A day in the life of Rami...

That's what i see here and I live in West Roxbury MA, 5 miles from the city.:jump: I had to walk to grocery store to get stuff than drive as slippery.
 
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Good morning,

Here is a perfect caption of how most Bostonians and New Englanders feel right now. In the last two weeks or so, we've gotten between 70 and 80 inches of snow.
 
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Hey,

Just got tapped by a two-car crash which happened in front of me. My mother needed to get to her doctor's appointment...luckily, my car was not heavily damaged, just cosmetic. The saga continues...
 
Rami said:
Hey,

Just got tapped by a two-car crash which happened in front of me. My mother needed to get to her doctor's appointment...luckily, my car was not heavily damaged, just cosmetic. The saga continues...
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Hey my friend,

this looks waaay much worse than I remember! It also is very much worse than what this part of the country endured last weekend.

The blizzard started on Thursday a.m. and lasted until 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. I couldn't go to work for two days, while it took me the full weekend to free the entrance of my front yard from the snowplow buildup and to open up enough room in the yard to drive my car out of the garage.

I measured almost a foot of snow in my front yard, which sounds ridiculous compared to New England, but in some places around my hills it was three times as much. Further west they fared worse, with over 6 & 1/2 feet of snow.

My neighbors lost electricity on Thursday night and this morning it was not restored back yet, I was very lucky my house blacked out only for an hour but they are borrowing room in my freezer for their frozen foods.

Not counting they have lost heating and hot water since then. Living in the country here, water-based radiators heating is not a smart idea at all. As soon as blackout strikes, your electric water circulating pump is dead and your heating with it. I have a plain methane gas heater in each room and two wood-burning stoves, one per floor, which saved me from freezing many times in the last 15 years. For heating, bathroom/shower warm water and cooking I'm totally independent from electricity.

Hoping these crazy Ruskies do not invade Ukraine and cut all methane supply to Europe!
Hang in there, Andrew, and good luck: spring is only a month and half away! And best wishes to everybody who's enduring this crazy winter. :wavey:

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Rami,

I feel your pain. I've worked 5x 12hour shifts in this mess. Atleast you can see over your snow banks. I'll post some pics.

Oh more coming for Thursday. YEAH!!!!!! NOT!
 
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John,

I heard that Bangor has a snowpack (not including drifts) of 53 inches. :jawdrop:
 
Kelti....

...are your stoves lined with soapstone? I have one I put in three years ago that is lined with soapstone. When the fire dies at night the stone will radiate heat for usually another 2-3 hours besides the heat of the metal stove. As far as digging SNOWBLOWER! and for power a small generator with a connecting panel. I put one in and can power my boiler, refridges, and almost all the lights in my house by selecting where the power goes.
 
You guys have to put up with power outages due to ice and snow and we here on the Texas gulf coast with hurricanes. Where I live the power lines go thru the pines and every time someone sneezes the power goes out. I finally got smart and put in a whole house generator on natural gas. Kelticheart we don't have to worry about the Russians here, thank goodness :applause:

At least we don't have to shovel snow!! Being a native Oklahoman, we had some of that --but not measured in feet!

Rami at least the people there generally know how to drive on ice and snow. You should have seen Houston about 20 years ago with a little ice storm.:banghead:
Rami glad your safe--what a "one day in the life of Rami"!
 
The car

Have you got an estimate on the damage yet? The insurance of one of the other drivers should pay it, unless you are in one of the "no fault" states. :banghead:
 
highpockets said:
You guys have to put up with power outages due to ice and snow and we here on the Texas gulf coast with hurricanes. Where I live the power lines go thru the pines and every time someone sneezes the power goes out. I finally got smart and put in a whole house generator on natural gas. Kelticheart we don't have to worry about the Russians here, thank goodness :applause:

At least we don't have to shovel snow!! Being a native Oklahoman, we had some of that --but not measured in feet!

Rami at least the people there generally know how to drive on ice and snow. You should have seen Houston about 20 years ago with a little ice storm.:banghead:
Rami glad your safe--what a "one day in the life of Rami"!
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Well being Maine and on the East coast, we still get the occassional Hurricane. Which hit us hard because of the power lines being above ground.

We have a saying here; If you don't like the weather, wait an hour.
 
A day in the life...

BH,

We have the same saying out here in Washington State, except it's 15 minutes. Remember, out here we don't tan, we rust. We don't have a season for high winds either, any time of the year will do, and usually does.

Steve
 
Fibber said:
...are your stoves lined with soapstone? I have one I put in three years ago that is lined with soapstone. When the fire dies at night the stone will radiate heat for usually another 2-3 hours besides the heat of the metal stove. As far as digging SNOWBLOWER! and for power a small generator with a connecting panel. I put one in and can power my boiler, refridges, and almost all the lights in my house by selecting where the power goes.
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Hi Fibber!

One of my stoves has a solid cast iron burning chamber surrounded by an empty interspace which enhances the hot air flow and the outer shell is lined with thick ceramic tiles. The other one is again cast iron lined with firebricks. Not as good as yours but close.

I thought about getting a small gasoline generator, I will one of these days I will, probably a Honda model. Out here they are quite expensive!

I have an electric snowblower, but it works fine only with powdery, very icy snow. Last weekend snowfall was made of heavy, sticky wet flakes. It had the same consistency and weight of freshly poured concrete, I simply could not push my snowblower through it. I even bent an handle in the effort. So it was back to the good ole shovel again!

It was the weight of this wet snow that caused so many troubles, because it snapped tons of tree branches and even took whole trees down in the countryside, which in turn got entangled and dragged down power lines. Locating these remote breakdowns out in the middle of nowhere took forever and national electric company technical personnel deep cuts in the last few years, due to the economic crisis, didn't help either.
There were also hundreds of house roofs which caved in. Mine endured it, but it was built in the early1950's, so I am planning this spring to have it thoroughly checked by roofers and replace whichever rafter or supporting timber showing too much age and wear.

Builders here started using steel-reinforced concrete beams for roofs since the early 1960, instead of oak wood. Older houses had timber, which I prefer, since it lays less weight on the supporting walls. My house has a combo of 60% timber and 40% concrete rafters, all lined with clay roofing tiles. It's the wooden part that worries me when we get wet snowfalls!

Rami and everybody involved:

how is it going over there, any sign of weather improvements?

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Rinse and repeat...

Well... It looks like the Blizzard of 2015 will have a sequel. Yes folks its the Blizzard of 2015 part 2. A little more snowy. they are calling for 15" to 20" and winds around 45 MPH.

So it looks like Rami and I can do it all again.

Rami,
Can I intrest you in a dog sled. Sorry you can't have the snowmobile, the wife claimed it already.:biggrin-new:
 
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Blood_Hawk23 said:
Well... It looks like the Blizzard of 2015 will have a sequel. Yes folks its the Blizzard of 2015 part 2. A little more snowy. they are calling for 15" to 20" and winds around 45 MPH.

So it looks like Rami and I can do it all again.

Rami, Can I intrest you in a dog sled. Sorry you can't have the snowmobile, the wife claimed it already.:biggrin-new:
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Blood_Hawk23,

Nah...if I get desperate enough, I will rope and harness the kids and dangle twinkies in front of them. :p87:
 
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