East Coast Weather Alert & Tips

[Amanda]

Hello everyone,

As many of you may know, the east coast will be expecting some heavy rain, winds and snow in the next couple of days. This includes a blizzard right on our main network operations center and headquarters. Please also consider that you may be impacted by this in a couple of ways:

1. Weather at your home could impair your connectivity (strong winds, snow buildup on dish, thick cloud cover)
2. Weather at the network operations center or gateway that provide signal to your home

In addition, technicians in the way of these storms may not be able to safely get to your home and may need to reschedule appointments, so please be mindful of that.

Essentially, if you can wait the snow out on the dish to melt that is a great way to go. If you cannot, lightly brush off the snow and if your dish is not mounted to a pole, be very careful climbing ladders!

Stay safe and warm this weekend everyone !

[BirdDog]

Basically don't risk life or limb trying to keep your dish cleaned off.

Hope all goes well for you "Nor-Easties" Amanda. Stay warm with your best bottle of comfort.  🙂

[C0RR0SIVE]

Stay safe Amanda, they are forecasting 14+ inches for my area over the next 24 hours, with a high chance of freezing rain to start. 😞

Also, pretty sure we won't have reps tomorrow or monday depending on how bad yall get hit.

[C0RR0SIVE]

Pretty bad here already, 1 foot drifts, 25mph winds, and 3+ inches of fresh with the potential for 13 more inches on top of that over the course of today....  Good luck Hughesnet, this is a monster of a storm.

An hour before this picture was taken, you could clearly see our driveway and the road out by the mail box, can't really tell where they are now.


On the bright side, if my dish is clear I get a signal of about 90 even with how heavy the snowfall is.

[Chris11]

As long as there are no power outages we'll be all good!

[Gwalk900]

You haven't lived until you've seen "lake effect" snow coming ashore across Lake Michigan. Getting 18" overnight right along shoreline is common along with 50-60 mph winds.

Its a lot like looking into the south end of a polar bear facing north.

[C0RR0SIVE]

Gwalk900, back in the 90's we got hit with a blizzard that dumped about 2 foot worth of snow in the course of a day.  Trust me, we have seen "lake effect" style snow even this far inland before.  Actually, if the wind currents are strong enough, and the weather patterns just right, lake-effect snow from there can actually make it down to KY, it has happened before.

A lot of problem northeners and people in the mountains have, is they forget that KY rarely gets this much snow at one time, so fast, we don't have enough road crews or equipment to keep things cleared and going.

Right now, about a fourth of the state down south is with out power due to the ice-storm part earlier on, and they are closing interstates and highways here because the trucks just can't keep up.  They have gone as far as having rows of trucks staggered side by side pushing snow and even then the dumptrucks are struggling to keep it clear and put enough salt down on the major highways.

So yeah, it is comparable when you consider the difference in snow crews and historical weather patterns that have shaped each states methods of clearing and dealing with snowfall like this.

[Ricky]

Waiting for it to start here on the eastern shore of MD. Just across the bay from the NOC. They are supposed to get hammered. We are expecting 10+ with lots of wind.

[Ricky]

It is here. Started snowing a bit ago. Lets see what we get.

[C0RR0SIVE]

Good luck is all I can say...  If it's this bad here, I feel for those in the northeast about to get hit by this monster...

[C0RR0SIVE]

Well, this has un-officially been declaired the second largest single snow-storm to have ever hit Kentucky...  Only beaten out by the 1993 storm by a few inches.

State response has also been horrible, as has county and city for my area...  Historically, they will pretreat the country roads with a brine solution that sticks to the road and helps prevent a lot of accumulation before the trucks get out with blades and the salt... This year, no pre-treatment, and haven't seen a truck in over 24 hours.  Took them several hours after the storm started to send the first, and only truck down this road...  Lot of people complaining about the horrible response seeing as last year the weather was much worse (tempertures about 20 degrees lower, and back to back to back storms resulting in much higher total snowfall) and the fact that while the highway is clear, only 4x4 trucks with chains are able to make it to the highway and nothing else has been touched.

By far, the worst KY has ever had it.

[BirdDog]

Large area, lower population states are really hurting budget wise these days. And one bad result of lower gas prices is less revenue for each state on top of existing low funds.

Hang in there Charles.

[Gwalk900]

DC Plows ?

Your tax dollars at work 🙂

[C0RR0SIVE]

Ehh, since this is a "county" road, our property taxes to the county (about $1300 for my home) generally pays for it.  The state and county both have far more than enough salt after what happened the last two years, as they have been ordering more than normal.  The problem is, they just aren't plowing the roads any...

@ Gwalk - thats about like the mandate in town to clean the sidewalk... You go clean it, then the snow-truck fills it with several feet of snow, then you get a ticket from the court for not cleaning it...  LOL

I think next season I will have chains on the cars and truck so I can get out if needed, state prohibits chains on certain roads, but hell, if they won't clear them and police can't get out to do much, well. 🙂

I am sure most everyone has seen what's happened on I75 here in KY... The sad part is, every road is like that here, and several friends and family members have commented that they haven't seen plows anywhere except on already cleared stretches of road.

[Sally Thomas]

Hello gang! I just "found" you on FB and see where you have been hiding out (Amanda,sgoshe,Chris). I was searching to see if anyone can give a clue as to why hughesnet email is MIA? It won't take my login, whether via Thunderbird or even on myhughesnet.com webmail. Is there an outage of the email? I am on the West Coast, so your welcome to the storm that left us and headed your way....LOL. Of course, we are used to that stuff here in the mountains of Oregon, but I really feel badly for all the millions of you getting hammered by this nasty storm. I feel silly asking about the email issue, but I just would like to know if it's me or the system which could be having problems due to the storm. I hope ya'all stay safe and ride it out well.

[Sally Thomas]

Bill, this must have been a temporary glitch with Hughesnet email system because it is now working. I expect the storms are causing problems in all sorts of tech areas. This problem only arose today, and now is gone, so I expect it was weather related.