East coast snow storm

[GLENMAR]

Yep. I'm not having fun at work, but it's safer than trying to travel home at 1:30am. I hope our power does not go out too.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Our lights just flickered
I'm going to bed

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Don't want to be rude but wanted to say you will be fine. Sure you might be stuck in but it won't be too bad.

 

[Baymule]

Hope everyone is stocked up on all they need. When we get snow and ice here, everything stops. There is no equipment to deal with it so it is best to stay home. Hope everyone ok!

 

[Southern by choice]

Don't want to be rude but wanted to say you will be fine. Sure you might be stuck in but it won't be too bad.

Well for folks not in "snow" areas it IS a big deal.
In our rural areas if lines come down which is a very real event here you may have NO POWER for 2 weeks. No power, no water-- as everyone is on well, no heat and eventually unless you have a farm and can eat off of there will be no food.

Snow isn't the issue it is ice storms. Last year our county was hit hard- we were spared but 1 mile north and the rest of the county... looked like a war zone- NOT KIDDING- 3 weeks later they were still removing trees off side roads, repairing lines etc.

Family up North- they are in a "suburb" area so they will get power and roads plowed within a short period of time. Some of our other family that got several feet last year had zero power for I think 14 days! Power lines down at the end of their drive. They were "rural" and not a priority.
They had to pull water from the river for their horses.

I have no idea how many inches of ice pellets we had today... it looked like snow but wasn't... then sleet, then pellets, then sleet, wind and cold. All in all not too bad so far... our county is great at plowing and we live on a main route so it gets plowed several times a day. Yet the county line is just down from us and when you hit that... LOL they don't plow.

 

[chiques chicks]

I am under a NWS blizzard warning.

They are predicting 26" here. Just drive home but only about 5" down now, it's just starting. Wind is around 20mph, 20°F, drifting, predicting steady 20-15 mph wind, gusts to forty.

It's winter, I'll just hunker down with a beverage, some good food and throw more logs on the fire. I hauled a few days worth and stacked it right outside the door.

The chickens I have that don't survive it, I don't want anyway, I breed for survivability. The costs are snuggled in their shed, my dog stays inside with me.

 

[chiques chicks]

I live in the rural area. I have a generator if needed, but can always cook on the wood stove and have " several days " worth of water and food on hand at all times. Neighbors around here don't interact a lot, but are all here to help each other any time, any day, any reason.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Well for folks not in "snow" areas it IS a big deal.
In our rural areas if lines come down which is a very real event here you may have NO POWER for 2 weeks. No power, no water-- as everyone is on well, no heat and eventually unless you have a farm and can eat off of there will be no food.

Snow isn't the issue it is ice storms. Last year our county was hit hard- we were spared but 1 mile north and the rest of the county... looked like a war zone- NOT KIDDING- 3 weeks later they were still removing trees off side roads, repairing lines etc.

Family up North- they are in a "suburb" area so they will get power and roads plowed within a short period of time. Some of our other family that got several feet last year had zero power for I think 14 days! Power lines down at the end of their drive. They were "rural" and not a priority.
They had to pull water from the river for their horses.

I have no idea how many inches of ice pellets we had today... it looked like snow but wasn't... then sleet, then pellets, then sleet, wind and cold. All in all not too bad so far... our county is great at plowing and we live on a main route so it gets plowed several times a day. Yet the county line is just down from us and when you hit that... LOL they don't plow.

True. Sorry but the fact I've always lived in a snowy state is taking a toll on this. I know what it is like to shovel a foot of snow of a driveway. To us a lot of snow is a good thing

 

[luvmypets]

Man the snow is coming down hard, I have never seen anything like this

 

[chiques chicks]

The biggest thing in this area is, we get snow, average a couple get a year, just not required for that much at once. This is also the first snow of the season. Additionally, it is cold, so the snow is dry and there is a lot of wind.