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!

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.



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

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?

Our latest round of snow here in NWNJ




That's my grill. It was pretty clear the day before.