Massive Winter Storm Stella hits New England

Current weather in central Maine: SNOW! WIND! 25 F, visibility near zeroā€¦. In other words, just another day in Maine, ayuh!

Expecting 12+ inches w/ drifting. In other words, just another average storm in Maine, ayuh!

Waiting till morning, snowblow the car out of the drifts, head to work. In other words, just another work day in Maine, ayuh!

4 wheel drive and winter tyres with studs :+1: :+1: :+1: I know that studs are forbidden almost everywhere in the world. Stay safe.

You can have studs in New York State but I like the Nokian Hakkapeliitta R2, no studs.
Second set and they are very good in snow with front wheel drive.

You can have studs in New York State but I like the Nokian Hakkapeliitta R2, no studs.
Second set and they are very good in snow with front wheel drive.

Lehigh County, PA reporting 13in. It was deeper this morning while still fluffy. After it sleeted for a couple hours show compacted a bit
I was out this morning to work @ 6AM and back home by 9:30 AM. I think about 8 people showed out of the 25 needed to function. We did what we could and went home. I got paid for the whole day for showing up.

Tomorrow morning after it all freezesā€¦ work is a Maybe.

And Studded snows are allowed in PA

Keep it warm :slight_smile:

What headlight/flashlight tint is good for weather like that?

I tried to do some beamshots in foggy weather and just saw a white wall.

I think I need some VERY WARM tint to to see and ā€œbe seenā€.

Hang in there guys. Please keep us posted.

Southern Maine reporting here. I shoveled and snowblowed (a verb?) around 3pm, and just came in from moving another 14-16 inches off my driveway.

Still snowing, still blowingā€¦

ā€¦the one good thing is that I got to use my Skilhunt H03 headlamp, as my snowblower has no light mounted. It was easy to turn on and adjust even with gloved hands, and allowed me to get the bulk of the snow moved tonight (and hoping not too much more by morning). The H03 was caked in ice and snow when I came in (as was I!) but never faltered - And I may have even convinced my wife that at least some of my lights are a great investment!

We had crocuses popping up between the old leaves in the flower bed on the south of the house yesterday!

The 10 degree temps and high winds have shown up. I presume one side of my house will have about six feet of snow piled against it.

We ended up with a foot and a half.

You could always try something like this for motivation. You just got to remember where you put them so you donā€™t run them over. :smiley:

We were supposed to get 12 to 18ā€ of snow here on Long Island. We ended up with about 4ā€ of slushy snow. We had some big gusty winds, but not enough to take the power out. I was looking forward to testing out my new generatorā€¦. Not reallyā€¦lol!

I live in PA, SW cornerā€¦ if anyone SHOULD know how to drive, and take a projected ā€œ3 to 5 inchesā€ in cool, calm, collected style? Its usā€¦

but NOOOOOOOO. as soon as you call for 2 inches? idiots head to walmart, and clean out A-L-L theā€¦

1) milk
2) bread
3) eggs
4) ground meat
5) coffee
6) toilet paper

I mean, iā€™m only 48ā€¦ when i was a kid? we walked to school in a FOOT of snow, no delays.
we didnt get school cancelled for zero weather, our parents dressed us in galoshes and snow suits.
nobody went and cleaned out the store unless they called for 3 to 5 FEET, 3 to 5 inches?

ā€œitsā€¦ calledā€¦ winterā€

my dad? drove to and from work at the steel mill in a v-8 REAR WHEEL DRIVE CARā€¦ its called knowing how to drive.

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if i get bored casting aluminum ingots for my home machining project? in my coal burner? i am going out for COFFEE. this is sissy-la-la winter weather, this is NOT state-of-emergency weather, where i am.

make fun of my coal burner in my living room i heat the house with? you can shut the electric off for weeks, iā€™m still opening windows because i am too HOT, ha ha.

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I swear, i am surrounded by a whole state full of complete chimpanzees, i swear.
it wouldnt be half as bad? butā€¦ we ALL grew up here, its like this EVERY YEARā€¦ get a grip, you know?

if ā€œstellaā€ aint coming in and getting naked by my fire?? she aint no concern of mine, LMAOā€¦

Here, one thing I noticed forever is that the biggest culprits are idiots with SUVs and/or 4WD.

In nice wx, they tootle along in the left lane doing 45 because theyā€™re about as aerodynamic as a brick.

In crappy wx like rain and especially snow, they fly in the left lane doing 70-80, and are the first ones that canā€™t, like, stop or turn, and end up in a ditch.

I mentioned that to a friend of mine, and when on the road in fresh snow, the 3 wrecks we saw were all SUVs, including a completely flipped-over Jeep (only recognised it from the grille).

Guess they think that ABS, ā€œstability controlā€, etc., lets them defy the laws of physics.

Yah, pretty much.

Here, whenever temps dip below freezing, itā€™s alllllllll over the news like stink on a monkey. People go into a panic, stoked by the local ā€œnewsā€ with all sorts of warnings how not to die in the extreme cold, blah blah blah.

Youā€™d think itā€™s the arrival of Fimbulvetr the way theyā€™re all carrying on.

Friends in places like Minnesota, they feel compelled to specify whether ā€œtemps in the 20sā€ happens to be above or below 0. +20 in winter is beach weather. ā€“20 is about normal.

Ugh, donā€™t get me startedā€¦

Too late.

Yeah, all the supermarkets end up being packed before storms like this. People fight each other over basics in the dairy aisle like crazed mothers fighting each other over those God-awful Cabbage-Patch Dolls.

And, like, seriously, do you have to wait for the day before a huge storm to go get salt, sand, shovels, etc.? Like, no one bothers to think of any of that for the WEEKS before anything like that hits?

Trust me, in the War With The Machines, the Machines will win. The Ugly Ugly Giant Bags Of Mostly Water are largely too stooopit to walk and chew gum at the same time.

Wanna hear something funny? Just from the pic, before playing it, I thought it was from ā€œThe Incredible Shrinking Manā€.

General Arctic Altimax (unstudded) for winter wx. Nice ratings, even compared with Michelin X-Ice 3. :smiley:

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=123

Only got ā€™em for my older car, though. Nice bite in snow, both fresh and packed.

ā€¦ā€¦yeh, iā€™ve seen both movies scores of timesā€¦and agreeā€¦yehhā€¦.the incredible shrinking manā€¦.RoF lmaoā€¦. :laughing: I know where ya comin fromā€¦hahahahhahahha

Hope everyone is safe and dug out from the storm I got about 22ā€ here in NY I finally got my 2WD truck out I go out and have fun with all the people that canā€™t drive in this crap. I do donuts around them at stop lights! lol What is even better is I have FL tags on my truck and then I get out of it wearing shorts people look like WTF this dude is nuts. Oh well you only live once.

As it turned out the warm front pushed 20 miles further inland than expected. Therefore, Philadelphia[I heard the same for NY and Boston] and some of its suburbs got a lot less snow and more Ice/sleet.

I live 30 miles NW of Philly. They predicted anywhere from 12ā€ to 18ā€. We got ~ 5ā€ of snow and 2ā€ of sleet which made the roads worse!

As the gentleman-ā€œTurningbluechipsā€ from the Poconos[Pa Mts.] said,they got 24ā€. The inland track obviously did NOT affect their accumulation!

P.S. WPVI local Philadelphia weather/news station got RIPPED by people on Facebook!!! lol! WRONG AGAIN!