Ours still isn’t hooked up…I’m going to lose my damned mind if we have another outage. Never, ever hire Brennan
Thrag
5765
Fortunately the snow on my road wasn’t nearly that much. Got up to maybe 16" in the lee drifts and as low as 5 or 6 where it blows off. It stayed cold so the snow moved easily. Unlike the wet heavy the first part of the storm brought. Though the snow was so light and the wind kept shifting it kept blowing back onto the road into my face at times. I had an icicle beard when I was done.
This is one of the shallower sections where the road curves to head downhill and I have a security camera set up.
My wife was reading on nextdoor how people in the fancy gated community nearby are freaking out because the HOA won’t let the snow removal people they hired past the gate. Vendors need to be on an approved list. There are only five approved companies and they are all booked solid.
PSE outage map so far is looking good. So fingers crossed.
I’m a little annoyed at myself not parking at the end of my drive last night because it’s a steep tenth of a mile driveway I can’t get out of now.
Ours isn’t too steep, but it is one long slope
Got about four inches here in North Seattle, and it’s still coming down.
Ha! Your cat is admiring the view just like mine are!
Thrag
5770
Has the cat seen snow before? It must be mind boggling. I remember distinctly how freaked the outdoor cat I had years ago was the first time he encountered snow. Stared at it forever. Went to paw at the snow but did that thing where they go to touch it but pull back several times before finally going through with it. When the finally stepped out on to it after a few seconds they sprung up in the air like a stoat and bounced back to solid ground. Eventually they got used to it and would go out in snow without hesitation but damn was that first encounter funny.
Mine have seen plenty of it, but just out the window as they’re both in door cats. My bet is they’d do the same thing if I let’em out in it.
Alistair (pictured) has seen the snow before, and I think Tater has as well, but the new house has more and bigger windows so they’re both able to watch it safely and up close.
Petey
5773
So the kid did not want to go out. Said something about being too old to play in the snow. What? Don’t get it.
So I took my dog out…. He had no reservations.
Snow related activities when I was a kid were never fun and usually started with my mom handing me the snow shovel.
RichVR
5775
For me they usually entailed being hit in the face with snowballs containing rocks or chunks of ice.
Enjoy the snow, Westcoasters; it was over 70° (F) in the southeast today.
Thrag
5777
I’m glad I cleared the road early, the winds are blowing 30s gusting 40s now according to my weather station. There are snow devils dancing across my deck adding to the massive drift on one side and reducing it a bit on the other.
A little footage from the same camera as the snowblower picture above.
The wind is crazy. It’s sculpting the drifts. You can see where the wind swirling over the house has lifted away at least a foot of the drift. This morning it was as high all across as it is on the left.
Nice video! I didn’t know you lived in Antarctica.
Houngan
5780
For whatever reason (climate change and the vagaries of the jet stream) Kentucky seems to be getting the best of the new weather. Summers aren’t as hot and winters aren’t as cold, it was 70 yesterday and cloudy, today it was clear and 58 or so. Go figure. I can’t recall a year in the last ten where we had snow on the ground more than five or six days across an entire winter. When I was a kid it would be down for weeks or a month after a big storm.
lordkosc
5781
I’ve seen that video footage before in the movie The Thing. ;)
Thrag
5782
It hasn’t actually snowed here in many hours. The radar shows right now the snow stops right on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. Yet the constant stream of horizontal snow near ground level has not ceased. There were even blue skies at one point above the blow. Earlier in this storm I was thinking the skiing mountain near me should have enough base to last to spring after this. Now I’m wondering it if’s been scoured down to bare rocks given all the snow blowing off the mountains.
KevinC
5783
We’re getting the precipitation in SLC but it’s too warm for snow, so it’s mostly been rain. I had just a dusting of snow yesterday morning.
“Too warm for snow” is not something I’d expect to hear myself say during storms around this time of year, even with global warming having pushed snow later and later into the year.
