Stormfly

I got the tools for the cuts.

Add not getting just snow to the list! It's hard to have a storm that stays all snow from start to finish.

This scene always reminds me of the great fall of the GFS when the "chance" goes out the window!

At least if it did there wouldn't be any of those pesky six legged bloodsuckers around!

Merry Christmas Everyone! (A day late due to illness in family)

That's certainly good news! Did you have any issues with pipes freezing up?

2.5 for the low. Wind chill in gusts close to twenty below. Definitely frigid when letting the dogs out. The door in the mud room has a single pane and always gets icy but the pattern is absolutely beautiful this time! No need for that fake snow spray in a can this time around!

Just ran a trash can outside to the bin in my PJs and stocking feet. About 100' trip each way. Ouch, reminds me of 1984. Worse actually because I was in athletic shape then! Wind chill minus 15 verified.

There's nothing worse than wasting a cold snap! (meaning no snow!) At least we got an inch on Sunday, January 20, 1985. The cold that followed was incredible. We were at -9 with winds gusting into the 40s like today. I remember knowing "big cold" was coming and checked the antifreeze in my truck with a hydrometer. It was just a hair under -20F. That morning when I pulled the cap it looked like a Martian slurpee! A lot of folks remember this outbreak because it postponed Reagan's second term inauguration ceremony! The next outbreak that matched this minus wind would be Jan 19, 1994. I remember waking up to the power going out. It was BG&E's activation of rolling blackouts due to so many people plugging in space heaters. The power was out for 30 minutes. They said the demand shattered record (for the time) of 6.6GW!

We're not that cold, I'm at 8F. I will say this, we're now coldest so far for the year. Last time we were below 10 was that bust of a storm where it started out snow and warmed up, turned to rain and was washed away by the next morning.

If we had a foot of snowpack and the winds died down we would def see below zero tonight!

They know how to winter.

Duct tape will fix just about anything in a pinch!

Nice setup! Looks like fun. My border collie would be going nuts fetching sticks there!

Guess it was just the right wind at the right time. Really good that no one was in or getting in or out of that car when it came down!

How does this pass code? That's like a chimney, does not appear to have any structural support at all. It's all for looks but that surface area is like a sail. A 70mph gust is 20psf, for example.

A lot of the media outlets post this one: https://poweroutage.us/

LOL it's sunny and snowing, really showing up when looking south. Need to look for a rainbow.

Sun out, really clear blue skies to the west, temp down to 26.

We have lots of trees which keep the winds near the ground quite a bit lower. Years ago this place was like being on a mountaintop. Spring thunderstorms with 30-40 mph gusts would roar through, all the doors in the house would slam and it sounded like firecrackers going off. Didn't even need thunder and the dogs were running for cover. Now we just hear roaring and if it gets bad (>50) cracking. Because the blue spruces are getting kind of tall, especially the 100 footers. Deck is littered with needles that are sharp as a tack and now sticking like the planks have wet paint on them. Wind is one of my favorite things but with the cold that's coming, not so much! I do have proper PPE but it's like that scene out of A Christmas Story with Ralph's brother except I can, in fact, put my arms down. But keeping a 10mm socket in my hand is damn near impossible!

Agree on the nothingburger! Especially the wind. The inflatables are laughing at these gusts. The biggest news IS the cold. Especially to those unprepared that lose power. The news sure does like to sensationalize these events. If they were as bad and widespread as touted, there would be no need to chase storms.

Burst of flurries with gusts. Can't even flizzard! Power just failed as I type this!

Nice sleet bomb and wind gust around 840 with temps dropping down from 42 to 35 now rain and creeping back up.

As warm as you like if you are willing to have a fire either inside or out.

Lots of ponding in the yard with less than a half inch of rain so far. Soil is not perking due it being frozen. Dogs are going to be skating tomorrow night.