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snow ****in'

Been windy, rainy & occasional flakes here already. Will be getting much windier.

I'm thinking about letting whatever falls melt away, as long as I can get out to Roxies before Sunday.
 
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Not one single flake yet. It's getting windy out there but right now it's totally dry. Very odd.
 
Well, no snowblower for us. Two wonderful men rang our bell this morning & I happily paid them $40 to do our driveway & sidewalk. (We're a corner lot, there's lots of sidewalk.) DH thinks we're $609 ahead by paying them, I still want a snowblower. :lol:
 
dragonfly said:
Well, no snowblower for us. Two wonderful men rang our bell this morning & I happily paid them $40 to do our driveway & sidewalk. (We're a corner lot, there's lots of sidewalk.) DH thinks we're $609 ahead by paying them, I still want a snowblower. :lol:
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If this is your last storm, they'll be on clearance soon. Go for one then.
 
Think I made a major miscalculation. Only an inch out there so far, but every evergreen is bent way over from the weight. Every single tree branch is coated, this is extremely wet snow. Didn't buy gas for the blower :gah:
At least my car has a full tank & there's a gas siphon kicking around somewhere. . :gah:

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Worse, we're down to 2 bananas. :gah:

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:gah: Snowing so hard right now I can't see some trees that are 50ft away.
 
dragonfly said:
Well, no snowblower for us. Two wonderful men rang our bell this morning & I happily paid them $40 to do our driveway & sidewalk. (We're a corner lot, there's lots of sidewalk.) DH thinks we're $609 ahead by paying them, I still want a snowblower. :lol:
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I agree with your DH cuz sometimes it is way easier to pay someone, even if you have a snowblower :)

ennui said:
Think I made a major miscalculation. Only an inch out there so far, but every evergreen is bent way over from the weight. Every single tree branch is coated, this is extremely wet snow. Didn't buy gas for the blower :gah: NOW you know why you are getting so much snow. :)
At least my car has a full tank & there's a gas siphon kicking around somewhere. . :gah:
Worse, we're down to 2 bananas. :gah:

:gah: Snowing so hard right now I can't see some trees that are 50ft away.
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NOW you know why you are getting so much snow. :)
 
Ennui, did the last snow ever melt? How many inches have you had this year?

The first time I met my dad, which was about 10 years ago, I went to MA to meet his family. I was shocked when I got there because they had about 3' of snow. :faint: He thought nothing of it. Which is reminding me...his wife went on vacation while I was there and the entire time I was there I vacuumed constantly because of the sand that would get tracked throughout the house. Why doesn't NE use salt?!
 
eecwz said:
I agree with your DH cuz sometimes it is way easier to pay someone, even if you have a snowblower :)

NOW you know why you are getting so much snow. :)
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Originally I left my car parked in front of my house, but moved it down to the street end of the driveway last night, just in case. Hand shoveling several hundred feet of driveway is not my idea of fun.
 
dragonfly said:
Ennui, did the last snow ever melt? How many inches have you had this year?

The first time I met my dad, which was about 10 years ago, I went to MA to meet his family. I was shocked when I got there because they had about 3' of snow. :faint: He thought nothing of it. Which is reminding me...his wife went on vacation while I was there and the entire time I was there I vacuumed constantly because of the sand that would get tracked throughout the house. Why doesn't NE use salt?!
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I was down to just a few inches of snow, and only in areas under deep tree cover. My driveway had turned to soft, & in places, squishy mud. The oil delivery truck left deep ruts yesterday. :gah:

This is New England, we get snow. Sometimes we get tons of it.

As far as salt, my town uses very little because town water comes from underground aquifers.

There are certain state/interstate highways I avoid in every storm because that area's state DPW crews never use salt, partially because of aquifers, partially because of local dept head's choice. There are always accidents there because of road ice.

My town & many here are super-green, we recycle like crazy, ban the use of many lawn fertilizers and avoid salt to protect the water & land.

Some towns here get water from the Quabbin Reservoir and so they use road salt like crazy. Other towns, not fed by the Quabbin, & not as green, have local DPW heads who want bare roads, they salt heavily.

Salt is also more expensive than just sand. NE is notorious for being frugal, but in most cases here the lack of salt is an environmental/green issue, not money.
 
It finally started snowing within the past hour. Just 24 hours off their original forecast. :tap:

Nothing is sticking yet. It doesn't seem to be the big heavy wet flakes - but it's very windy so they're coming down sideways.
 
Weatherguys just updated to likely 14" right HERE. :faint:
Hate hearing my town & the contiguous towns mentioned as the **** jackpot area. Ten inches wasn't bad enough for them. :gah:


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I am being screwed for not getting more gas for the blower, should never have tempted fate. :gah:


Should be enough gas to at least dig out the car & plow wall, I hope. :hides:
The rest of the driveway can melt off.
 
Sorry ennui - that sucks!

So far we've had snow off and on all day but absolutely nothing is sticking. Not sure if it will start to stick overnight but I'm really hoping it doesn't amount to much.
 
I am so **** sick of winter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still snowing like crazy [over an inch per hour] and there's already well over a foot. :gah:

Why didn't I buy more gas & more importantly, WTH didn't I bring the snow blower up to the front door before over a foot of snow fell? :hb:
I will never make those mistakes again, ever. :hb:


Thank G-d that Dad is here so I don't have to worry about him, and thankfully I got my oil delivery in before this storm hit.





They are now saying maybe more than 18" by the time this ends :gah:




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:surrender: Well the snow started to pick up overnight and it stuck. I'd say we've got about 5"-6" out there right now and it's supposed to go until around noon. Schools were going to have a 2 hour delay but then quickly decided just to cancel instead.

For a storm we were waiting 2 days for, they sure did a crappy **** job of clearing the roads. Not sure what the hell happened - around this area they usually do a really good job.

I'm blaming myself for this - brought my last banana to work yesterday and stuck it in a drawer. It was a little ripe already. When I opened the drawer towards the end of the day it stunk so I ended up tossing the banana. :hides:
 
eiramnoaj said:
I'm blaming myself for this - brought my last banana to work yesterday and stuck it in a drawer. It was a little ripe already. When I opened the drawer towards the end of the day it stunk so I ended up tossing the banana. :hides:
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:duh: You're supposed to keep it in your purse.
 
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