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Posted: 3/13/2017 7:09:46 PM EDT

Many are still recovering from the two windstorms and now a snow storm headed our way. More high winds predicted.
Hope everyone is ready.

Posted: 3/13/2017 8:08:38 PM EDT

[#1]

I'll be snowshoeing to work tomorrow.

Posted: 3/13/2017 8:40:32 PM EDT

[#2]

Already put the generator away. Not to worried out it in Monroe County. I think the bulk is gonna stay east of where I am on the west side of the county.

Posted: 3/13/2017 11:00:12 PM EDT

[#3]

Got my required snowstorm essentials of milk, juice, eggs and bread. Ready for anything

Posted: 3/13/2017 11:41:32 PM EDT

[#4]

i bought extra beer tonight case i get snowed in

Posted: 3/14/2017 12:08:28 AM EDT

[#5]

I'm an hour away from home, working near Cortland. Brought extra nicotine, water and my phone charger. Ya know, the essentials.

Posted: 3/14/2017 1:08:47 AM EDT

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Making French toast?

Posted: 3/14/2017 6:29:13 AM EDT

[#7]

Getting called in early here. Knew that would happen.

Posted: 3/14/2017 9:14:35 AM EDT

[#8]

You kidding? I've been ready. This is the only good snow storm of the season and I've been waiting for it. Now it's worth getting into the vehicle and enjoying a drive.

Posted: 3/14/2017 9:54:01 AM EDT

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This. today was the nicest drive into work i've had in a really long time. took my time, enjoyed the scenery and had the roads pretty much to myself for almost an hour.

Posted: 3/14/2017 5:10:01 PM EDT

[#10]

Yep, snow. In northern Ontario County. Winds were picking up on the way home from Canadogmeat.

Posted: 3/14/2017 6:11:11 PM EDT

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Fuck snow.

Posted: 3/14/2017 6:33:07 PM EDT

[#12]

The drifts have been avoiding my car, but the ones near it are covered past their hoods. Lots of

s driving without lights on today, pretty busy considering only two gas stations are open. edit: transformer just blew close by.

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Posted: 3/14/2017 6:50:49 PM EDT

[#13]

Daytime snow brings the...

1. No lights
2. High beams
3. LED Light Bars
4. 2 sets of driving lights, low beams, and a set of obnoxious "fog" lights that have more upward scatter than high beams.

I was triggered all the way home.

Posted: 3/14/2017 11:48:44 PM EDT

[#14]

We had quite a bit come down. State and County road crews were out most of the night, but Town road crews knocked off sometime after the Sheriff closed the roads to anything but emergency travel. So by 9 or 10 PM I was pretty much sticking to main roads unless I had to. Some of the villages were absolutely dead of any activity , while others had a significant amount of pedestrian, snowmobile, four wheeler, skier and other modes of winter travelers out and about.
More to come tomorrow...

Posted: 3/15/2017 11:53:08 AM EDT

[#15]

I am all snowed in out in the sticks of chenango county. I don't have a dedicated "plow guy" anymore because I have been doing it with my 4 wheeler the last few years. This storm got away from me and now I am stuck with 36" of snow on my driveway. Can't even get the wheeler out of the garage. Now I have to wait for someone to squeeze me into their schedual. I absolutely hate having to rely on someone else.

Posted: 3/15/2017 11:57:06 AM EDT

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Daytime snow brings the...

1. No lights
2. High beams
3. LED Light Bars
4. 2 sets of driving lights, low beams, and a set of obnoxious "fog" lights that have more upward scatter than high beams.

I was triggered all the way home.

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They don't realize these lights are not helping and actually hindering their vision. Yet so many drive with them always on:(

Posted: 3/15/2017 1:01:16 PM EDT

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They don't realize these lights are not helping and actually hindering their vision. Yet so many drive with them always on:(

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Daytime snow brings the...

1. No lights
2. High beams
3. LED Light Bars
4. 2 sets of driving lights, low beams, and a set of obnoxious "fog" lights that have more upward scatter than high beams.

I was triggered all the way home.

They don't realize these lights are not helping and actually hindering their vision. Yet so many drive with them always on:(

I've been a connoisseur of high performance forward lighting for a long time. Done a lot of reading, spent a lot of money on HID retrofits (well, they used to be expensive back in the day), so it really grinds my gears more than the average person with stock lighting. I was referring to someone who put a 3000k HID kit (or, may have been LED) in their factory fog lights that were not projectors. Non existent cutoff, probably just a big blob of yellow light. But, yes, too much foreground lighting contrains your pupils and reduces night vision down the road.

Posted: 3/15/2017 3:17:07 PM EDT

[#18]

Lake Placid is reporting 41 inches. I have probably close to 30 or maybe a little more at my house. 3 Hours plowing with the wheeler and snow blowing last night after I already did it at 330. Some clean up tonight to be done when I get home. We got half the lot clean here. Other half tomorrow.

Posted: 3/16/2017 12:00:41 AM EDT

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I am all snowed in out in the sticks of chenango county. I don't have a dedicated "plow guy" anymore because I have been doing it with my 4 wheeler the last few years. This storm got away from me and now I am stuck with 36" of snow on my driveway. Can't even get the wheeler out of the garage. Now I have to wait for someone to squeeze me into their schedual. I absolutely hate having to rely on someone else.

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How many feet long is your driveway

Posted: 3/18/2017 9:59:32 AM EDT

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It is about 350' - 400' long.

It has a slight uphill slope for the first 2/3 (from the house) but then gets pretty steep the last 1/3 by the road.

The guy that finally came late Wednesday night took 1.5 hours to do it. We had do dig the truck out a few times. I still had to do some clean up with the 4 wheeler