off the previously groomed trail have gotten thoroughly stuck. CAR was reporting 43" a couple days back; but it's probably that "low" because they're on a hilltop where the stuff blows away. I'd guess there's 5-6 feet in the woods. A friend was in southern Quebec at about the same latitude as CAR... looks like there's some snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 21 hours ago, powderfreak said: A friend was in southern Quebec at about the same latitude as CAR... looks like there's some snow. It looked like that and better in 2008. I remember the snow piles in peoples front yards were up to their second floor roofs. Many places along the roads were 6-10' banks. That was in April...after several weeks of melting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BombsAway1288 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Terrible situation in the South with the severe weather outbreak associated with our storm. I was streaming a local station down there and had TWC on the TV when the EF4 was rolling along and I remember saying that I hope everyone got info on the warnings. Apparently not with 23 dead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 4 hours ago, BombsAway1288 said: Terrible situation in the South with the severe weather outbreak associated with our storm. I was streaming a local station down there and had TWC on the TV when the EF4 was rolling along and I remember saying that I hope everyone got info on the warnings. Apparently not with 23 dead There was solid lead time on the warnings. Unfortunately, when dealing with something so intense there is just nothing you can really do except hope and pray. The monster tore right through the community. You have to wonder too about the structure of the buildings and how safe those folks really were in their basements, closets, or wherever it was they took shelter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said: There was solid lead time on the warnings. Unfortunately, when dealing with something so intense there is just nothing you can really do except hope and pray. The monster tore right through the community. You have to wonder too about the structure of the buildings and how safe those folks really were in their basements, closets, or wherever it was they took shelter. I don't think there were many basements where those storms went through. And we might get to do it all over again Saturday into Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 2 minutes ago, OceanStWx said: I don't think there were many basements where those storms went through. And we might get to do it all over again Saturday into Sunday. From looking at the damage photos it didn't really look like there were basements...seems like most people may have been hiding out in closets...at least based on some of the interviews I've seen from people. Seems like most of the buildings may have been rather old too? Yeah Saturday doesn't look rather pretty. Mentioned that at work yesterday. Looks like yet another blizzard for the upper-Midwest too. But, that's some significant moisture return being modeled beneath an EML with lapse rates > 8 C/KM.....yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I hate this time of year (and the fall) and I hate MOS. Now we're getting into the time of year where MAV/MET data can be worlds apart. For example, MAV has FSD getting only into the mid-teens for a high tomorrow, however, MET pumps them into the mid 20's......AHHHHHH. One day last week there was like a 15F difference at AFW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BombsAway1288 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 2 hours ago, weatherwiz said: There was solid lead time on the warnings. Unfortunately, when dealing with something so intense there is just nothing you can really do except hope and pray. The monster tore right through the community. You have to wonder too about the structure of the buildings and how safe those folks really were in their basements, closets, or wherever it was they took shelter. There was, which made it so shocking to me that so many died. It went through a lot of forested areas for the most part but from the pics and videos I saw, I couldn't tell if there were basements or not. One would think there would be in Alabama for situations like this alone but if it hit much older homes and/or trailers then yeah, they wouldn't have much cover. Another factor might have been the second tornado that seemed to go right over the same exact track as the first big EF-4. This one was a lot smaller but maybe caught people off guard as communications surely would have been cut off from damage by the the first tornado. Either way, a 23 death toll seems very high for such an unpopulated area that it hit. I realize not all 23 were from the single EF-4 in East Alabama but the majority were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 2 hours ago, OceanStWx said: I don't think there were many basements where those storms went through. And we might get to do it all over again Saturday into Sunday. Watching on TV, did not look like any basements at all, and reporter made the comment that the area into AL and GA had a high Concentration of mobile homes...what a horrible combination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 2 minutes ago, BombsAway1288 said: There was, which made it so shocking to me that so many died. It went through a lot of forested areas for the most part but from the pics and videos I saw, I couldn't tell if there were basements or not. One would think there would be in Alabama for situations like this alone but if it hit much older homes and/or trailers then yeah, they wouldn't have much cover. Another factor might have been the second tornado that seemed to go right over the same exact track as the first big EF-4. This one was a lot smaller but maybe caught people off guard as communications surely would have been cut off from damage by the the first tornado. Either way, a 23 death toll seems very high for such an unpopulated area that it hit. I realize not all 23 were from the single EF-4 in East Alabama but the majority were. Now they are dealing with some anomalously cold temperatures and no power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 4 minutes ago, BombsAway1288 said: There was, which made it so shocking to me that so many died. It went through a lot of forested areas for the most part but from the pics and videos I saw, I couldn't tell if there were basements or not. One would think there would be in Alabama for situations like this alone but if it hit much older homes and/or trailers then yeah, they wouldn't have much cover. Another factor might have been the second tornado that seemed to go right over the same exact track as the first big EF-4. This one was a lot smaller but maybe caught people off guard as communications surely would have been cut off from damage by the the first tornado. Either way, a 23 death toll seems very high for such an unpopulated area that it hit. I realize not all 23 were from the single EF-4 in East Alabama but the majority were. I'm guessing that many of those properties were on the older side and didn't have basements (for whatever reasons). Your second paragraph makes a great point...didn't even think of that. That most certainly could have been a major factor/contributor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 It was a trailer park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlashFreeze Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I have never seen a basement in coastal Carolina and from what I’ve heard they are not commen in the south, a mobile home doesn’t stand a chance of a tornado, maybe a bathtub or closet would give you some protection but I doubt it in anything over an EF-1, a strong thunderstorm did considerable damage do mobile homes with hail and straight-line winds here last summer, very sad what happened in Alabama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I remember reading once that 90 percent of homes south of the Mason Dixon line have no basements. Its really a New England thing. My wife has a bunch of family in Missouri people dont even know what a basement is there. I try and explain it to them and they seem confused. Homes there are built flat on the ground on concrete slabs. Nowhere really to go except a closet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 3 minutes ago, BrianW said: I remember reading once that 90 percent of homes south of the Mason Dixon line have no basements. Its really a New England thing. My wife has a bunch of family in Missouri people dont even know what a basement is there. I try and explain it to them and they seem confused. Homes there are built flat on the ground on concrete slabs. Nowhere really to go except a closet. https://www.theday.com/article/20150925/biz04/150929626 "Basements were least common in the West South Central region, consisting of four states between Texas and Arkansas, where less than 1 percent of new homes had the feature. Three percent of new homes in the Western region, 13 percent in the South Atlantic region, and 20 percent in the East South Central region featured a basement. Slab foundations were nearly ubiquitous in the West South Central states, with 96 percent of new single-family homes being built on one. The share was 67 percent in the South Atlantic states. Zhao says slab foundations are cheaper and easier to build, and better suited for warm climates and clay soils. Despite these qualities, crawlspaces became the more popular option in the East South Central region in 2014." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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