Death Storm 2.0

[ecasadoSBU]

20 Inches here in Fort Lee, NJ. The streets look worse than a month ago.

 

[Horsebrnhil]

Post mortom ;Big storm, high winds, substantial snow amounts, power outages, but STILL NOT like 78!
Close, but no cigar.

 

[HuskyHawk]

HuskyHawk. I have a 1988 Ariens 8HP snowblower. In February 2021 the same thing happened to me. Everything worked but no power to the wheels. I took it to W H Preuss in Bolton Notch on RT 44.. I had a broken spring for the drive idler arm. They split the unit and replaced the drive belt as well. My drive disk was okay. Labor was $175. Well worth fixing. Also with the old carb turn off the gas valve and run the engine dry after every use. I was using Stabil and thought that was enough but the carb was struggling with a deep snow. Stupid ethanol. Even with Stabil it causes trouble if not run often. Put in Seafoam and ran it today and it did much better.

That is ancient. I had a 2001 Ariens and it eventually died, but was super reliable. Never had a problem. This newer one is junk. Two winters in a row it died during a major storm. As I research fixes I see that these are now common problems. I blame the switch to Briggs & Stratton from the old Tecumsah engines. I'll try to fix it myself. I can't bring it anywhere and I just had it repaired last fall ($400).

 

[HuskyHawk]

Post mortom ;Big storm, high winds, substantial snow amounts, power outages, but STILL NOT like 78!
Close, but no cigar.

Because we all knew it was coming. The problem in 78 is that people had no warning. Same with the big Connecticut Ice Storm in the 70s (which was worse than 78 for CT).

 

[Dove]

Sounds like you need a real plow truck for your 10 mile driveway.

My driveway was excavated into a hill. No place to put the snow.

 

[alexd]

Nice to be part of a record.

Latest info on Providence is 37.9".

 

[WhereistheDove?]

My driveway was excavated into a hill. No place to put the snow.

Think bigger

 

[WhereistheDove?]

That is ancient. I had a 2001 Ariens and it eventually died, but was super reliable. Never had a problem. This newer one is junk. Two winters in a row it died during a major storm. As I research fixes I see that these are now common problems. I blame the switch to Briggs & Stratton from the old Tecumsah engines. I'll try to fix it myself. I can't bring it anywhere and I just had it repaired last fall ($400).

If you’re reasonably handy, a lot of folks just swap a predator engine from harbor freight onto it if their motor goes.

 

[HuskyHawk]

If you’re reasonably handy, a lot of folks just swap a predator engine from harbor freight onto it if their motor goes.

I'm not that handy. I do have the SHO engine, so power is fine. I'm hoping I am handy enough to change the V Belt, if I can find a place that has one.

 

[BGesus4]

Latest info on Providence is 37.9".

Banner incoming to the dunk?

 

[Chuck]

That is ancient. I had a 2001 Ariens and it eventually died, but was super reliable. Never had a problem. This newer one is junk. Two winters in a row it died during a major storm. As I research fixes I see that these are now common problems. I blame the switch to Briggs & Stratton from the old Tecumsah engines. I'll try to fix it myself. I can't bring it anywhere and I just had it repaired last fall ($400).

Got my Ariens in 2006 from Home Depot. It's a smaller unit because my garage 20 years ago was tiny. Engine still runs great with occasional maintenance. It's been shaking this winter. I think it started after I ran over a frozen newspaper. It didn't break the pin, but it's not as steady. I was going to treat it to a nice service if I can find a place that does more than engine service. I used to have a guy that would pick up snowblowers/lawnmowers and service them, but he retired.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

I'm not that handy. I do have the SHO engine, so power is fine. I'm hoping I am handy enough to change the V Belt, if I can find a place that has one.

Napa should be able to measure and match it up if you have the old one. They don’t get hit quite as hard when the storms come because people done realize they’re interchangeable.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Napa should be able to measure and match it up if you have the old one. They don’t get hit quite as hard when the storms come because people done realize they’re interchangeable.

Good idea. Nothing in stock at Advanced Auto or AutoZone. Tractor Supply has them but only for delivery. Finally found one at O'Reilly auto parts.

 

[Excalibur]

Just came in. 10-11 inches tops and not too heavy for the snowblower. This storm wasn't bad at all. The one a few weeks ago was much worse.

Easily 6" more than the previous storm here in Cheshire, and wetter/packed harder. A pain in the butt to clear but otherwise unremarkable. Totals seemed like they fell off rapidly north of us.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Threads like this bring out some of my warmest feelings for this community.

Rather than elaborate with an exhaustive list of my memories across a lifetime of storms and heavy snowfalls in Hartford, Fairfield, and New Haven counties; Rochester, Boston, and Manhattan; north shore Nassau and south shore Suffolk counties on Long Island, I'm inhaling & exhaling, appreciating the calm of nothing to clean up, and wishing you all the best.

Due to this storm coming up the Atlantic coastline, I experienced only a couple of instances of swirling flurries that melted before touching the ground in Louisville.

After locating a site where I could enter any zip code and get snow accumulation totals, I checked all of my Northeast friends & family's numbers, and saw a range from 9.85" in West Hartford where I grew up, and 17+" in Ocean City, NJ, from where my older sister has escaped this winter in southwest Florida. I felt a strange pride that Bellport, NY (where I was ~7 miles from where Hurricane Gloria made landfall in 1985) registered 21+ inches of snow, which topped all those in my phone contact Favorites. Big whoop.