Snow storm

[Jim Ostergard]

Cannot imagine going anywhere today here on the Maine coastal plane. We have about 2.5′ here on the ridge but the wind has been gusting to around 50 so some places its bare ground some places 5-6 drifts. Hanging in around 10. Horses in the barn, content and we are just hungering down. We twitched the last of the wood from a job yesterday so at least for a few days not need to carry the shovel to the stump. Seems to me its mostly the city/urban types that got to make big news of it.

[blue80]

Crosby north dakota two springs ago, May 1. Went to bed 10pm lite drizzle, 5 am the next morning got up to go to work and 6 ft of snow and 60mph winds.
No power no water for 3 days for 60 miles in all directions.
People were going stupid by the third day, taking what they didn’t have. Most lived in their cars beside the one gas station that had delivery trucks that could pump using their PTO.

That was small town rural America.

Be safe

[Eli]

Hope every one survived the big storm. I talked to my son in Dover Delaware he said they got wind and rain but no snow. Eli

[dominiquer60]

Although there have been worse storms here and out west, the governor of CT had every reason to close the roads of this state, with 24″ to 40″ snowfall across the state and high winds and drifting, there was no reason for anyone to be out in it. Although people should use common sense, that is a diminishing trait among people of this state, so actions like closing roads need to be taken to lessen the problems for road crews and first responders. For some people it is really hard to understand that their need for a cell phone battery is nothing compared to the problems that they can create by getting in a wreck or stuck, it is a shame really that people can’t think about how they add to a problem like this.

We ended up with 60mph+ gusts and 34″ of snow, I am not sure how they measure it when it drifts so bad. It took us a while to get going, cattle were fed hay only for a while and we had draft animals 2 to a stall. Saturday AM Milking took till noon, and the barn roof is threatening to cave in because of an 8′ drift on the old tie stall barn. The thing about these Nor’easters is that they can have some real heavy wet packy snow, if it had been light and fluffy, I am sure it would have been more than 34″, or at least easier to move around.

The highest measurements that I know of are 40″ in the center of the state and 83mph winds up the coast some in Mass and Maine. The darn thing looked like a hurricane moving off of the coast, look out Scotland, maybe you are next!

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