Rain Rain & more Rain

 

58, partly sunny, chance of showers later.

 

Brutal, isn't it?

 

36 and partly sunny.
Calling for some major (for our area) snow Fri/Sat.

 

For my area, they are calling for 2-4 inches. Central Indiana calling for 4-8 inches. Snow advisories have been posted.

 

Low 50s and raining BUCKETS here in the Cascade foothills.

 

30* now,,a little snow for the weekend

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM FRIDAY TO 7 PM EST SATURDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
SNOW FROM THIS SYSTEM WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION FROM SOUTH TO NORTH FRIDAY AFTERNOON...THEN CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF SATURDAY. SNOWFALL TOTALS OF 12 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED NEAR THE DELAWARE AND CENTRAL NEW JERSEY COAST WITH UP TO 24 INCHES POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND THE CENTRAL DELMARVA. STRENGTHENING WINDS FRIDAY NIGHT

 

Something you can tell your grandkids about.......

 

"AMOUNTS WILL BE HIGHER ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA... POSSIBLY EXCEEDING A FOOT OVER THE AREA FROM BEDFORD TO CHAMBERSBURG EAST TO COVER MUCH OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. AMOUNTS COULD APPROACH TWO FEET NEAR THE MARYLAND BORDER IN FRANKLIN... ADAMS... LANCASTER AND YORK COUNTIES."
Thank goodness it is happening on the weekend. I love snow on the weekend. Something about machinery reigning over mother nature that I really dig. I hate snow days. Everyone thinks teachers get a "day off". Well, we have to make up the day later and instead of doing what I'd like to do on a day off (work on truck, go on trip, etc.), I do what I have to do: shovel,plow, blow snow. Don't know why I don't mind doing that on a Saturday or Sunday, but doing it on a day I should be at school teaching really irks me.
Now, a delayed start to the day.........that is another situation altogether!
Got your snowblower tuned up, Keith?
I've been busy tonight with 3 snowblowers that wouldn't start in December for the last big one we had. Customers figured they were in the clear and didn't call me until today.
Emergency/rush job rates are killer.

 

It got cold a lot earlier than usual this year in my TX, NM area, and we've had more rain and snow than usual too. For the past two months there's been snow on the mountain, which I'm not used to seeing. We finally got a break today from about 36 hours of rain. Now... the weeds.

 

Its misting rain & 35 degrees

 

Well, we've got about 6 inches on the ground now and it's pouring. Calling for 7-12 total. The bad thing is that last night during the night, up until around 4 AM, we got a mix of sleet with it. Had a double fatality in the county during it and numerous other wrecks.

Looks like you're in for it Keith.

 

Absolutely, Kal!!!

The new one is in perfect condition.
The old Sears (1979 model), well, I pulled it out of the shed on Wednesday, and rebuilt the carb, and re-installed.
Started on the first pull! Runs like a new one.
(I'm going to give the old one to a guy at work. He's got a lot of bills to pay, since his wife is going through 'radiation' treatments.)

The other snowblower. . .well. . . I've got to get the 'numbers' off of the thing, and find another carb. (The one I asked about, earlier.)
It's not 'self-propelled', but, it looks new.
Darned 'sealed', non-adjustable carbs (replacement carb, that is) is a POS.

My dear old Dad told me to come up to his house, and get his snowblower.
He's now 85, and can't use it. (It's been used twice, I think.)
It's BIG.
I'm gonna leave it there, for now, so I don't have to take one back/forth.


The weatherman is now calling for 18-24 MINIMUM, possibly up to 30". . . maybe more.

 

What's a snowblower?

 

It is simply one of the most gratifying pieces of homeowner outdoor power equipment that exists.
It has been a long, long time since I mowed yard with a reel mower, so using a power mower kind of gets taken for granted by me.
But no matter how long it has been since I manually shoveled snow, the memory is still fresh.
Firing up a blower and cutting a swath through several (or many!) inches of the cold white stuff represents a supremacy of man and machine over nature that is tangible to anyone with the resources to purchase or borrow one. The primary auger turning at a relatively slow speed scoops in cubic feet of the stuff and pushes it to the high-speed fan which, depending on the consistency of that particular day's snow, hurtles it at great velocity as a solid stream of frozen misery to distances up to 40 feet. The process reduces what could easily be hours of work to a fraction of the time.

That, my friend, is what a snowblower is.