Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.
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So I wake up this morning and they are telling me we have 15 inches outside (near Pittsburgh Airport) and it is still snowing. This is the most I have witnessed since Thanksgiving of 1974 when I was 2 years old. I look outside and there is a man 3 doors down standing waist deep in the stuff futility trying to shovel his driveway.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
I look outside and there is a man 3 doors down standing waist deep in the stuff futility trying to shovel his driveway.
That was me. I am in DC area, huge mass (of snow) is causing the space we live in to bend ...
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I told my SO that I want to see if I can construct an igloo or at least tunnel in the snow drifts.
John
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I look outside and there is a man 3 doors down standing waist deep in the stuff futility trying to shovel his driveway.
That was me. I am in DC area, huge mass (of snow) is causing the space we live in to bend ...
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How much did you get? I have not watched the weather report in hours since the local Comcast cable is almost unwatchable at the moment analog or digital.
John
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How much did you get? I have not watched the weather report in hours since the local Comcast cable is almost unwatchable at the moment analog or digital.
John
The forecast is 20 to 30 inches, I think we have reached the minimum by now. I have dish network, can't watch anything on TV because the damn dish (located by the side of the house) has to be dugged out first.
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The forecast is 20 to 30 inches, I think we have reached the minimum by now. I have dish network, can't watch anything on TV because the damn dish (located by the side of the house) has to be dugged out first.
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I would say we are at 18 to 20 now and the snow is finally slowing down so the road crews can actually clear the road. It's a little hard to tell however because there are drifts that are 3 foot. My back yard close to the house definitively has more than 2 feet. I assume some of that fell off my roof last night.. BTW, after 4 hours of shoveling the man 3 doors down did eventually get his minivan out of his driveway.
John
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I would say we are at 18 to 20 now and the snow is finally slowing down so the road crews can actually clear the road. It's a little hard to tell however because there are drifts that are 3 foot. My back yard close to the house definitively has more than 2 feet. I assume some of that fell off my roof last night.. BTW, after 4 hours of shoveling the man 3 doors down did eventually get his minivan out of his driveway.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
after 4 hours of shoveling
On days like that, why even leave the house?
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John M. Drescher wrote:
after 4 hours of shoveling
On days like that, why even leave the house?
I would hope the reason was to go to work but I can only guess. I certainly am not bothering with the 2 to 3 feet of snow that is on my driveway well at least for today.
John
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I would hope the reason was to go to work but I can only guess. I certainly am not bothering with the 2 to 3 feet of snow that is on my driveway well at least for today.
John
Take some pics and post them here :-)
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I look outside and there is a man 3 doors down standing waist deep in the stuff futility trying to shovel his driveway.
That makes our 20cm seem piddly in comparison! Good luck, I hope you have a good stock of beer ;)
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It makes our 60F and bright sun seem like paradise. Wait -- it is paradise!
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Take some pics and post them here :-)
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkMy SO Kathy convinced me it was best that we shovel the driveway today instead of Sunday. After 3.5 hours of that I am in a lot of pain. I am going to rest for now. Maybe pictures later. The back yard has melted 8 inches since noon. I know that because it was two blocks higher on the wall we have in the back before the yard slopes upward to the woods.
John
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So I wake up this morning and they are telling me we have 15 inches outside (near Pittsburgh Airport) and it is still snowing. This is the most I have witnessed since Thanksgiving of 1974 when I was 2 years old. I look outside and there is a man 3 doors down standing waist deep in the stuff futility trying to shovel his driveway.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
15 inches outside (near Pittsburgh Airport) and it is still snowing
I'm about half-way between Baltimore and Washington and the same storm (stopped snowing about 4 hours ago) dropped 26 inches on me, non-drifted. I have 4 1/2 foot drifts on my back deck - we had 35 mph winds for most of the storm. Judy
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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John M. Drescher wrote:
15 inches outside (near Pittsburgh Airport) and it is still snowing
I'm about half-way between Baltimore and Washington and the same storm (stopped snowing about 4 hours ago) dropped 26 inches on me, non-drifted. I have 4 1/2 foot drifts on my back deck - we had 35 mph winds for most of the storm. Judy
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
It stopped here sometime around noon which was about 24 hours of continuous snow. Well at first it was a rain/snow mix. We did not really have any winds. We lost power for a few seconds at least 5 times during the evening / night (got to turn the UPSs on silent). And finally our cable is still on the fritz from about midnight last night to now it is mostly unwatchable blocky corruption / picture going in and out.. BTW, I hope you do not have to shovel the snow off the driveway. It took me and the SO about 3.5 hours to clear most of the driveway. I would have a snowblower if they were not sold out last month when we had snow (only a few inches) 8 or so days in a row.
John
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It stopped here sometime around noon which was about 24 hours of continuous snow. Well at first it was a rain/snow mix. We did not really have any winds. We lost power for a few seconds at least 5 times during the evening / night (got to turn the UPSs on silent). And finally our cable is still on the fritz from about midnight last night to now it is mostly unwatchable blocky corruption / picture going in and out.. BTW, I hope you do not have to shovel the snow off the driveway. It took me and the SO about 3.5 hours to clear most of the driveway. I would have a snowblower if they were not sold out last month when we had snow (only a few inches) 8 or so days in a row.
John
Luckily, no we didn't have to shovel it all. We managed to snag the guy that snow-blows our neighbor's stuff while he was doing their driveway and got him to do it for us during the afternoon. We only had to shovel the additional 2 inches that fell after he was done. I'm amazed that this guy was out and about. Technically, he wasn't supposed to be - the snow was still coming down and the county had declared a snow emergency which means that non-emergency driving was illegal. Saved us hours of work, though. Some of the drifts across the driveway were over 3 feet deep, judging by the edges of the snow banks. Judy
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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Luckily, no we didn't have to shovel it all. We managed to snag the guy that snow-blows our neighbor's stuff while he was doing their driveway and got him to do it for us during the afternoon. We only had to shovel the additional 2 inches that fell after he was done. I'm amazed that this guy was out and about. Technically, he wasn't supposed to be - the snow was still coming down and the county had declared a snow emergency which means that non-emergency driving was illegal. Saved us hours of work, though. Some of the drifts across the driveway were over 3 feet deep, judging by the edges of the snow banks. Judy
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
We were not so lucky. After we were almost finished a few trucks drove by with snow blowers. Not sure if the would have stopped if we tried to flag them down though.
John
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It makes our 60F and bright sun seem like paradise. Wait -- it is paradise!
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It makes our 60F and bright sun
I hate you.
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John M. Drescher wrote:
after 4 hours of shoveling
On days like that, why even leave the house?
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So I wake up this morning and they are telling me we have 15 inches outside (near Pittsburgh Airport) and it is still snowing. This is the most I have witnessed since Thanksgiving of 1974 when I was 2 years old. I look outside and there is a man 3 doors down standing waist deep in the stuff futility trying to shovel his driveway.
John
We had about 20 inches in Sarver (where 28 nicks butler county); and between the 2am friday night pendot truck turning around after it got stuck, and one of the two township trucks winding up in a ditch making pendot's effort a moot point I was stuck at my parents until sunday. One of the neighbor's said it was the most she's seen since 61.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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We had about 20 inches in Sarver (where 28 nicks butler county); and between the 2am friday night pendot truck turning around after it got stuck, and one of the two township trucks winding up in a ditch making pendot's effort a moot point I was stuck at my parents until sunday. One of the neighbor's said it was the most she's seen since 61.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Dan Neely wrote:
where 28 nicks butler county
I know 28 and bulter county. I was in butler the Friday before but only as far east as route 8.
Dan Neely wrote:
One of the neighbor's said it was the most she's seen since 61.
The local news said we had 21 inches with 25.7 in 1993 (which I do not recall at all) and no mention of the 1974 thanksgiving snow at all which I remembered. However I guess at that age how would I know how much snow actually fell. Could have been 1 foot. Either way I do remember tunneling under the snow. Not sure at all how the parents let me do that. But this was 1974 and parents were definitely not as protective as they are now.
John
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Dan Neely wrote:
where 28 nicks butler county
I know 28 and bulter county. I was in butler the Friday before but only as far east as route 8.
Dan Neely wrote:
One of the neighbor's said it was the most she's seen since 61.
The local news said we had 21 inches with 25.7 in 1993 (which I do not recall at all) and no mention of the 1974 thanksgiving snow at all which I remembered. However I guess at that age how would I know how much snow actually fell. Could have been 1 foot. Either way I do remember tunneling under the snow. Not sure at all how the parents let me do that. But this was 1974 and parents were definitely not as protective as they are now.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
The local news said we had 21 inches with 25.7 in 1993
I remember the flood the following spring much more than the actual snow from that storm.
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Dan Neely wrote:
where 28 nicks butler county
I know 28 and bulter county. I was in butler the Friday before but only as far east as route 8.
Dan Neely wrote:
One of the neighbor's said it was the most she's seen since 61.
The local news said we had 21 inches with 25.7 in 1993 (which I do not recall at all) and no mention of the 1974 thanksgiving snow at all which I remembered. However I guess at that age how would I know how much snow actually fell. Could have been 1 foot. Either way I do remember tunneling under the snow. Not sure at all how the parents let me do that. But this was 1974 and parents were definitely not as protective as they are now.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
I know 28 and bulter county. I was in butler the Friday before but only as far east as route 8.
OK. Race fans excepted (Lenerville speedway) most people in the area have no idea that Sarver even exists.
John M. Drescher wrote:
The local news said we had 21 inches with 25.7 in 1993 (which I do not recall at all)
We had 3 big storms dropping over a foot of snow wet enough to make snowballs with in a 2 week period. The fort I built had an interior area of 3.5x5.5 feet with 2 short and 1 long wall. The walls were chest high on me (probably around 4 feet) 2 were 4 feet thick at the base, somewhat thinner on top since I couldn't lift balls as big as I could roll. The third was only half as thick since I ran out of snow before finishing. The older kids across the street who'd been bullying me never realized I didn't actually have any ammo behind the walls. :D I don't think any of those storms dumped more than about 16" where I grew up though.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
