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Around the Guilford-Old Saybrook area I would say about 30-36 inches. Fortunately it rained for 2 hours last night which would have been about 5 more inches. Bad part of the rain is it made the snow that much heavier and thats not good for plowing this much snow.

Was out plowing from 9am friday and just got home. Not even done with my contracts but have to wait for a payloader to be delivered because there is nowhere to put the snow and 2 of the 5 trucks last night shit the bed, 1 the transfer case went and I woudl say its 100% due to the amount and weight of the snow.

Anyone going around plowing drieways should charge their customers for more money. Even with a 1 ton truck you are going to put a ton of strain and wear and tear on your front end and vehicle.

I would say town and state plowing stopped around 930 last night and resumed about 6 am. At around 4-5 95 and route 1 were not touched and I saw 2 town dump truck plows stuck along with 4-5 regular plow trucks stuck on route 1 within a 2 mile stretch from Westbrook-old saybrook. Seashore construction had to take out their Cat 980 payloader to get the plows out. As of about 2 hours ago both route 1 and 95 were barely touched with 1 lane width.
 
38 inches here in milford. My street isn't plowed so it looks like I'm stuck for a while.
 
husky210 said:
38 inches here in milford. My street isn't plowed so it looks like I'm stuck for a while.
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According to some of the local TV weather guys, Milford wins the title with the most snow....congrats!!! :)
 
36" + here in Meriden

We had our driveway and sidewalk done by 11:30 am.

No signs of a city plow yet.
 
About19 inches here in Sandy Hook/ Newtown.

Plow guy's truck broke down. So I've spent about 5 hours clearing the drive - about 1100 feet long. Now the body is protesting! I may meet up with Jack - Daniels that is, later.

Good thing I have a snowblower.
 
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I'm guessing we had about 27" just south of Boston. I can fit 6-8 cars in my driveway and it took about 2.5 hrs to snowblow that, front walk and a path for the dogs. Was lucky that it was perfect snowblower snow - light and fluffy. Plow trucks had blacktop exposed on my street by 2 or 3pm.
 
22" in Mansfield, took 3 hours to clear the drive way. I knew things were bad when the road grader was the first Town piece of equipment to go by since 6:30PM last night, at 7:15 this morning.
 
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I'm in DC but my parents said 38 inches. Drift puts it up close to 4.5 - 5 ft
 
Thanks to all the boneyard-ers for the congratulations, and the likes. Who knew that having kids is a great way to get your stats up? In all seriousness, thanks. She will definitely grow up a uconn fan, I have already picked out some Husky gear. My wife is very irritated with my persistence.
 
NWS has crowned Hamden as snow champions of the storm with 40 inches.
 
Congrats on Baby Charlotte, auggie!!


Here in North Madison I went to bed with 12" on the ground. Woke up, did breakfast and cocoa and went to attack it. Opened the gargae door and 24 ducking inches of snow awaited!!:mad:

Thigs were so bad even Mrs. Dove grabbed a shovel. We did 5 hours of shoveling and blowing. I think I snapped something in the Ariens as now only one freakin' augur works. Gotta do 8 hours tomorrow or else Monday's rain is going to totally mess things up.

And now today's song of the day, my fave Styx tune...Snowblind...

 
suzyq said:
We got a s hit ton of snow here in Colcherster. We have a special ruler and after 24" the numbers read:
"too much"
"s hit ton"
"holy s hit"
and "apocalypse".
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When i opened the garage door I was struck by what I saw. I dipped the tape measure into it and it stopped at the 12" point. I'm like 'no way'. Turned out it hit the crust layer. Still had another foot to go.
 
GavinEdreamy said:
Left my place in East Lyme on Thursday night to come up to Tolland and help my parents clear out after everything. Took me 2 and a half hours to clear the back deck, which is probably about 10' x 15'...drifts on the deck were 4-5 feet high. Probably had in the 30-36" range on level ground. Tomorrow I have to get back down to East Lyme and do the whole driveway...without a snowblower. Kill me now.
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You're a good son. Hope the parents are following you home.
 
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Dove said:
Congrats on Baby Charlotte, auggie!!


Here in North Madison I went to bed with 12" on the ground. Woke up, did breakfast and cocoa and went to attack it. Opened the gargae door and 24 ducking inches of snow awaited!!:mad:

Thigs were so bad even Mrs. Dove grabbed a shovel. We did 5 hours of shoveling and blowing. I think I snapped something in the Ariens as now only one freakin' augur works. Gotta do 8 hours tomorrow or else Monday's rain is going to totally mess things up.

And now today's song of the day, my fave Styx tune...Snowblind...

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Sounds like a snapped shear pin. Easily replaced. Go to any hardware store (e.g. Lowes, Home Depot, indy) Hammer a new one in & you're good to go.
 
Dove said:
Congrats on Baby Charlotte, auggie!!


Here in North Madison I went to bed with 12" on the ground. Woke up, did breakfast and cocoa and went to attack it. Opened the gargae door and 24 ducking inches of snow awaited!!:mad:

Thigs were so bad even Mrs. Dove grabbed a shovel. We did 5 hours of shoveling and blowing. I think I snapped something in the Ariens as now only one freakin' augur works. Gotta do 8 hours tomorrow or else Monday's rain is going to totally mess things up.

And now today's song of the day, my fave Styx tune...Snowblind...

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You have a favorite Styx song that isn't Mr Roboto?
 
We get alot of rain on top of this snow and there are going to be roof collapses. Same senario as the Civic Center roof.
 
I got my driveway done...just have to dig out my mailbox (which will not be easy). The mounds of snow near the street reach at least 7 feet high at some points and there is still only one usable lane. I don't know what is going to happen to all the snow when the plows come to really carve out two lanes....well, I know most of it will go into my driveway. Just too much snow. Clearing my road does not look like it will be easy....this could take a while before school buses can safely run and the regular world resumes. Good thing package stores are now open on Sundays.
 
Just got off the phone with a friend who lives in Northern Tip of Newfoundland. He said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in:)
 
Hope everyone on the BY did okay.
I watched the weather channel until 1 Am 3am your time
Brought back memories of 1978.
My dad and I (he was about 65 at the time) shoveled for about 6 hours to clear his driveway and my car.

It also reminded me of why I retired to AZ 5 years and 600+ rounds of golf later.
 
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imno1 said:
trust me you don't miss this shiet. I take it you were talk about the snow.
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haha. Yeah, I guess 30"+ is only fun if you're up at Mt. Killington. Yes, I meant snow. sniff sniff...lol anybody got a rolled up dollar bill?
 
jleves said:
We got some hail over here in Tujunga. It stayed on the ground for at least 5 minutes. I was kind of freaked out because he hadn't stocked up on milk and bread.
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Just a little rain over here in Pomona, cleared up nicely today, a bit chilly now at 45 degrees. It hailed over here a few weeks back. During this past storm I think snow levels dropped down to 2000'. So, I suppose a quick drive up to Mt Baldy or Big Bear and I'll have all the snow I need.
 
jdb50 said:
We get alot of rain on top of this snow and there are going to be roof collapses. Same senario as the Civic Center roof.
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Actually, the high winds blowing snow off rooftops probably saved us on that front. According to the town robocall we got 34.5" here in Trumbull but I can see clear patches on most every roof in the neighborhood. The 2'-5' in my driveway is another issue entirely.
 
Stuck Firetruck that called 911, even the city plows couldn't move down my street. Oh yeah....the truck that's helping got stuck as well and called a similar truck for help. Needless to say those two trucks backed down the street. But the firetruck moved two feet and got stuck again!

I've never seen this happen before.

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AZHuskiePop said:
Hope everyone on the BY did okay.
I watched the weather channel until 1 Am 3am your time
Brought back memories of 1978.
My dad and I (he was about 65 at the time) shoveled for about 6 hours to clear his driveway and my car.

It also reminded me of why I retired to AZ 5 years and 600+ rounds of golf later.
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You pr*ck......;)
 
Firetruck stuck Part one: This was before they tried the not so smart move to drive the truck later yesterday. I've never seen this happen either.

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