@catjac1975 are you snowed in!

[digitS']

NyBoy put this question to Lesa on the About Me and My Garden. Well, they are all near-neighbors, to my way of thinking .. .

@catjac1975 was trying to go from Massachusetts to Connecticut, today. I'm not sure if the storm got any farther but parts of those 2 states had record snowfalls!

Are you stuck at home, Cat'?

Steve

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

we got about 8" here and lost power last night around 7:30pm till just before 10pm. my parents across town are still without power or land lines and their power went out around the same time. cell calls (busy lines) have been hard to get through to them but we went for Turkey Day and they were running things with a generator. i live just about across the street from the hospital so that is why our power was up so quickly.

my family members came up from Mass and said they only got a dusting around the Lynn, MA area. good thing since my dad just finished working on my cousin's snow thrower and packed it in the truck to head home tonight.

we got a lot of tree damage in the back yard but i'm not worried since that will get cleaned up during a thaw and be used for firewood eventually.

 

[digitS']

Going across town for "dinner by generator," @Chickie'sMomaInNH ?

Ready Kilowatt does good work here. I have wondered if it's because we have mega hydroelectric power around or because our trees aren't very big.

Winds are picking up here after the Weather Service tells us the afternoon high tied the record for the the date!! The 55° will blow away now and be replaced by temperatures that will stay below freezing beginning Saturday morning and continuing ... back to the low teens.

Right now, pumpkins are collapsing on some of the neighborhood porches. If they wait for the next thaw, maybe the homeowners can scoop them up with their snow shovels ...

I hope your parents' generator runs more than the kitchen stove and the dining room lights . Dad used to figure he could run the lights, gas furnace, fridge and microwave. Stove and hot water heater were electric and had to stay off.

Steve

 

[baymule]

Hope everyone is ok and warm. When we get slammed with hurricanes and don't have power for weeks, at least we aren't freezing to death.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

dad's got a good sized generator that has been reliable for him for many years. though we don't often get weather that knocks out power like this. apparently this is only the 4 largest power outage on record. the last one was the Ice Storm of 2008 when my sister was without power for about 2 weeks and had to come up from MA to get that generator to survive a few more days till they got the power back up. my parents lost theirs for 3 days that time. we only lost it for a few hours that time due to the house we were living in being across from the Dept of Public Works and just down the street from PSNH substation (our power supplier)

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

at this point in time i want to know what's up with that global warming trend?

 

[thistlebloom]

at this point in time i want to know what's up with that global warming trend?

We're hogging it today!

 

[baymule]

We used a generator to keep the freezer from melting after hurricane Ike, but there was no gas-no power-no gas. My boss sent out a driver every day with a pickup load of everyone's gas cans, he had to go 60 miles to find a gas station with power. Boss wanted to make sure employees had gas to come back to work, but I used mine for the generator. Some people are smart enough to fill up before the hurricane strikes.

 

[catjac1975]

We are on the coast. Sometimes we get a ton of snow sometimes we get rain. Though I love the snow I do not want it to wreck holiday traveling. We got ALL RAIN. My sister got just a bit of snow. Only once in 37 years did we get snowed in for Thanksgiving. So we lucked out with beautiful traveling weather, ate lots of food, and played with lots of adorable screaming laughing kids. Christmas is in Mattapoisett. We are planning a Polish Christmas as we did a few years back. Maybe I'll remember to take out the camera.

 

[catjac1975]

Here is last year's Christmas. A few added guests were able to come because we had it the Saturday before Christmas. A few were absent because of work. Babies are a bit bigger this year. My son is engaged, (working this day) so who know's about more babies in the future. I am in the red sweater with the dark hair.