My neighbor at the Old House has a home based business (sells stuff online) & he gets a lot of packages - UPS, FEDEX, USPS. His house is not within sight of his mailbox & is a bit of a drive so he put out 2 ‘boxes’ for packages. One is the size of a large cooler & the other is 2 or 3 times the size of the smaller one. The various deliveries go in the boxes & no trip to the house is necessary by delivery personnel - packages stay dry. You could put something out for packages, especially during bad weather. I don’t know if packages would be more apt to be stolen if in a ‘box’ as opposed to being on the ground at the mailbox.
Per latest forecast, we are looking at 8 - 12” of snow that starts Saturday evening. We are still in a danger zone for freezing rain although we are probably leaning slightly more to sleet. Sleet would be a blessing for a lot of folks - freezing rain in some areas would be enough to cause heavy damage with recovery taking 1-2 weeks.
A few errands to run today & then it will be “hunker down’ time. I hope the brutal cold you are experiencing will let up sooner rather than later.
We are all in for awful weather this week, aren’t we?
That’s a good idea on the ‘box’ down by the mailbox. We have a HUGE mailbox, but a Chewy box doesn’t fit inside of it.
Order is still out for delivery - so at least I know it’s not buried in a snowbank! The driveway IS plowed, so maybe it will show up on the porch today, after all. But, I want the driver to be safe more than anything. Bad timing on my part, but they weren’t predicting these temps when I ordered three days ago. Things went from bad to worse in a matter of hours.
It has warmed UP to -4, now. It’s a balmy 42 degrees in the greenhouse. I should probably get some spinach started out there today, LOL!
We were supposed to go on a road trip birthday bash tomorrow morning with some friends to Ohio to celebrate his birthday. Planned on going out to eat and then taking in a Columbus Blue Jackets hockey game. We had hotel reservations, but with the forecast and the timing of the snow’s arrival, we figured we’d be stuck there on Sunday. We couldn’t afford two nights away. So then that meant returning after the game was over (at night).
I know I would’ve been too worried about road conditions to have fun, and I didn’t want to ruin his birthday. So we bowed out, and will get together another time. Call it a “snow” check. We travel that route every 6 weeks or so. Even in perfect weather we see major accidents somewhere on the route home, nearly every time - often involving semis, and smaller cars smushed and turned the wrong way.
For anyone traveling during this storm, you’re in my prayers. I want to be safe at home.