My apartment complex management told me to stay indoors and out of the way while they clean the streets, sidewalks, and breezeways, and besides, the weather is going to deteriorate and blow everything around and get cold anyway.  Um...okay!  

What they are not telling you is that by cleaning up they mean creating an ice wall directly behind your bumper that you have no way of getting through.

's'truth.  I've known that since I was a kid (being the only male offspring meant it was my job to shovel the snow).  That sinking feeling when you've just cleaned out the driveway, and you see the plow coming to create a mound of ice shrapnel.

Good luck to everyone that's getting hit by this storm.  It has stayed south of us here (10 miles north of Pittsburgh) as we've only had about 4" and it's seems to have stopped already

Scraped out a BBQ path by starting downstairs and working my way up.

Probably had about 3 more inches in the hour since I did that.

Phew, but more on the way:

 

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So sick of snow and now a Jeep decided he could drive out and got stuck so the plows will not be able to make it down here.

http://www.vinylspinnerphoto.com/Other/Samples/n-2RzRw6/i-F7G8CLX/A

 

 

Just don't forget that snow etiquette doesn't trump the usual American local customs.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/good-samaritan-shot-killed-driver-stuck-snow-police/story?id=36462969

Well over a foot here and it's still going. The winds have died down though. Power's still on (knock on wood). The snow's piled up higher than the laundry room window outside. Tomorrow's gonna be fun, in a "not" kind of way.

I did about 4 hours of shoveling today. If course after I finished the real blizzard whiteout conditions started.

Going to be buying a bunch of better quality shovels.

Fuck me there is a carbon fiber snow shovel:

http://www.snowbigdeal.com/arva-snow-pure-light-shovel.html

That's to cool.

 

So are the pictures of your storm from the international space station.

 

 

 

Received a video of snow outside my dad's apartment in NJ. Sent them a video of the weather outside my apartment in South Florida. Don't think I'll share that video here. 

Stay safe and warm everyone. 

My plastic shovel has worked very well.  Taking a shoveling break now but I think I probably have about 9 hours in today.

The lady across the street is due any minute so we are trying to clean out enough so at least someone can get out.

3 hours ago, Dreadhead said:

I did about 4 hours of shoveling today. If course after I finished the real blizzard whiteout conditions started.

Going to be buying a bunch of better quality shovels.

I'm tempted to get one of those half size ones with the funny handle, have you seen any of those?

I've been asked to go to work tomorrow morning which is normally a forty minute drive, black ice warning until noon. The road outside has not been plowed yet. Fairly nervous, really don't want to damage the vehicle.

 

 

 

 

Nothing but a dusting here in Hotlanta!

Pretty sure my neighbor is part of the snow road crew.  He got back and fired up a gigantic snow blower and did my entire sidewalk and driveway in front of my car I had not gotten to yet.

 

/confused boner

Got about 24inches started Sat morning about 2am ended early sunday am.

My back was out so one of my sons was using a plow where he works and  made a pass  to the front of the driveway,His brother who is a volunteer firefighter came home this morning after spending the night at the firehouse going on calls & shoveled the stoop & used the snowblower on the rest of the driveway then dragged it onto my

 second story deck which had 3 feet of snow on it & cleared that off.

Good to have Kids!

Fun fact: it's 4 am and I just finished digging. I started at 10 am yesterday. Man, I really need to get in better shape, and not having a bad back would help a lot. Also, I need a snowblower that actually works instead of one that makes me spend ours figuring out why it chokes on anything but a few inches of powder.

Yup, I had a blower AND it took me 16 hours, because I'm that useless.

We got about 2 feet, but in some places it was piled up more like 4. Either way, it's done now. Hope you all fared better.

I'm dug out!

We got the suv at the bottom of the driveway dug out, and the mailbox.  and a path down to the car.  A LONG way from the rest of the driveway.  I've texted someone to see about getting a snowblower out here, since mine broke.  

I've been dug out since yesterday and have made two trips to the grocery. It should be interesting to see how the DMV commute goes tomorrow assuming the federal government is going to do a delayed start.