OT Blizzard in northeast

[bluesako]

hi we had a slight frost the other week over here, and i had to use some de icer on my cars windscreen, it was very traumatic, i think i might need some counciling, joking aside, i hope everyone stayed safe, and hope spring is just round the corner, take care and keep an eye out for your senior citizens go check on them gl bs.

 

[hoz53]

This storm is turning out to be expensive. The impeller shaft bearing let go so it can't blow snow, none to be found (all on back order). With 2 more storms coming in the next week and an 85' driveway I needed to replace ASAP it is costing me 2k for a new one.
I know it sounds crazy but with a replacement shoulder still healing and multiple fusions in my lumbar spine this old man isn't shoveling, couldn't throw it far enough or high enough to clear the snowbanks even if I could.
The old one lasted 17 years and I will fix it in the spring or summer then give it to my daughter.

with your health why do any of it? after a recent fall from the ladder with results of a compression fracture T12, I have had to admit to myself i just wont be able to do some things in the future. i have blown and shoveled some snow this year but nothing like the amounts you are talking about. if i get 3’ + in the driveway it will stay there until i get somebody to plow it or it melts. if i had a plow on a tractor or truck id do that. mabie-
>>>>> Stay in the House<<<

PS— Im about 70

 

[rjtfroggy]

Hoz, I do things because I just can't sit still, I get antsy when things need to be done. I watch how these guys plow today and you may as well leave it and let it melt for the most part. It isn't like when we were kids out looking for shoveling jobs to make a few bucks. My street has 11 houses on it and the majority of us are over 70, (I'm 74) and not one driveway is undone, all snow free and all done by the home owner except for 2, 1 gets done by son in law who plows it when he gets a chance and the other is a 50 year old who hires somebody for everything.
Besides the range has a couple of feet of snow on it so we can't use it, and you can only reload so much.

 

[hoz53]

Hoz, I do things because I just can't sit still, I get antsy when things need to be done. I watch how these guys plow today and you may as well leave it and let it melt for the most part. It isn't like when we were kids out looking for shoveling jobs to make a few bucks. My street has 11 houses on it and the majority of us are over 70, (I'm 74) and not one driveway is undone, all snow free and all done by the home owner except for 2, 1 gets done by son in law who plows it when he gets a chance and the other is a 50 year old who hires somebody for everything.
Besides the range has a couple of feet of snow on it so we can't use it, and you can only reload so much.

good to stay busy and get some exercise for sure— i would have a hard time staying all day in the house for even one day to. I just hope you dont hurt yourself.

 

[D Coots]

Racing friend in L'ance, Mi is up to 286" and still snowing.

 

[charlie b]

I do feel for you folks in the snow areas. I hope all get through it OK.

The little bits we put up with over the years when we lived in the north was bad enough. I found that I got a kind of 'caged' feeling if I couldn't get out. One of the reasons we are back where a lot of snow is when it stays on the ground for a couple of hours.

 

[GotRDid]

 

[GotRDid]

 

[swd]

Here in the Sierra Foothills we had snow last week and today it was 75 degrees.

 

[PerryR]

I feel for you, I grew up in CT and was there in 78. I remember the Civil Defense picked me up since I was the only ham radio operator available to man the ecomm center at the state hospital in Newtown. From what my brother in Watertown tells me it sounds like this storm might even be more memorable than the 78 storm.

 

[Xerothermic]

How is everyone doing with this blizzard moving slowly up the east coast?
As of right now here in western central Ct. we have about 18" on the ground with drifts in my driveway about 3-4' deep with bare ground in front of the drifts. There is no snow in front of my garage for about 10' and it leads into a 3' drift that gradually leads into 4' or better. Not supposed to let up until after 1PM and not stop completely until around 5PM.
It will take hours to snow blow my 85' driveway, I'll probably do it in 2 stages and then clean it up tomorrow when the wind dies down.
It started yesterday at around noon, and the plow has gone up/down my street once, no sand, no salt and the street right now has roughly a foot of snow on it. Listening to the scanner and it seems like wherever the P.D. or F.D. is dispatched to they are sending the plows and sanders so they can get through to their calls. Bunch of cars just left in the middle of the roads so they have to send a wrecker along with the plows.
This is bad as I have seen it in 11 years and before that it was 1978, so it has been a long time coming.
We won't be on the range for at least a month when this is over. The older I get the more I wished we had gone south forever. I am starting to hate this stuff.

Yep. Somewhere between 87-90 today in Tucson. AC on. Don't forget, we see up to 115 in the summer that can last quite awhile. Your blizzard for a week or our triple digits for many days. But you're right, I wouldn't trade the heat for the cold.