I actually don’t have a list per se. I just pinged some NY FReepers who I knew lived in the area, and I can think now of several I missed.
How’d you make out yesterday?
Ryan Hall had a livestream of the weather as it was happening across NY. Those are much more interesting when you know the area and lived there. I still have friends and family in CNY and WNY.
Yeah, the timing is important.
We’re in NH now and the conditions look to be very favorable for ice. The only thing that might save mr. mm and me is that there are some hills nearby that deflect a lot of the weather away from us to either the north or south, so our ice accumulations might not be as bad as nearby communities.
And Ryan Hall is correct. It is pretty sparsely populated. But almost everyone around here is prepped for it. Most have generators. When we were house hunting, we were surprised at the number of people who showed pictures on their listings of their auxiliary electrical panel for use with their generator during power outages.
Not bad. Got about 4-5" of accumulation but it was heavy crystalline snow, so it weighed as much as a foot of more "normal" snow, or 15" of lake effect which is typically more fluffy. And the longer it sat before I cleared it off the deck and the cars, the more icy it became.
But it was manageable. Six years ago when my wife was diagnosed with multiple myeloma we moved from the remote hills of rural Richford to a more residential area east of Ithaca. I bought a top-end electric snowblower and danged if it doesn't do a great job. It would have been a bad joke in Richford, but it's just right for where we are now.
> It is pretty sparsely populated. But almost everyone around here is prepped for it. Most have generators. When we were house hunting, we were surprised at the number of people who showed pictures on their listings of their auxiliary electrical panel for use with their generator during power outages.
The Richford place was off-grid. Solar and wind feeding batteries and an inverter, with gas/propane generator backup. Up a steep winding gravel driveway through the woods a half-mile from the road, so I had a pickup and snowplow in addition to the big gas snowblower.
I enjoyed the challenge, but Lord it certainly was a challenge!
I'm now 74, with a bad back, bad feet, and a big kidney stone that threatens to come loose and hospitalize me. That place was home since my first wife and I built it when I was half this age. It's a younger man's adventure, and indeed I sold it to a younger couple who are doing well with it.
But I'm still subject to Upstate NY / Fingerlakes weather, so your posts are of great interest. Thanks, and keep 'em coming!