@bjkmom I would think twice about using a fireplace. We had a 4 day power outage a few years ago and H tried to keep the house warm with a continuous fire. It didn’t work. Unfortunately, you can lose more heat by opening the damper than you can gain with the fire.
@VeryHappy We got our newspapers too – love the weekend NYT.!
I respectfully disagree. If you have a fire going you shouldn’t have any cold air coming down the chimney. However…a mistake I’ve seen made is not bringing a good supply of wood inside before the storm. If you’re opening a porch door or going out to the garage to get wood you’re going to lose a lot of heat through that open door.
That doesn’t mean you will be able to keep the house warm with a single fireplace, particularly if it’s not efficient, but the area around the fireplace should remain warm.
It is snowing at a pretty good rate here in southwestern ct. It is also quite windy. The forecast seems to be increasing the amount of snow.
Hoping to get home from Denver today. Its warm and sunny here!
Just saw facebook post that Avalon nj flooding looks worse than Sandy- and pics of local seashore towns are streets looks like river run off with ice chunks - sad for nj coast …
Western suburbs of NYC here.
Lots of wind, whiteout conditions, hard to tell accumulations.
I’m just rousing from my oh so warm bed…a rare not scheduled to work the snowstorm shift at the hospital today.
Looking forward to shovelling and hot chocolate.
Far northwestern CT here…no snow…yet…and we have been downgraded to 3-5 inches…up and down…up and down!
My husband is getting ready to do his Saturday morning errands…landfill, grocery store, gas. I know…why didn’t he get gas for the snowblower YESTERDAY? Because he didn’t! But it’s not snowing…yet.
16.5" here at the top of the driveway (MontCo burbs). Probably more once you get away from the house and into the yard. I have heat, power and gluhwein.
S2 was telling me I should have bought the tickets, too, but there were no guarantees at the time that the game would be rescheduled, or if the original owner of the tickets couldn’t take back the game. If it were S2’s $$, of course, he could have taken that chance himself. Not so much on my dime.
@jym626, yup, it will be almost 60 degrees in Denver today! OTOH, you’re leaving the mountains just in time: it will be crazy crowded up there today. DH and I got in the car at 6 am, hoping to hit the slopes… we took one look at the jam-packed highways heading west, and turned around. We’ll go skiing mid-week instead.
Here in Howoard County, MD there’s over a foot of snow. It will likely be Monday or Tuesday before our street gets plowed. Work, who needs work? Wish I were skiing someplace, or back in the Carribean. If our trip was a week later, we may have been stuck down there. Now that would have been fun. But I’d be stressing because kids needed to be back for college. (They on the other hand, wouldn’t have been worried).
A friend of mine just posted that her boyfriend has been stuck on the PA Turnpike for 14 hours!!
@SouthJerseyChessMom --I saw pictures of Sea Isle City and West Cape May that looked very underwater as well.
" Just saw facebook post that Avalon nj flooding looks worse than Sandy- and pics of local seashore towns are streets looks like river run off with ice chunks - sad for nj coast …… "
I have a friend who lives in Avalon Manor…I am going to text her to see what she says. OC is pretty flooded. Our friends have water on their first floor , but not enough to get to their heater and hot water tank. Sea Isle is pretty bad. Someone posted on FB a shot right outside our shop …definitely water in there ( but it is pretty empty since it is closed for the season )
My son is on his way from Boston to Maine to escape the snow - albeit the little forecast for Boston. It’s like living in Bizarro World.
Still nothing forcast for Albany.
Sunny but very windy in S. Florida.
We should have parked the car in covered parking at the airport 
Northwest suburb of Boston–nothing here yet. Also, not much snow projected for our area–2-3 inches. More snow projected for areas south of Boston and especially for coastal areas (Cape and Islands).
Just north of NYC: We have about a foot right now…howling winds…
Thank goodness fuel oil is only $1.62 a gallon, so we are warm and toasty:). It’s a baking and reading under a blanket day!
Epic- historic tides - storm tracking more north - higher snow - worse flooding
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weather/stories/Snow-Blizzard-Noreaster-Winds-Storm-Driving-Roads-Weekend-Weather-366087041.html
Light snow just starting here in Rhode Island, and the wind is really picking up. Overnight, the forecast was changed from around 3" now to 6"-10" and more in coastal areas.