We’re past flamethrower stage. Napalm.
I feel like napalm is probably easier to make than a flamethrower. Let’s do both.
Drifts are 6-7’ now, flats are around 4.5-5’, the snow bank at the back of the driveway is almost 8’
Okay Mother Nature, we get the point, you win!
I love snow,I love cold weather, but even I’m getting sick of this, I’ve lived in New England my whole life, 45 years, and this is the first time in years that we’ve had a snowfall that equalled the infamous blizzards of '76/'78, in fact, from pure snowfall totals, 2015 has surpassed my reference blizzards, they still have the advantage of dumping all their snow in one storm
Thankfully, my little Kubota G5200with single stage snowthrower makes short work of the snow… Nothing like a diesel-powered snowthrower to shred the drifts
The auger in the video is actually spinning much faster than the video shows, the entire auger becomes a faint orange blur, the tractor is running at full throttle in the video clip
That’s hot.
this afternoon, after stomping a path to the chicken barn again :rolleyes:
that path you see is actually on previously packed snow, it’s actually about 14" above the actual ground
I am a victim of geographic Stockholm syndrome: my dad’s family came here in 1633 and I’m amongst the idiot branch of the family that has never left. I want to go back in time, talk to that 1633 relative and ask WHAT WAS SO WRONG WITH THE VIRGINIA COLONY??!!@#??!!
Seriously, we “only” got eight more inches of snow yesterday, thank God, but accuweather pegged the wind chill in town at -43F by 9:30pm yesterday :eek: I’m not sure what the wind chill was twelve hours before that, but I spent almost an hour and a half out there digging a path from the driveway to the back deck because it occurred to me that if anyone was around the back of the house using the roof rake and caused an avalanche or had some other sort of accident/health disaster, paramedics wouldn’t be able to get back there with the four foot blanket of snow.
Aww, MacTech, I thought you liked this kind of weather. Don’t you usually scoff at the rest of us for bitching about it?
Winter can just fuck off now. I can’t even.
I know this is yesterday’s news, but tomorrow isn’t going to be any better.
Commuter rail is running on a “limited” schedule. There’s one train into Boston at 6:49am, and the next is at 9:45. That’s…supremely fucking unhelpful, considering I can’t drop my kids off at vacation camp until 7:30.
Last week I had 2 hour commutes to work everyday, whether by train or by car. There is no good option.
It’s going to snow again tomorrow (as little as an inch or two, as much as six) and again this weekend. MAYBE Wednesday we might get some MINOR melting when it hits all of 30F and partially sunny.
I just can’t any more. It was so hard to get out and about today. Having to back up to squeeze past other cars, snow drifts in the road, giant snowbanks, feet soaked from slush. I can deal with a lot of snow. I can deal with frequent snow. I can’t deal with lots of frequent snow, however.
I moved from Santa Barbara (high of 85) to near Sacramento (high of 70) to go to school in Boston (high of fuck you).
Oh, school in Boston is a great idea. I’d be stupid not to take this opportunity!
We got another 14-16 inches of snow Saturday night and Sunday morning. 
I have ice dams on my roof, and now water is leaking into my dining room. I’ve got a growing water stain on the ceiling and the window is leaking off and on. On the bright side, my snow blower is running strong, and this winter can’t last forever.
Or can it?
It is 11:20AM and I just boarded a train that was supposed to be at 9:44. Luckily the MBTA website showed a 45-minute delay so only half of that was spent waiting outside. This after trying to take the 8:35 on a different line, but that one just plain didn’t show up.
Have I mentioned that I will be in California for 4 days next week? (Well, 3 if you deduct for travel, but still…)
I had to have my car towed to the mechanic last week, which meant taking the T home on Friday (waited 40 minutes at Davis for a 96 bus, then three showed up together), and back to the mechanic on Saturday. I don’t need to do that very often, so I don’t have the routes and schedules committed to memory. While I was searching online, I found a site called nextbus.com that tracks them in real time. Don’t know if it does trains, too, but it might give you more up-to-date information next time.
Friday was an excellent day, as it turned out. My car repair was pretty cheap, I had the time to walk around the city on a beautiful, sunny day, and there were Girl Scouts selling cookies at the Davis Square station. I arrived home with some gorgeous pictures and a box of Thin Mints.
Hope you’re well. Enjoy California.
I do, I really love winter and snow, what I DON’T love is
1; having to re-trudge the path to the chickens barn every few days due to it being buried and re-buried
2; dealing with colossal snowplow created drifts that making pulling out into traffic treacherous
3; dealing with idiots who don’t know how to drive in snow
Other than that, I’m good, if I want to go cross country skiing or snowshoeing, I merely need to step outside and enjoy our 50 acres of nearly untracked snow, but what I’d really love to have is a snowmobile, but I can’t rationalize a one season toy
I have an app called Catch the Bus, which is awesome. I also have the poorly-named T-on-time, which tracks the commuter rail. Unfortunately, if the train hasn’t started its journey yet, there’s nothing to track.
My ride home was not quite as messed up. Only 25 minutes late, and I got to wait indoors. But they had cancelled every train out of Boston on my line except for a 2:45, a 6:20 (which turned out to be 6:45), and a 10:50.
Bleah.
Even if the one season lasts for seven months?
Okay that made me seriously laugh out loud.
This is making me giggle madly.
I bought some Sudafed yesterday. I live about 15 miles west of Boston. When I showed my Florida drivers license* to the pharmacy tech, she looked aghast and said, “Why are you still here?”
*Which I still have for long and boring reasons.
Toy? If this snow keeps up, I’m buying one for my commute!
pictures zooming down 128 on a snowmobile
Hmm…nothing definite yet, but they’re starting to think that our weekly weekend storm might be warm and mixed precipitation, followed by more freezing weather. So if that arises…well, picture one big New England-sized skating rink picturesquely decorated by collapsed roofs.
Just in time to have ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKING SNOW DAY ON MONDAY, amirite?
I love my child but if I have to spend one more day stuck in the house…