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We're getting a beating, high wind and heavy snow. I saw a YouTube from Freeport ME and clearly worse. Just a lot of flooding. @yellowcanoe - hope you're ok. I'm sure you can stay afloat.

Miserable here too. A few inches of snow followed by 30-50mph winds the last couple days with temps in the -10's. Pretty much sucks the fun out of everything. There's nowhere to get out of the wind so roads out of town have very low visibility and large drifts.

Alan

40 below here yesterday, with a high of -23. Warming up though.

Currently without power for 14 hours, no heat, zero degree F cold coming tonight, and phone dying.

In mid coast Maine we have high winds and rain all day. Lost the top a tree in back yard, no harm done to anything but the tree. We lost power twice but the temps were in the mid to high 40’s so no worry about freezing. Power is back on since about 4. Still really wind but not as much rain.
Jim

Here in Altoona it’s -26f windchill and my Chessie loves it! My brother and sister-in-law are in the high peaks area of ADK’s through the weekend to back some more peaks.

Sorry you guys live in such a hostile environment!
The high point of 60-75 mph wind today is that it’s cut the 3 ft of snow on my roof almost in half!

Down here in upstate South Carolina it should get down to about 9 degrees (wind chill -2) tonight and the forecast shows that we will be below freezing for over 48 hours. That's rough enough to a southern boy!

Glenn, It sounds like it's time to pull out those winter sleeping bags and hunker down. I hope that power gets back to you soon! Hang in there and good luck.

Power just came back. It'll take a long time for the house to heat up.

First ten plus years that we lived in interior Alaska, we didn’t live close to a power line. Off the grid they call it now. Wood stove, kerosene Aladdin Lamps, propane a couple of propane lamps and kitchen stove, we never knew what a power outage was. Once we got power outages were common, but we still had our off grid for backup. Time marches on, we became addicted to electric stuff. Bought a generator, just flip a a switch every thing works.
When I was a kid, still living at home my father was my hero, like a lot of kid’s dad’s back in those days. My father was a “Power Lineman”, worked for the REA, electrifying northern Minnesota, bringing power to push back the darkness of little substance farms. He was was a “hero” to many farmers because he could keep the lights on when Mother Nature had other ideas. His crew would plant a sixty foot power pole in your yard. Strap on spurs, climb to top, string wire to it, install a yard light, run the wire to house and barn. In the evenings and weekends dad moonlighted wiring people homes and out buildings. Some people that were poor paid him with livestock, hay whatever.
Our little farm was never without power, dad had a Briggs & Stratton generator, plus he knew how to safely remove a tree from a power line with a Swede saw & axe.
Later in life at family gatherings my sisters and I would sing Glen Campbell’s WICHITA LINEMAN to him every now and again then, we of course had some of our own lyrics that time has erased from our minds.
Dad also brought home a early Grumman canoe, seventeen footer that we used for hunting and fishing.

Not this week, but historically:


And we cryo-masochists paddle in the two coldest places ever recorded: -52° F (-47° C).

Alasgun said:

The high point of 60-75 mph wind today is that it’s cut the 3 ft of snow on my roof almost in half!

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i am so glad that I decided to ski into the small one room hunting camp that I inherited from my dad a number of years ago. It is. located on my family's historic property in the heart of the Tug Hill Plateau, off the eastern end of Lake Ontario, in the middle of the heaviest typical lake effect snows that occur each winter. Buffalo has got nothing on what we get.
I removed nearly four feet of snow from the sloped camp roof last Wednesday, as I worried about what an inch of predicted rain would do if I did not get it done, to be followed by what another three feet of snow would do to the roof as is falling there today (Christmas day). I gauge the severity of my winters by how often I need to shovel snow from the roof. Usually I have to ski in there up to three times each season. My own home is not far away, is technically on the edge of the "Tug". After I got home I shoveled 3 feet of snow from my large storage shed's more gently sloped roof.

Speaking of Alaska, Alasgun, I flew into Eielson AFB back in December of 1975 as navigator in aa KC-135. Ground temperature on landing was -56F. The jet engines are so efficient at producing thrust when that cold, we have to shut down two engines as soon as we are firmly down, to prevent running off the end of the runway. Temperatures did not rise above -40F at any time, day or night, for the next 8 days.

Wind chill map for Christmas 2022:

We are fine but not home. If we were at home I would not have internet as we still have no power. Restoration estimates are Thurs. ( so 144 hours without) We will go home tomorrow to arrange for a refill of propane. We are on a standby generator that comes on automatically.. Our luxury.

Second longest runway in North America is at Eielson Air Force Base at 14,507 feet.

Got 40 inches at our place. They had predicted 40 - 60 cm. My car is still not completely uncovered. Have a full day of working outside ahead of me.

Thanks all for reminding me why we moved to SC! Best of luck to y’all. We hit 21 here on HHI (VERY unusual) and folks were bundled up like it was Alaska.

The variety of response to this sort of weather always intrigues me. We retired and moved north and love it. The four seasons including this one with snow storms and being snowed in are wonderful for us. Of course I loved my year on the Artic Circle, where spit did freeze before it hit the ground.

It’s only just today dropping below freezing.
It’s killing me!!
A week before Christmas I back country skied in 24” of untracked powder and then ppfftt warm temps followed by rain, cold for a day or so and then wet and warm again.
I wait all year for good snow for back country skiing, this is depressing.
There’s still some snow pack in my favorite BC spots but it’s bulletproof. Gotta wait for new snows.

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It’s only just today dropping below freezing.
It’s killing me!!
A week before Christmas I back country skied in 24” of untracked powder and then ppfftt warm temps followed by rain, cold for a day or so and then wet and warm again.
I wait all year for good snow for back country skiing, this is depressing.
There’s still some snow pack in my favorite BC spots but it’s bulletproof. Gotta wait for new snows.

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Looking at your local forecast.. go paddling.. Dressed for immersion of course. It's no better here. We have had ice in and ice out a couple of times now.. My heart stopped yesterday as while walking in the woods we passed a pond filled with ice fishermen.. There couldn't have been more than two inches of ice. The only good thing I think is the pond is about six acres and six feet deep.