The Big One! [blizzard Of '16]

[Ekh]

When I was a lad in NW Connecticut we once were snowed in for a week -- they couldn't find the steep hillly road leading to our place, so it couldn't be plowed. No power, so no well water, no heat -- we toughed it out, kept the fire going and slept in that room, cooked on the hearth -- but my dad caught a case of pneumonia. We moved nearer the village a year later. But yes, Virginia, (and MD and VA and WVA) there is life without comfort.

 

[Ekh]

Attached some snow picts. I would say we got over a foot so far, and its still coming down as can be seen by the picts. (9:05 am here).

We pay a service (a fixed amount each year) to do our landscaping, and to plow our roads when it snows. When we have only a inch they are always out there scrapping away. This is due to nobody will hire them to plow, so they scrape the pavement to show us they are earning there money. However, when we have a real snow they are nowhere to be found, as they can get money from non-customers to plow.

As the said in the movie Casino, "Its always about the FN money".

How is everyone that is going thru this doing? Feel free to share your experience and/or attach picts.

Definitely a dump! (the snow, not your place!)

 

[McBrew]

When I was a lad in NW Connecticut we once were snowed in for a week -- they couldn't find the steep hillly road leading to our place, so it couldn't be plowed. No power, so no well water, no heat -- we toughed it out, kept the fire going and slept in that room, cooked on the hearth -- but my dad caught a case of pneumonia. We moved nearer the village a year later. But yes, Virginia, (and MD and VA and WVA) there is life without comfort.

Being without water is the worst! Where I grew up, we lost power quite often and we were on a well. Preparing for a storm involved filling lots of containers with water. Later on, we got a generator capable of running the well pump.

Where we now live, we have municipal water and gas. The only thing I need for heat is a gen that can run either the gas fireplace blower or the furnace blower. We can't run the AC off the gen if it goes out in the summer, but if it happens again, I'll get a window unit to use for emergencies and air condition the master bedroom. For now, I can run the AC in the camper off the generator if it comes down to it.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

well, I'll add to snow stories, I did my un grad work @ State U Oswego. If you don't know , it's on the SE corner of Lake Superior, and like Buffalo it's called the "lake effect" snow. Above 12" public schools might be closed, 1/2 the winter had to ride around with a ball on top of antenna (chrome collapsible), as intersections were banked too high , you couldn't see cars.
Had one storm(over 6' in 3 days) could walk off roofs from second floor, and a caterpillar on treads, got bogged down and abandoned, and just 30 miles South, Syracuse would get 1/2 the amount.
Watertown NE got it worse!!!

 

[JEBar]

Someone had best remind said boss that if he feels threatened enough that he isn't coming in AND he requires his help to come in AND one of his help is injured in transit THEN said boss may very well have opened himself up to a lawsuit for reckless endangerment.

trust me, I was thinking along the same line and I have no doubt I would have been the one to push it

 

[WilliamH]

well, I'll add to snow stories, I did my un grad work @ State U Oswego. If you don't know , it's on the SE corner of Lake Superior, and like Buffalo it's called the "lake effect" snow. Above 12" public schools might be closed, 1/2 the winter had to ride around with a ball on top of antenna (chrome collapsible), as intersections were banked too high , you couldn't see cars.
Had one storm(over 6' in 3 days) could walk off roofs from second floor, and a caterpillar on treads, got bogged down and abandoned, and just 30 miles South, Syracuse would get 1/2 the amount.
Watertown NE got it worse!!!

Correction ...... Lake Ontario......

 

[TeamCoconutOreo]

Not trying to make anyone feel bad, but this is my sunset for blizzard 2016 just south of Tucson, AZ. By the way it's about 70 degrees.

 

[McBrew]

Finally had our road plowed this afternoon and got out in the Outback.

 

[JEBar]

46+ hrs later, the power is back on at our home in NC .... for them, heavy accumulations of ice have been the major problem

 

[Ian442]

I started shoveling at 8 am. got the Escalade out by 12. then my neighbor let me and the other neighbor run his snowplow to get the rest out. So two out of the three cars are unburied and i got to work for about 630 tonight. Covering until someone gets here in the AM. $$$