10:30am and no plows through yet. I'm pretty sure I've never seen the community I live in just let the snow sit there. They must figure we've got 9 more hours of snow on the way and it's a Saturday and they don't want to pay somebody to drive in circles all day. It's going to make the drive out to the main road interesting to say the least. I've got a Subaru with AWD and I'm sure I'll make it but I don't think I've driven through 6 inches of snow ever.
They don’t mind the snow and if I grabbed their hunting collars they’d be going nuts right now, but out in the cold and wind just because I said to go out? Not so much.
My limit on water is about 4 inches, because you never know when you're going to hit a dip in the road and flood out. Not sure if you can flood the engine with light powdery snow. I guess in theory you could if enough piled up to cut off the O2 flow that sustained ignition. Guess I'll find out today. Would suck if I stalled because white car in a blizzard is just a speed bump for a plow.
I just measured 7 1/2" in the same spot on my deck. It hasn't sowed very hard at all. It's just been very steady - and windy!!
I used to have a Samoyed and a Chow/Lab mix. They loved the snow. They would sit in the snow as I was shoveling. They hated to come in. I miss 'em.
Had close to 10" in Danbury and a bit more in Redding. The big thing from my perspective was the wind and and temperature combos. Moderate to high gusts and temperatures in the low teens and high single digits made this one of the coldest blizzards I've sat through. Had hooves on the porch a couple of times last night and although I didn't get up to check I knew I had one or more deer sheltering from the storm. When I get up to check they tend to leave and I'd rather they stayed and got the wind protection.
Surprised to see you say you got 10". I'm 20 min away and I got at best 3.5 inches. Everything I've read says Danbury got 4 inches. Maybe you were measuring a snow drift.
I swept 6 inches off my car on Saturday and then another 2.5 on Sunday. We're in a bit of a hollow, which is why I get deer on the porch and it is possible that we just got unlucky on the drift effect with the winds we had. It happens. https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline....her-update-Snowstorm-underway-in-16815568.php I'm thinking the snow bands fell right on the Danbury border to the north by 84. One person reported 3 inches but it was a public report. Everything else looks to be 6 inches minimum. The reports as of 11am yesterday were of 5 inches on the ground and snow continuing to accumulate.
I'm on top of a mountain and I usually get more than the surrounding areas. I guess I got lucky this time.
I think the bands fell just right for you. There was a lot of hit and miss action on the forecast. LI got buried and coastal CT got spared.
Watching a potential big one for Thursday-Saturday. This could be a real mess. Rain ,ice, 12” of snow northern jersey through mew England.
Going to be an icy mess tomorrow morning. Temps drop below freezing over night. The commute is going to be horrible if driveable at all. we go back in the freezer for the weekend with temps Sunday morning at the lowest we should see for the year. Stay safe
Think I got lucky on this one. Should be 45 and raining when I head out at 5AM and then 25 and no precipitation for my 8PM evening commute. Lots of icy rain during the day but my double puts me perfectly on the boundaries to avoid that.
Brutal here. Everything frozen. Watching power lines sag lower and lower. 31,000 with no power in the central Hudson service area
