nor'easter!
by John at 2/12/2006 07:33:00 PM
You'd think after living here for more than eight years I'd know what it means, but I think it means the winds came out of the northeast.
We just got hit by a Nor'easter that dropped something less than 10 inches at my house (hard to say because of drifting, plus I didn't actually bother to measure it). It took me more than three hours (and three tries) to finish shoveling my long, long driveway*. I say this after every big snowfall, but next year I'm going to hire a plow.
It could have been a lot worse - we had snowfall for about six hours yesterday afternoon without any appreciable accumulation because the air temperature was still above freezing and the ground was warm. There was still only about an inch on my walkway at 10 pm. Over the next nine hours, though, it got colder, and by around 7 am we'd gotten about all the snow we were going to get.
The good part is, Elias got to try out snow for the first time. I can't say he liked it.
Update: The local news is saying 12"-18" in our area. We are right on the border with the 8"-12" zone, so let's call it 12". The 16"-22" zone missed us by about 10 or 15 miles.
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* Trivia: The longest amount of time I have spent shoveling snow was more than fours hours spread over two days in the winter of 2003. That snowfall is pictured in the header image and resulted in four days off from work.
We just got hit by a Nor'easter that dropped something less than 10 inches at my house (hard to say because of drifting, plus I didn't actually bother to measure it). It took me more than three hours (and three tries) to finish shoveling my long, long driveway*. I say this after every big snowfall, but next year I'm going to hire a plow.
It could have been a lot worse - we had snowfall for about six hours yesterday afternoon without any appreciable accumulation because the air temperature was still above freezing and the ground was warm. There was still only about an inch on my walkway at 10 pm. Over the next nine hours, though, it got colder, and by around 7 am we'd gotten about all the snow we were going to get.
The good part is, Elias got to try out snow for the first time. I can't say he liked it.
Update: The local news is saying 12"-18" in our area. We are right on the border with the 8"-12" zone, so let's call it 12". The 16"-22" zone missed us by about 10 or 15 miles.
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* Trivia: The longest amount of time I have spent shoveling snow was more than fours hours spread over two days in the winter of 2003. That snowfall is pictured in the header image and resulted in four days off from work.
