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Steve Schlumpf
02-14-2015, 11:05 AM
A warning to all my friends living in the Northeast - this snowstorm is nasty - so get prepared!! Temps have fallen to 0* and will continue to drop. Winds are intense and are expected to get gusts over 50 mph. All of our highways are closed or in the process of closing - even had reports of snowplows turning back because of the conditions! This is the first time I ever remember have the emergency management system activated due to a storm and there are warnings not to venture outside because if you get stranded - there is no way for anyone to reach you!

So, if you need food, gas, whatever - get it before the storm hits your area because if it is anything like what we are experiencing - you will not be doing any traveling!

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Stay warm everyone!!

Dave Zellers
02-14-2015, 11:14 AM
Awwwwwwwwww shucks.

Just another day in February. :)

Ken Fitzgerald
02-14-2015, 11:20 AM
Be safe Steve!

I wish we had that problem. The mountains around us are looking bare for this time of year. We are experiencing unseasonably warm weather. It's supposed to be in the 60's F again today. The streams are swollen with snow run off similar to what we normally find in June. It's going to be a long, dry summer and the forest fire season could be incredible!

George Bokros
02-14-2015, 11:23 AM
That storm is going to kick Boston in the hiney. Here NEO we are due for some snow 3-5 inches I believe, high winds and the high temp tomorrow is to be a whopping 0* burrrrr!!!

Bill Orbine
02-14-2015, 11:55 AM
Another snowstorm?!? :( I can't stand global warming!

Larry Edgerton
02-14-2015, 12:04 PM
Steve, its about noon her and it is just starting to blow, no snow yet. You are in about as bad a spot as there is this side of the Mississippi. I'm 30 miles south of the bridge. Lake effect never really happened this year here. They say it is because the lakes never really warmed up last year.

If I could figure out how to make a living up there I would be right up there suffering with you. Used to have a cabin in Sidnaw when times were better, miss that place.

Stay warm. You have beer I hope! :eek:

Larry

Steve Schlumpf
02-14-2015, 12:15 PM
Larry - knew this was coming but have to admit it has been a little more intense than expected. Made the grocery run a couple of days ago and have enough beer to see me though... I hope! Course, I do have snowshoes just in case I need to make an emergency beer run!

Been through Sidnaw many times - great area for a camp. We have some land just south of Kiva and love to get there whenever we can!

Rich Riddle
02-14-2015, 1:58 PM
My friend asked if we wanted to use his cabin not far from you in Christmas, Michigan near the casino. There had to be a good reason for us to decline; guess this was it. The UP gets nasty in September; can't imagine it today.

Brian Elfert
02-14-2015, 2:58 PM
Here in Minneapolis we have had 20 inches of snow so far this winter. Normal for the entire winter is usually around 60 inches. We don't get nearly as much snow as places that get lake affect snow like Chicago and Buffalo. We probably won't get any more snow for the rest of the winter now that I just bought a snow blower attachment for my riding mower.

Our temperatures have been crazy this year. We started off November with temps around zero just a week into the month. We have had stretches of both very cold and very warm weather this year. The temp today is 20 degrees colder than normal.

Mike Cutler
02-14-2015, 3:03 PM
Thanks for the heads up Steve.

Boston may get kicked in the hiney, but it has to go through Worcester first, and they have 20+ more inches of snow on the ground than Boston. Worcester Ma. has been getting hammered.

Phil Thien
02-14-2015, 3:13 PM
I'm in Milwaukee and they were talking about your storm here a couple of days ago. Like, "for once we're on the right side of the lake."

Zero F and snow is not fun.

Dave Anderson NH
02-14-2015, 3:22 PM
Right now in southern NH we have had about 80" in the last 3 weeks. The last storm was Thursday but it only gave us about 3". Just now it is beginning to spit snow again so this must be the first bit of the 10-15" we are supposed to get tonight into tomorrow with winds of 35mph and gusts up to 65. Fortunately almost every bit of the snow we've had has been light and fluffy and easy to shovel/snowblow. The result is the 80" has compressed to about slightly over 3 feet as it settled. We've had 1 day get above freezing in the last 2 weeks, most days have been in the teens or low twenties and the nights are running about 8 above to 10 below. It has been the wind chill that has been making things tough with most days running anywhere from 5-20 mph and occasionally higher. We are used to snow and cold here, but rarely have we been hit with so much in such a short period of time. During those last 3 weeks my company has lost the equivalent of 5 full days of production time due to weather related shutdowns and weather related absences. I feel strange saying this, but I'm almost looking forward to mud season which comes slightly before Spring.

Bruce Page
02-14-2015, 3:35 PM
I don't want 6' of snow but 6" would be nice. Many of our plants are starting to bud.

Tony Zona
02-14-2015, 4:40 PM
Poor Boston.

Boston is the new Buffalo.

:)

Steve Schlumpf
02-14-2015, 5:14 PM
I know winter hits hard in certain areas and Boston sure seems to have been on the receiving end a lot this year... but thought I would share this just to put things a little more into perspective. :D

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Lee Schierer
02-14-2015, 5:37 PM
Erie, PA is currently fourth in the cities with populations over 100,000 snowiest cities in the US (http://goldensnowglobe.com/current-top-10-snowiest-cities/). I'm sure were making progress toward first today. We already have another 8-10 inches. Where I live south of the city we get 25-30% more snow than the city.

Larry Edgerton
02-14-2015, 6:08 PM
I know winter hits hard in certain areas and Boston sure seems to have been on the receiving end a lot this year... but thought I would share this just to put things a little more into perspective. :D



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We topped 140" last year, which hurt you guys because the snowmobilers stayed down here. Sorry. But good news! we are way off this year so all those noisy things are heading up your way. :)

Larry Edgerton
02-15-2015, 9:25 AM
-22 degrees this morning. My pressure switch which is outside on the well froze in the on position, blew the pressure WH relief valve in the basement which flooded, so I cleaned that up at 4:30 AM, now I have to go out and fix the pressure switch. Think I'll wait till it gets up to -10. Fun stuff!

On the plus side, we didn't get any snow! good thing because the tractor would not like to start this morning I figure.

Keith Outten
02-15-2015, 9:52 AM
We got a taste of the bad weather last night and this morning. No snow but temps in the upper teens and major wind. We lost power at 9:30 last night (SawMill Creek went down) and it was restored this morning. We have a wood stove in the house but no supplemental heating for the shop and it got pretty cold, I was a bit worried that some of my paint and other stuff would freeze. The machines in the shop held the heat well which kept the temps about freezing.

Jim Becker
02-15-2015, 10:12 AM
To coin a phrase..."The weather outside is frightful..."

While I realize that 6ºF with a wind-chill of -15ºF isn't quite as scary for folks "up north", our normal for this date is supposed to be 41ºF. :o And those poor folks up in the Boston area are getting hammered again...

Steve Schlumpf
02-15-2015, 10:19 AM
Jim, our average temps for this time of year are supposed to be in the mid-20s. Haven't seen that for a couple of years now but when you get down close to zero and have a wind on top of that, it gets your attention no matter where you live!

Today the fun begins - digging out! Just had a snowplow go down our road and have at least a 3' snowbank at the end of the drive to get rid of, in addition to whatever beautiful drifts 50 mph winds created yesterday!

George Bokros
02-15-2015, 11:28 AM
My pressure switch which is outside

My parents had a well and so did I and I never heard of putting the pressure switch outside. Can it be moved inside?

Chuck Wintle
02-15-2015, 11:32 AM
It seems this winter is very much like the winters i remember as a kid....lots of snow, unending cold and lots of wind. Old-fashioned winters are back in style.

Rick Potter
02-15-2015, 12:20 PM
Stay safe, you New England guys. I was raised in Cleveland, and remember real winters quite well, but nothing like you are getting this year.

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kevin nee
02-15-2015, 1:20 PM
306976 I got ready for today's storm yesterday.

Jerome Stanek
02-15-2015, 1:40 PM
I'm looking out right now and the sun is shining and no wind looks peaceful but it is just 4 degrees out there.

Paul McGaha
02-15-2015, 2:08 PM
7* this morning for us. And the wind blowing like crazy. I think we'll have a high temp today of around 15*. Pretty cold for this area.

Everybody stay warm.

PHM

Jim Matthews
02-15-2015, 4:41 PM
Used my roof rake yesterday.
Today it looks like I didn't.

30" in my driveway - dry, light and airy.
It could be MUCH worse.

Nearby Connecticut had a string of three Winters with ice taking down power lines.
This is just Adirondack snow with a lousy sense of direction.

Jason Roehl
02-15-2015, 5:02 PM
We seem to have missed out on much of the snow this year. Last year was a record-breaker for us with about 67" (average is about 22"). I think we still need a few inches to hit average. Temps have been maybe a bit below normal, though. This morning, my wife gave me some grief about not wearing a jacket to church--it was 8ºF when we left. I had on a v-neck undershirt and a dress shirt. :) I was even helping to diagnose a non-starting vehicle after church (11ºF) wearing said clothes for 10-15 minutes (no hat or gloves, either). You just have to force yourself to adapt, starting in the fall...

One thing we don't get here are the huge snowfalls. We got 18" from one storm about 10 years ago, and we've had a 12"-er or two in the last 20, but most of the time, 6-8" is a big storm for us. I would love a good 3 foot storm once or twice.

Lee Schierer
02-15-2015, 6:50 PM
-22 degrees this morning.

-16 here last night andit only got up to -5 today and it is already down to -11 at 7:00.

Pat Barry
02-16-2015, 8:18 AM
I know winter hits hard in certain areas and Boston sure seems to have been on the receiving end a lot this year... but thought I would share this just to put things a little more into perspective. :D

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You guys need a CNN stormwatcher team up there. Unfortunately its too far from the big news centers out east.

Steve Schlumpf
02-16-2015, 11:14 AM
You guys need a CNN stormwatcher team up there. Unfortunately its too far from the big news centers out east.

You got that right! :D

Lee Schierer
02-16-2015, 5:04 PM
It was -23 here last night. Some of our out door thermometers don't even go that low. Erie broke a 150 year old record for the coldest temperature. To top it off we lost power about 2:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. The house had cooled down to 55 before the power came back. Technically we had extreme low voltage. It read 48 volts on my volt meter. I pulled the main breaker to protect motors and such.

We have at least 30" on the ground. More in drifts, but we are in fifth place for snowiest US cities over 100,000 population. We're only 4-1/2" behind Boston.

Jim Matthews
02-16-2015, 5:38 PM
This storm has hit those dependent on mass transit, hardest.
Boston commerce doesn't depend on the "T" but the support
staff for markets, hospitals and day labor jobs do.

You can't have a rail service when your electrified rail is under 2 feet of snow.
There's just no place to put it, in old cities like Boston.

I can remember a Philadelphia Winter like this in the late 1990s.
Everything just stopped.

There's gonna be a lot of leaky roofs need fixin' by Spring,
including mine. Guess who will drop a heating wire along their 2nd story gutters?

Jason Roehl
02-17-2015, 8:54 AM
I hope this helps some of you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmN9xf8WUnc

Pat Barry
02-17-2015, 8:59 AM
This storm has hit those dependent on mass transit, hardest.
Boston commerce doesn't depend on the "T" but the support
staff for markets, hospitals and day labor jobs do.

You can't have a rail service when your electrified rail is under 2 feet of snow.
There's just no place to put it, in old cities like Boston.

I can remember a Philadelphia Winter like this in the late 1990s.
Everything just stopped.

There's gonna be a lot of leaky roofs need fixin' by Spring,
including mine. Guess who will drop a heating wire along their 2nd story gutters?
Jim,
Those heating wires can do more damage than the snow.
Not to mention the gigantic icicles they can create.

PS - I hope you are not on your roof like the Boston area guy with a gas snowblower I saw on TV

Jason Roehl
02-17-2015, 9:27 AM
PS - I hope you are not on your roof like the Boston area guy with a gas snowblower I saw on TV

I caught that, too. I got a chuckle out of that. Desperate times...

Rick Moyer
02-17-2015, 10:23 AM
I hope this helps some of you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmN9xf8WUnc
Don't think I'd try that on a shingled roof, at least not mine anyway.

Ken Fitzgerald
02-17-2015, 10:57 AM
How would you like to come to work only in February and March? By the guide, it was reported this guy takes 6 weeks each year working 8 hours a day to eliminate the snow from the rooftops in Yellowstone National Park. All this at an elevation probably over 7,000 feet above sea level.

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Notice his saw with a shovel handle sticking in the snow "bank". He cuts a block and leads it to the edge with his shovel by just tipping up the down hill leading edge. Then he pushes it over the edge.

Check out the tracks on the tour van in the first photo.

John Coloccia
02-17-2015, 11:02 AM
It's about 10 degrees here at the moment. I was out in my leather jacket, and it felt downright warm and mild. LOL.

Mike Cutler
02-17-2015, 11:23 AM
Pat Barry
" I hope you are not on your roof like the Boston area guy with a gas snowblower I saw on TV."

He was doing it wrong. You start at the top so that you have the snow below you for foot anchorage. The last section is done with a snow rake. If you start at the bottom you will be slipping all the way to the top. It's also safer by far with an electric snowblower. ;)

Seriously though, it's pretty foolish to do it on a pitched roof. It's very common on flat roofs. BTDT.

Dan Hintz
02-17-2015, 11:49 AM
Temps actually made it into the teens this morning... yesterday I drove to work in 7 degree "warm" air. The forecaster can't seem to get it right, though. Two days ago they claimed 6", we got 1, yesterday was supposed to be 6-9", and we got 3. Not complaining about the lack of snow, mind you, just that I know when they say 1" we'll get 12 to even out the averages.

I decided not to try out my new Ariens blower and just shoveled... it was really light and airy (a nice change from the usual wet and heavy stuff), and I needed the workout. I just wish the snowplow would clear the driveways of people who pay by dumping the load in front of ours.

Jason Roehl
02-17-2015, 12:31 PM
Don't think I'd try that on a shingled roof, at least not mine anyway.

I don't think it would be that big of an engineering challenge to keep it from catching the layers of shingles on its way up. There's no need to clear the last 1-2" of snow off a roof, just the several feet above that. I'd say probably a couple small caster wheels on the leading edge of the device would hold it up enough to make it work as demonstrated on a shingled roof.