That kind of snow sounds like the storms we would get in North Carolina where I grew up. The snow topped with a crust of ice…that’s the stuff that snaps power lines. We were stuck without power for a week after one of those storms. This was before Costco and before everyone had portable generators. We were hauling buckets of water from the pond up to the barn to water the horses because the well pump was electric. Ugh! Then it would melt in the afternoon and refreeze overnight. I feel for ya….that wet snow is heavy and hard to shovel.
I went through exactly what you used to after the ice storm of 2008. I reckon it was a once in 150 year storm because my oldest oak tree got split in two. This thing was HUGE.
We got water from the vernal pools in our woods. Out for seven days and the temps never got above 20F all week. I went through a full cord of wood that week. I always keep my chimney clean so I had no issue unlike others. There were lots of chimney fires during that time.
-SB
Oh, the best part of that ice storm? Me and my wife bailing water for 8 hours the night of the storm. I was lugging huge trash barrels full of water up the outside basement stairs and dumping it every 20 minutes. I still have no idea how I even accomplished that for 8 hours. Eventually we called it and went to bed around 5am. What came in after that was maybe a inch or two and it was gone by the following night. We had a basement sump pump system but no power = no good.
I now have a generator that can power the entire house.
-SB
-SB