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My 9 year old doggo was like a puppy. This is our first big snowstorm in some time and he was gallivanting in it. Cutest thing ever. 99% of our dog walks he doesn't ever try to lead now that he is an older guy, but today, he was galloping through the snow in front of me while I struggled to keep pace in my shitkicker boots. So much fun though.

Definitely not just snow anymore, this is a frozen wintry mix of some sting your face little teensy white pellets, and that makes it sound like a giant salt shaker is outside being shook on your windows.
 
MrSquished said:
My 9 year old doggo was like a puppy. This is our first big snowstorm in some time and he was gallivanting in it. Cutest thing ever. 99% of our dog walks he doesn't ever try to lead now that he is an older guy, but today, he was galloping through the snow in front of me while I struggled to keep pace in my shitkicker boots. So much fun though.

Definitely not just snow anymore, this is a frozen wintry mix of some sting your face little teensy white pellets, and that makes it sound like a giant salt shaker is outside being shook on your windows.
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I love that sound, but man do I hate sleet and wintry mix crap.

The muffled quiet of a snowy day is nice, I'll give it that.
 
IronWing said:
Ewe, you can see the neighbors. Can you burn them out or something?
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I think I could. I want the house that's in view. That's the mansion all the other lots were cut off of. Used to be a lot of cool artifacts around, but they've disappeared over the years. Get rid of everyone else, and combine the land back into the original parcel. Then I wouldn't see more houses, but I could get to work on the car dealer that pollutes the skies with it's light.
 
No idea how much snow we got since it's 35F and freezing rain / fog right now. Everything is coated in ice and the city just got around to plowing and salting on these side streets. When this freezes tonight it's going to be rough. High temp this week will be 21F so the ice will be here a while.
 
I went out for firewood and noticed I have nice tall windrows plowed up against my driveway. That's gonna be a PITA to dig out. I dig as little as possible. Clear for the mailman, and lower the snow enough to get out with 4x4. It gets exciting when the snow/ice has been there for awhile. Go to back in the driveway, hit the gas, then rock & roll into the ice trenches.
 
~4” of snow/ice/graupel/snow lasagna covering everything here in the Shep.

The snowfall is coming in bands, kind of like the summer rain bands. Cold AF though…
 
My driveway is so steep that even in good weather I've had delivery guys refuse to drive down it. The movers posed for a picture in the back of their truck on it. I'm not looking forward to trying to clear it out.
 
During and after Helene (3 weeks of no power), I have spent probably $2500 prepping (generator, cords, fuel cans, wiring changes to connect generator to furnace, kitchen, freezer, etc.) for the next event. So enough fuel on hand for a week+, extra firewood brought in.

Then it moved north. Roads here are nothing but black ice in places, but ice on trees and lines in not the promised disaster forecast, so far anyway, certainly not the widespread outage it could have been, but spotty.

Now I'm not complaining, and resources will be on hand for the next one.
 
My "prepping" is small time, but I have enough to keep going indefinitely. I have a solar panel + battery bank that'll keep the fridge going, and a small generator, that's primarily for the sump pump, but would also handle the fridge. I'll need to get corn free gas soon. I'm down to about 8G, but I usually have a bunch stocked for my saws and stuff. I can heat the house, and cook with the woodstove, or in summer, cook outside on a fire.

I have a ton of food I've been storing for the civil war. Not sure how much I have, but probably at least a year of food.
 
I've got 20 gallons of corn free gas, treated with StaBil. Fortunately a nearby station has a pump. It's about $1.50 more than their 10%.

If I don't use it after 6 months, I start using it in the wife's car, and then refill the can. Can't put it in my car, as it's a diesel.
 
I'm streaming the playoff game on my tablet while playing battlefield 6 and munching on air fryer wings.

This storm shall pass.
 
Yes even though the coldest weather and the snow is over it will still be much colder than average in the Midwest during the next few days.
 
Roads here are mostly fine. People are confused and wandering, but that's a weird St. Louis cultural thing - they just amp it up in bad weather. Might be more snow next week.
 
The sun is doing its thing here in a big way. Main roads are mostly clear secondary routes are catching up.

Odd that the school board already announced NTI for Wednesday & Thursday. *shrug*
 
IronWing said:
I have a friend who left Arizona for Ohio. He's bitching about the cold.
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You know, Arizona isn't all desert. I believe Flagstaff got 100 inches 2-3 years ago or something like that.

iRONic said:
Odd that the school board already announced NTI for Wednesday & Thursday. *shrug*
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Could be sidewalks and/or cold. Depending on where you are it could be decently cold in the mornings the next couple days.
 
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