<p>About 20 miles or so north of NYC. One town away reporting 11 inches on the ground and the town on the other side reporting 18 inches! Apparently, this is possible with this storm. DH and I shoveled out the driveway multiple times and now the cars are cleared off. Too bad that our three boys are scattered around the country and not living home now, although DS1 is dealing with 34 inches of snow in New Haven. :)</p>
<p>My son in Boston just got a laugh out of seeing someone skiing down Huntington Ave. I am not actually gloating, but had to take some pictures of our cloudless blue ski sunny 50 degree day here in NC.</p>
<p>We actually lucked out on the South Shore of Long Island with about 12 inches of snow. The sun is out now and the streets have been plowed. DH shoveled early this morning. His drive to Florida was postponed a day. My challenge will apparently be driving into Brooklyn with him in the morning as LIRR is only running with limited service… </p>
<p>Suffolk County however is another story. There were areas there with more than two feet of snow and several hundreds of cars abandoned on the LIE or with people who spent the night in their cars. People are being evacuated by snowmobile and snowplows are being sent from other areas of NY State… as well as being sent to CT and MA as well.</p>
<p>Momof3sons, I heard the same report. I’m in the town with the 18" but we didn’t get 18". At most 12" - at least on this side of town. Roads are all cleared, too. And my flight to Florida should be in the air less than 24 hours from now. :)</p>
<p>Re post #342. I used to gloat every February when I lived in the Bay Area. Now we moved to Minnesota. No more gloating for me, LOL. </p>
<p>My flight never got cancelled. My cousin’s power is back on. Boston, here I come. Yikes!</p>
<p>Brandeis cancelled the afternoon performance today, of the play my daughter is in, but tonight and tomorrow are still on.</p>
<p>Car is cleared and moved and I had a walk around the neighborhood. I’d say that about 2/3rds are dug out, a few are digging out and some are apparently sleeping late. The fire hydrant near our home wasn’t shoveled so I may take a shot at that later this afternoon.</p>
<p>I’m going to warm up and then work on the roof. A neighbor is working on their roof and I saw one that was already cleared off.</p>
<p>I had a look at the main roads but didn’t go on them. They looked plowed and treated and it looks like mostly pavement.</p>
<p>mstee–travel ban has been lifted on some roads in MA, and all roads as of 4pm. Do you have transport from Logan?
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<p>I’m in Cleveland…and it’s mighty cold here today.</p>
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For those of us who live in the south and do not know how to live in the north/northeast: How can you work on the roof when there is snow there? Isn’t it very dangerous to climb up there because it may be slippery on the roof with the snow on it?</p>
<p>I visited DS in the northeast at one time when there was snow/icy. I could barely walk on the (flat) street without falling down.</p>
<p>I am very ignorant about this, but I am very curious about it.</p>
<p>I was dreading shoveling and a friend showed up and did it for me. I’d invited his family to stay with us because we have a generator. They haven’t lost their power, so they’re staying home, but wasn’t that sweet?</p>
<p>Flight cancelled now. 
I guess Logan is closed until 11 pm tonight. </p>
<p>Cannot get ahold of anyone of Delta, of course. They have <em>protected me</em> so they said in a phone message, by scheduling a flight tomorrow to NYC and then to Boston tomorrow night. No thanks.</p>
<p>I am using a snow rake, actually two put together. Some do go on their roofs but I am too chicken for that.</p>
<p>Joseph McLevey, the penny-pinching, yet Socialist, Depression era mayor of Brideport CT, whenasked when they’d be plowing the snow, famously answered, “God put it there, let Him take it away.”</p>
<p>But here in New Haven, my wife, son, and I are going out in half-hour shifts with the shovel. My car–have off street parking but not a garage–looks like a giant white gumdrop. All I can see of the actually car is the antenna. But mypoor lab is not happy. Sure he has four legs and stays steadier on his feet than bipedal me, but his legs are much shorter than the two feet of snow, and he doesn’t like that sinking feeling. We’ve created a special spot for him to do his bizness.</p>
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Most people use a snow rake, a device that looks a bit like a big squeegee with a 20 foot pole attached. At times it is necessary to get up on the roof but as long as you don’t get too close to the edge and have good balance you’re not in major danger. The snow actually helps hold your feet in place. My most challenging snow removal job was standing on a first story roof snow raking a second story roof. I had to bring the snow down on top of my own head-not pleasant.</p>
<p>The reason it’ll be important for people to clear roofs is that we’re expecting a warm-up later in the week, with rain possible. These are idea conditions for roof collapses (the snow traps the rain, adding extra weight to the roof) or ice dams (ice builds up at the edge of the roof, then melting snow pools and has no place to drain but through your ceiling.) Ice dams are ugly and the only way to get rid of one once it’s developed is to get on the roof and hack away at the ice.</p>
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<p>That’s what my DH does too. He has a long roof rake and attached an extension of some sort to it. That roof rake is so long and flimsy but it does the job. During snow storms it gets passed around from house to house. I would not want him going on the roofs though he has done that before. Too risky.</p>
<p>Bradley Airport is still closed for commercial flights. The runway is cleared for emergencies. The ramps and parking areas are not. They are going to evaluate at 6 tonight to determine when to reopen for commercial flights. Hope it is before my flight tomorrow!</p>
<p>latichever, I made a path for my dog (labrador) to his favorite tree in front of the house but he hasn’t done anything but pee all day…just isn’t used to his space being buried by snow. He is sinking also and not that happy. The Newfie up the street must be in heaven though.
I have a roof rake for my flat roof of my den but I can’t open my back door to use it yet. Wont forget this storm.</p>
<p>mcat, people use snow rakes or just wait for it to melt/blow off. The issue (at least where we live, in the upper midwest) is that some houses are prone to ice dams, which can be very damaging to a house. My old house got them one winter when we were away and water filled up in between the storms and the double-hung windows. It can damage the roof, the attic, or the space between the walls and the siding. It has something to do with the warm air from the house heating the snow along the edge of the roof and allowing it to melt before it refreezes into ice.</p>
<p>For walking on icy sidewalks, the most important thing is good footwear. You just can’t wear normal shoes at all if there is ice or snow. I have two pairs of Sorel boots. One has much better treads than the other. Sometimes I put a pair of “Yak Trax” over them when I walk my dogs. My mailman uses them, too. They make a huge difference, especially going up and down my sloping and often slippery driveway.</p>
<p>We live in a McMansion. How would we use a roof rake to clear our very steeply pitched roof? The roof is 3 stories high in the back and 2 stories in the front. Are most of you using roof rakes in single story homes? Obviously I’m not a northerner.</p>
<p>Lookingforward, we have 3 doctors on our cul-de-sac and they all shovel their own driveways.</p>
<p>Looks like CT got hit hard with many locations reporting close to 3 feet of snow.</p>
<p>Even though we got 3 ft of snow, I have no intentions of removing the snow from my roof. I have one of those rakes but it isn’t nearly long enough to get the snow off the roof. In 2011, we had 5 ft of snow on the roof and it had been raining quite a bit. A few neighbors’ roofs collapsed and I hired a guy who shoveled it off for $400. Unfortunately with the added weight of that snow on my deck, it collapsed. Still haven’t had my 600 ft driveway plowed.</p>