Please let us know how you are.

--
Evelyn C. Leeper

On 1/30/22 9:24 AM, eleeper@optonline.net wrote:
> Please let us know how you are.

Lots of snow here, but nothing scary. We play musical cars at the condo
to get our parking spaces plowed out. It was more challenging than usual
this time but still worked. The outside stairs were shoveled at least
four times Saturday.

--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
> Lots of snow here, but nothing scary. We play musical cars at the
> condo to get our parking spaces plowed out.

What happens with cars whose owners are out of town or otherwise not
available to move them?
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

On 1/30/22 10:52 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
>> Lots of snow here, but nothing scary. We play musical cars at the
>> condo to get our parking spaces plowed out.
>
> What happens with cars whose owners are out of town or otherwise not
> available to move them?

I don't know if there were any, but presumably the plows would plow
around them. That happened with me on a previous occasion, when I didn't
move my car till after the plow had gone through.

--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

In article <st8dil$95o$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
>On 1/30/22 10:52 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>> Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
>>> Lots of snow here, but nothing scary. We play musical cars at the
>>> condo to get our parking spaces plowed out.
>>
>> What happens with cars whose owners are out of town or otherwise not
>> available to move them?
>
>I don't know if there were any, but presumably the plows would plow
>around them. That happened with me on a previous occasion, when I didn't
>move my car till after the plow had gone through.
>
From which I assume that the snow was not so very deep as to
prevent the car from moving.

Take care, everybody out there.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
>> Lots of snow here, but nothing scary. We play musical cars at the
>> condo to get our parking spaces plowed out.
>
>What happens with cars whose owners are out of town or otherwise not
>available to move them?

They either shovel it themselves or wait until spring.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On 1/30/2022 9:24 AM, eleeper@optonline.net wrote:
> Please let us know how you are.

18-20 inches of powdery snow here. Power stayed on throughout the
storm, and no emergencies required us to head out until after the
plows had done their thing. Come spring, we'll undoubtedly find
tree "bits" on the ground to clean up, but I don't know of any
significant damage.

--
Mike Benveniste -- (Clarification Required) Its name is Public opinion.
It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the
voice of God.

Michael Benveniste <mhb@murkyether.com> writes:

> On 1/30/2022 9:24 AM, eleeper@optonline.net wrote:
>> Please let us know how you are.
>
> 18-20 inches of powdery snow here. Power stayed on throughout the
> storm, and no emergencies required us to head out until after the
> plows had done their thing. Come spring, we'll undoubtedly find
> tree "bits" on the ground to clean up, but I don't know of any
> significant damage.

Almost exactly the same here, although due to wind and drifting I'm not
sure how much snow we really got.

On 1/31/22 9:18 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <st8dil$95o$1@dont-email.me>,
> Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
>> On 1/30/22 10:52 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>> Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
>>>> Lots of snow here, but nothing scary. We play musical cars at the
>>>> condo to get our parking spaces plowed out.
>>>
>>> What happens with cars whose owners are out of town or otherwise not
>>> available to move them?
>>
>> I don't know if there were any, but presumably the plows would plow
>> around them. That happened with me on a previous occasion, when I didn't
>> move my car till after the plow had gone through.
>>
> From which I assume that the snow was not so very deep as to
> prevent the car from moving.

On that earlier occasion, no. If anyone's car didn't get moved
yesterday, they'd have to do some shoveling.

For that matter, yesterday I had to get the snow off my car and out from
under the tires before I could move. According to one report, the
deepest snow in New Hampshire this weekend was 13.5 inches, not very far
from here but right on the coast.

--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

On Monday, January 31, 2022 at 2:02:50 PM UTC-5, Gary McGath wrote:
> On 1/31/22 9:18 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> > In article <st8dil$95o$1...@dont-email.me>,
> > Gary McGath <ga...@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
> >> On 1/30/22 10:52 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> >>> Gary McGath <ga...@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
> >>>> Lots of snow here, but nothing scary. We play musical cars at the
> >>>> condo to get our parking spaces plowed out.
> >>>
> >>> What happens with cars whose owners are out of town or otherwise not
> >>> available to move them?
> >>
> >> I don't know if there were any, but presumably the plows would plow
> >> around them. That happened with me on a previous occasion, when I didn't
> >> move my car till after the plow had gone through.
> >>
> > From which I assume that the snow was not so very deep as to
> > prevent the car from moving.
> On that earlier occasion, no. If anyone's car didn't get moved
> yesterday, they'd have to do some shoveling.
>
> For that matter, yesterday I had to get the snow off my car and out from
> under the tires before I could move. According to one report, the
> deepest snow in New Hampshire this weekend was 13.5 inches, not very far
> from here but right on the coast.
> --

Connecticut chiming in. The town across the river reported 8.2." We probably
got something similar. I haven't had a car for awhile, but four were parked in
the drive on the uphill side of the house, with another 3 on the downhill drive.
Nobody was driving Saturday into Sunday. A combination of those with cars
digging themselves out and the landlord and his plow guy taking a snowblower
to what remained meant we can get in and out. My contribution was shoveling
and sweeping snow off the stairs from the driveway to our floor, so it wouldn't
melt and refreeze overnight. It got down t o 3 degrees F this morning. (-16 C)
The street is clear of snow. The town does a good job, usually, and temps
rose to 32 F today,with sunshine.

I ordered groceries using Instacart 24 hours before the storm hit and should
have had a delivery by mid-day Friday. It was pushed back for lack of a shopper
48 hours, then was cancelled. I was able to reorder and get the majority of what
I wanted, delivered Sunday afternoon. There was enough food in the house,
but I wanted a cushion. I did get good customer service through chat on my mobile
phone, and eventually a phone call, and a credit on my next order.

Coincidentally, my landlord is replacing the oven/range/cooker in our kitchen.
I may break it in making a shepherd's pie, as the Aldi finally had ground lamb!
If it doesn't get hooked up today, I'll use the Air Fryer that LL swapped in for our
on-its-last-legs toaster-oven. The air-fried potato wedges and cod I made the
other night were excellent. I am gruntled that the two-pack of whole chickens
I ordered were on the cancelled order. Whole birds, except organic ones at 2.5
times the price, have between outtastock. I did bake some leg/thigh quarters
the other night, but I wanted to make soup. Patience....

--
Kevin R

On Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 9:24:56 AM UTC-5, eleeper@optonline.net wrote:
> Please let us know how you are.

I live well inland, in north central MA. We got about 9 inches of light fluffy snow on
Saturday. Sunday was sunny but cold. Between my 'plow guy' ($40/pass), my snowblower,
and some shoveling, it was a pretty quick cleanup.

The Cape and SE MA had it far worse, with up to 30" of snow, and widespread power losses.

I'm more worried about the coming Friday, when we may get an ice storm. I'll take a foot of
snow over a 1/4 inch of ice any time.

Pt

On Tue, 1 Feb 2022 11:53 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) wrote:

> In article <11631764-0978-47c3-b11a-8beeeb221c6bn@googlegroups.com>,
> evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com () wrote:
>
> >
> > Please let us know how you are.
>
> No snow here in the south of England. :-)
>
> I think the last really bad snow fall here was in 2009 - an opera I was
> due to go and see in London that night was cancelled and the opera house
> phoned me at lunchtime to tell me.
>
> This does mean that when it does snow, nobody knows how to drive. About
> 20 years ago, it started to snow as I left for work. By the time my
> train arrived at my destination it was a couple of centimetres deep. I
> walked past a school that was closed because the teachers couldn't get it
> and when I got to the office I was one of the first in. Most people
> drove in and we were up a slight hill and nobody could work out how to
> drive up it.
>
> But I did grow up in the north of England in the sixties when we
> regularly got a metre of snow each year and once my school was closed for

I doubt that very much. We might have had snowfalls of over 3 feet occasionally [maybe? I recall in 68 we had 5ft drifts, but more like 2ft average], but not metres, not back then!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_Kingdom

> a week. And I remember the big freeze of '63 which lasted from Boxing
> day to the beginning of March, and that affected the whole country.
>
> My sister still lives in the north and she did lose power for a couple of
> days before Christmas. She was lucky. Some areas were without power for
> over a week.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

On 2/1/22 7:44 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:
> In article <20220201113731.1b81bf56a9c5981f814f0848@127.0.0.1>,
> admin@127.0.0.1 (Kerr-Mudd, John) wrote:
>
>>
>> I doubt that very much. We might have had snowfalls of over 3 feet
>> occasionally [maybe? I recall in 68 we had 5ft drifts, but more like
>> 2ft average], but not metres, not back then!
>
> My school was on the top of a hill.

"And we walked 20 miles to the schoolhouse,
Barefoot and uphill -- both ways!
In blizzards summer and winter,
Back in the good old days."

(Frank Hayes, "When I Was a Boy")

--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 7:53:18 AM UTC-5, Gary McGath wrote:
> On 2/1/22 7:44 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:
> > In article <20220201113731.1b81...@127.0.0.1>,
> > ad...@127.0.0.1 (Kerr-Mudd, John) wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I doubt that very much. We might have had snowfalls of over 3 feet
> >> occasionally [maybe? I recall in 68 we had 5ft drifts, but more like
> >> 2ft average], but not metres, not back then!
> >
> > My school was on the top of a hill.
> "And we walked 20 miles to the schoolhouse,
> Barefoot and uphill -- both ways!
> In blizzards summer and winter,
> Back in the good old days."
>
> (Frank Hayes, "When I Was a Boy")
> --
> Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

ObSF: 'I can’t wait till I have grandchildren. “When I was younger, I had to walk to the rim of a crater. Uphill! In an EVA suit! On Mars, ya little shit! Ya hear me? Mars!”' [Mark Watney in Andy Weir's THE MARTIAN]

--
Evelyn C. Leeper

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 7:53:18 AM UTC-5, Gary McGath wrote:
> On 2/1/22 7:44 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:
> > In article <20220201113731.1b81...@127.0.0.1>,
> > ad...@127.0.0.1 (Kerr-Mudd, John) wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I doubt that very much. We might have had snowfalls of over 3 feet
> >> occasionally [maybe? I recall in 68 we had 5ft drifts, but more like
> >> 2ft average], but not metres, not back then!
> >

Is that a metre (~39 inches) per annum?
[ [quote]

Average Annual Snowfall in Connecticut

The tables below give yearly averages for snowfall at cities and towns in Connecticut.
The numbers are for the total amount of snow and for how many days it snows at least
0.1 inches (0.25 centimetres).

The snowfall totals are annual averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020
for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for places in Coastal Connecticut and Inland Connecticut.

Place name links take you to more detailed information on snowfall, snowstorms and snow accumulation for that location.

Coastal Connecticut

Average annual snowfall totals

Days Place Inches Centi­metres
9.9 Bridgeport 33.6 85.3
11.3 Groton 24.5 62.2
14.8 Norwich 27.8 70.6 *
15.1 Stamford 34.0 86.4

Inland Connecticut

Yearly snow averages
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
10.8 Burlington 38.6 98.0
13.5 Danbury 49.3 125.2
22.3 Hartford 51.7 131.3
23.4 Norfolk 74.9 190.2
26.6 Torrington 59.1 150.1
32.7 West Thompson 38.5 97.8
Lake
38.2 Woodbury 46.8 118.9

[/quote]

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Connecticut/annual-snowfall.php

* [quote]

Norwich's 22 inches of snow was the highest reported number in the state.

[/quote] -

https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/2022/01/30/ct-blizzard-snowfall-totals-norwich-windham-county-new-london-county/9259948002/

> > My school was on the top of a hill.
> "And we walked 20 miles to the schoolhouse,
> Barefoot and uphill -- both ways!
> In blizzards summer and winter,
> Back in the good old days."
>
> (Frank Hayes, "When I Was a Boy")
> --
>

Sounds like...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch

Nice take on it, though.

https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=10313,10313

--
Kevin R

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 10:52:33 AM UTC-5, Kevrob wrote:

[snip]

> * [quote]
>
> Norwich's 22 inches of snow was the highest reported number in the state.
>
> [/quote] -
>
> https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/2022/01/30/ct-blizzard-snowfall-totals-norwich-windham-county-new-london-county/9259948002/

Aaaahhh! Yorkshire exports trainspotters!

https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/local/2022/02/01/norwich-featured-groton-mans-youtube-series-ct-train-history/9238147002/

--
Kevin R

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 10:59:20 AM UTC-5, Kevrob wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 10:52:33 AM UTC-5, Kevrob wrote:
>
> [snip]
[more snip]

> Aaaahhh! Yorkshire exports trainspotters!
>
> https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/local/2022/02/01/norwich-featured-groton-mans-youtube-series-ct-train-history/9238147002/

Also found: picture of the Coast Guard sailing ship "Eagle,"
featured in Stirling's Nantucket trilogy.

[quote]

The U.S. Coast Guard barque "Eagle" is shrouded in sea smoke rising off the waters of
New London Harbor on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. Sea smoke is formed when very cold
air moves over warmer water. The air temperature in New London was at, or near,
zero degrees Fahrenheit on Monday morning. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

[/quote] - https://www.theday.com/local-news/20220131/smoke-on-water

--
Kevin R