SW Florida - 58 and windy. Winter is here for the next two days.

 miamizsun wrote: 
Time to hibernate Saturday, poke my head up on Sunday. 😂

And if I don’t do anything until Wednesday - Friday when it gets up to 55° I won’t have to shovel.  

Welcome to New England. If you don’t like the weather just wait 10 minutes.  

glanced at the big picture weather report

neeast coast looks like it is going to get some snow gob

 kurtster wrote: 
Sometimes I use the leaf removal method. Throw a tarp down, shovel several to many shovels full on it and drag whole thing to a dumping area. Repeat. Much easier than heaving...

 miamizsun wrote: 
Took me over two hours to get it cleared up.  The driveway is three cars wide and one car deep.  I have to throw most of the snow into the street because the sides don't have enough room to pile it up without screwing up my neighbors.  That and tossing it over the top of the cars before they can be moved is kinda difficult, too.

This snowfall is as bad as any since 2013 when we moved in.  I had one like this our first winter and quickly realized that shoveling anything like this again would literally kill me if I had to do it again so I got the snowblower.  Now at 69, there is zero way I could have shoveled any of it if I wanted to.  Fortunately, I did not have to work yesterday, either.

And ... I had to go out and blow off the street in front of the driveway because our newest Civic, a 2017 with turbo, has a 7 speed automatic tranny and excellent tires would not get up any tire speed fast enough to spin the tires enough to move it.  It kept upshifting to a lower tire / engine speed.  It got stuck. I eventually got it to move.  Meanwhile the other Civic, a 2004 with a stick and crappy tires pulled right out and had no trouble.

I have to figure out this automatic tranny problem going forward and soon.  Perhaps I have to put it in Low to keep it from upshifting and maybe get the tire speed that is needed in order to churn through the deep stuff when it gets stuck.  Never had this problem before, but I never had a 7 speed automatic tranny before either.

Sigh ... first world problems ...

 kurtster wrote:
wow, snow blower looks like a toy compared to the drift...

0" to 18" plus overnight.  Two Civics under that stuff.  Furnace went out and then fixed itself today for even more thrills ...

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That is a 24" snowblower in front of the snow.

 sunybuny wrote: 
i'm jealous! 

Sunny, 78 degrees, pure blue skies and more of the same for the next 7 days.

 Antigone wrote: Even the snow woman in the picture looks cold.

 Antigone wrote:
In Chapel Hill, Saturday was a high of 76, yesterday was in the mid-60s.  Today it's 35 and snowing...

 Antigone wrote: 
Nice!
About 700 miles north of you and the most snow we’ve seen all season was about 2”. This has been really screwy. Been 40° for the better part of the past 2 weeks.

 westslope wrote: It really cooled off here today.
I love it!
Built a fire in the Franklin Stove.

Tee shirts for the holidays... this is fine.

-29C (-20.2F) this morning.   Brrr.   

Are y'all sure ya wanna pull up stakes and move to Canada?  

 islander wrote: 
Huuuuuuumm Kumbaya 

The coastline took a beating. Winds upwards of 90+ MPH and Tons of people without power. Only good thing was the high tides were at the low point for the month. I lucked out with no power loss.