On 1/27/2015 6:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:53:35 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


The Nor'easter that hit the east coast is finally starting to wind down
here in MA. We officially received 24 inches of snow in our area
near Plymouth although I don't know how they could possibly measure it
and it's still snowing although not as heavily.


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Glad to hear you're OK there. I understand from the news that
Nantucket got hammered pretty badly.



It was quite a storm, one that we'll be talking about for a few years.
It was bad here but there are others who got it a lot worse. Nantucket
is pretty much without power and the winds are still near or at
hurricane strength so the power companies can't do much. Temps out
there are supposed to go to single digits tonight.

My only problem was a sheet of ice on parts of the driveway. We had a
smaller storm a few days ago that put about 4" of snow down before
changing to rain, saturating the snow. Then the temps dropped well
below freezing and it all froze solid. As a result I could plow the
half of the driveway that is pretty much a straight shot to the road
because I could get up some speed and push the 4' drifts. But up by
the house where I had to start and stop the truck just didn't have
enough traction due to the base ice layer. Got stuck in snow drifts
twice. Finally gave up with the truck and used the tractor to scoop
and dump. It was still snowing heavy so I was soaked and frozen.

Lots of cleanup plowing, shoveling and tractoring to do tomorrow.
Right now I feel like this:

http://tinyurl.com/nzwrdc9