Voyager

Pardon my "French" but that's a true kick in the nuts if I ever saw one...

I got exactly 2 inches in Tamaqua.

My local forecast for next Saturday. I'm sure everyone else's is similar. Saturday A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Got 2 in Tamaqua as well.

A better look at our little overperformer this morning. We got double what was forecast. Now, if only that would happen when 6-12 is predicted...lol

Just about over, but still snowing lightly at 5:30am. This time I was able to measure, and we got 2 inches of fresh powder.

If there is, we're not set up for it. Our butterfly valves on the 8000 gallon tanks aren't a problem. It's the push rod ones on the 6000's that we need to hit with the torch.

Me too. It sucks as they blow out the hand torches we use to thaw out the caps and valves on the hoses and trailers.

So I'm not as weather savvy as some of you so I'm wondering, why are we getting these consistent, unrelenting high winds? Usually we have a windy day (or two) after a storm, but then they subside. The cold I can handle, even though it sucks when you haul water for a living, but the wind that's going along with it is just brutal.

I just wish it would warm up already. I hate cold and wind, and if we're not going to see any significant snow, than I'd rather have mid 40s than low 20s.

So we got about one inch here in Tamaqua. Roads got a bit funky for a couple hours, but overall it wasn't that bad. Scared drivers held me up more than the snow itself would have.

Ran into the snow in Tamaqua after I left Hazleton. Sitting here in Allentown eyeballing about a half inch in light to moderate snow.

Nothing up in Tamaqua/Hazleton yet. Gotta go to Allentown after I empty here, so we'll see down there.

Yeah, it sure is. It would almost be like watching a time lapse video in real life.

Now why would you do something like that? You'd melt the snow....

Three days ago I was begging for a 6 inch storm. Now I'm praying we get less than an inch.

Back in 1983, Allentown, at the height of the February blizzard, had two consecutive hours of 5"/hour snow rates. I've never seen it snow so hard in my life, before or after. Visibility was less than the worst pea soup fog. I'm guessing about 100 to 200 feet at best.

Let that beast keep showing an I-95 pounding, then let it drift northwest about 75 miles at game time.

I've learned that in the past. When you're on the losing end of a snowstorm, it's not good to go to a jackpot zone sub-forum.

That northern cut-off is so sharp that it almost looks like a digital or graphical error.

Seems like a few of you might be upset with me, but now that I'm doing this new to me run with a new to me truck, and no way to pull the "there's snow on the road, can't legally run" excuse, I'll take as little as possible and hope it stays south. That being said, I'm not wishing anyone's snow away. I just hope the northern edge stays south of me without diminishing amounts for those in the good zones. As for next weekend, I'll believe it when it actually happens, but I hope it does. Weekends are the best times to get a MECS or a HECS.

I remember chains on buses. We rarely had snow days either. It didn't help that our superintendent when I was a kid was a Syracuse native.

Well, since I have to run Hazleton to Allentown tomorrow, I'm ok with a small, manageable event. Side note to that for those who know my employment as a water hauler, I may be switching jobs, if someone will hire me. My dilemma is that due to a partially torn right shoulder rotator cuff, I need to drive an automatic truck, and as of tomorrow, the company is putting me back into a manual, which at the very least will cause a lot of pain, and worse case scenario, will hasten a full rotator cuff tear. So it appears that I'm going to have to move on to an all automatic company if I can.

I still keep thinking about the Blizzard of 96 when 48 hours out we were only supposed to get a 1-3 inch grazing by an OTS fish storm in the Lehigh Valley. We ended up with 26" of windblown fluff, so I suppose anything is possible, even if not likely.

Considering that I'm doing a new to me run, I'm kind of glad now that it might not be much.