Where did this snow come from?

[Tab]

(north of Boston)

Last night I walked in my socks down the driveway to put the trash out for morning pickup, put the bin and recyclables on the grass on the edge of the road where I usually do. It was nice out.

Around four or five this morning I let the dogs out and saw some pretty flurries (the big fluffy flakes).

Slept late, and around noon or so looked out and everything was white and under 8 inches of snow. Had to use the snowblower for the first time this year (normally I would have first used it two months ago).

My trash was picked up early - I believe all of it (they do the trash and recyclables separately - two trucks). All I can find is the trash bin, and it's filled with snow and buried, and I can't get it out, and have no idea when I'll see my recyclable bins again - they're under the snow. Since they were on the side of the road for pickup the snowblow buried them under about 3 feet of snow.

If only there was some way to truck this snow to Flint, Michigan.

[MADem]

1. I thought the worst of it was supposed to be south of the city.

They must have revised the forecast when I wasn't looking...

[Tab]

3. I really didn't know it was coming

I knew there were storms south, but for here I had heard Monday or something (which apparently is still a possibility). It's been pleasingly mild so far this winter. The only real snowfall thus far was only a few inches, not even worth getting the snowblower out, and I didn't know anything was predicted so I was caught off guard. I mean, because of where I live, I've got the usual heavy-winter stuff at the house, I just wasn't mentally prepared. I wanted to run out to the store, then saw everything was buried (hadn't plowed my road yet) and it was going to be a project just to get out of the driveway. A fifteen minute run to the store required more like 2 hours to pull it off.

It was fluffy, not too wet, so it blew easy, but the wind would often blow it right back, and at the end of the driveway the road plow compresses that stuff into a solid 3 foot snowbank, which takes forever to clear. Lord knows where my recycling bins are.

Well, at least we're rigged up for it here; better than some places that have had to deal with snow lately.

[MADem]

5. It's supposed to all melt tomorrow...

But we'll see if they get that wrong, too.

I swear, someone's knocked out a weather satellite. I get the feeling that New England is in a blackout zone when it comes to weather prediction, sometimes!

[Tab]

6. This ain't melting tomorrow

at least not here.

Nights are below freezing, tomorrow's only 36 which won't make a big dent. Sunday's 41, but then it drops down again into freezing and snow on Monday.

If I'm lucky, though, the tops of my recycling bins might peek out of the snow and give me a clue where they are.

New England's always been a nutty place to predict weather, but the last few years the whole country is weird - climate change, regardless of what you attribute it to. We sure seem to be running to extremes, though.

[In_The_Wind]

2. I airmailed the few flakes we got your way.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=836992

[Tab]

4. Thanks :)

We're in that little dark band that crosses north of Boston.

Oddly enough, we lost power two nights ago when we had no snow or rain at all.

[In_The_Wind]

10. Good luck this week! It looks like you are about to get hit again.

We are ok for the first storm. The second one doesn't look bad, just very cold.


Stay safe

[Tab]

11. Yah, at least I know this one's coming

And I finally retrieved my trash can, and sent my teenager out to figure out where the recycling bins were buried, which he noodled out and uncovered.

I don't have a problem handling snow - have been doing that my whole life - I just kinda like some advanced notice so I can get my stuff together.

[Tab]

7. I did the only thing I could do under these circumstances

Made a fire and put Al Green on the stereo.

Next step: couch

[LiberalElite]

8. Just a couple of days ago the local NYC ABC

forecaster said "no snow storms for the foreseeable future" then the next day it was: snowstorm on Thursday and snowstorm next Tuesday. I guess the foreseable future amounts to 24 hours.

[jpak]

9. We got a lot more snow in Maine than forcast

skiing tomorrow!