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January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage JV/Banter Thread!


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I was so prepared for the potential of power going out with this storm. I ran the generator yesterday (after draining the carburetor and cleaning it out), gassed it up with plenty of extra gas at the ready, and had it all staged and ready to go. I had all batteries and wireless chargers charged up, plans in place for keeping as warm as possible for a few days, etc. In the grand scheme of things, I'm really glad I didn't need to put any of that plan into action, but it *is* a little bit of a bummer that I couldn't at least have seen some of that that hard prep work put to good use!

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1 minute ago, mattie g said:

I was so prepared for the potential of power going out with this storm. I ran the generator yesterday (after draining the carburetor and cleaning it out) and gassing it up with plenty of extra gas at the ready ad had it all staged and ready to go. I had all batteries charged, plans in place for keeping as warm as possible for a few days, etc. In the grand scheme of things, I'm really glad I didn't need to put any of that plan into action, but it *is* a little bit of a bummer that I couldn't at least have seen some of that that hard prep work put to good use!

With progged wind gusts to 30 mph most of the day tomorrow, there's a non-zero chance of losing power.  Would've been a lot more dicey with larger ZR accretions from this storm, but certain areas around here lose power when someone sneezes.

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how are folks' streets?  We got plows all day so our streets are actually pretty clear (we live on a street corner)

Not good at all here in the sticks. My brother down in Ellicott city said his neighborhood hasn’t even been touched since last nights salting
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9 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

how are folks' streets?  We got plows all day so our streets are actually pretty clear (we live on a street corner)

I live on Harvard St in Adams Morgan and as of a couple hours ago it hadnt been touched probably since early morning.  There was a solid 4 inches of snow/sleet/zr glaze on the road

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11 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

how are folks' streets?  We got plows all day so our streets are actually pretty clear (we live on a street corner)

My neighborhood was plowed 3-4 times, but my cul-de-sac was last done at about 2:00 pm. Went out with the dog a little bit ago and my street was a solid pack of 1.5-2” of sleet.

The secondary roads were supposedly worked over pretty good, but as of about 4:00 pm the one nearest me was still in pretty bad shape.

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9 hours ago, pazzo83 said:

how are folks' streets?  We got plows all day so our streets are actually pretty clear (we live on a street corner)

I live on a Square. Farthest point back in our neighborhood. As it is all townhouses we are HOA maintained. They came in several times during the storm. Some areas you can see pavement but it is mostly snow packed down. As of the rest of the neighborhood have no idea. Being single family homes it is County maintained. Mr.J works from home on Mondays so we have not checked the status of roads. Will have to though as he drives a MX 5. He may just be taking my EV6 to work tomorrow if the neighborhood is packed down snow. We got the AWD dual motor and it has a snow mode vs his RWD manual. 

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1 hour ago, MN Transplant said:

My pro-tip from this morning is to pull out the garden shovel.  The plastic snow shovels are no match for this mess.

This. I scraped with the metal shovel while my wife and son came behind with the snow shovels. Brutal work for only about a half inch of caked sleet

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