Who Else Is Getting Ready for Yet Another Nor'Easter Snow Storm?

We have survived.
Thankfully we did not get any of the high winds. We did not lose power.
However, we went from an 8-14" prediction to a 12-16" prediction to a 18-24" prediction.
We easily have drifts of 3ft. out in our yard. Our house is on a hill and it drifts crazy.
Neither my husband or I can shovel, we have no neighbor kids to hire to do it. Hopefully my husband can get the 4-wheel drive truck out of the driveway and we won't have to hire someone to plow and can just let it melt.
We bring our outdoor dog, Nellie, in the house during these storms. She stays in the kitchen as she has no house manners, has been an outdoor dog all her life. Walking her is a chore. I had to walk her through the deep drifts to the packed-down road to do her business!:eek: There just is no place for her to squat to do it anywhere else!
It started snowing around 7:15pm Friday night and by 8pm we had an inch already. It didn't stop until around 3pm Saturday(today). The heaviest came down overnight.

8pm Friday night after less than one-hour of snow falling:
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8am Saturday morning...you can't tell it's still snowing in this pic, it came down heavier and lighter though the day:
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Kitties watching birds outside the window at feeders:
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Snow on the outside window sill, most our windows had no view except the piles of snow on the ledges & drifted and stuck on the screens:
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Around 1pm Saturday afternoon:
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Looking out our basement door:
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My car is under there somewhere I think!
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3pm Saturday, the snow finally stopped...our back yard:
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The sun setting as if there'd never been a wicked snow storm the last 18 hours:
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I read something about 300,000 people being without power??!!?!

Everyone here ok?

OK, everybody report in! Who has power this morning?

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Originally Posted by Catty1

I read something about 300,000 people being without power??!!?!

Everyone here ok?

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We never lost power, but many of our friends have had problems with service. We're just wondering - can we possibly ship the snow we plow to Vancouver for the Olympics? It sounds like they need it. I'll post more pictures when I can get out - our door is frozen shut!

Never lost power here, just ambition. ;)

Our total I think was around 13-14" but the blowing and drifting was the worst.
I'm SO glad I'm not some of you who got in the 20"+ area!
We got lucky while shoveling. A plow came by and for $35 plowed the other half of the drive. Well worth it to me that's for sure!

No loss of power at my house.
We don't get a newspaper and I purposefully did not watch any news or weather reports yesterday because I was tired of hearing it as well as dealing with it. I knew it snowed a lot, so I watched pleasant stuff when I watched tv!
I do know that my on-line friends from North Jersey got very little snow. That's about all I know as far as reports on totals, etc.

I'm here and doing fine, but already have cabin fever. :eek: Thankfully, we never lost power, and the only damage is some tree limbs snapped under the weight of the snow.

It's a bright, clear, cold morning, and everything looks so beautiful - fresh and clean - for now anyway.

We got a revised total - closer to 2 feet now, but the drifts are terrible. Temps are supposed to stay below freezing all week, so we won't get much melting. And joy-joy-joy - another snow storm Tuesday night/Wednesday. The forecasters are tiptoeing around that one, but I heard one say that it could be another nor'Easter. We've already broken old records - this is the first winter ever in this area, to have 2 storms in one season that exceeded 20" per storm.

When does it all end??? - April maybe?????

Oh please, not another Nor'Easter!!!!!
I've had enough!
Now I'm even MORE afraid to listen to any news or weather reports.

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Originally Posted by Catty1

I read something about 300,000 people being without power??!!?!

Everyone here ok?

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I'm fine here, Candace. However there were a lot of power outages in the Pittsburgh area due to the heavy, wet snow breaking tree limbs and the limbs knocking the lines down. About 100,000 still without power.

It finally stopped here around 7 last night. What a MESS!

We walked out around the house to clean out around our heat pump and it was up to my knees! We're never going to get outta here!

BTW, here is a pic of the big one in '96 when we lived in Balto. Kinda like what we have now, and what we never expected to see again.:rolleyes:

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Looking back on this, why was I smiling?????

Yesterday around 2 PM. The worst hadn't hit yet...................

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When I got home from work Friday, it started snowing. By Saturday morning, we had maybe 12" of snow! This is looking out my backdoor Sunday morning!:D
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A few pics from Delaware............

A few more from Delaware:

Officially, outside of the Concordia buildings, the total snowfall is 22" of this ##@!%^%& white stuff! Thank goodness we have a great maintaintance crew ( and my hat goes off to them!!), to being out in this weather to try to keep the roads clear, b ecause a lot of times we have ambulances coming in and out. When I first looked out at the back parking lot everything was white and there were shapes that vaguely resembled cars!!

we didn't lose power here at all although we were prepared to. But all our wiring is underground in our neighborhood so we don't lose power too often. The worst of it hit overnight so I don't know how signal was during the night but during our waking hours we didnt' even lose satellite signal lol

So glad you all came through the storm without serious consequence.

I'm thinking I'd rather have the thigh-high snow, rather than the knee-high mud like they're having in southern California right now.

Just got done shoveling, scraping, and chopping up snow! We got Jeff's car cleaned off and running, his van cleaned off, but my Mustang will probably sit until spring.:rolleyes: Our street has been plowed, but it's still slippery.

Filled the bird feeders and we have a lot of visitors!:love:

The big dig is done!:D For those that have heard Ellie refer to my driveway, picture 2 is the main drive, and picture 4 is the small driveway next to our house. The snowthrower paid for itself! Picture 3 is the main road at the top in the neighborhood.

That first picture - is that your husband on your back deck - the place you were all sitting during the recent gathering?

Amazing amount of snow :)

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Originally Posted by Grace

That first picture - is that your husband on your back deck - the place you were all sitting during the recent gathering?

Amazing amount of snow :)

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That's exactly where it is - we have only cleared pathways up there. It's just too much!

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Originally Posted by orangemm

It finally stopped here around 7 last night. What a MESS!

We walked out around the house to clean out around our heat pump and it was up to my knees! We're never going to get outta here!

BTW, here is a pic of the big one in '96 when we lived in Balto. Kinda like what we have now, and what we never expected to see again.:rolleyes:

http://www.thorssell.net/homepiks/r_snow.jpg

Looking back on this, why was I smiling?????

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What neighborhood is that? It looks like where Coop and I lived a long time ago - that was Westowne.

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Originally Posted by Pinot's Mom

The big dig is done!:D For those that have heard Ellie refer to my driveway, picture 2 is the main drive, and picture 4 is the small driveway next to our house. The snowthrower paid for itself! Picture 3 is the main road at the top in the neighborhood.

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WOW - clear roads!!!

Those pics don't really show how steep that incline is up to the main road tho.

Our very neighborly (NOT!!!) neighbor next door cleared his place out yesterday with his snowblower. Wouldn't it have been nice of him to offer the use of it to Steve today? Oh well - maybe some day he will need a favor from us.

Steve, DIL and grandson shoveled all day with about an hour break for lunch, and it's still not done. The driveway is 100' long and 2 cars wide, and they got to about 5' from the end and where the snowplow plowed it closed, so nobody can get out yet. Of course my car is all the way at the opposite end by the garage, and they never dug that out, so I'll be going nowhere in a hurry. Of course, I have 2 appointments this week that I'll have to reschedule. :mad: It never rains, but it pours - or maybe that should be, it never snows, but it blizzards. :p

getting ready for up to 10 inches to start falling sometime tomorrow in Chicago

I've been following this thread and I'm so glad that none of you lost your power and that everyone survived this horrible snow storm. I used to live in PA many years ago and then I grew up in S.C. so I know a little about snow but I was young and didn't have to drive in it. We've been having rain and wind here. Hopefully you won't get another big snow storm any time soon.

Is everybody ready for round 2??? Potentially another foot or more Tuesday night and all day Wednesday...............:(

I bet by now, I am not the only one ready for summer to get here! Man! :rolleyes: When is it going to end.....?

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Is everybody ready for round 2??? Potentially another foot or more Tuesday night and all day Wednesday...............:(

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Thats what we were watching at work yesterday. Since we're commission sales people, we're all worried about our budgets and goals! Our sales are pitiful so far this month.... everyone's been at the grocery store loading up on TP and potato chips, then they've been digging themselves out of the house. I'm just thankful the next round is planning to hit on my days off! :p

Oh, whoopie! They're predicting ANOTHER 4-8" for our area tuesday and wednesday. I can't wait to see green grass again!

Guess I'll head out to the grocery store. Again. :mad:

Yep round 2 on the way. This time our friend is gonna come over with his snowblower for us LOL

I don't have anywhere to go Wednesday so I don't mind :)

:eek: Boy Howdy you all have been getting Hammered up on the East Coast.. We are to get Freezing Rain & Sleet & possible snow by the end of the week.. Ok I will trade you all for a bit of snow for my freezing rain..:D

The 2nd storm has been working its' way into our area today & is suppose to run into Tuesday evening. Hopefully it will die down by the time it reaches the East. We are use to getting dumped on here & call the storms Alberta Clippers when they come down from Canada. The winds are suppose to pick up later today & schools are already being called off early. Good luck everyone & stay warm.

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My crew went out this a.m. to finish digging out the end of the driveway that they didn't get finished after nearly 7 hours of shoveling yesterday. Lo and behold, along comes a guy down the road on a front end loader, and he stopped and finished the job up for them in less than 10 minutes!!! Talk about bad timing - where the heck was he yesterday???? He could have done the whole thing in about a half hour!! I sure hope he's around after this next storm. :)

Of course it didn't help me any - my car is still sitting with snow up to the hood. :mad:

You guys should have asked for his number so you can have him come out again lol

We are supposed to get hit for real this time...we shall see. 6-10inches if they are right. I just hope if we do it is enough for a Level 3 Snow Emergency (which means it is illegal to be on the roads unless your job is vital, like a doctor,police, etc) so I can stay from home!

Oh come on guys, I love the snow. The prestine beauty, the wonder of a single fake, the hush in the air, the soft way the snow melts in your hands, the way it hugs the tree branches, especially pines, the cool. fresh air in your lungs, the crunch as you walk across the frozen snow.
The world is white and beautiful and full of promise and glory. :D

We're expecting another 2 inches tomorrow and we're supposed to start getting snow after midnight, around 3am probably tonight. EEEE, I love snow.