Blizzard 2015 Boston

[tractchores]

About done here too... Spent hours moving snow today and hours shoveling the roof yesterday. More to do tomorrow. I'm starting to have 10'+ banks that are tough to blow snow over and snow so high on walkways that you can't lift the shovel high enough to do the job. You need snowshoes to go anywhere unplowed, I tried and was up over my waist in snow until I put my snowshoes on. More coming thursday and again next weekend. Thinking of moving south for a few weeks.

 

[Garandman]

Looks like fun. Any concerns about your roof collapsing?

Not really, roof is pretty steeply pitched. We just put a metal roof on our NH place and will probably do so here.

Snowfall total for season is now 76.5" so we're in the record books at #9 at 7:30pm and still snowing.

MBTA shut down at 7pm tonight and all day tomorrow, an unprecedented move. Let all the political hacks who work there get out and shovel.

 

[pap71]

You guys up in Boston sure got your share of it this time. I heard you are getting another storm Thursday and Friday!!! I heard on the radio this morning that they might start dumping the snow in the bay. Do you guys still have power? How about getting food and other things you may need, like fuel for the tractors? They keep saying down here that Boston is shut down.

Best of luck to you guys and girls, we are thinking about you.

 

[Garandman]

You guys up in Boston sure got your share of it this time. I heard you are getting another storm Thursday and Friday!!! I heard on the radio this morning that they might start dumping the snow in the bay. Do you guys still have power? How about getting food and other things you may need, like fuel for the tractors? They keep saying down here that Boston is shut down.

Best of luck to you guys and girls, we are thinking about you.

We have winter tires in both cars and my wife drives as required. Grocery stores are pretty well stocked. The MBTA shut down last night and today and that will keep people home anyway.

Blizzard of '78 was much, much worse for getting around.

 

[Garandman]

Season-to-date snowfall from NOAA.

Caribou ME 94.0
Worcester, MA 91.4
Buffalo NY 85.0
Boston 77.3
Portland, ME 73.6
Burlington VT 67.4
Concord NH 64.9
Hartford 41.5
Providence RI 43.7
NYC 20.1

 

[GaryLock]

I'm done. My ck20 can't push or lift any higher. Snow blower can't make it over the banks either. I will get a pic of the pile left by the road crew at the end of my driveway. It has to be 10 feet tall! It is higher than my bucket up all the way.
Oh, and we have two more storms by the weekend.

Crazy, huh? 93" in less than 3 weeks. And two more potential storms in the next week. I love my Kubota, but this is really getting a bit much!! Trying to figure where to blow it to now. :confused3:

 

[Garandman]

EPA has cleared dumping of snow in ocean.

Boston Probably Won

 

[IslandTractor]

Crazy, huh? 93" in less than 3 weeks. And two more potential storms in the next week. I love my Kubota, but this is really getting a bit much!! Trying to figure where to blow it to now. :confused3:

I've had to resort to two stage snow removal. First I clear part of the driveway or sidewalk that I can snowblow, then I go to the areas where the snow banks are too tall and I blow that snow into the area I just finished clearing. Repeat cycle as needed. Lots of fun.

The really aggravating part is the end of the driveway. Every time I clear it another snow plow comes along and pushes more in. The plows that clear out the neighbors driveways have no place to put the snow they have pushed into the street so they push it to the side along the road. Perfectly reasonable solution except that I am "down stream" from four plowed driveways. And the stuff that gets pushed in is always heavy and compacted so it's even harder to snowblow.

Just finished digging out from the Monday storm so we've got two days off before the next is due. I'm beginning to appreciate the Snowbird mentality.

 

[ericher69]

http://youtu.be/4WOHL-MA8Ic Here's my street before the last two storms.

Making a clear path around that hydrant would be a good idea just in case...

Also please be careful when clearing your rooftops as a neighbourg of mine died last week clearing his rooftop! Slipped and fell off, made it back inside and his wife found him dead when she came home from work.
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[tractchores]

The media is doing its usual hype. It's a pain to get around, but major highways are fine as are most state roads outside the inner city. No issues with supplies getting in. The biggest issue people are having is clearing a path for heating fuel to be delivered is on oil or propane. Still no fun, but not on the scale of something like a hurricane.