5 inches and counting

[..]

I know it's a dusting compared to what some of you suffer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIqPKFMad5M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9INlAZ3jl5U


View from the kitchen door.

[DDT (12)]

Paul,

Hope y'all are all stocked up on water, food, and TP! Lovely to look at... a biatch to go out in! Power still on, I trust...?

DDT

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Paul,

Hope y'all are all stocked up on water, food, and TP! Lovely to look at... a biatch to go out in! Power still on, I trust...?

DDT

Stocked and prepared. I can't answer your final question. Don't want to curse it.

[DDT (12)]

Paul,

We're all crossing our fingers for y'all! Hope all our brethren & sistren get through this OK! I only have to deal with cold blustery winds and dampness everywhere... the rain has let up here in Montgomery, but... Yep, I'm definitely still hunkered down!

DDT

[Chrisj CMA]

I guess that's 5 "man" inches since the tape says 3 3/4. 

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Just cold rain and wind here as of now . On a brighter note the new gutter I installed across the back of the house is working great 

[..]

I guess that's 5 "man" inches since the tape says 3 3/4. 

You need your glasses to see my blurry photo.

[shape]

Suffer is the correct word. Actually I wouldn't mind but I'll probably be getting up at 2am to plow the stuff. We are forecasted about a foot and a half where I'm at. Been a relatively snow free winter till now.

[Chrisj CMA]

I guess that's 5 "man" inches since the tape says 3 3/4. 

You need your glasses to see my blurry photo.

Ok yes, you gotta squint and hold the measuring tape just right my apologies

[hubcapsc]

At least five inches here too... and windy... I trudged out to feed the horses
not long ago, there's a small tree I'll have to cut out of the right-of-way
sometime today...

I scraped the snow off my pickup truck and the mini. I don't expect the mini
to move in the next few days, but there's no need to let all that mess
turn into a solid block of ice on the mini (or the truck...) ...

I heard crashing trees out in the woods, I went down in there and checked
one of them out after feeding the horses.

I have been making a place where I can safely run a couple of quiet multifuel
generators I got last spring, I hope I don't need them. My house is little, but
three oil-filled electric radiators won't be making me comfortable about my
water pipes if the power is out tomorrow when it is 22... (that's a low
temperature for me...)

-Mike

[Rams]

I just got back home from a trip up to Lake Quivira, KS, it was 64*F when I left Hattiesburg, MS, drove through some hazardous snow/ice conditions through AR.   It was 8*F in Lake Quivira upon arrival.   Could not wait to get back home.   This picture reinforces my happiness to be where I am.   Yuck 
Enjoy that snow.   Chains on the Valkyrie? 

Rams

[DDT (12)]

Paul,

About that reference you made to 'curse' regarding mention of a power outage... Well, I bragged a bit about no snow here, then... Yep, snowing rather hard here in ol' Montgomery right now! Too warm for any accumulation, but... I think I'll shut up now...

DDT

[..]

Paul,

About that reference you made to 'curse' regarding mention of a power outage... Well, I bragged a bit about no snow here, then... Yep, snowing rather hard here in ol' Montgomery right now! Too warm for any accumulation, but... I think I'll shut up now...

DDT

[Oss]

Guess that seems like a lot to you southerners

Be nice if it gets as warm as 22

it was 14 when I took my walk this morning   Hope that white stuff misses us tonight

Mike,  I have a kind of space age blanket that goes over the windshield and has elastic that goes over the side view mirrors

no more scraping the windshield free of ice in the morning

Cheap and effective 

[..]

To boldly go where no dog has gone before

[..]

Took him up the steps to the narrow road and let him off the leash. He went nuts finding  the deepest layer of snow he could find along the edge of the pasture opposite us.. Now he's inside laying by the heater.

[Chrisj CMA]

Well it's 39' here. Rain dried up so I guess I'll be riding to church after all 

[old2soon]

         That white "gift" passed thru yesterday leaving us 3 or 4" and now high today mid 20s!  Yeah I just looked and I Am STILL in Southern Missouri!  But plenty of the essentials-coffee bacon eggs sausage biscuits and such like!  RIDE SAFE

[0leman]

Glad you folks are enjoying the weather we let slip pass us after depositing white stuff here.   It has been a January thaw the last 5-6 days.   Temps have been in the high 40's, white has gone, ice has gone, roads are clear.  Did get in a 100 miler two days ago. 

Now waiting for a small storm coming in tonight.  Don't expect much as most of recent storms have been going north of us.  Not complaining cause, we do need the moisture in the mountains. 

[scooperhsd]

I just got back home from a trip up to Lake Quivira, KS, it was 64*F when I left Hattiesburg, MS, drove through some hazardous snow/ice conditions through AR.   It was 8*F in Lake Quivira upon arrival.   Could not wait to get back home.   This picture reinforces my happiness to be where I am.   Yuck 
Enjoy that snow.   Chains on the Valkyrie? 

Rams

Ron - you should have given us a call !

[Jess from VA]

At least five inches here too... and windy... I trudged out to feed the horses
not long ago, there's a small tree I'll have to cut out of the right-of-way
sometime today...

I scraped the snow off my pickup truck and the mini. I don't expect the mini
to move in the next few days, but there's no need to let all that mess
turn into a solid block of ice on the mini (or the truck...) ...

I heard crashing trees out in the woods, I went down in there and checked
one of them out after feeding the horses.

I have been making a place where I can safely run a couple of quiet multifuel
generators I got last spring, I hope I don't need them. My house is little, but
three oil-filled electric radiators won't be making me comfortable about my
water pipes if the power is out tomorrow when it is 22... (that's a low
temperature for me...)

-Mike

How far is your new shed to the house?   My generator sits in the closest shed to the house, and I have a custom made heavy gauge flexible cable to back power the house (though an exterior 220 4-prong twist plug) (about 30-35 feet).  

I just open one door and stick the jenny so it exhausts out the door.  It's good keeping it out of the weather.  

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Measured in the same place.

[hubcapsc]

How far is your new shed to the house?

Practically in another zip code... I made a couple of
"runways" off my back porch that I can wheel the
generators  out to when needed. I didn't know how I was
going to keep the generators out of the weather for a while,
in the last few days I made this roof. As I've watched
the snow blow in, and imagined rain, I've imagined
a couple of walls, we'll see how that goes. My friends
down the road did the turn-key Generac thing which
powers their whole house, all I'll have is four 20
amp circuits (not connected to my house wiring)...





You can see the old unused doghouse I built 25 years
ago in the background of the first picture, a great place
for some propane tanks... unlike gas, I think I can store
propane, I hope that is correct...

Lumber was going down in price, but is back up now...

-Mike

[..]

How far is your new shed to the house?

Practically in another zip code... I made a couple of
"runways" off my back porch that I can wheel the
generators  out to when needed. I didn't know how I was
going to keep the generators out of the weather for a while,
in the last few days I made this roof. As I've watched
the snow blow in, and imagined rain, I've imagined
a couple of walls, we'll see how that goes. My friends
down the road did the turn-key Generac thing which
powers their whole house, all I'll have is four 20
amp circuits (not connected to my house wiring)...





You can see the old unused doghouse I built 25 years
ago in the background of the first picture, a great place
for some propane tanks... unlike gas, I think I can store
propane, I hope that is correct...

Lumber was going down in price, but is back up now...

-Mike

Get a big propane tank and fit a ventless fireplace in the house. Keep ypu warm.

[hubcapsc]

Get a big propane tank and fit a ventless fireplace in the house. Keep ypu warm.

Open flame in my unfinished shack-in-the-woods-I-built-myself
would be insane  ... wood stove soon maybe, after a little
more interior work...

-Mike

[Jess from VA]

I like that generator shelter.  

Easier and cheaper than built walls, you could make some roll down fabric walls to drop as needed.  Either weighted at the bottom or tie-offs.  Canvas or vinyl or...

Smaller propane tanks like ordinary 20's will store fine, except if they get very cold they can flow poorly to a generator (unlike the great big household tanks).  Seems cold like that is unlikely in SC (for very long).  If there was trouble, you could bring one (at at time) inside to warm up (away from the stove). This cold issue was what made me go with gas for my generator (though it is convertible to propane with a kit).  Storing 15 20-gal tanks in the house seemed like a very bad idea (in my utility room with the gas furnace, gas water heater, electrical panel, dryer and washer).  My 20-30 gals of gas are out in the sheds too.

In boy scouts we had wall tents with roll up walls that stayed up all season.  We'd roll the walls up to just a canopy in hot weather, then down for bad weather.  



Premade walls of various sizes can be purchased.

[hubcapsc]

Easier and cheaper than built walls, you could make some roll down fabric walls to drop as needed.

It would be easier for me to use wood and end up with something I
might like... Stanley Steamer's motorcycle shed is kind of like the
picture you posted, it works really well. He recently got a new
fabric shell for it, I think it cost hundreds of dollars.

I imagined a couple of roll down tarp walls some yesterday, and
then imagined how I would make the wood walls... I usually imagine
this that and the other thing and then end up moving on one
of them... 

-Mike

[scooperhsd]

Our Boy Scout summer camp had tents similar to that, except they was no deck for the floor.

[..]

Get a big propane tank and fit a ventless fireplace in the house. Keep ypu warm.

Open flame in my unfinished shack-in-the-woods-I-built-myself
would be insane   ... wood stove soon maybe, after a little
more interior work...

-Mike

Most are glass doored and come with a remote.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ventless+fireplace&t=newext&atb=v1-1&iax=images&ia=images

[csj]

After this big blob of a storm passes over two great lakes, it'll drop 10" to 15" through midday tomorrow.

Snowblower no start. Cardiac muscle gonna get a lotta work pushin shovel.

[cookiedough]

At least five inches here too... and windy... I trudged out to feed the horses
not long ago, there's a small tree I'll have to cut out of the right-of-way
sometime today...

I scraped the snow off my pickup truck and the mini. I don't expect the mini
to move in the next few days, but there's no need to let all that mess
turn into a solid block of ice on the mini (or the truck...) ...

I heard crashing trees out in the woods, I went down in there and checked
one of them out after feeding the horses.

cardboard under the windshield wipers on front windshield prevents ice from being on glass and easier to shrug off the snow pulling cardboard out.

keep house at 54-55 degrees or so will be fine no pipes freezing/bursting up unless poorly insulated in spots.

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OK, that's enough.

Everyone got their pretty snow photos.

ENOUGH ALREADY.

Gotta clear the footbridge again and it's going to be 30F today.

[hubcapsc]

And it is going to be 20 here tonight... ENOUGH ALREADY 

I'm done with my breakfast (thank you Lord for keeping the power on)
and now I'm gonna crunch my way over to the barn to feed the horses...

-Mike

[..]

And it is going to be 20 here tonight... ENOUGH ALREADY 

I'm done with my breakfast (thank you Lord for keeping the power on)
and now I'm gonna crunch my way over to the barn to feed the horses...

-Mike

Low of 11F forecast here. SWOP? 

[hubcapsc]

And it is going to be 20 here tonight... ENOUGH ALREADY 

I'm done with my breakfast (thank you Lord for keeping the power on)
and now I'm gonna crunch my way over to the barn to feed the horses...

-Mike

Low of 11F forecast here. SWOP? 

No thanks... it got 12 here once and the water pipe to my bathtub froze (but
did not break)... I dutifully go into the crawlspace each winter and look to
see that the insulation still looks OK, but I get nervous at 20 or below...

-Mike

[..]

And it is going to be 20 here tonight... ENOUGH ALREADY 

I'm done with my breakfast (thank you Lord for keeping the power on)
and now I'm gonna crunch my way over to the barn to feed the horses...

-Mike

Low of 11F forecast here. SWOP? 

No thanks... it got 12 here once and the water pipe to my bathtub froze (but
did not break)... I dutifully go into the crawlspace each winter and look to
see that the insulation still looks OK, but I get nervous at 20 or below...

-Mike

Did you know there are plug in heat tapes that come on at or around freezing?

Like this

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Frost-King-30-ft-Automatic-Electric-Heat-Cable-Kit-HC30A/100196471?=&irgwc=1&cm_mmc=afl-ir-150372-459920-&clickid=xKY1u4369xyITISWlOTDSSoxUkG3PsRJp16YVc0

We use them here at one end of the house under the kitchen in the crawl space. Other end of the house gets a faucet dripped.

[csj]

Temp is a relatively mild -7°C (20F). Got the snowblower running. My girl told me I was out there for 2 hours moving 13 inches of white stuff from our 15 car length driveway. Gotta go out and do another pass this aft.

If the roads become passable, then I'll go in town and do my folks driveway, which is also packed.

[pais]

I didn't take any pictures.
We up here in NE Ohio, Kent have about 13"-14"s on the ground. 24* degrees right now.
Snow blower won't start. That's a first for this trusty old Toro. Daughter, son and myself went out for a bit and put a dent in it.
It finally stopped snowing about a half hour ago.

[..]

Footbridge had about 10 inches on it. That stuff is heavy.

[Jess from VA]

IF the cold keeps the snow light and fluffy, my trusty Stihl packpack 600 magnum will blow two or three inches of the walk, drive, cars, patio and deck (and certain landscape that will break down), and just beats hell out of operating a shovel.  It won't do the depth a blower will handle, so you have to run the blower before it gets that deep.  It's noisy, but so much easier than any other methodology.  You need a good hat and maybe face cover because it creates it's own snowstorm.