Winter storm Juno
 

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?

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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The National Weather Service is forecasting a "blizzard of historic proportions" for NYC, with up to 30" of snow. :blink: ..... 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. :unsure:

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

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I got the bread and milk!

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I may do that....

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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.

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Perhaps your husband's trip will be rescheduled. :fingerscrossed:

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...

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

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I'll share the blame with WEBlue -- we keep saying that we'll just deal with it. But I prefer to deal with it in August rather than January! I had been quite looking forward to the idea of being snowed in (I curl up and watch Dr. Zhivago!), until we got the robot call from the power company yesterday warning us to be ready for outages. So now my OH is rushing out to get fuel for the chain saw and putting the batteries back in the radio/CD player, and I'm ferreting out every blanket in the house. We are kind of remote, so always the last in line for the power company or our own snow plougher. When I went to bed last night, the forecast was for three feet of snow; happily it seems to have gone down to two feet overnight.

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We have a flashlight. That's our "prep" so far (and likely to be all of it really). :lol:

The snow blower is still at our old house, so shoveling could be a PITA.

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:D D'oh! The awesome power of procrastination! :lol:

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It's my fault too. After our 48 hour power cut over Thanksgiving I talked a great talk about getting a generator. I'm good at that...

Husband's flight still shows as departing at 5.34pm. There's one more showing as OK after that, then they're all cancelled. Snow's supposed to arrive after 8pm.

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I am glad we don't get that kind of snow around here.

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Light but steady snow falling here since early this morning. I've shoveled our drive twice. A gritting truck just drove round but no snowplows have come our way yet.....

The wind is what worries me here on the coast. Possible gusts of 75 MPH predicted for tonight & tomorrow. :( Hoping all these nice old trees around our house stay put.....

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We're not on the coast, but sharing your worries about the trees. We lost so many during Sandy that I'm going to have to change my location line if they keep coming down! ;) We have the chain saw all ready in case we need to chop our way out. Stay safe and warm, WEBlue.

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You too, Nutmegger! Hope you and your husband and the dogs make it through with no power outages or other problems....

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I have been hoping for an ice storm this year, to remove the top from a leaning pine, but more than half way through our winter it is looking unlikely. :( ..... If Mother Nature would kindly remove the top I can deal with the trunk, but it would come down (just) too close to the house if I tried to fell it "as is".

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Don't stories like this usually end up with someone saying "hold my beer"?

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Many do, but I am quite comfortable taking down trees up 80ft+. I believe my tallest pines are 100-110ft, and I have my eye on some of those too.

I have felled four mature pines of 60-80ft in the past two months. I had been hoping to fell one mature pine a week throughout the winter, but I have fallen short of that goal. :o

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Someone mention beer?

Thirsty after some Chinese...it's the fried rice.

:beer:

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The trouble is that when they get snapped, they don't always come down. We have had some snapped tops dangling for a few years, and some that did get separated but are hung up -- all way too high for us to get to them, and in the thousands of dollars range for the arborist to come. When it gets very windy, we have to keep the dogs away from those areas.

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I have had that happen with smaller branches, but never with a pine crown. There are/ were three other mature pines within 30ft of the leaning pine I mentioned above that have had their crowns snap off in the past 12 years, and I have not a shadow of doubt that an ice storm sufficient to snap the top of the leaning one will tear it completely off. ..... This is a very "branchy" pine, and lop-sided to boot!

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Then I wish I could divert whatever might be headed our way to your yard, to get the job done for you!

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The missus was saying how silly all the news is and how 10 years ago, this would have just been called a storm.

We're in the 24-30" pocket.

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Yeah, we've had 3ft plus a few times here in Colorado. We don't make the news when it happens to us. First time it happened while I lived in Boulder was the day the U.S. launched its shock and awe on Iraq.

This doesn't mean I don't feel for you all up there. It's a pain in the arse.

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It is amusing how we're under a state of emergency and a travel ban for all non-essential folks.

It's not even all that bad yet, don't think there's even an inch of snow on the car yet.

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Makes sense to me. A heavy snowfall is expected...most people are safely home now and they want it to stay that way. If the roads are empty...especially from of accidents and abandoned cars...they can plough and treat the roads quicker and more efficiently.

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71f in Denver today.

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In theory...didn't work very well the last time they had a travel ban around here :lol:

Lack of cars driving meant the snow built up and wasn't flattened and the grit was lost under the snow so there was just as many accidents but it was doctors/nurses/electrical folks that were either getting about to work or responding to accidents of others, getting into accidents :o

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Yep. This happened in one of our snowstorms too that they put a curfew in place. The place I worked for at the time sent a Hummer to pick me and three other nurses up. We were stopped by the cops who were fine with us being essential personnel. It's really bad if folks get stuck caring for patients for shifts at a time.

I do have to go to work whatever the weather. The thing is, if they offer you a ride to work you negotiate a guaranteed ride back. ;)

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About 10 years ago relatively heavy snow was forecast in Charlotte after the schools had opened and everyone had gone to work. All the offices in the downtown area were declared closed at around 11am. The schools also declared that they were closing at midday and parents needed to collect their children. It wasn't actually snowing, but almost everyone leaving work simultaneously created the worst grid-lock traffic jam I have ever seen there. People who lived 20-30 minutes from downtown took 2-3 hours to get home, despite there still not being any actual snow! :rolleyes:

Mrs P and I (we always commuted together back then) agreed to wait until the traffic cleared, unless the snow became imminent. Around 4pm, with the roads deserted and still no sign of any snow whatsoever, we set off home. What was usually, in normal traffic, a 60-70 minute drive home took us less than 50 minutes. The roads were more or less deserted, less traffic on the road than I have seen in the middle of the night, at times no other moving vehicles visible in front or behind us, even on the interstate. :blink:

Oh, and we got all the way home without ever seeing a flake of snow! :rofl:

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Our 2 year old decided 8.45pm would be the perfect time to projectile vomit over 2 piles newly folded laundry, our bed and over the missus. Cue yours truly having to yomp to local package store a few blocks away to get $10 of quarters. Forced into buying a PBR six pack, partly to dull the pain of spending next several hours doing laundry! :thumbdown: