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I mowed the yard yesterday in shorts if that helps you out any lol.

Borzak said:

I mowed the yard yesterday in shorts if that helps you out any lol.

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May your balls find an ant hill filled with bullet ants.

Storms have dumped 24" and 14" over the last week. Have also had three small snowfalls of 2-4". Over three and a half feet on the ground in most places. Piles around my deck are so large, I am almost out of places to toss it.

Gravel said:

Could this be an example of the failing US infrastructure everyone is always talking about?

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No question. I will say this. I live in a fairly dense, wooded area. The utilities around here have been on point removing trees/branches over power lines in most of the county. This sort of thing was never done in the area 20 year ago. Yet we had less problems with power loss.

The response time is just awful now the power does go out. By some miracle we never lost power with these last 2 nor'easters. People still have no power from the first one a week ago, and are being told it could be 4-5 more days.

4,000 power trucks were brought in a week ago from around the country, and now the national guard as well. It's certainly not on the linesman who are pulling 16 hour shifts, seems like the coordination at the top was just awful.

The only 'good' thing that 'Super Storm Sandy' did to my area, was wipe out a large portion of the utility poles/lines and damage the nearest substation. They had to replace them all. Before that storm, I would lose power 3-4 times a winter for a few days at a stretch. Since then, I have not had any losses that were for more than an hour or two.

Gearing up for the 4th Nor'easter in 2 weeks. 5-8 inches of snow expected. Had our warmest December on record. Followed by the coldest January on record. Then warmest February on record. Assuming this storm dumps the expected snow, my area will be approaching 4 feet of snow for the month of March.

WTB some normal weather.

Actually going to get some snow from this one (perhaps higher than the total amount all winter), all rain / mix today but if it was 2 degrees colder it would have been another snowmageddon down here. Instead just 5-8" tomorrow.

Photo taken 5 minutes ago. Cat I let in on New Years day due to below 0 F temps that was in my workshop.
Now resides on my bed until I go to get in it. STILL have not been able to pet, or take to vet to get fixed.
Sleeps 2 feet away from me when I am on the computer.

lurkingdirk said:

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its supposed to snow this morning here in NJ, but i dont think we're gonna get any accumulation. although last time they said that, we ended up getting 7 inches. this was a little over a week ago

Not sure why anyone is surprised. Jon Snow warned us it would be a long winter.

mkopec said:

Hehe, here in MI its 30F right now, and has been for the last week, just last weekend we had snow and shit, we were supposed to go to our cabin last weekend but there, we got like a foot of snow so we didnt go. Now this weekend its supposed to be 70F.

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Yes, but a return to 30s on Monday.

No, Indiana

70mph winds here this morning. But it didn't kock down a pair of limbs that got broken off in the ice storm over the winter. Bad luck.