1st big snow of 2016 this weekend

[vulcancowboy]

Looks like it finally stopped snowing here. I went out and took a measurement and we have 26".

 

[dieselcrawler]

I plowed yesterday afternoon and again this morning. I'm guessing we got 14" here. Buried the wife's car.



I went over and plowed out the driveway to the rental house this afternoon.

 

[Streetcar]

Normally I'm a big fan of big snowfalls. This time not so much.

My wife and I went to the airport this morning at zero dark 30 to take our first real vacation in years and our flight was cancelled due to the storm on the east coast. We were going to the Dominican Republic but our flight was routed through Newark. Now we're losing 3 of our 7 days at the resort because we can't get out until Tuesday. I half expected this to happen when I saw the weather forecast, but I checked the flight info before we left and it showed we were good as we would be just ahead of the storm. I'm Ok with it except for the money we're losing on our reservations. The whole act of God, it's not our fault thing.

Ok, I'm done complaining about spilled milk.

Last year I was stuck in Seattle for 36 hours as my connecting flight was cancelled. They wanted the plane in philly after the storm. As act of God, airline gave us nothing.
My original flight would have landed before the snow began

 

[2458n]

Cat Driver great door open photo. Easy to understand why a house needs more than one door. Good day to read a book.

 

[s219]

It's been puking snow here since about 1pm. I went outside to play with my daughter, and our tracks were getting filled in within 15-20 minutes (would love to be out skiing when it's like that). Took my RTV out for a ride and it does pretty well in fresh snow, but squirrely when driving on the road that has been messed up with vehicle tracks. Still pretty good.

 

[Sterff]

We are at around 28" or so with another 2-6" on the way.

 

[vulcancowboy]

We are at around 28" or so with another 2-6" on the way.

Hey Sterff, where are you in central pa? I'm just north west of Harrisburg.

 

[Sterff]

Hey Sterff, where are you in central pa? I'm just north west of Harrisburg.

In Lancaster near Columbia. Up to at least 30" now.

 

[nch209]

We got absolutely hammered. Big regrets not biting the bullet and buying a blower. Lesson learned. That said, frontier loader blade worked great, and I only got stuck once. Got sucked into a ditch, but a neighbor pulled me out in a jiffy. As for totals, 30inches around noon and been snowing ever since. I'm guessing near 40 dropped, and drifts up to double that in places. Luckily it's powder...

 

[chim]

We have about 28" here in Middletown, Pa. Still snowing and blowing pretty hard. I made a path out of my drive way so I could go to one of my neighbors house to clear his driveway. He has to go to work in the morning so I did it for him. I don't think our back roads will be open in the morning but he has an open driveway. I will do the rest of mine and some other neighbors tomorrow.

I'm 20 minutes East of you (well, maybe 4 hours in this weather) and it's been impressive. I was out earlier and blew the driveway but it doesn't look like it. Even with the cab warmed to shirtsleeve temps the snow was coming so fast it wasn't melting off the windows quick enough. It'll be fun tomorrow when it settles down a little.