[WouldLoveTo]

Originally Posted by HeadedWest

When I was shoveling my CT roof in that awful winter a couple of years back I swore I would somehow (to borrow a phrase from Scott Adams) "achieve escape velocity" from snow country. Luckily, I did achieve that goal.

That winter (was it 2011-12?), I had to

1. pay a guy to help me shovel snow off the roof
2. pay a contractor to move the snow piles back from my driveway when the snow thrower was no longer able to move the snow above the piles
3. spend about 12 hours on different days shoveling around my mailbox so that the P.O. would deliver the mail, because the town plow kind of gave up on opening up the whole width of the road
4. spend about the same amount of time digging paths to the oil tank and the propane tank so they would deign to deliver to my house
5. pay for the cleanup when it melted with a big rainstorm and soaked my basement carpet

That pretty much evaporated any remaining charm winter had for me.

Ironically, I grew up in "lake effect" country. We never once had to shovel our roof, despite getting snowfalls of 3 to 4 feet in one day every winter. Two reasons (1) my father and grandfather built the house with a steep enough roof for snow country and (2) precipitation there fell mostly as all snow, not the awful ice/snow layers typical for CT snow.

That was 2010-2011. My town did a horrible job of plowing the storm the day after Christmas. And then we got hit hard in January, then the deep freeze, and our street was just barely wide enough for 2 cars to pass.

I bought flood insurance even though I couldn't afford it. Luckily, even with all the snow that gets piled along the foundation, I didn't take in a drop. I was pretty worried about the CT river though. My house had flooded in the 1930s twice, before the dikes were built.

That winter did me in and I've been working towards leaving since. If we'd had mild winters from then to now I'd have been ok, but what, we've had one? And even that one had Snowtober to start with.

[Cambium]

Current Radar. Snow Stretches From Maine to Missouri. Mostly light snows. There's our snows for tomorrow moving across.

[Poseidon3290]

oh boy, more snow to make for chaos haha

[Cambium]

[Cambium]

TWC made a map that shows the total snow fall all days through Feb 10th per latest model

[Poseidon3290]

so - think roads will be bad right around 7am tomorrow perhaps?

[Cambium]

Curious what the Canadian showed this afternoon?

Well... here's the snow total next 10 days. LOL

[7 Wishes]

That forecast you posted sounds like a typical forecast for Buffalo, LOL!

[Poseidon3290]

Feb 2nd 2011, Norwalk. 1/2 inch of ice on the roads, everything else coated in it, including my car..

Not kidding folks, I took my hockey skates out of the trunk and went skating around the entire block to my elementary school and back.

[jp03]

Currently in Danbury rain and 40 degrees..where did THAT come from?