Winter Storm Nemo enroute to Mid-Atlantic

[StressCadet Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close StressCadet]

Sheesh you guys are crazy.
Stay inside.
We don't need to lose anybody.
Can't you just let the snow eventually melt?
Why do you have to blow it away already?
Enlighten me since I'm a warm sunbird.

I don't understand either and I don't mean it facetiously. I do understand you don't want the weight of the snow on roofs or wires or trees. But, I also don't understand basements and sump pumps either. Why do you have basements if they get flooded? Enlighten us other state dwellers.

[StressCadet Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close StressCadet]

It's the endtimes. Do what you have to do.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Did you offer him $20?

Missed this post. He would have been insulted if I offered him money. He is older than me/ I am sure if I had asked jim to do it he would have

[BWolf Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BWolf]

Missed this post. He would have been insulted if I offered him money. He is older than me/ I am sure if I had asked jim to do it he would have

Maybe you should have asked him to do it and invite him in for his favorite libation when he was done?

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

Just heard Port Jeff is getting 25 inchs

My dad lives near there, he got 30 inches. He went outside to try to start unburying his car and he got stuck in the snow himself.
The LIE was closed until 5 pm today between exits 57 and 73. We got home via the south route with no traffic but the the roads weren't plowed all that well.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I have to say in queens the roads and the side walks are looking clean. I did notice a 30 cent jump in gas overnight.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

We just got plowed at 4pm. So far school is not closed tomorrow, but they are forecasting freezing rain for tomorrow morning. I am hoping for a 2 hour delay so the sun can burn some of this off. The roads didn't get plowed for a long time, so they did not make it down to the pavement. Our street is about 4 inches of packed snow.

[joycapecod Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close joycapecod]

We lost power Friday night, sometime during the night and got it back around 12:30 PM today. My house was so cold the temperature would not register on the thermostat. We have around 18" of the damn stuff with drifts over 3 feet. I couldn't find a hotel room anywhere and even so there was a driving ban from Friday at 4 PM until yesterday at 4 PM. Boston got hit harder than Cape Cod, but there are still tens of thousands on Cape Cod without power. The news is saying 70% of my town, 60% of Sandwich and about 70% of Hyannis are without power. Interestingly enough P'town and the upper Cape (Wellfleet, Harwich, Truro, the Dennis area) all have power.

Hope everyone is safe and warm!

Joy

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

It was a good day to get plowed.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

We lost power Friday night, sometime during the night and got it back around 12:30 PM today. My house was so cold the temperature would not register on the thermostat. We have around 18" of the damn stuff with drifts over 3 feet. I couldn't find a hotel room anywhere and even so there was a driving ban from Friday at 4 PM until yesterday at 4 PM. Boston got hit harder than Cape Cod, but there are still tens of thousands on Cape Cod without power. The news is saying 70% of my town, 60% of Sandwich and about 70% of Hyannis are without power. Interestingly enough P'town and the upper Cape (Wellfleet, Harwich, Truro, the Dennis area) all have power.

Hope everyone is safe and warm!

Joy

How awful - hope you are nice and warm again!

Just got the call that school is closed tomorrow - hooray!

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

How awful - hope you are nice and warm again!

Just got the call that school is closed tomorrow - hooray!

Hmmm, I better call our schools...

[catwgirl Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close catwgirl]

So sorry you are all going through this. I hope everyone stays safe.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

DD and DSIL just left, she is taking the jitney to NYC and he is driving to Nassau County.
At 5 am they announced that the LIE westbound only is open.
Eastbound LOng Island Expressway is still closed exit 53 to the end at 73

Relatives in South Yarmouth do not have power Joy. Stay warm if u can!

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Sheesh you guys are crazy.
Stay inside.
We don't need to lose anybody.
Can't you just let the snow eventually melt?
Why do you have to blow it away already?
Enlighten me since I'm a warm sunbird.

You have to keep the sidewalks clear so people can walk safely. That's why you shovel the snow off your walkways. Most towns have an ordinance that you must clear your walkways within 24 hours after the end of a snowstorm. If you're not dug out, you can get a ticket.

We had neighbors who lived on a corner and never shoveled their walkways. It was very dangerous because pedestrians had to walk out into the street (which had been plowed), walk in the street to get around the corner, and then climb back over a big pile of snow to get back to the next neighbor's shoveled sidewalks. But in the meantime, you were in the street with cars slipping and sliding around.

You have to dig out your driveway so you can get your car out of it. If you don't need your car, you can leave your driveway till the spring thaw.

Now about basements. We have basements because we have hard freezes in the Northeast. The foundation of the house has to go below the frost line, which is a few feet down around here. Once you're digging that far, they might as well dig a little farther down and make a basement rather than a crawl space. That depends on the water table--most people around here can't go down to, say, eight feet without hitting water, so that's why basements in this area are maybe seven feet high or even lower.

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We lost power Friday night, sometime during the night and got it back around 12:30 PM today. My house was so cold the temperature would not register on the thermostat. We have around 18" of the damn stuff with drifts over 3 feet. I couldn't find a hotel room anywhere and even so there was a driving ban from Friday at 4 PM until yesterday at 4 PM. Boston got hit harder than Cape Cod, but there are still tens of thousands on Cape Cod without power. The news is saying 70% of my town, 60% of Sandwich and about 70% of Hyannis are without power. Interestingly enough P'town and the upper Cape (Wellfleet, Harwich, Truro, the Dennis area) all have power.

Hope everyone is safe and warm!

Joy

What a nightmare to have no power with such frigid temps.

How awful - hope you are nice and warm again!

Just got the call that school is closed tomorrow - hooray!

My car is encased in ice this morning.