Ice storm - Northeast

[rhines81]

We're supposed to get hit with up to a 1/2" of solid ice tonight and the freezing rain is coming down heavy. Thankfully, we live on a Township road and the crew is bored tonight. I just saw them dump a butt-load of salt at the peak of the hill where we live and come back to spread it with a plow. Getting from our driveway to the nicely maintained road is always an experience in the Winter, but we make do. Last time we had this much ice dump (2005) we lost power for 5 days, trees looked like they had exploded from the inside out, it was not a good situation. Hoping for the best - tomorrow should warm up to almost 40F they say, so it will be a good opportunity to widen the snow gap in the driveway some more depending on the ice freeze. My little 350 ATV with plow and bald tires has reached it's limits in the past couple of weeks. If we can make it past this Friday, the rest of the Winter/early-Spring looks like smooth sailing. Given the delayed delivery of Tremor, I will not even start plow shopping until October.

 

[Loshad]

Best of luck! Hate that ice from years in Midwest and Alaska.

 

[rhines81]

Best of luck! Hate that ice from years in Midwest and Alaska.

Only lost power for few minutes. The ice is fairly thick, but temperature is now 36F so hopefully in a few hours I'll be able scrape it off the driveway and deck.

 

[Marley]

Terrible weather here the last couple of weeks.
Snow, sleet, freezing rain every other day but the worst thing.......that magnesium chloride that they spray on the roads.
Around here we call it the Devil's lip balm.

 

[Njswampman]

Alot of ice up here in NNJ last night and this morning, it melted quickly though.
I did managed to catch a video of me on the ring cam cheating death..

 

[soulezoo]

Good thing we have global warming going on.

 

[Marley]

The good news?
We're getting ready to get hit again.

 

[rhines81]

The good news?
We're getting ready to get hit again.

Yea we're gonna get pounded Thursday into Friday with ~6" of snow and another 1/2" of ice with a hard freeze continuing through the weekend - but I see it as Winter's last major event. Will be above freezing here during the daytime, mostly after that. I laugh at the 6" of snow part, it's the ice that always sucks the most.