<p>I’m going out now to snow-blow the driveway.</p>
<p>If I’m not back in an hour, send out the rescue dogs. :)</p>
<p>I’ve been plowed once already.</p>
<p>My windows are all covered with snow, so I’m not sure how much is on the ground right now, but it’s probably over a foot. Just happy that I still have power. Providence news is on and they say that it’s been 14" to 16" in RI - another big band is expected at 2 am.</p>
<p>Looked like about 8-9 inches on my driveway, although it was very heavy so there has probably been some settling already. I had to go over the driveway twice because it was too thick for the snowblower to get it all on the first pass.</p>
<p>The wall at the bottom of the driveway from the town plow was about 4 inches over the top of the snowblower.</p>
<p>Still have power, at least.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I was just out doing about 45 minutes of shovelling around the car and the deck and (most important of all) the grill! 17 degrees and blowing hard, but I dressed for standing around in that and ended up sweating in short order. Lesson learned for the morning – one less layer.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it really does any good to shovel right now, when it will be blowing and drifting all night. But, at least it’s a little exercise!</p>
<p>I just went for a walk. It was very windy and snowing hard. Not technically a blizzard yet because it hasn’t lasted long enough but it will get there. </p>
<p>I suspect the side streets won’t be plowed much more tonight. It’s too much just to keep the main roads open into the morning. The crews will be exhausted. There’s no street parking all weekend so I expect they’ll try to push the snow back again later on Saturday into Sunday. It’s that last push to the curb edge that kills me: huge chunks of packed snow pushed on to the sidewalk are hard to move. </p>
<p>I’m glad I can physically do this. One of my neighbors dropped dead shoveling some years ago. I was out, saw him working and came back down the driveway not that many minutes later and an ambulance was in the middle of street. Discretion is the better part of valor.</p>
<p>The wind was blowing but it definitely wasn’t blizzard conditions.</p>
<p>We’ll need to get another 9" overnight to get the 18" that was promised. :D</p>
<p>Uh-oh, the lights just flickered. Time to power down.</p>
<p>I don’t think we’ve gotten more than a foot. I’m staying in anyway.</p>
<p>I apologize if this was already brought up, but does anyone understand the point of all of these announcers standing out in the storm? It’s cold, it’s white, it’s windy. We get it. Go inside.</p>
<p>A bunch of us on the diet/exercise thread have been buying cold weather gear sold for hiking, snow-shoeing, running in the teens, etc. That stuff comes in handy for moving snow out of the way. The balacava-style stuff can be pretty handy - especially combined with a set of lab glasses.</p>
<p>I was just feeling terrible for a young woman standing out in terrible weather in MA. I don’t get the need either. I guess it’s like a war correspondent?</p>
<p>Haven’t heard from sue22 since 9:30 pm. Did you lose power ?</p>
<p>Still here. High winds and 15 inches of snow but we never lose power.</p>
<p>First death- traffic related accident. </p>
<p>Sigh. Why? There is just about ZERO that is worth risking your life in this. Just stay in a freaking gas station if you have to.</p>
<p>Went out for another round of shoveling and the snow is accumulating faster now. Still not blizzard conditions and rt he snow is easy to lift but I would guess that were at around eight inches now. My neighbor was clearing off his truck as if he were going somewhere. He does work odd hours but usually boot at night.</p>
<p>Shelby Scott was a pioneering Boston news reporter who became famous for being that person out in the middle of the storm reporting while being pelted by sideways sleet. One year the Boston Globe even measured the snow accumulation in terms of her height, or the number of “Shelbys”. She was out in every storm and years after she’d retired as a news anchor WBZ was still trotting her out for storm coverage. There she would be, a petite middle aged plus woman in 60 MPH winds and we’d all say, “Okay, we know this is going to be a big one. They’ve got Shelby Scott on the scene!”</p>
<p>DH, who’s on a tropical island at the moment, just sent me an email asking me to try to “shake some snow off the smaller trees.” Let’s see. It’s after midnight, 15 degrees, with gale force winds and mid-thigh snowdrifts. Sigh. He’s usually such an intelligent man.</p>
<p>My mom’s assisted living home in central New Hampshire wrote out around noon to reassure families that residents were safe, warm and with activities. </p>
<p>And more: all Department Heads would sleep there overnight. That impressed me greatly. They’ll be available for sure, in case of emergencies to the building or its residents. When these decision-makers go home from work, the possibility of power outages or road conditions might make them unavailable to advise, especially in the rural mountainous landscape of Northern New England. It’s a sacrifice for them, surely, relative to their own families. I wrote an appreciation note.</p>
<p>Wind is keeping me awake. Wind is gusting up to 42 mph here. Can this be right??? Logan Airport recorded a wind gust of 97 mph since midnight?</p>
<p>The Weather Channel people who are out in the storm are saying they think those wind gust reports are due to malfunctioning equipment.</p>