How's everyone making out up in the northeast? Anyone have photos?

Stay safe!

About 3' on the deck...just finished shoveling it off

Was cold enough that it's dry and just blowing around like desert sand...really good thing because if it were wet snow it would have taken down trees and power lines. Not sure how much we got...probably 2 feet. With the drifts it was chest high in a few places (I'm 6'3"), bare ground in other spots. One of those storms where the snow was falling nearly horizontally. Good fun!

BTW, everything you see was from this storm....and those pics were from this morning...maybe 4-6" more after them. We were snowless before this storm so I'm glad to get this, the ground was starting to freeze pretty deeply...my tap water (well) was starting to feel like ice water!

Laaz, I don't think I have to worry about your alligators coming to my door any time soon.

I just checked the forcast and we have a heat wave coming! For the next 10 days we'll be getting above freezing during the day every day!!! Hmmm, about time to think about tapping my maple trees

It's the arctic gators you need to worry about up there.

Only the last 6-8 inches of snow were the nice fluffy stuff, the rest was wet and heavy. We picked up quite a bit of snow before the coastal front that was keeping us at 30-32F was pushed offshore. Once that happened, the temp dropped ~10 deg in less than an hour, and we switched to the fluffy snow.

I knew there was a reason I have a snow blower!

There weren't any problems w/ coastal flooding in my immediate area that I'm aware of, at various times, the waves were hammering the north and east facing coastline. The beach down the hill from my house faces due south, which is almost never impacted severely by a nor'easter.


My Magnolia grandiflora last night (we only had about 5 inches at this time)


Snow depth on back porch at 10:30 AM, it continued to snow for another 1.5-2 hours. We were probably up somewhere around 27 inches total. I saw that several places in New Haven county CT got 36+ inches with one at 40 inches!
I don't think I would have liked to push around an additional foot of snow.


It took a front end loader to clear my narrow, uphill street. Even he was having a hard time near the top of the hill.


There is a Satsuma down there somewhere (Note: pic rep-posted from another thread) The drifts were 4+ feet.

Well Scott, there's the extra snow insulation you wanted for your satsuma! Hope everyone was ok in your neck of the storm. I heard a few terrible stories of people that died in this storm in MA, CT and NY. I'm going to check that my tailpipes are clear before going anywhere. We've stayed home since Friday morning...we'll finish shoveling tasks today.

Thanks Greg, overall no real problems here, just lots of snow. It's not really different than the 2003 storm, but back then I only had to dig out my car on the street in Cambridge MA. Now I have a lit more to clean up.

The temp inside my Satsuma enclosure actually went up by about a degree during the storm due to the snow cover! At the same time the outside temp dropped from 32F to 16F.

Well, if you think that's a lot of snow, think again!

Laaz, I never did understand them naming the movie that way...must be a B movie thing.

Marc, isn't that when you give up on roads and switch to snowmobiles? I'd just move.