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:frown: They have been saying we were going to get a little snow "Flurries" for Christmas day . I checked the weather forecast a little while ago and the "Flurries" have changed to a "Blizzard Warning" . We are expecting 12" to 18" of "Flurries" with winds gusting to 40 mph .
I was hoping for a little shop time tomorrow , so much for that idea :mad:
 
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Butch, it's snowing in south Georgia. 2 inches here brings everything to a grinding halt because we are not prepared. A blizzard would be unthinkable. It must be this global warming stuff:)
 
Butch -- Merrry Christmas and enjoy the snow -- you cannot do much else (but shovel it). Sounds like we are both staying home -- could be worse and be in an airplort with flights being canceled.

Warmed up to 25 from single digits and is snowing --
 
randywa said:
I've always thought 12" to 18" in N.J. was just flurries. Kind of makes me miss Az. tho.
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Not really , We live on the coast and this area don't see too many big snow storms . 12" to 18" around here is the total for the entire winter season lately , that much in one storm is a 10 year event . A storm like this one , this early in the season is unusual . The town that I live in has had a very small buget for snow storms and it will most likely be all used up clearing this one so I'm hoping that we won't get too many more storms this winter or our property taxes will go through the roof to pay off the debt . This one is gonna shut things down for a day or two .
 
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ldb2000 said:
:frown: They have been saying we were going to get a little snow "Flurries" for Christmas day . I checked the weather forecast a little while ago and the "Flurries" have changed to a "Blizzard Warning" . We are expecting 12" to 18" of "Flurries" with winds gusting to 40 mph .
I was hoping for a little shop time tomorrow , so much for that idea :mad:
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Don't it make you proud that you are going to get more than the Poconos...Now how often do you get those "braggin' rights"
 
We even got a little white stuff yesterday and today, it was the closest thing to a white Christmas in MANY MANY years, total for the two days was about 1/4 inch.
 
Here in East Tennessee we have around 5" on the ground with a "little" more on the way. No way to clean, so we wait for the melt...just great...no heat in the shop.

Bob Stephens
Maynardville, TN
 
This has been a Christmas to remember , first our furnace went bad and we've had no heat in the house since last Tuesday (thankfully we have a nice fireplace) . The gas valve went bad on the furnace had to wait 3 days to get one (old furnace , parts had to be special ordered) . Spent all day yesterday taking the furnace apart then most of today installing the new valve and putting it back together . It's working great now though , perfect timing !!!
Now a Blizzard , what's next , a plague of locusts ?
 
ldb2000 said:
This has been a Christmas to remember , first our furnace went bad and we've had no heat in the house since last Tuesday (thankfully we have a nice fireplace) . The gas valve went bad on the furnace had to wait 3 days to get one (old furnace , parts had to be special ordered) . Spent all day yesterday taking the furnace apart then most of today installing the new valve and putting it back together . It's working great now though , perfect timing !!!
Now a Blizzard , what's next , a plague of locusts ?
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Butch,

Yea, I hear you. Sounds like I'm not the only one. Within the last two months I have had a car window broken out (luckily nothing was stolen), a large limb fell on the wife's truck, my laptop crashed, and my car has been in the shop for almost three weeks now. Glad to hear you got the heat working!
 
PTownSubbie said:
Butch,

We ended up with 11-12". That means in an area that is supposed to get snow, you should get a couple feet!!
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Well the NWS has now upped the totals for us .... again .... 1' to 2' ...yes that's 1 to 2 FEET of snow by the time it ends . There is now a state of emergency posted for NJ so only emergency vehicles are allowed on the roads . I guess that means , no work tomorrow :biggrin:
 
The same storm has me stranded in Quebec, I've got a 6 hour drive to get home in good weather. Damned if I'm going to try to drive through the mountains until it stops. Guess I'm here until Tuesday. Gotta go find a beer store and order in some pizza tomorrow.
 
Ok we didn't get the plague of locusts , but we did get over 20" of the white stuff . Then just to top it off the power went off when a tree came down on the wires down the street and took out the transformer . We haven't had power all day , or heat again (no power = no circulator pump) and even worse no IAP !!!! for the last 6 hours .
The wind is still howling and there are 4 foot snow drifts , the back of the car is covered above the trunk with a giant drift . My son has shoveled and salted the walk and his friend helped him clear the driveway but the car still has to be dug out so I can go to work tomorrow , I'm not looking forward to that drive .
 
We got 2 or 3 inches of snow out here. I was out at Dad's house, and we didn't suffer much due to bad roads or anything like that. Got pretty fortunate that the roads next to my house weren't an ice pit. Scary driving. Truns are banked badly and no one out here can handle driving in the stuff. I've done more than enough offroading to understand what I gotta do. Helps me not one bit when trapped behind someone riding their brakes uphill on a sheet of ice and doing 1 1/2 mph. My car started sliding backwards towards the truck behind me. I managed to save myself from an insurance seminar, but I was none too happy about it.
 
Hey Butch come up abit to the Plainfields and you can have abit extra snow. I am just plain beat. Even though I have a snow blower I still have to push it. I need a rear wheel drive job. I can not remember a storm like this. It is the wind that made it and is still making it so bad. They get the streets plowed and the wind blows it right back.

Just think Butch, next weekend 50's and chance of rain. Where do you think all that water is going??? Can you say basements??? I am so glad I bought a generator this summer. Just enough to keep the furnace running, a few lights on and of course IAP up and running.
 
We didn't get any snow here in CA, but it rained straight for three days, filling the catch basins and then the hillsides collapsed and the mud came down into the basins. So we had mud slides! This was what we woke up to last Wed. They are still out in force today clearing the mud. We couldn't leave the culda sac for a couple days - but the temps were good, we had electricity and turning was still an option - so not as bad as you have it. Hope you get dug out and electricity permanently restored.
Martin
 
Blessing All --- As the town council where i grew up concluded -- wait long enouth and it will melt -- who needs snow plows??

Still inches of snow falling here -- but the heavy snow months are coming. Hope you get gradulal warming and slow melting -- rain on snow = floods.

This too shall pass (having been stuck on a car in a blizzard I assure it is worse).
 
jttheclockman said:
Hey Butch come up abit to the Plainfields and you can have abit extra snow. I am just plain beat. Even though I have a snow blower I still have to push it. I need a rear wheel drive job. I can not remember a storm like this. It is the wind that made it and is still making it so bad. They get the streets plowed and the wind blows it right back.

Just think Butch, next weekend 50's and chance of rain. Where do you think all that water is going??? Can you say basements??? I am so glad I bought a generator this summer. Just enough to keep the furnace running, a few lights on and of course IAP up and running.
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No thanks for the extra snow , we got more then enough here !!! My snow mover , my 15 yo son Devon , has been hard at work most of the day clearing the walk and driveway (he's a great kid) but my 17 yo son Colin has done his best to avoid anything related to work , as usual :frown:
The township hasn't done very much with the side roads , at least here in the outer areas of the township . They put all thier effort into the Rt18 area and the downtown area but you can be darn sure they will boost our taxes to pay for the work done there .
All this snow , when melted , will end up in my basement . I used to love snow but now it's just a plain hassle , guess I'm getting old .
 
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