Massive Winter Storm Stella hits New England

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 don’t run them over. :smiley:

We were supposed to get 12 to 18” of snow here on Long Island. We ended up with about 4” 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 generator…. Not really…lol!

I live in PA, SW corner… if anyone SHOULD know how to drive, and take a projected “3 to 5 inches” in cool, calm, collected style? Its us…

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

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

I mean, i’m only 48… 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?

“its… called… winter”

my dad? drove to and from work at the steel mill in a v-8 REAR WHEEL DRIVE CAR… 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, i’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? but… we ALL grew up here, its like this EVERY YEAR… get a grip, you know?

if “stella” aint coming in and getting naked by my fire?? she aint no concern of mine, LMAO…

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 they’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 can’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, “stability control”, etc., lets them defy the laws of physics.

Yah, pretty much.

Here, whenever temps dip below freezing, it’s alllllllll over the news like stink on a monkey. People go into a panic, stoked by the local “news” with all sorts of warnings how not to die in the extreme cold, blah blah blah.

You’d think it’s the arrival of Fimbulvetr the way they’re all carrying on.

Friends in places like Minnesota, they feel compelled to specify whether “temps in the 20s” happens to be above or below 0. +20 in winter is beach weather. –20 is about normal.

Ugh, don’t get me started…

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 “The Incredible Shrinking Man”.

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 ’em for my older car, though. Nice bite in snow, both fresh and packed.

……yeh, i’ve seen both movies scores of times…and agree…yehh….the incredible shrinking man….RoF lmao…. :laughing: I know where ya comin from…hahahahhahahha

Hope everyone is safe and dug out from the storm I got about 22” here in NY I finally got my 2WD truck out I go out and have fun with all the people that can’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 12” to 18”. We got ~ 5” of snow and 2” of sleet which made the roads worse!

As the gentleman-“Turningbluechips” from the Poconos[Pa Mts.] said,they got 24”. 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!

It seems like the more forecasting tools they have the worse the forecasting gets.

Bob

I think you are right Bob!

Great name you have,mine is also Bob![Robert] :smiley:

Downtown Stittville, New York got a full 36” by my measurement.
All cleaned up this morning by Snow Blowing from 8 until
That did include shoveling the front a rear roofs and digging out Mail Box’s out of the snow bank and driving 2 metal posts into the ground and remounting the box’s

Roads are wet but back to black not the slush or snow covering.

Off to Florida next Tuesday and out of the Winter weather :slight_smile:

All this talk of 13 inches here and 20 inches there, in Hartford we got 2 feet of snow
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Now that’s funny.

Bob

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Even the train drivers hate them :open_mouth: .

That had to hurt………a lot

caramba, aye caramba!!

that gif loop is mesmerizing lol