First good snow of the year forecasted for Monday.

Cars and trucks are all topped off.
Battery tenders hooked up.
Generator tested and ready to go. 5 days fuel handy.
Chainsaw good to go.
Two alternate heat sources available.

You guys ready?

Missing anything?

Beer?
Snax?
A few good books?

FC

booze!!

Check and check!

never found it a bad thing to be prepared for eventualities


for it seems they eventually come around

Let's see...do I believe DC Metro weather forecasters and anticipate my trial on Tuesday will be postponed or do I still prepare as if we're going forward?

I think I'll prepare.

Where the heck does one live when the FIRST good snow of the winter is at the end of January???

Most of the U.S.

I live in Mississippi and more years than not we won't have any snow. It's a pretty rare year that we get more than one snowfall that sticks for more than a couple of hours.

It's in the 60's here

What are you on trial for, Bob?

Snow? What is this 'snow' that y'all are discussing?

Water, oil lamps, books to read.
Battery radio, toilet paper, checkerboard if youngsters are around. Flash lights---.

It is important to figure out how much milk and bread you would normally consume in a week; then go out and purchase three times that amount. (If the week's expected use is 0, you should use 2 as your base number, just to be on the safe side.)

And be sure and tether your elephants.

Will be 61F here tomorrow

Alternate source of heat the female kind?

Whiskey and a little herb is all a guy needs!

Bread and milk....

Bread and milk

Bread and milk and beer!

I just heard that it could be the worst blizzard ever recorded in NYC.

Couple of feet of snow from NY to Boston?


That would absolutely suck for travel/work.



Rogue, what is the storm warning detail for your area?

Samo gets my vote ...Again

W. Bill

I've been stuck in some of those NYC 2-3 feet blizzards and they do suck. In the city, there's no place to put the snow. They have to haul it out in dumpsters and drop it in the rivers.

Wegman's Grocery in Virginia was like lunch at the ant farm today and there's really no snow forecast for this area. I'm hauling to SC tomorrow!!

WB, if you're gonna be holed up for awhile might as well be happy about it.....grin

the prep items are the same in Florida. No snow, but we do get a hurricane now and then.
Surprising how many people go into storm season, with nothing set aside.

Holy chit, the EPA would freak out if they did that out here.

'City' snow can be dirty. In our little town they dump out alongside a couple roads(down in the ditch).
Always black nasty piles of oily dirt/sand and garbage left in the Spring after the snow is melted off.

Yup! They had to do the same thing in DC after several back-to-back storms. All I could think of was all the junk not to mention the chemical treatments they put down put before the storms hit. Dumped right into the Potomac under the 495 Wilson bridge.

They tried moving it to RFK but the parking lots filled up fast and all of that ran off into the smaller rivers.

But at that point, people were so sick of snow that nobody said a word. Life in the big city! SUX!

Way too warm here, 47F right now. Snow is about gone, creeks ran last night....Mud rapidly forming.


Rather have a blizzard warning...grin

I don't have to leave the house for at least a couple of months. I'll run out of milk, but otherwise I'm good to go.

Yeah, just one of those things that would be nice to avoid(if possible).

I'm still trying to get sent to mexico for a couple of months!

We'd be screwed here if the power went down.

I'm good on heat, don't need power for that. Generator will run the well and freezer. I'm not set up to run the water heater, but I don't need that in a 'real' survival situation.

Dude, you need one of those pimp 70's style fireplaces in the palace.

SH, you are in way better shape. I don't even have a generator for the freezer. Much less heat.


Rancho, I think the palace originally had one of those!
Seriously, some kind of retro fireplace.

he densely populated area from New York City to Boston could experience one of its ten biggest snowstorms on record early this week, as a textbook nor�easter takes shape over the next 48 hours. While local details are bound to evolve somewhat as the storm develops, the models are now in strong, consistent agreement on a potentially crippling snowstorm. Blizzard watches were hoisted on Sunday morning from eastern New Jersey to northeast Massachusetts, including the New York, Providence, and Boston metropolitan areas.


Hey Sam.

I'm out on Long Island. Yeah, it's gonna suck getting to work.

That bread and milk thing is frikken hysterical.

I remember staying in a HoJo in Huntsville, Al, overlooking the Piggly Wiggly parking lot when they were predicting an ice storm. You would have thought the world was coming to an end.

You do here, takes a genuine blizzard to stop circuit court. Ice and snow won't do it so long as a plow can get through. And the judge and magistrate have an 80 mile commute (ordinarily in session once a week and a motions day if needed).

Prepping here is being a week or so ahead on groceries which is pretty much normal if you shop the specials.

[quote=SamOlson]SH, you are in way better shape. I don't even have a generator for the freezer. Much less heat.


Sam, in the event of a blizzard that shut off electricity and no source for indoor heating, you probably wouldnt lose anything in the freezer.

I would have a heater and several 5 gal propane tanks.

Ain't looking forward to this one.

Eyeball, cold part of winter no doubt. Summer could be a stinkin' mess though!

For sure. A couple years ago i had to get a big gas generator and hook it to the freezer and fridge.

Was on a jury a few years ago when we had a real winter. They even brought in the big blowers to open the county road. The normal day's drifting made the roads a lane and a half - everyone had to be on his best behavior when meeting. One day found one of the jurors unable to get to court. A deputy went and collected her on a snowmobile.

Keep safe pard!

I would not want to be there during a blizzard that big.

2-3' of snow now possible?


Frick that, uber-chitstorm if it materializes.

Good luck.

Thanks Keith!
Not only is the problem of getting to and from work, but working in that junk.
Hope nothing comes down.

40 inches in one shot in '13.
That uber-sucked!

Yup Sam.... they are now saying 1-2 inches an hour. No way they can keep up with that in such densely populated areas as the NE. A true consternation.

You would not believe the junk people are buying. One would think it's the last supper.

Kind of looking forward to it. Have all the stuff we need here and I have maybe 4 hours of work I can do at home (and 230 hours of leave if it gets real bad ) Have gas for the snowblower and thawed a moose roast to cook and carrots and potatoes to go with it.

I did a bunch go reorganizing in my workshop and have a few little things to do before I start the next woodworking project. Surprising all the stuff you find when you reorganize. I found a Bianchi 1911 holster that I thought was long gone as well as some Speer 6mm and .44 bullets in the old yellow box.

I have a goose hunt on the 29th and two days of snow before that bodes well for that trip.

Damn, it was 65� and sunny here in Portland. And it's supposed to be BETTER tomorrow!!!

I turned on Fox news and saw that NYC was forecast to have something like three-feet of snow.

I went to NYU for a spell; got another degree I didn't need from there. I cannot imagine the city folks muddling around in three-friggin'-feet of snow. Damn.

The good ol'boys from upstate ... Peekskill, Cortland and such ... no problem. The city folks? That's going to be interesting.

Steve

A good supply of warm enough clothes for everybody in case you have to go outside for a spell would also be a consideration.

Redundancy helps...backup cooking and heating systems, generators wired in, whiskey stored, freezers full, lots of propane for the grills.... we be good!

I hope those global warming libs in the NE get 8 feet.

Heavy snows are different because they are confining. The first things lots of folk run out of in most man-made or natural disasters is cash - folding money and especially change.

If the power or internet lines are out there will be little use for plastic. Stores and gas stations will be cash only and rounded to the highest dollar - sometimes highest $5 or $10. Soda and vending machines work on emergency power (and the rare mechanical type) but you need change.

Heck, I've been storm prepped since Y2K.

Hope for the best to you northeast folks.

Looks like all the muggers will be out on skis, huh.

L.W.

Well, the media is lovin' this. I expect the local news crews to be circle jerking any minute.

Good point JOG - although the last time we lost power for a few days,(I believe it was Hurricane Sandy) NOTHING operated. No gas, no food, no nuttin'. Every POS was shut down and could not even handle a cash transaction.

Just 'shelter in place', near the wood stove. One does have a wood stove and an ample supply of firewood, right?

It's what us northern folks call "winter", not the panzy azzed stuff you tofu eatin', quiche makin' southern boys experience......

I'd like to think we're in pretty good shape. Always adding to the kit, and rotating out dates on food. We accumulate our stuff slowly over time. Every time we buy a big pack of toilet paper or paper towels, one roll of each gets set aside. My wife does the gluten free thing, so we're always looking for GF food to put away for her needs. I keep buying food grade buckets as needed. We put aside a portable toilet a while back and have enough chemicals and bags to go for about a month if we need to. Several different cook stoves, propane, a spare chainsaw, plenty of ammo for the weapons. We're in pretty good shape compared to most I suppose, but I'm alway looking to upgrade.

LMAO..


Yeah - like this:




Note the poor dude tryin' to blow out his driveway - all ya can see is the top of his hat (just to the left of the flag), and I'm in the truck sittin' up higher than if I was standing on the street..

Only thing I'd add to the first poster is that 5 days worth of fuel might not be anywhere near enough for this storm. I'd be sorely tempted to triple that, if I were he...




FWIW..



And what a difference one year makes.. This year we have maybe 3" on the ground, tops, and temps today supposed to reach 40F... You guys in NYC getting that kind of snow will be a nightmare.. Hope y'all stay safe..

"Only thing I'd add to the first poster is that 5 days worth of fuel might not be anywhere near enough for this storm. I'd be sorely tempted to triple that, if I were he.."


Red - 5 days if I run the genny non stop. If I use it intermittently, I should get 2-3 times that.

Yep, and another hint. If it's [bleep] freezing out I ain't worried about running the freezer.

The cash thing mentioned earlier is funny to me as well. If you can't go anywhere, why do you need cash?

I saw a person on the news during an upcoming ice storm filling up their car with gasoline. News crew asked why? The person said, with all the ice coming I won't be able to drive for maybe a week so I need to have gas in my car. WHAT?


I still have no idea how a person can sleep if they don't have enough to survive a month without leaving the house.

Dakota,
Seems you may be in TIC mode? Read the whole thread to see if other Alaskans had answered-our first snow hit on the 21st and we garnered 3" of the stuff I suspect we might get some more at some point, though I certainly would not want to bet on it yet. It has been real mild here as our temps have been more like April'a rather than December or January...

best,
bhtr

Scott,

Circular reasoning on their part?

If common sense was a marketable commody, we would (mostly) be very wealthy indeed!

Just got home from work.
Roads are getting a tad greasy now.

I lived in a town near Corpus once when a hurricane left the place surrounded and stranded from overflowing creeks for a week with no highway traffic in or out.

Filling stations sold more gasoline in that one week than ever before.