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No propane within 30 miles.

Imagine if this were the real end of the world . Maybe there really isn’t as much stuff as we’d like to believe . Good luck all of you out there in TFF Land . If you can believe the TV weathermen this is going to be snowpocalypse and icemageddon combined and the electric system is going to be severely crippled .

 

[Fishmanic]

1 to 2 feet of snow in forecast for Sunday afternoon through Monday. I'm an old fart so I am leaving cleanup to a snow clearing company. Going to be the light fluffy type snow so that's one good thing. The most snow we've had in one storm for the last 3 years has been about 6 inches.

 

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1 to 2 feet of snow in forecast for Sunday afternoon through Monday.

That’s an awful lot of snow in a short period of time . What kind of temperatures are you expecting ?

 

[Fishmanic]

tonight it will be 7 degrees. Tomorrow afternoon will be about 20 degrees.

 

[Innesfan]

That’s an awful lot of snow in a short period of time . What kind of temperatures are you expecting ?

For NYC they are calling for 1-2" per hour from early Sunday AM til early evening, then a lighter rate through Monday. Temp outside currently at 5:30PM is 17F and falling. But I feel far worse for those south of us who will be getting ice.

You know the film, "The Day After Tomorrow"? We can walk to the NY Public library if needed...

 

[GaryE]

We have a different storm coming tomorrow evening, connected but coming at a weird angle. Snow and blowing snow, 25 cm or more over 24 hours.

So what do we do?

Batten down the hatches. Go to the grocery store and get some Storm Chips to snack and look out the window. It's cheap energy for shoveling. I have a roof, walls, good company and warm socks. There's nothing to be done but wait it out.

Snow in this kind of cold will be powdery, so we won't be able to see to drive. The prediction is high winds Monday morning, so it'll be on the move. All these flakes will fall many times, so the accumulation numbers won't be the key. It's possible the front of my house'll keep a dusting, and the back'll be buried.

When I was 12 I was caught in a true whiteout in a blizzard. The snow underfoot was moving as fast as the snow falling, and my brain simply decided that up and down had no more meaning. It was very disorienting. I'll never forget the feeling of losing all horizons. It was like floating - sensory deprivation. I had the sense to stand still til the very long funnel effect stopped. I've not experienced it since, and don't want to.

Today, even though we aren't as cold as the interior of the country, it was a frostbite wind. You could see mad activity all afternoon as people tried to get everything done before they'd have to go out after sundown, when the temps fall fast. It must be wild to live in the real north.

It's strange if you think of it. We can be surrounded in howling storms with waves of snow, and sit looking at tropical fish.

 

[Fishmanic]

I was out driving during the 1978 blizzard. It was a storm for the record books. During the blinding snow, I totally got lost. Luckily I had a cb radio and a trucker passed me. I called out to him and he told me where I was heading. I got home and pulled into the driveway and was relieved. On the news I heard that like an hour after I got off the road, dozens of cars got snowed in on the highway and people were stranded for hours on end till help arrived to take them out of their cars. I dodged a bullet that day.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

7.5 hours in and still snowing, 18 degrees F. Probably around 2 inches on the ground now s it's just covering the grass. No wind to speak of, the occasional breeze from the South. But it's nice and quiet and very peaceful.

 

[Fishmanic]

If you have a spare 16 minutes, here is a video of what is was like in 1978 when the historic blizzard hit in the northeast US. I remember the morning forecast said just a few inches of snow would fall.. It caught people off guard, as we got hit with close to 30 inches of heavy snow with up to 6 foot drifts burying cars and house entrances. I lived through this to tell the tale.

 

[gimme30]

^^^That's my kind of storm. Keeps the idiots locked into their lanes. Around here a cat can sneeze on the road and people lose their friggin' minds.

 

[GaryE]

7.5 hours in and still snowing, 18 degrees F. Probably around 2 inches on the ground now s it's just covering the grass. No wind to speak of, the occasional breeze from the South. But it's nice and quiet and very peaceful.

We can be snotty as snails and say "2 inches of snow?" but if where you are doesn't have the infrastructure, that's still trouble. Here, we invest heavily in snow clearing and prep in advance as a matter of course. I have AWD and snow tires with the car, and am an experienced snow driver. I watch new drivers behind the wheel, and you can see they're scared. They're also dangerous during their learning curve, and the dumb ones stay dangerous forever.

2 inches, 5cm - that's a normal ovenight fall.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

We can be snotty as snails and say "2 inches of snow?" but if where you are doesn't have the infrastructure, that's still trouble. Here, we invest heavily in snow clearing and prep in advance as a matter of course. I have AWD and snow tires with the car, and am an experienced snow driver. I watch new drivers behind the wheel, and you can see they're scared. They're also dangerous during their learning curve, and the dumb ones stay dangerous forever.

2 inches, 5cm - that's a normal ovenight fall.

I wish we had more snow. Right now it's freezing rain. I can see it coating the power lines already.
If I can make it to 3pm when it gets above freezing and changes to rain I think I'll be good.

 

[Magnum Man]

well, it's -13 degrees right now... I woke to flip laundry loads with the dryer vent flipped to "in house", it adds a lot of heat and moisture to the house... found one of my most questionable heaters, failed during the night, and tripped that breaker, a few aquariums were on that circuit, they had dropped to 70 degrees during the night... I unplugged that heater, the house is 48 degrees 1st thing this morning... ( for safety, the space heaters were turned to low, while we slept ) threw an extra blanket on the bed, before heading there last night... it makes it harder to get up, when the bed is warm, and the house is so cold... time to get a roaring fire started in the fireplace...

 

[GaryE]

I hope those furnace parts arrive soon, @Magnum Man . It used to be common for cheap flats in Montreal to have no heating systems, and we had to use space heaters very carefully. You'd get up early to heat up the flat, then turn it way down while you were at work. In the evening, you'd make it liveable again, then overnight, the cycle would restart. The space heaters caused a lot of fires. Eventually, a combination of subsidies and penalties got the landlords to install electrical heaters in most houses. - a major improvement in our cold climate.

I still had a tank, well insulated and with only livebearers, and 2 heaters.

My grandfather used to bail out of bed at five Am to shovel coal into the furnace. Central heating is a wonderful thing I hope you have again soon!

Here it's minus twenty something, and looking out to sea, the mist is deep and thick under a sunny sky. The storm is due this afternoon or evening, so with cloud cover, it may actually warm up. I know somewhere out there, some idiot is thinking this would be great for a polar bear swim. That guy is always out there somewhere, though often not for long.

 

[ghyti]

Heat wave. It is +6F here in southern Wisconsin. Much better than the -15 on friday morning and the -13 yesterday. No snow to speak of. Now that it has warmed up we did get a light dusting last night.