kins

We're due for 14-20" of snow here, which even in Maine is a fair size storm. My husband flies out for work Monday afternoon, leaving me here with three kids, a small puppy, and a snowblower I'm not sure I'm qualified to operate.

Are all you east coasters ready?

Jerseygirl

I've lost count of the amount of winter power outages we had during our 18 years in NJ. So far here in Downtown Toronto...in the Great White North...we've had very little snow. There's none on the ground right now but a little is forecast tomorrow.

robin1234

Looks like you might get some pretty wild snow drifts with those winds you'll be getting Monday night through Wednesday. Stay safe! Our daughter on Cape Cod is due for 8 to 12 inches which is a lot for the Cape.... fortunately, she no longer has to plow for her town.

Little or no snow forecast here, we're too far north, but it will be fairly cold, minus twenty maybe.

robin1234

I try to keep a tally of outages here, incomplete because we are not always home. Fifty eight outages counted in 2014. None yet this year, though...

Hotscot

We are literally still waiting for a winter that probably won't come now.

Not being facetious.

The insects didn't die off, the seasonal birds stayed around, weeds kept growing, I've only used the log fire @ 20% of the usual amount.

I'm uneasy...

Pulaski

The National Weather Service is forecasting a "blizzard of historic proportions" for NYC, with up to 30" of snow. ..... I cancelled my trip to NYC, out tomorrow, back on Tuesday evening, with my manager's approval. I will "attend by phone".

I could have got there OK tomorrow morning, but heaven only knows when I would have been able to get a flight back.

Jerseygirl

I think it was NY Eve 1999...it snowed heavily all day. The snow came halfway up the patio door.

notonuksoil

I got the bread and milk!

Pulaski

Sounds terrible, I'd really miss having four seasons. It makes me wonder why you put up with it?

You should consider moving somewhere where you get a proper winter, maybe, say, New England, or even eventually back to Scotland? You should give it some serious thought!

scrubbedexpat091

and we were breaking record high's today courtesy of a pineapple express from Hawaii.

I wouldn't mind having some winter weather, the ski resorts would like some as well. A couple haven't even opened yet due to lack of snow.


Hope all you on the east coast don't get too hard at once though, 30" of snow, never seen that much snow drop at once, can't even imagine what it's like to see that much.


This year we have had some season migratory birds stick around, usually don't have any of the small birds stay, the geese stopped going south years ago, they also hang around through winter now.

Luckily most insects don't stick around, but I have seen some which is not the norm.

Figure at this rate, the bears will start to wake early as well. Some annual flowers have started to sprout as well.

Everything seems confused this year.

sir_eccles

I suspect your husband will be available to help you with the snow blower. Hearing flights in the north east are being preemptively canceled.

I spent the day here in phx battling a bougainvillea with a hedge trimmer. I still look like and have been bathing a cat.

Hotscot

I may do that....

Mrs Danvers

We are getting near record highs today and tomorrow, close to 70's. Saw a caterpiller out in the patio just now.

I got a book called Six Degrees by Mark Lynas out of the library this weekend. Oldish book on Climate change written in 2008 predicting what will happen if the earth heats up average temperatures from one degree all the way to six degrees.

WEBlue

Perhaps your husband's trip will be rescheduled.

We've got tap water set aside, brought wood from the wood pile into the garage to dry it out, checked all flashlights, and candles & camping equipment are ready for use.

We still haven't got a generator, but I'm glad our relatives down towards NYC do...

Pulaski

Aha! So it's your fault! ..... You know that this storm wouldn't have occurred if you had invested in a fancy generator with all the bells and whistles.