Batten down the Hatches again!

penny1947

17 years ago

Well I see we have another storm heading through western NY tonight and until around 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. Our local news said it could be the worst storm since Dec. 2002 so make sure your feedrs are full and your toys put away! If you are wintersowing make sure your containers are secure.

Looks like we are having a run of holiday storms this year. Maybe they will dub this one the Valentines's Day Vengeance!

Penny

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gottagarden
17 years ago
What a weird winter! It is so COLD! I haven't seen the frozen ground since early January. Nothing to do but dream about spring. Looks like another school closing today.
penny1947
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17 years ago
We only got about 6 nches of new snow over night but the blowing and drifting was something else. I couldn't get out my back door this morning to let the dog out as it had drifted almost another 6 inches up against the door. In the front it had drifted to form a wall abour 2 ft high in front of one of my beds....a good thing now it will block more wind LOL!

Penny
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Rockman, you are correct. And, for the record, weather in New England does not change any quicker than in other parts of the country either. During winter, in Denver, for example...it's normal to have 70 degrees on Tuesday & 20 degrees on Wednesday. And...in Denver, people would say, "Well, just hang around...if you don't like the weather...here in Denver, it will change quickly...that's the Rockies, ya know!" The only place I've ever lived where folks did NOT use that expression (or some version of it) was CA where they do indeed get LONG stretches of beautiful weather. I've lived in many parts of our country. My experience has been that New England gets a lot of weather (that's sounds odd but you know what I mean). But, we don't get the extremes of weather as other areas I've lived in. We seem to get frequent, mild to moderate weather events. Even this year's flooding was mild compared to other areas of the country. Our daughter was vising last week from Houston. She left home in a severe drought and returned home to a flood caused from 10-15" of rainfall in 36 hours. Houston experiences flooding on a scale worse than what New England experienced this spring on a fairly regular basis. But, I would also have to say that we also do not receive long periods of beautiful weather either...in fact, I don't think we get much of that at all! Of course, that's a personal preference as to what one would consider "beautiful" weather. I'm a CA native so my guage of weather will differ considerably from someone from Minnesota or Texas. What we don't get much of, in New England, are those 70-75 degree days with bright sunshine and very low humidity levels. In fact, I could count those on one hand this spring here in Mystic. When it warms up...up goes the humidity as well and it's miserable outside, IMO. Our summer weather is rarely severe (certainly not severe my mid-Western standards..or even places like Kentucky, Tennessee, etc.). But, again...this spring, we've not gone a week without rain in quite some time...at least not where I live. My soil's saturated and my plants are rotting from lack of sunlight more than too much rain. For the time period of December '05 to present, Mystic is still running a deficit from "average" precipitation amounts. (I realize that's not true for many parts of New England that experienced the flooding a month ago.) This year, we've had weather events every 3-5 days and cool, cloudy weather in between rainfalls so that the ground hasn't had an opportunity to dry before it rains again. New England varies and away from the coast...maybe, the soil has dried but mine has not. The intent of my original "Here we go again!" post though was to note another weekend weather event. Besides being a gardener, DH & I are also boaters. The last weekend we've had without rain was the weekend of May 6/7. We're getting mighty tired of being rained out of the marina. Also, Mystic is a summer tourist community & local business is down this year because of the weekend rains. Our season is short. The lost revenues can not be made up between now & Labor Day....even if it stops raining on Sat./Sun. So, for my neighbor who owns/operates a local retail establishment...it matters not what happens on Tuesday or Thursday. Typically, our weather turns around July 4 to the hot/humid stuff and we'll, probably, be wishing for the cool, cloudy, damp days of this spring. But, for right now...we sure would have enjoyed a cruise to Newport this weekend on our new boat in bright, sunny weather. As you probably know from my posts, I follow the weather closely as a hobby. Spring '06's weather is not unusual...it's just not pleasant. And, I would love to focus on a string of beautiful days...give me a holler when we have 2-3 in a row so I don't miss it!!!!
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laurelin
17 years ago
We've gotten six inches so far, but there was a period of sleet/extremely icy snow around 3AM, so it's pretty ugly out there. From the looks of the storm, we'll be accumulating throughout today. One area TV station is calling for 24-30 inches total accumulation, but I don't think we'll see quite so much at my house since we're deep in the valley. The hilltops will be buried, though.

All the schools and colleges are closed down here. I have an important doctor's appointment this afternoon, but I'll have to wait until later this AM to find out if their office is open. My kids are excited to finally get a LOT of snow to play and sled in. This is the most we've had at one time in a couple years.

I put out another batch of winter sown milk jugs two nights ago, using up my ProMix and trying to beat the storm. I wish I'd had more soil on hand, but c'est la vie.
I'll get more ProMix this weekend, and start fresh. I don't think those jugs are going anywhere, with 6" of snow on top of them now and more to come.

My DH was out with the shovel and roof rake early today. He'll have to repeat the exercise tonight. I bought a new heavy-duty shovel yesterday, and we were joking that it was his Valentine's Day present. . . .

Laurel
penny1947
Original Author
17 years ago
I just saw on the news that they said this storm is covering 20 states. It is still snowing here in Niagara Cty. and people are driving really slow. Schools are pretty much all closed in Niagara Cty. DH plowed the driveway before he left for work at 6:45 and you can hardly tell it already an hour and a half later. I have about 5 inches of snow on my front porch which has never happened before.

Penny
tastefullyjulie
17 years ago
I got a couple feet. I'm pretty much snowed in now since DH never has time to shovel before work. The funniest part is that I forgot the door to our sunroom was stuck open on some ice (happened when I was tossing some milk jugs out on the deck). Now there's a 2 feet snow drift IN my sunroom, LOL.
penny1947
Original Author
17 years ago
The drift has increased on my screened porch also Julie. I think I have almost a foot of snow on the porch in some areas. Well I have had enough. It is too #@$%^&* to put any wintersowing continers out there so I am watching all the birds come to the suet feeders from the window.

Penny
wantoretire_did
17 years ago
We have a couple of feet here in Saratoga!! Blew the snow on my side of the driveway 2-1/2 hours ago and there's at least another foot back on it, and it doesn't show signs of stopin'......

Carol
penny1947
Original Author
17 years ago
No signs of letting up here either Carol and I thought it was supposed to stop or at least slow down by 2:00 this afternoon. It is up to my back door again and the driveway doesn't even look like it has been plowed. Even the poor dog doesn't want to go out any more.

Penny
Aurore
17 years ago
It doesn't look like there is going to be any let up here either. The weather report for tomorrow looks the same as that for today and it has been coming down non stop all day long. We got about 18 inches although shoveling it feels more like 18 feet. There is no place to put it. Mount P is getting higher on our lawn. You know it's alot of snow when that mountain of snow starts to take shape and grow. The city has declared a state of emergency so no one can go out on the roads.
wantoretire_did
17 years ago
DD (Dear Dog) doesn't know what to make of this. Peed on the deck so I shoveled thru 3 feet so he could go out in the yard. He sank in and made a bee-line to the door. Sooner or later he's going to have to make the journey......

Carol
faltered
17 years ago
We only got around 6 to 10 inches here in Hamburg. Not sure why all the schools in our area were closed. The snow hardly blew around, either. Not like last week, that's for sure.

Tracy
Aurore
17 years ago
Record breaking 25 inches for Feb 14
I posted some pictures. This link may take a while to download if you have a slow service like me. You may also need to refresh page to get all the pics to come in.

Here is a link that might be useful: my webpage
penny1947
Original Author
17 years ago
Aurore,
Those are great pictures to remember Valentine's
Daoy 2007 by. Thanks for posting the link....it looks very similar to my part of NY!

Penny

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