1st February 2011, 10:37 PM
We got a couple inches Tuesday, but we're supposed to be getting up to 20 inches today... I wonder how much will come down. We've already gotten more snow than we did all winter -- and that was as of a week or two ago -- so this is a much, much better winter than that last, somewhat lame one... the storms just keep coming. Lots of snow, it looks beautiful. It'll be a lot of shoveling again after this one I'm sure, but oh well, that's how it is in winter. :)
As for ice, yeah, lots of ice is nasty. My top ice memory is of the great ice storm of early 1998, when southern Maine was hammered by ice. We lost power (and had no school) for a full week after that one; some people got power back faster, but we were on a side street so it took a while. Many people who didn't have power, woodstoves (as we did, in addition to the oil furnace) or generators had to go to shelters, because without power oil furnaces won't work... that's one reason we had no school for so long, the high school was a shelter.
As for ice, yeah, lots of ice is nasty. My top ice memory is of the great ice storm of early 1998, when southern Maine was hammered by ice. We lost power (and had no school) for a full week after that one; some people got power back faster, but we were on a side street so it took a while. Many people who didn't have power, woodstoves (as we did, in addition to the oil furnace) or generators had to go to shelters, because without power oil furnaces won't work... that's one reason we had no school for so long, the high school was a shelter.
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