Bob Chill Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I need to find a location in New England where it is the coldest, there are crazy high winds for zero visibilities, a place that tends to max out on snow totals. Once I find that location, then I can begin to work toward finding a way to stay there for an entire winter, just to find out what it's like. Jeb, an easy route is do what I did in 1992. I drove out to Summit County Colorado in late Sept and applied for a job at a ski resort. I got a job the same day and was approved for employee housing. Never had to leave the resort my first season. You get discounts on food. If you request an outside job they will hire you so fast it's almost funny. No searching for housing, no need for a car, free ski pass if you want to do that, and discounts on food. It's a great and simple life without a care in the world. No complicated long term commitments. When the season is over in early April you come home. I planned on coming home after the first year but it ended up being 7 years instead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Not a single street in my neighborhood has been touched outside of the emergency routes. No timetable for the side streets. Definitely not today or tomorrow. This is worse than Feb 2010.yikes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I need to find a location in New England where it is the coldest, there are crazy high winds for zero visibilities, a place that tends to max out on snow totals. Once I find that location, then I can begin to work toward finding a way to stay there for an entire winter, just to find out what it's like. Mt. Washington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digrox Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I need to find a location in New England where it is the coldest, there are crazy high winds for zero visibilities, a place that tends to max out on snow totals. Once I find that location, then I can begin to work toward finding a way to stay there for an entire winter, just to find out what it's like. Have you thought about Mount Washington, NH? You can actually volunteer at the summit weather station for a week at a time, even over the winter. Travel up and down by Snowcat, spend a week helping out and cooking for the crew and experiencing rime ice like you wouldn't believe, snow, cold, zero visibility, and 100+ mph winds. I did this for two winter weeks in the late 90s (yikes, has it been that long?). Unbelievable experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVweathernut Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Welcome to the board Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Have you thought about Mount Washington, NH? You can actually volunteer at the summit weather station for a week at a time, even over the winter. Travel up and down by Snowcat, spend a week helping out and cooking for the crew and experiencing rime ice like you wouldn't believe, snow, cold, zero visibility, and 100+ mph winds. I did this for two winter weeks in the late 90s (yikes, has it been that long?). Unbelievable experience. I'll consider that. I have a few relatives up north. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Jeb, an easy route is do what I did in 1992. I drove out to Summit County Colorado in late Sept and applied for a job at a ski resort. I got a job the same day and was approved for employee housing. Never had to leave the resort my first season. You get discounts on food. If you request an outside job they will hire you so fast it's almost funny. No searching for housing, no need for a car, free ski pass if you want to do that, and discounts on food. It's a great and simple life without a care in the world. No complicated long term commitments. When the season is over in early April you come home. I planned on coming home after the first year but it ended up being 7 years instead... Can voucher 100% on this, exactly what my son is doing now. Works at Breckenridge, free snowboarding at 5 resorts in the area, which is all he was worried about anyway haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Jeb, an easy route is do what I did in 1992. I drove out to Summit County Colorado in late Sept and applied for a job at a ski resort. I got a job the same day and was approved for employee housing. Never had to leave the resort my first season. You get discounts on food. If you request an outside job they will hire you so fast it's almost funny. No searching for housing, no need for a car, free ski pass if you want to do that, and discounts on food. It's a great and simple life without a care in the world. No complicated long term commitments. When the season is over in early April you come home. I planned on coming home after the first year but it ended up being 7 years instead... Thanks for your input, Bob. I will consider this as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clueless Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Community roads have not all gotten a lane plowed. VDOT and their contractors made it to my street that has a cul de sac at the very end. Pretty laborious. Contractor said pretty much 40 inches standard in most places with 4 - 5 foot drifts. It is going to take a long time. We already had at least two emergencies here. The first responders have been very creative in getting those folks out efficiently in very difficult conditions. Kudos to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 My earlier prediction of plow time was way too pessimistic. They brought in the big guns. No front loaders. Very big and modern plow truck cut a single lane strip tonight. Quite the show. He had to keep backing up and get running starts until the truck bogged down. It was so cool. A wall of snow 10 feet in the air 200' at a time. My son called it a snow bully. Lol. I get to revisit civilization tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 My earlier prediction of plow time was way too pessimistic. They brought in the big guns. No front loaders. Very big and modern plow truck cut a single lane strip tonight. Quite the show. He had to keep backing up and get running starts until the truck bogged down. It was so cool. A wall of snow 10 feet in the air 200' at a time. My son called it a snow bully. Lol. I get to revisit civilization tomorrow. Sounds awesome, did you video? Welcome back to the real world Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Sounds awesome, did you video? Welcome back to the real world Bob. I wish I had a chance. It happened fast and I was awestruck running out the front door from the noise. It all happened in 3 minutes. No doubt the driver was having fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 . No doubt the driver was having fun Gonna be some nice paychecks next time around for these plow drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Fed government closed tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 OPM closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 OPM closed and DC Gov open on time... big bag of wtf Oh and Fairfax and Alexandria City gov't are closed as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Thanks for your input, Bob. I will consider this as well. Another option would be to get a winter or year-round job in Yellowstone. You could spend winter in West Yellowstone, which is a delightful little town with a delightful climate... http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?mt8857 http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?wy5345 I used to live in Big Sky, in the mountains just north of Yellowstone a bit. I had to run the heater straight through the summer. Last winter I was in West Yellowstone for a couple nights and it dropped down to -40 on the second night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 lololol Feds closed, DC Gov open. Good ol' Bowser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 DC gvt now looks dumb opening. Especially when everyone surrounding them is closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Like most I found this storm difficult to measure due to winds. I have settled on 28" as my total even though 2 spotters a couple of miles either side of me both reported > 30", so I am being somewhat conservative. This puts this storm just a couple of inches below Jan 96 30 inch total as the second biggest single storm I have ever witnessed, just barely above the dual blizzards in Feb. 2010 which were 26 and 27 inches. The drifting pattern in my driveway reminded me of the Jan 96 storm in some ways. I think Jan 96 rightfully deserves to remain the top storm in my neighborhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingstonian Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I undertook a three hour jebwalk tonight. This jebwalk utterly changed my life forever. I absolutely am in love with blizzards. I dont know how I am going to do it --- But I am going to find a way to spend an entire winter in the Northeast - in weatherfella/Ginx Snewx/40 70 Benchmark Land. It's south, way south, but there's always a season in Antarctica. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/antarctic-support-contract.html I had a former coworker who had done it and loved it. Almost made me wish I had practical skills... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurojosh Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 DC gvt now looks dumb opening. Especially when everyone surrounding them is closed. Meh.city is getting pretty clear, feds have to account for the burbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Did a long walk. My neighborhood is a mess. Way too many people didn't shovel their sidewalks. I know the old timers homes. Ironically their walks are clear and perfectly able folks are untouched. Sorry. No excuses there. Looks like the plows only hit half the streets and the ones they did are single car width. There's going to be traffic jams on streets that have 100 houses. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I'm snowed in and don't care Oh well.. Loved every second of the storm. Jebwalked 90% of it. Got cold, got wet, and loved every minute of it. Not a storm I'll soon forget. Not one ping of sleet is a Maga win in my area. Beautiful storm from the red sunrise before the storm to the bluebird morning that followed it. That will definitely go on the top shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needbiggerboat Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I undertook a three hour jebwalk tonight. This jebwalk utterly changed my life forever. I absolutely am in love with blizzards. I dont know how I am going to do it --- But I am going to find a way to spend an entire winter in the Northeast - in weatherfella/Ginx Snewx/40 70 Benchmark Land. Late next summer/fall go to Humboldt for trim season. Move with the wind from place to place. Bound to meet a variety of ski bums and moon children that can point you towards a cold and snow situation in CA or the Rockies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuki neko Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 No plows here yet... No one is leaving anytime soon. Failed attempts to leave by car is include a Jeep, Police K9 SUV and a Honda minivan. Strangely, some person called in a bobcat to the cul de sac down the street. Bobcat ran over to the street, dug a path from the end on out and left. The street was a trail of packed snow the width of a single person before the bobcat showed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenmsav6810 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Can anybody verify the information in this slide show regarding winter storm classification: http://www.glenallenweather.com/alink/18snow/stormtypes.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 PSSD has really kicked in. After a top 5 weather event in my life and a couple of days that were about as perfect as you can get in life, I don't want to come down off this high. Tomorrow is going to be horrible.I feel the same way. I feel like I just had the best vacation ever. Now the plane lands and I gotta go back to the real world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukeblue219 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 No plows here yet... No one is leaving anytime soon. Failed attempts to leave by car is include a Jeep, Police K9 SUV and a Honda minivan. Strangely, some person called in a bobcat to the cul de sac down the street. Bobcat ran over to the street, dug a path from the end on out and left. The street was a trail of packed snow the width of a single person before the bobcat showed up Similar in our neighborhood. We're on a cul-de-sac (which itself branches off a dead end street) and haven't had anything yet. People have mostly shoveled out walkways and driveways to the street, but our street and the one we're attached to need to be plowed before anyone's getting anywhere. This is inside the Beltway, too, so I can only assume that more rural parts of MoCo are just as bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Late next summer/fall go to Humboldt for trim season. Move with the wind from place to place. Bound to meet a variety of ski bums and moon children that can point you towards a cold and snow situation in CA or the Rockies. Thanks, I will think that one over as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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