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here comes Linus

Ockham said:
Damn, I better bring in more firewood tomorrow!
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every house i live in from now on will have a fireplace and hopefully a generator. the power hasn't gone out a lot here, but i'd prefer not to worry about it.
 
Adding to the misery of the northeast too, that's bad.
 
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Helix said:
yeah, the last thing they need is more snow.
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Hey, remember that pileup in Michigan? Did you see the forecast for Indiana and Ohio? OMG. I wonder if they'll shut down the turnpike?

I wonder where they have been dumping the snow that they removed?

When I worked in Alaska, we had very, very large snow dumps.
 
AJiveMan said:
Hey, remember that pileup in Michigan? Did you see the forecast for Indiana and Ohio? OMG. I wonder if they'll shut down the turnpike?

I wonder where they have been dumping the snow that they removed?

When I worked in Alaska, we had very, very large snow dumps.
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yeah, i've been following the forecast. there's a sharp cutoff between the 3-6 inch zone and the 9-12 inch zone. where i live, they just plow the snow off to the side of the road.

as for shutting down roads, i hope that they do that on Monday if it's bad enough. i commute to work, and there's no way that i want to drive on it. they have gotten better about issuing travel emergencies in recent years.
 
Helix said:
yeah, i've been following the forecast. there's a sharp cutoff between the 3-6 inch zone and the 9-12 inch zone. where i live, they just plow the snow off to the side of the road.

as for shutting down roads, i hope that they do that on Monday if it's bad enough. i commute to work, and there's no way that i want to drive on it. they have gotten better about issuing travel emergencies in recent years.
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Always seems like the biggest problems are I-80 through Indiana/Ohio, and I-94 thru Michigan. Like it's a snow belt or something.
 
AJiveMan said:
Where / when was that?
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Blizzard of 1978. i found this photo online with a caption :

Residents of Farragut Road in South Boston dig out their cars from snowdrifts following the Blizzard of 1978. (Source: AP)
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i remember that blizzard. i was three years old with mom at my grandmother's house in Virginia. we were stuck there for two weeks. i also remember my uncle trying to dig the Lincoln out of the driveway. back home, my dad tried to dig out the entire alley. i think that he succeeded. a few decades later, i had to do the same :

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i wanted root beer. i got my root beer. lol.
 
Helix said:
Blizzard of 1978. i found this photo online with a caption :



i remember that blizzard. i was three years old with mom at my grandmother's house in Virginia. we were stuck there for two weeks. i also remember my uncle trying to dig the Lincoln out of the driveway. back home, my dad tried to dig out the entire alley. i think that he succeeded. a few decades later, i had to do the same :

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i wanted root beer. i got my root beer. lol.
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Yes, that one was a doozy, I was stationed at Scott AFB at the time, and we kept up with it, we had to because we had aeromedvac command and MAC, the base commander said we could not allow the base to shut down. We worked 12 on and 12 off shifts to keep the runway, taxiways and roads open, it was tough because down there, it was a heavy wet snow.

Great Blizzard of 1978 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
AJiveMan said:
Yes, that one was a doozy, I was stationed at Scott AFB at the time, and we kept up with it, we had to because we had aeromedvac command and MAC, the base commander said we could not allow the base to shut down. We worked 12 on and 12 off shifts to keep the runway, taxiways and roads open, it was tough because down there, it was a heavy wet snow.

Great Blizzard of 1978 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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man. that would have been a hell of a hard job. snow was coming down faster than you could clear it off i was only three, but i remember.
 
Helix said:
every house i live in from now on will have a fireplace and hopefully a generator. the power hasn't gone out a lot here, but i'd prefer not to worry about it.
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A wood stove would be better than a fireplace as a heat source. My old neighbor had a generator. It only came in handy in a few summer storms, but after not a lot of use, it was usually so hard for him to get started that he just gave up on it.
 
Declan said:
A wood stove would be better than a fireplace as a heat source. My old neighbor had a generator. It only came in handy in a few summer storms, but after not a lot of use, it was usually so hard for him to get started that he just gave up on it.
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i would love to have both, honestly. i actually enjoy splitting wood, and having a wood stove would be awesome.
 
Helix said:
i would love to have both, honestly. i actually enjoy splitting wood, and having a wood stove would be awesome.
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A friend has one of those pellet stoves. They seem to enjoy it though you wouldn't get the fuel cheaply in my area compared to wood. I would do a coal stove if I lived where you could get coal cheap (or at all)
 
Helix said:
man. that would have been a hell of a hard job. snow was coming down faster than you could clear it off i was only three, but i remember.
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I think the hardest part was the monotony of it, after the second 12 hour shift, we just tired and dopey behind the wheel.Some tech sergeants suggested we use tooth picks to keep out eyes open.
After that place, I jumped from that frying pan into the fire and went to Alaska for more punishment, and ended up working swing and midshifts.:eek:

The equipment was even bigger than what was at Scott.

In this pic, we're removing snow from a headquarters parking area.

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Declan said:
A friend has one of those pellet stoves. They seem to enjoy it though you wouldn't get the fuel cheaply in my area compared to wood. I would do a coal stove if I lived where you could get coal cheap (or at all)
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Can you burn wood in a pellet stove too?

If you lived in PA, I knew someone once who bought coal by the truckload, but you have to be set up for it, a place to put it and transfer it when you need too.
 
Helix said:
i would love to have both, honestly. i actually enjoy splitting wood, and having a wood stove would be awesome.
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Splitting wood is nice when you own a hydraulic splitter. I used to use a maul, wedges and sledge hammers and my back is still messed up from that.
 
AJiveMan said:
Can you burn wood in a pellet stove too?

If you lived in PA, I knew someone once who bought coal by the truckload, but you have to be set up for it, a place to put it and transfer it when you need too.
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My friends burn corn, but I think you can burn wood pellets (just not logs). Coal just isn't doable in my area. I am sure if I wanted to drive for hours each way I could score some, but it doesn't get shipped here for boilers any more. The last coal yard closed maybe 12-15 years ago but they had stopped selling it to the general public before that. It was still getting shipped in for a local factory mostly that used it in some of its boilers, but that place has closed and been torn down awhile now.
 
update : the storm seems to have tracked north. mostly slush at this 20.
 
I just got up and it looks like we got about 14 inches. I'm glad I cleared the driveway before bed last night, it's easier to do it twice when we get this much.

Looks like they haven't plowed our subdivision yet, so I'm probably not going to work today.
 
molten_dragon said:
I just got up and it looks like we got about 14 inches. I'm glad I cleared the driveway before bed last night, it's easier to do it twice when we get this much.

Looks like they haven't plowed our subdivision yet, so I'm probably not going to work today.
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Lake effect.
 
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