Juliancolton Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Still flurrying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 21 degrees but thanks to the sun and some coaxing I got both cars open and warming up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 I'm going to go out and work on the car that's frozen shut now. I used a full 40 pound bag of sand and 20 pounds of salt and the driveway is still a disaster. Fkn neighbor won't let me trim the bushes on the south side and the driveway is perpetually shaded so the ground stays cold and once it ices it doesn't melt. Now the frozen crap is melting out of their bushes and coating the driveway in water that refreezes almost immediately. I have already had to move one of our cars that had almost slid out into the street so it's sideways and kind of jammed into the bank at the moment. I'm gonna go get a new hose (the old ones are frozen solid) and hook it up to the hot water heater drain and wash it all down, that should clear it up for a while anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 I’ve issued a Flying Ice Warning, you’ve been warned if you’re outside near any trees... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 1 hour ago, gravitylover said: I'm going to go out and work on the car that's frozen shut now. I used a full 40 pound bag of sand and 20 pounds of salt and the driveway is still a disaster. Fkn neighbor won't let me trim the bushes on the south side and the driveway is perpetually shaded so the ground stays cold and once it ices it doesn't melt. Now the frozen crap is melting out of their bushes and coating the driveway in water that refreezes almost immediately. I have already had to move one of our cars that had almost slid out into the street so it's sideways and kind of jammed into the bank at the moment. I'm gonna go get a new hose (the old ones are frozen solid) and hook it up to the hot water heater drain and wash it all down, that should clear it up for a while anyway. That sucks about the shade. The small hill and turn in my driveway faces north but with the sun making it’s return towards the north the sand I throw down draws in some heat now. So it’s a win win as it provides traction and some melting. Luckily we should pop above freezing on Monday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IrishRob17 Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 The euro crushes us next Sunday into Monday…what could go wrong? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudsonvalley21 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: The euro crushes us next Sunday into Monday…what could go wrong? Everything can go wrong, so let’s La La lock it up and get called weenies. oops my bad, I forgot this is the interior thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudsonvalley21 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 1 hour ago, BxEngine said: I see the forecast low for you up there is -12. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 11 minutes ago, hudsonvalley21 said: I see the forecast low for you up there is -12. Matches the temperature in the cockles of his heart? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 Finally got the mass of ice in the Stratus to fully melt so here are the measurements: 1.68” in the Davis and 2.10” in the Stratus. In looking at the Davis data based on when I went below freezing it recorded .08 before freezing up so it looks like .50” in freezing rain QPF here but there was that .3” in snow here at the end so some of that .50” includes that too. *edited the above as I realized that I had .10 in the Davis today which was clearly some melting of the ice from yesterday. MGJ reported .48” in ZR so my calculations seem reasonable. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudsonvalley21 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 1 minute ago, IrishRob17 said: Finally got the mass of ice in the Stratus to fully melt so here are the measurements: 1.78” in the Davis and 2.10” in the Stratus. In looking at the Davis data based on when I went below freezing it recorded .08 before freezing up so it looks like .40 in freezing rain QPF here but there was that .3” in snow here at the end so some of that .40 includes that too. Quite the event, very impressive. We lucked out vs. the folks up in Ulster county. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Nice little snow shower of fluff has been persisting over northern westchester for a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 16 minutes ago, hudsonvalley21 said: Quite the event, very impressive. We lucked out vs. the folks up in Ulster county. Staying parked at 32 and not going below for those five hours here was huge. I just went back and checked, I picked up .34” while at 32 degrees. Now some of that may have accreted on trees, I’m not sure, but if it all had…Would’ve been a game changer around here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 3 hours ago, hudsonvalley21 said: I see the forecast low for you up there is -12. If the wind calms we’re gonna beat that i think. Parts of the area were -4 before the sun was fully set. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn0w Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 4 hours ago, BxEngine said: I love it up there. My family used to do Lake George and this past summer we stayed on Mirror Lake at the Lake Placid Club Boathouse (just up the road from the brewery on the east shoreline) instead and IMO it sh*ts on Lake George. The fact that if you stay anywhere on the entire lake and can walk the whole thing is awesome. Are there many people ice fishing the lake right now? I've only been in the summer...dying to go up there in the winter, especially in the kind of storm you just got up there. Very jealous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 9 minutes ago, sn0w said: I love it up there. My family used to do Lake George and this past summer we stayed on Mirror Lake at the Lake Placid Club Boathouse (just up the road from the brewery on the east shoreline) instead and IMO it sh*ts on Lake George. The fact that if you stay anywhere on the entire lake and can walk the whole thing is awesome. Are there many people ice fishing the lake right now? I've only been in the summer...dying to go up there in the winter, especially in the kind of storm you just got up there. Very jealous. No ice fishing on mirror lake i dont think. Maybe on lake placid itself? Mirror lake plows a path around the outer ring for ice skating, and there are numerous spots for pickup hockey games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 34 minutes ago, BxEngine said: If the wind calms we’re gonna beat that i think. Parts of the area were -4 before the sun was fully set. If you look closely on the left in the 2nd pic you can see my daughter belly tobagganing down the hill towards the fire lol 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 1 hour ago, BxEngine said: If you look closely on the left in the 2nd pic you can see my daughter belly tobagganing down the hill towards the fire lol That's awesome. How can anyone not love this season? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn0w Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 1 hour ago, BxEngine said: No ice fishing on mirror lake i dont think. Maybe on lake placid itself? Mirror lake plows a path around the outer ring for ice skating, and there are numerous spots for pickup hockey games. You're right...I just looked and they don't allow ice fishing. Interesting, although from what I'm reading its out of season for trout up there anyway so probably not worth it anyway. Down here in Putnam the reservoirs are open for trout all season which are special regulations vs. the standard state regulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 From exit 20 south is unreal with the ice damage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 The Wallkill is talking today as the ice cracks, moans, and groans and it’s definitely up. The gage that Upton refers to is further downstream, concern about ice jams around here for sure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 Here’s the gage at Gardiner that Upton referred to, you can definitely see that and ice jam cleared out near there 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Well that was a nice way to start the day, a half inch of fresh fluff making the dirty ice at least look nice for a little while. I sure hope the temp goes up and we get at least a few hours of warm rain. My driveway is a glacial disaster that's nearly impassable and that's after 40 pounds of salt and 50 pounds of sand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 The snowfall is getting showery now, a few minutes ago it had stopped but it's back to big flakes again. Nice wintry appeal morning. Rooting for a three day torch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Yay rain The driveway is melting off pretty quickly now. Hopefully things don't freeze up again overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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