March 07, 2011 storm

[Dutch445]

I heard some places in VT got really hammered! congrats!
had my blackberry with me when i finished up tonight so i
tried some pics and video with it. not great quality, but
you get the idea!

here's a video,
march 2011 snow :: VID-20110307-00001.mp4 video by sdutch - Photobucket

more pics
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/sdutch/march 2011 snow/Fenner-20110307-00044.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/sdutch/march 2011 snow/Fenner-20110307-00040.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/sdutch/march 2011 snow/Fenner-20110307-00039.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/sdutch/march 2011 snow/Fenner-20110307-00038.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/sdutch/march 2011 snow/Fenner-20110307-00045.jpg

 

[irvingj]

I see where you folks up north got hammered with snow!

Down here, even up on my hill, it stayed rain loger-- freezing rain.

Power went out around 2:30 AM, just got it back last night around 6PM. Tree branches had --no exaggeration-- close to 1" of ice wrapped around some, 1/2" to 3/4" on most. Trees & branches were snapping and crashing down at the rate of one every 5-10 seconds for quite a while. Too dangerous to be outside to begin removing my driveway obstructions until around 3:30 PM. Looked like a war zone.

Our dirt road was closed for quite a while; I could see large trees down & across the road from the top of my drieway in both directions.

On top of the slushy underneath, we got around 8" of snow. What a mess. Even more trees came down across my driveway after those pics were taken.

Finally got most of the driveway cleaned up by 8 PM...went through quite a few shearpins, even though I had gone through the snow as carefully as I could to remove branches. Missed quite a few! :ashamed:

Hey, Dutch-- what's that yellow thing with the windows on your JD??:laughing::laughing:

 

[Dutch445]

I see where you folks up north got hammered with snow!

Down here, even up on my hill, it stayed rain loger-- freezing rain.

Power went out around 2:30 AM, just got it back last night around 6PM. Tree branches had --no exaggeration-- close to 1" of ice wrapped around some, 1/2" to 3/4" on most. Trees & branches were snapping and crashing down at the rate of one every 5-10 seconds for quite a while. Too dangerous to be outside to begin removing my driveway obstructions until around 3:30 PM. Looked like a war zone.

Our dirt road was closed for quite a while; I could see large trees down & across the road from the top of my drieway in both directions.

On top of the slushy underneath, we got around 8" of snow. What a mess. Even more trees came down across my driveway after those pics were taken.

Finally got most of the driveway cleaned up by 8 PM...went through quite a few shearpins, even though I had gone through the snow as carefully as I could to remove branches. Missed quite a few! :ashamed:

Hey, Dutch-- what's that yellow thing with the windows on your JD??:laughing::laughing:

Wow, ice storms suck! I have been through 2 of them, both with several
days without power due to us living at "the end of the line". They are
very destructive, at least we can plow snow and get back to normal
in a couple hours. I remember going outside and hearing the trees come
down, very very eerie feeling.
Ice storms can take days or weeks to clean up.
Hopefully you will have everything opened up soon.

That yellow thing is my soft side cab! Sure beats taking it in the face
all the time!

 

[JEH412]

Wow, you guys got hammered with this storm ... especially with all the rain at the beginning. We were just on the right side of the frozen precipitation/rain line, thanks to the mountains just north of our place. The other side of the mountain had 6 inches of snow while we had less than an inch.
John

 

[Diamondpilot]

I was scheduled to fly into Glens Falls, NY yesterday morning but the airport was shut down due to the storm. Glad we decided to go to Clarksburg, WV instead.

Chris

 

[dgl24087]

I was scheduled to fly into Glens Falls, NY yesterday morning but the airport was shut down due to the storm. Glad we decided to go to Clarksburg, WV instead.

Chris

Clarksburg, WV, huh? I grew up near there, Buckhannon, WV. I left in 1983, still have family in the area but only make it back about once a year.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I was scheduled to fly into Glens Falls, NY yesterday morning but the airport was shut down due to the storm. Glad we decided to go to Clarksburg, WV instead.

Chris

So, did you take the last plane to Clarksburg?

 

[bakerg]

this was real snow! not fake affect,
heavy at the bottom, cuz we had inches
of rain saturday/sunday before it turned to
snow.

We got the rain Saturday with about 4-6" of snow in the evening and it was very windy. Had to plow out drifts on Sunday morning. What a mess, with the ground not frozen and very soggy, I sure tore up the driveway clearing the snow off. Luckily you hogged all the Snow on Monday, as we did not get even a snowflake.:laughing:

 

[Mace Canute]

I'm going to stick a web pic in here "just because". No idea where it's from but it kinda goes under the old saying "Things could always be worse."
http://www.damnlol.com/pics/61/44aec050b52ae7f95af7daffc8620e94.jpg

 

[looknlearn]

I'm going to stick a web pic in here "just because". No idea where it's from but it kinda goes under the old saying "Things could always be worse."
http://www.damnlol.com/pics/61/44aec050b52ae7f95af7daffc8620e94.jpg

Wonder how long it took him to locate which lump of snow his car was under.
That is a lot of snow.:confused2: