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Riding out the storm here. we have a roaring wood fire going in the wood stove and wood to last a few days inside the house. Prepped the generator and snow blower for duty.

Christie and Cuomo have declared states of emergency here and NYC is shutdown after 11pm.

Most importantly I am home and not on the roads.

School is closed tomorrow so the kiddies get a snow day.

Batten down the hatches!

I'm inside with a weeks worth of supplies here in Boston.

I'm ready for it. Plenty of food, a gas stove I can use if no electric, plenty of water, charged power bricks to keep phone/table/laptop running a while, and two warm kitties that like to sleep on my lap. Just missing my wife since she is in TN taking care of her mom. I'll be joining her in TN at the end of the week.

I see Starbucks was going to be closed.

What horrors.

Anyway everyone in its path (my parents included) please heed the warnings and stay indoors warm and safe.

I'm out in western mass and thankfully I have 2 wood stoves in my house so on the off chance that I lose power at least I won't be cold. I had to look at my poor sports cars today parked in the garage looking sad and lonely, but hey maybe spring will get here quicker :)

Quote from: Sydney_NYC on January 26, 2015, 06:25:45 PM
I'm ready for it. Plenty of food, a gas stove I can use if no electric, plenty of water, charged power bricks to keep phone/table/laptop running a while, and two warm kitties that like to sleep on my lap. Just missing my wife since she is in TN taking care of her mom. I'll be joining her in TN at the end of the week.

Safe travels!

Our stove is gas. As a backup we have the gas grill with side burner.

Kitties are here, but making mischief as always and occupying space in front of the wood stove, lol.

And I decided to fire up the grill and put some chicken on. Because I can and because weather doesn't stop me!

I just had baked chicken and green beans. The snow has begun. Taken around 8:30, the Weather Geese don't seem too concerned.  We'll see how that works out!

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Just came back in with poochie, the wind is howling. Weather says we had a gust of 46 mph. There's about 4" and drifts around 8 to 10" so far. I'll update you in the morning.  :)

Hugs, Devlyn

Here in NW NJ it's been a dud so far but east into NYC and Long Island not so much.

Well that was a big bust here. I get to take a day off for nothing!!! Kids school is closed today. Long Island and points east are getting buried however.

It's still snowing up here in Massachusetts this morning. It's pretty eery to look out on the street and not to see any cars at all. It's still very quiet out here. No one has gone out to remove any snow yet and honestly I am not looking forward to it. It's crazy windy over here too. It doesn't look like we are getting tons of snow but there is definitely a lot on the ground, that's for sure.

It's up to the windows on the south side of the house now. Please stop!

Dud of a storm here in NJ. I'm 10 min from Manhattan I we got about 5 inches maybe. Glad there wasn't much to shovel, and it was the light fluffy kind of snow, so the electric snow blower did very well.

Same angle as last night. The wind really shapes it.

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South side of the car. It's still coming down, too.

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The guy from the oil company across the street just yelled at me for shoveling my driveway, said he'd be over to plow as soon as he got his trucks out. Thank goodness for kind people and good neighbours.  :)

Devlyn,
those photos look a lot like how my house looked following Snowmageddon back in 2011. Crazy.
Even more crazy was that my mother insisted that I go outside and shovel snow while that blizzard was still coming down. "If you keep shoveling, you can stay ahead of it."  ::) Riiiight...
Granted, I still had to go out in it just to pick up the pieces of aluminum siding that the storm was ripping off my neighbor's house. She at least had the good fortune to be out of town at the time.
Anyway, stay warm.

Also, I like the geese.

During Nor'easters the geese stay exposed because of the wind and drifting. If it just snows, they get buried!

Perfect example, today there isn't much wind with the snow. The weather geese look OK, right?

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Our latest round of snow here in NWNJ

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That's my grill. It was pretty clear the day before.
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Well, if it makes anyone feel better, here in Chicago, we had a blizzard yesterday. Got a good foot and a half of snow with 40mph winds. Apparently it made the record books.

Also, during the storm, someone left the gate open, and our dog decided that that would be the perfect time to go wander the neighborhood. Brilliant. She didn't get too far, as I'm not sure she could even make it over some of the snow piles. Actually, aside from checking on one of my neighbors, that was the only time I went outside yesterday. I mostly hid inside where it was warm and watched youtube videos.

More snow on the way!!! If the models are to be believed we could get 2-3 feet on Sunday. Just what I need, another damned snow day.

Good grief a double whammy is coming in the next couple of days. The street I live on is only a fraction of its normal width right now and the snow banks are at least 4-5 feet tall. This is getting ridiculous now. The only good side is that the huskies are happy.

And they're expecting another Alberta Clipper to come through over the weekend. This winter sucks!

Remember this?

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 02, 2015, 10:47:39 AM
Perfect example, today there isn't much wind with the snow. The weather geese look OK, right?

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Let's check in on the weather geese now. Weather geese? Are....are you OK?

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The flakes have started. Let the next round of Trapped In The House By A Blizzard begin!  <maniacal laughing>  >:-)

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 14, 2015, 03:46:32 PM
The flakes have started. Let the next round of Trapped In The House By A Blizzard begin!  <maniacal laughing>  >:-)

I have been trapped in since the last one.  See my bedroom window behind the sheet of ice...  :o

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No Monday morning blizzard scheduled this week. Guess the weather spirits are trying to get it done a few days early so that they can take off President's Day.

Mommy, I'm scared!

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It's a sunny day and it's not showing. Yet due to high winds and plenty of fresh, fluffy snow to blow around, this is what it looks like outside my window.

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Devlyn, what is going on up there?

I hear the mayor is telling people not to jump out of windows and into the snow?

Then I saw this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/17/mayor-urges-knucklehead-bostonians-not-to-jump-out-of-windows-and-into-the-snow/

Wow! Are people really that dumb?

Quote from: Jade_404 on February 14, 2015, 04:30:06 PM
I have been trapped in since the last one.  See my bedroom window behind the sheet of ice...  :o

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Wahhaaat look at that ice dam!

We're snowed in all the way down in Kentucky, don't feel too special :P

Quote from: ImagineKate on February 18, 2015, 10:14:32 AM
Devlyn, what is going on up there?

I hear the mayor is telling people not to jump out of windows and into the snow?

Then I saw this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/17/mayor-urges-knucklehead-bostonians-not-to-jump-out-of-windows-and-into-the-snow/

Wow! Are people really that dumb?

Well, first and foremost, you're a libertarian, so I know that you're just as outraged as I am that the mayor is dictating personal behaviour. Secondly, if you don't have substantive proof that's me jumping out of windows, don't expect me to incriminate myself. I've been around the block once or twice, I'm not falling for that ruse!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 02, 2015, 10:47:39 AM
Perfect example, today there isn't much wind with the snow. The weather geese look OK, right?

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Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 12, 2015, 06:03:47 PM

Let's check in on the weather geese now. Weather geese? Are....are you OK?

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<cue Eminem> Guess who's back....... Goose is back!

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That's the top of his head starting to show again! What a trooper!

Quote from: StrykerXIII on February 18, 2015, 11:02:38 AM
We're snowed in all the way down in Kentucky, don't feel too special :P

Pictures or it didn't happen!   :laugh:

Hugs, Devlyn

Lol! Of course I support the right of idiots to remove themselves from the gene pool. Sometimes it does need a little chlorine you know...

I was just amazed that people were actually doing that!

Actually, I'm remembering that in the blizzard of '78, we climbed up on a parked boxcar and jumped off into the snowbank. But we were professional......umm......teenage punks.... :laugh:

During the blizzard of '78 I was living in Manhattan. Some friends and I walked down to the Wall Street area. Near Delmonico's there was a narrow street where the snow formed a perfect parabola between the windows on the second floor of a building and the windows of the second floor of the building across the street. At the lowest point, in the middle of the road the snow was 2 feet deep or more.

Ack! Frozen pipes!!! Had a couple. Taking today off and fixing them. Not fun!

Quote from: ImagineKate on February 23, 2015, 06:22:53 AM
Ack! Frozen pipes!!! Had a couple. Taking today off and fixing them. Not fun!

I leave the kitchen sink trickling from around January until April. It's cheap insurance. Have a nice Plumbers Crack Day!

Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 23, 2015, 07:52:54 AM
I leave the kitchen sink trickling from around January until April. It's cheap insurance. Have a nice Plumbers Crack Day!

Hugs, Devlyn

Actually this one was a baseboard which malfunctioned due to a defective zone valve. So I'm replacing both.

The drains in my cellar are right against the granite block foundation,  I have more trouble keeping them clear. I can get water in, I just can't get rid of it sometimes.

  The Alberta Clipper came by my area and left. 3 days of snow, but only 8" out of the expected 13" fell with half melting on the pavement. I watched a lot of YouTube videos this weekend and the same Roto-Rooter commercials about freezing pipes came up. For those in the East, a severe plumbers warning is in effect!

Joelene

Gah I hate plumbing! I ran out of nitrile gloves so I used vinyl I usually use for food prep (I dont like my hands smelling like garlic or meat for days). BIG mistake! Now my hands are all dirty with solder flux, copper oxide and other assorted crud, below my nails too, ugh!

Anyway it's fixed. Just had to let the bread dissolve.

This morning it was minus double digits in most parts of the county. I saw -8.5 before I left the house at 6:30. Kiddies still have school though, but a few are closed.

"So help me God, when I get out of here here I'm going to peck that groundhog right in the head."

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Heard on the radio that another is due to hit me Sunday night.

More heating system woes. One zone was stuck open. New zone valve needed. I shut off that zone at the boiler for now.

Schools are on 2 hour delay today. Just dropped ours off. The principal was her usual self lecturing the students. School buses have tons of problems around here and one of my friends is pissed because her son's bus didn't come after she waited more than an hour.

When is this winter/snow finally going to end?? I just hope that there is actually a decent spring and not one of those "everything is frozen on the ground" until June kind of years. Even my huskies are having a hard time getting around in the yard these days and they're snow dogs :)

More of this stupid annoying snow today, and I'm late to pick up my children.

I really wasn't made for winter. I want to get out of this stupid state so badly.

Would you believe I moved to New York to get away from snow? Where I grew up we would get a foot or more per week when I was growing up. It reached 40° below and in the summer 120°. (The 120° was fahrenheit)

Time to move again.

Quote from: Dee Walker on March 03, 2015, 06:39:30 PM
Would you believe I moved to New York to get away from snow? Where I grew up we would get a foot or more per week when I was growing up. It reached 40° below and in the summer 120°. (The 120° was fahrenheit)

Time to move again.

Where did you live? Colorado or something? Vermont?

Yes, I do need to move. I hear Texas is nice. Probably DFW or Austin. Austin has a whole queer scene going on. I would fit right in?

Austin or South FL Sounds nice. Lake Worth, FL also has a nice Queer scene (and my supportive parents live there.) I'm getting really tired of this weather.

Just got home not too long ago, fired up the wood stove. House is 70 from gas heat but the wood stove saves me money and makes it a nice and toasty 80.

Sydney, if you move I'll come visit.

Quote from: ImagineKate on March 03, 2015, 09:16:46 PM
Where did you live? Colorado or something? Vermont?

Yes, I do need to move. I hear Texas is nice. Probably DFW or Austin. Austin has a whole queer scene going on. I would fit right in?

Michigan. Lake effect snow is horrendous.

It's bad enough my water keeps freezing despite my best effort to keep it from doing so, but it's even worse to have the pipes to my water heater frozen while the cold water runs fine. It's like the weather is taunting me when all winter I've just been wanting a hot shower.

That said, I'm going to miss winter when it finally passes. It's truly my favorite season despite all of the crap that comes along with it.

 It's been warm for the past couple of days. I think it almost hit 60 today!

Quote from: ImagineKate on March 09, 2015, 08:51:55 PM
It's been warm for the past couple of days. I think it almost hit 60 today!

Y'all are gonna pay for that later this week too.

Guess who's back,
tell a friend
Geese are back,
Geese are back,
Geese are back,
Geese are back
Geese are back
Geese are back...na na na nah!

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Sigh....it's snowing. I know we were like two inches away from the stupidest stupid that ever stupided or something like that, and now I think we're there.  :icon_no:

30C and a bush fire warning here!

Quote from: Cindy on March 15, 2015, 06:26:19 PM
30C and a bush fire warning here!

The B52's have a naughty song something to that effect.

https://youtu.be/cBd1i9w8p_c

Oh look, it's snowing again. I think I'll put on my sweater.....the one with the extra long sleeves......that tie behind my back!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 20, 2015, 05:00:36 PM
Oh look, it's snowing again. I think I'll put on my sweater.....the one with the extra long sleeves......that tie behind my back!

Its in the 70's here and I've got some windows open and enjoying the fresh air coming into the house.

Quote from: marsh monster on March 20, 2015, 05:02:53 PM
Its in the 70's here and I've got some windows open and enjoying the fresh air coming into the house.

Oh, so am I! There's just white floaty stuff in my fresh air.

Bloody snow just wouldn't give up! We got a coating this morning. Followed by a complete melt of almost everything this afternoon. Followed by flurries, high winds and a power outage tonight. Thankfully the generator was there so my kids didn't cry too long in the dark.

Sunny today! Had our easter egg hunt. It was gorgeous outside. Can't wait for 90 degree weather!