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GabeU's avatar
GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
7 years ago

Winter's last gasp....

Pics from yesterday morning.  Thirteen hours before this there was no snow on the ground, whatsoever.  We ended up getting about 18 inches, which normally isn't that big of a deal, but with it being this heavy it was awful.  It's already starting to melt, thankfully.  

 

In picture four you can see my folks' sat dishes on the roof of their garage, with the left one being HughesNet and the right being DirecTV.  And just after I took the pictures a plow came through and buried my mailbox that you can see on the right of the fifth picture.  The power went out shortly after.  

 

This is some of the heaviest snow I have ever seen.  My folks had a couple of trees come down, and according to my local electric company there are over 1000 crew, including those from other parts of the country, tending to the lines.  That the power came back on here so quickly, relatively speaking, is amazing.  Kudos to the workers.    

 

And yes, that is the radio of my HughesNet dish on the lower left of picture three.  I just noticed that I caught that in the pic.  :p  

 

  • alfresco's avatar
    alfresco
    Senior
    7 years ago

    we're getting a lot of snow here in Nor Cal also. Haven't got any pics yet, i've been to busy shoveling Snow between blizzards.

    • maratsade's avatar
      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV
      7 years ago

      I caught a glimpse of the snow your way on TV. Wow.  Looked insane.

       

      alfrescowrote:

      we're getting a lot of snow here in Nor Cal also. Haven't got any pics yet, i've been to busy shoveling Snow between blizzards.

       

       

  • maratsade's avatar
    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    7 years ago

    Gorgeous pics, Gabe, though I don't envy you the heavy snow.   Hope you got your power back.

    • MarkJFine's avatar
      MarkJFine
      Professor
      7 years ago

      Real nice pics.

       

      Was up in Central NJ most of last week on less than pleasant business. Friday was no fun with high winds and wet snows going sideways. Spent a good part of the day driving around doing errands in it.

       

      Meanwhile, back here in Virginia there was reports of high winds, downed trees, and mass power outages. Expected the worst when I got home, but was real lucky: No downed trees at all, not even the scary dead hickory that looks like it could squash a whole lot of things (think it's time to get that beast taken care of, professionally tho).

       

      Also, judging from the times that phone messages were left it appeared as if we hadn't lost power either, if for only a blip - all the DTV boxes were on, but no appliance clocks were blinking. So there's that.

    • GabeU's avatar
      GabeU
      Distinguished Professor IV
      7 years ago
      maratsadewrote:

      Gorgeous pics, Gabe, though I don't envy you the heavy snow.   Hope you got your power back.

      Yep.  Power's good, now.  I saw on the local news last night that only about 250 people in Western NY still didn't have power.  It's probably fixed for everyone today. 

       

      I only had some small limbs come off of my trees, but my folks had quite a bit more come down.  One of their willow trees had a sizable limb come off.  Luckily, it just fell in their lawn, as it's big enough that it would have done quite a bit of damage had it actually fallen on something. 

       

      We also didn't get much wind, thankfully, as we were a little too far inland to be affected by it.  We got a little, but nothing like they got in Mark's neck of the woods and further up the coast.  

       

      And, unfortunately, it's not melting as quickly as we'd hoped.  We've also got snow in the forecast for Wednesday.  Ugh.  Spring can't come soon enough.  

       

      What's kind of funny is that, on the 8th, it will be 25 years since I moved from this area to Virginia (having since moved back, of course), and I remember that they got a storm shortly afterward.  I wasn't used to seeing a five or six inches of snow paralyze an area like it did, and they weren't very used to snowstorms in March.  

      • maratsade's avatar
        maratsade
        Distinguished Professor IV
        7 years ago

        Some areas that are getting bad weather aren't used to that at all. Time to adapt, I guess!  I wasn't used to violent weather, because the UK doesn't get the same type of weather as over here on this side of the ocean.  I remember some high winds, and there's snow in the winter, but it's nothing like over in this country.

         

         

        Yep.  Power's good, now.  I saw on the local news last night that only about 250 people in Western NY still didn't have power.  It's probably fixed for everyone today. 

         

        I only had some small limbs come off of my trees, but my folks had quite a bit more come down.  One of their willow trees had a sizable limb come off.  Luckily, it just fell in their lawn, as it's big enough that it would have done quite a bit of damage had it actually fallen on something. 

         

        We also didn't get much wind, thankfully, as we were a little too far inland to be affected by it.  We got a little, but nothing like they got in Mark's neck of the woods and further up the coast.  

         

        And, unfortunately, it's not melting as quickly as we'd hoped.  We've also got snow in the forecast for Wednesday.  Ugh.  Spring can't come soon enough.  

         

        What's kind of funny is that, on the 8th, it will be 25 years since I moved from this area to Virginia (having since moved back, of course), and I remember that they got a storm shortly afterward.  I wasn't used to seeing a five or six inches of snow paralyze an area like it did, and they weren't very used to snowstorms in March.