Storm - Thanksgiving 2014

[JohnyMac]

Since this storm is ranging from Florida to Maine, all along the eastern coast, I felt it was worthwhile to start a post on it.

Let the forum know how it is affecting you from, no affect to the end of the world is upon us.

Currently up at the cabin the roads are a sheet of ice with 4" of snow on top. On the way home from a Dr.'s appointment MrsMac and I saw many accidents on the back rural roads of the area. All accidents but one (A school bus) were cars with no 4x4.

The depth of the snow is about 4.5", visibility is about ~300 yards.

We will be praying for all of the folks out traveling along the I 95 corridor.
 

[Kbop]

here in lovely southern PA we have about 6" of wet snow and its still coming down.  Looks to be clearing from the south soon.

[JohnyMac]

I do an hourly report to the local NOAA office. At 1430 hrs snow here was 6.25", temp was 30, wind out of the NNW 0-3 mph, Bar. 30.04 inHg (1017.4 hPa) falling and the snow had changed from a wet large flake to a dry smaller flake. Visibility between ~300 to 400 yards. 

[Well-Prepared Witch]

Cold and snowy here.  Had fun clearing off the chicken run to keep it from collapsing under the snow.  The chickies stayed in the coop most of the day.  I am enjoying the heck out of the weather - I love snow*!  We got around 6" or so.

* At least the first snowfall and when I don't have to drive in it.

[JohnyMac]

MrsMac and I are running from window to window today enjoying the splendor of the first snow of the season. We know our joy will end shortly enough and then we will curse it. 

9" here as of 1930. The wind is backing to the east and the Barometer is now steady so I know it will pass us shortly.

Nice cold weather predicted for the next week. With center fire deer season starting on Monday, I pray for a good hunt this year. 
 

[Nemo]

S. Ga was low mid 50s today, bright sun.  Alot of Alot of rain in the past 2-3 days stopped and sun was out and all was right with the weather.  Looking for about same thing, mid 30s-40 at nite for the next several days.

Nemo

[DMCakhunter]

Different system but around 4 inches across central Iowa.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[JohnyMac]

Yesterdays final count was 11".

Thanksgiving morning: It just started up again 

[brat]

Partly cloudy and clearing.... 37 headed to mid 40's by afternoon, more sun tomorrow and close to 60 by Saturday, sunny. Y'all can have that white stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving...

[Hondokov]

We got buried..... heavy & wet....
Plus side to the snow the ahkio is packed and ready to go.

[JohnyMac]

Monday Dec. 1, starts PA. Center Fire deer season. I love snow for deer season 

Up here at the cabin, the local high schools close school for the opening of CF deer season. 

[brat]

Deers have seasons ?  JK, Farmers here can kill them anytime in season without a license, call in for a permit for killing them out of season. So basically year round. Classified as a nuisance animal, like coyotes and wild hogs.

Funny law, applies to "legal" residents.... my wife, kids, grand kids, my tenant and their wife and dependent kids can hunt on my property without license. All of the above, except grand kids, are even exempt from Hunter Safety course while hunting on my property.

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TCA 70-2-204. Hunting and fishing on farm land — License exemption to owner, tenants and their spouses and children. – (a) The owners and tenants of farmlands, and their spouse and children, have the right to engage in the sport of hunting and fishing, subject to all the provisions of all laws or regulations concerning wildlife, upon such lands and waters thereon of which they or their spouses or parents are the bona fide owners or tenants with the permission of the landowner, during the season when it is lawful to do so, without procuring a hunting and sport fishing license.

And because y'all know we marry cousins down South.... the law address that too !!

 

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Same TCA code...... Land may qualify as farmland only if it is owned by no more than
one (1) individual or a family; provided, that if land is owned jointly or in common by persons who are first cousins related by blood, then such cousins and their children may hunt small game and fish on such land under the provisions of this subsection. “Family” means any combination
of kinship within the third degree including any spouse who has an interest in the property.

I just shoot 'em off the back patio. Don't have to buy any fancy clothes, burn no gas, climb a tree or any of the other stuff. Hell, my Dad has killed three from his bathroom window...   
Yep, doing his morning constitution, hear's the dog, looks out the window and lays 'em down. Goes back to reading.

Most people keep their 30.06 in a gun rack, his is in the bathtub. I figure when you get past 80, you can do pretty much what you want, IMHO.  His biggest so far was 11 points, field dressed 168. How's that for shit house luck ?

[Nemo]

I can imagine that-- in bathroom, sitting, working on things, reading, looking out window, standing up, shooting, sitting back down, picking up book.  A bottle of brain bleach please.

Hope he has some ear muffs or such.

JMac you are not real far from Towanda.  They got hit with a pile.

Nemo

http://thedailyreview.com/news/record-snowfall-sends-vehicles-slipping-and-sliding-11-2-inches-of-snow-measured-1.1794498

Record snowfall sends vehicles slipping and sliding: 11.2 inches of snow measured
BY ERIC HRIN (Staff Writer)
Published: November 27, 2014


The only thing area motorists could be thankful for Wednesday was safely reaching their destinations.

And for some, that didn't happen.

A pre-Thanksgiving snowstorm made roads a treacherous mess, sending vehicles slipping, sliding and some even overturning. The snow set a record.

As of 7:30 p.m. in Towanda, Wayne Vanderpool, National Weather Service Co-Op Observer, reported that he measured 11.2 inches of snow, "with it still snowing lightly."

He said it was "the most snow ever measured in Towanda on any November day, since records began back in 1895."

Also, Vanderpool said Wednesday's total set a 24-hour snowfall record for Nov. 26. The old record was 2.5 inches, which he said was set back in 1898.

The snow kept emergency responders busy with calls.

"It's all over the county," said Alan Painter, an assistant chief with the Troy Volunteer Fire Department. "The departments are getting called everywhere." Painter said that with all the snow, there was "no traction" on the roads.

On Wednesday night, Painter stood beside a truck that lay on its side, following a crash, with no injuries, that occurred on Route 14 in Troy Township. He said it was caused by the bad road conditions. A man, who was the only person in the truck, refused treatment.

"It's pretty slippery, a slippery snow," Painter said. "It's one of the early ones. People aren't used to it yet."

Painter said the crash was the third such one of the day, in which vehicles slid off the road.

Another crash Wednesday, just outside Troy Borough near the Williams propane tanks, on the opposite side of Route 6 in Troy Township, sent a car over an embankment. The Bradford County Firewire Facebook page listed 3:52 p.m. as the time of the call for a "vehicle off the roadway" in the area of Williams Tank Barn on Route 6 in Troy Township.

Meanwhile, on Route 414 in LeRoy Township, the Canton Volunteer Fire Department responded to a crash in which a truck overturned and landed on its roof. The call was received at 3:27 p.m., according to Bradford County Firewire.

Canton Fire Chief J. Scott May said no one was injured in the rollover crash. He said it was his guess that the bad road conditions caused the crash.

"They're terrible," he said of the roads.

The driver, a New Albany man who didn't want to be identified, said that he was following a Fed Ex truck, at 35 mph, before his own truck went over a ditch and flipped over.

State police at Towanda said incidents in which vehicles were slipping off the road, due to the snowy road conditions, were widespread Wednesday throughout the county.

Troy Borough Council President Krystle Bristol said the snow was "very slick" in the borough.

"The borough crew has been working nonstop to keep the roads clear and will continue to do so until it subsides," she said. "It's a very slick snow that is causing some accidents."

Borough Council Vice President Jennifer Malehorn, meanwhile, said "the guys have been out all day and will be out until the storm is finished. I know our guys are ready and more than willing to take care of the borough. In addition, the borough manager has been in communication throughout the day, so we know the status."

On Wednesday afternoon, Canton Police Chief Doug Seeley said the borough's street crew was doing a good job. He said four people were working on the borough streets.

"They're slippery, but they're right on top of them," he commented.

He advised motorists to drive with caution, and have a safe and happy holiday.

A sign for a Thanksgiving Eve service in the borough had a message, noting it was canceled. It was the same story for a planned service in Granville Center.

Snow was everywhere in the county.

And if you didn't have to drive, you could appreciate the fun and beauty of the snow.

The Christmas tree at Canton Borough Hall was covered in a fresh coat of snow, giving it even more of a holiday look.

"I enjoy it, I don't mind snow," said Lindsay Rathbun, as she shoveled snow in Canton Wednesday afternoon. She said it puts a little damper on holiday travel, however. She had to cancel a trip to Maryland, because of the weather.

The sign on the north edge of LeRaysville, along Route 467, stood almost covered in snow Wednesday. The bear mailbox holder outside the home of Chris and Martha Young of LeRaysville, meanwhile, was almost covered in snow as well.

The snow made an impression on employees of the LeRaysville Market: Sara Button, who had been shoveling; Traci Johnson; Krista Histand; and Sarah Mast.

"It's beautiful!" Krista said of the snow. "That's all I care about." She also heard a man say it was a "good day for penguins."

In Stevensville, Maria Hoover and her son Isaiah Hoover, 7, put the finishing touches on a "snow cat."

"We have a solid four to five inches up here already, and it's still coming down hard," said Mallory Babcock of Armenia Mountain, at 3:07 p.m. Wednesday.

"It looks the start of winter."

"I love getting it," she added. "I think it's a difficult time to have it right before Thanksgiving, because people are traveling, that's the bad part of it."

"We've had quite a few cars in ditches on Fallbrook Road," Babcock said.

She said PennDOT workers had to come up, with chains on their vehicles, and clean the road.

Eric Hrin can be reached at (570) 297-5251; email: reviewtroy@thedailyreview.com.

Review Correspondent Nancy Sharer contributed to this story.

[JohnyMac]

Yupper Nemo, as I reported we gotz 11 inches at the redoubt. It's snowing now again as I type here.

Funny story: MrsMac and I were home by 1230 hrs Wednesday however our neighbor didn't get home till 1730 or so. Our dirt 2 track road is a township road. Well our little road had been plowed but the state road it connects up to hadn't been plowed. 

LOL...Apparently PENDOT (Pennsylvania Dept of Transportation) had been caught with their pants down and was spending it's time on the interstate and major arteries rather than our rural roads. If you didn't have 4wheel drive you were not getting around. 

brat...Man O'man you are living the life! Please wish your Dad a hearty  from us on the forum!