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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Epic powder day here in Utah.

23 inches in 24 hours at Park City Mountain Resort.

We traded houses for the week with friends in New Orleans. Only half of them are out skiing today. I hope this is not the last big powder day of the season!

To be fair, we're having a great time in the Big Easy. Perfect weather, lots of fun.

Off and on light snow showers and 21 degrees here in the Yoop. Breezy too. 18 inches forecast for the high ground of MQT county from 0100 Thursday through 0100 Friday. On the shore here in town maybe a little less.

Prayers for you Northerners! It's 77° here right now and expected to be in the 50s tomorrow. By next week up into the 80s. No precipitation predicted.

flashguy

30° here in Altamonte Springs, FL. Oh, wait, that's C degrees. It's 86° F for us non-metric Americans.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
30° here in Altamonte Springs, FL. Oh, wait, that's C degrees. It's 86° F for us non-metric Americans.

You know, my friend, I looked up Altamonte Springs. 86° sounds wonderful on a day where the thermometer remains stuck on 1°, with snow flurries, and is headed to an overnight low of -15°; however, I found out that the population of greater Orlando is almost 4 1/2 times the state of Wyoming. I’m about half anti-social and just don’t like my fellow man that much; I think I can wait for summer.

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I live in a four season climate with the emphasis on SUMMER. I would prefer a longer Fall season.

I'm slowly being buried. Even though our actual snow accumulation has only been 2-3" the 30 mph wind that comes with it is piling up drifts rather quickly. The wind is coming out of the NE which is never good for around here and to top it off my garage doors, back door and front door to my house are on the east side and snow has been piling up against them and if this keeps up overnight like they are predicting, I may not get out until the spring thaw.

My earlier wish was not to be

It's now 31°F and what's coming down is rain. So, when it hits stuff it turns more-or-less instantly to ice. The drop to the house is already ice-covered and getting worse by the hour.

Looking at the radar, we're right smack dab in the middle of the alternating sleet/freezing rain bullseye. This is supposed to go on for hours.

They're predicting the worst ice accumulation in twenty-three years.

Last I tested it, the generator was GTG and we have plenty of real gasoline, so we should be covered if the power fails.

Should being the key word.

For you guys getting ice, be too damn careful! Nothing worse!

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Amen to that. We had an April ice storm about 7 years ago and I had trees and tree limbs scattered all over my acreage and it looked like bomb went off. I was without power for seven days and in the aftermath statistics they estimated that over 60% of the power poles in our county were either damaged or destroyed. Ice is destructive stuff!

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Originally posted by TMats:

the population of greater Orlando is almost 4 1/2 times the state of Wyoming. I’m about half anti-social and just don’t like my fellow man that much

Yes, it definitely is getting unpleasantly crowded. When we moved here, 1985, the main east-west road through the area, SR 436, was a relatively quiet road, one lane each direction, without much traffic. Now it's three lanes each direction (four in some places), with stop-and-go traffic during most daylight hours. Every major road around here is crowded with heavy traffic and construction is non-stop. Commuting hour traffic is as bad as I remember it in the Chicago area when I lived there.

At age 86, I'm just not up to the hassle of moving from a paid-for house. We do what we can, to avoid the crowds. The weather is pretty nice, nine or ten months of the year. July and August, not so great.

Southwest Wisconsin - I used a broom to clear the snow off the deck. I'm sandwiched between CoolRich59's hammer on the WI/IL border and the anvil that my Brother-in-law is enduring near Minneapolis.

I think I'll get nothing to worry about.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
For you guys getting ice, be too damn careful! Nothing worse!

Branches have been snapping off trees and crashing down for the last couple of hours. Several have hit my roof. I suspect we’re going to have some roof damage.

As I was looking out the window I saw a tree limb - probably 4” in diameter - snap and crash down between my house and my neighbor’s. If that had hit my roof, I’d be clearing it out of my living room.

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Originally posted by CoolRich59:

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Originally posted by 6guns:
For you guys getting ice, be too damn careful! Nothing worse!

Branches have been snapping off trees and crashing down for the last couple of hours. Several have hit my roof. I suspect we’re going to have some roof damage.

As I was looking out the window I saw a tree limb - probably 4” in diameter - snap and crash down between my house and my neighbor’s. If that had hit my roof, I’d be clearing it out of my living room.

Damn Man! I'm on the South Side (11100 S. Pulaksi area) 34F and rain.
Looks like it's going to stay 34-ish then start to warm up a little.

Let me know if you need anything.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

Damn Man! I'm on the South Side (11100 S. Pulaksi area) 34F and rain.
Looks like it's going to stay 34-ish then start to warm up a little.

Let me know if you need anything.

Thank you.

It is amazing how local this weather is. I called my daughter-in-law who is just west of you in Dupage County and she told me the same thing about conditions there.

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Originally posted by 4x5:
TMats, I'll be crossing Wyoming on I-80 on Saturday. Do you think it will be open by then?

The WYDOT website may help:
https://wyoroad.info/highway/c...ns/RoadClosures.html

PC

It’s snowing here even. Rather unusual.

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Originally posted by CoolRich59:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by CPD SIG:
Thank you.

It is amazing how local this weather is. I called my daughter-in-law who is just west of you in Dupage County and she told me the same thing about conditions there.

No problem!
Sucks when you're one of a few hundred people where a tree branch knocked out the power line. BT/DT- and one of the reasons I have a chainsaw now

I snowplowed for a real, real long time.
North side has 4 inches + of snow, South of Roosevelt Ave is that heavy slush, south of 95th street / S/W suburbs is rain. Head over the border into Indiana/ 6guns old territory, and you're back to a few inches of snow, and more as you head around the Lake into Michigan.

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Originally posted by konata88:
It’s snowing here even. Rather unusual.

I’ve got a friend with a winter home in the vicinity of Forum member, henryaz. He said it was snowing at their place today. This is in the Arizona desert, just below Yarnell Hill, which climbs up to higher elevation and up towards Prescott.

Wife, twins and I went out to clear off the driveway…combination of 2” of sleet and ice underneath. Took all four of us an hour to clear it…that crap was like shoveling wet sand.

County sheriff posted that roads outside of town were 100% ice covered and to stay home. I don’t think I’d want to put busses out on this stuff tomorrow and the warning doesn’t end until noon.