You're supposed to report new snow as the greatest depth since the last observation. What you did was correct (well, it would have been if you used a measuring board ).
Yeah, that's true. I was wearing my microspikes like a total dork while working out in the yard yesterday afternoon. Still, it was necessary to keep from careening down the hill. The sun did little to soften the patches of smooth ice in the lawn.
It was quite slick here this morning, and still is, but rapidly approaching 40F now so shouldn't be an issue much longer. I'm not surprised there were school delays.
I used my tractor to scrape the driveway on Saturday morning, then threw some salt down in the critical spots. It made things worse in the short-term but allowed everything to melt out quickly when the sun hit it on Sunday. Completely clean now.
I hope that clown-range storm on the globals disappears for like a week before roaring back to life on D3/4. I've had my fill of tracking for the year, just need it to actually snow now.
A few medium-sized white pine branches have fallen, but otherwise no major issues. Those are pretty awful trees... I feel like I've just spent 20 years cleaning up after them. Had a bumper crop of limbs in December 2008.
Sounds about right. Doubt I'll be able to get a car back down to the road in anything resembling a controlled manner. I'll have to sit home smoking cigars and drinking bourbon all weekend.
Even without looking at radar or LSRs/mPING, you can easily see the southern limit of significant ice by its societal effects. Pretty cool how closely these are aligned.