So my fears were pretty much on-point
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palusbuteoThankfully we did not get the 40+ inches Providence has. I feel really bad for my friend down in Riverside. They put a yardstick in the yard (heh.....irony)....and it disappeared under snow cover by about 3PM and I think it's just stopped snowing, finally.
That beats their previous snow record which was 24 inches, in 1978. And I think is now the most amount of snow they've ever had on record.
Another RI friend in Coventry said he'd been without power since 3AM, and the town plow finally came by around 6PM, he noted that it did exactly what happened with the previous big storm, showed up late, got stuck in the snow, and buried his driveway after he spent hours clearing it.
Here in Worcester we got at least a foot, I'm seeing 15 inches in some reports.
That's on top of the standing 15 some-odd inches left from the big storm a few weeks ago.
It's just like 2015 where there is no where left to shovel it all, and all they can do is just push the snow into ever-bigger piles, blocking parking spaces...and neighbors just shovel the snow out into the street, so if/when the plow does come again, it's just going to be pushed back into berms that'll block their cars and pile up their parking spaces.
Took me about an hour and a half. Driver's side of my car was pretty much clear, But the passenger side, "downhill" (as I am forced to park on the visitors' area at the "end" of the road that's on the north-facing side of the building, someone parked their car in my "usual" spot, and hasn't un-buried it for the past few weeks)
Anyway, the passenger side had about a foot. This is also the first time I've had a full foot of snow sticking up from the tailgate on the Outback.
Somehow, about a half-foot of snow ended up UNDER the car, almost halfway the length. What. Although thankfully the Outback has the ground-clearance so it's probably not a big deal, but I pulled most of it out anyway. I was also "lucky-sorta" in that the passenger side front, facing the building, the snow pile was low enough I could throw it without too much effort. I started with the driver's side earlier but after 2 feet in of nearly 2 foot high, dense snow, and trying to throw it above my shoulders up and over the existing berm, I ended up going the opposite direction, shoveling the snow towards the back of the car, and then shovel-full at a time, carrying it along the passenger side to throw it over the lower berm.
Probably more work than was needed but I really didn't want to risk tweaking out my back again.
I also took 2 Tylenol the second I got back inside, just in case. Although my back feels OK, sore, to be expected, but not the ever-tightening, clenching "Uh oh this isn't good" feeling from last time.
I managed to get back inside in enough time to shower and change and get ready for a zoom meeting for MOP but then saw a bunch of texts saying "eeeeh let's just move to next Monday", like 2 minutes before the start of the meeting. Welp, don't need to tell me twice! I'll take it.
Seems like we get these Whopper storms at least once every couple of years.
Oh, but climate change is a myth.
That beats their previous snow record which was 24 inches, in 1978. And I think is now the most amount of snow they've ever had on record.
Another RI friend in Coventry said he'd been without power since 3AM, and the town plow finally came by around 6PM, he noted that it did exactly what happened with the previous big storm, showed up late, got stuck in the snow, and buried his driveway after he spent hours clearing it.
Here in Worcester we got at least a foot, I'm seeing 15 inches in some reports.
That's on top of the standing 15 some-odd inches left from the big storm a few weeks ago.
It's just like 2015 where there is no where left to shovel it all, and all they can do is just push the snow into ever-bigger piles, blocking parking spaces...and neighbors just shovel the snow out into the street, so if/when the plow does come again, it's just going to be pushed back into berms that'll block their cars and pile up their parking spaces.
Took me about an hour and a half. Driver's side of my car was pretty much clear, But the passenger side, "downhill" (as I am forced to park on the visitors' area at the "end" of the road that's on the north-facing side of the building, someone parked their car in my "usual" spot, and hasn't un-buried it for the past few weeks)
Anyway, the passenger side had about a foot. This is also the first time I've had a full foot of snow sticking up from the tailgate on the Outback.
Somehow, about a half-foot of snow ended up UNDER the car, almost halfway the length. What. Although thankfully the Outback has the ground-clearance so it's probably not a big deal, but I pulled most of it out anyway. I was also "lucky-sorta" in that the passenger side front, facing the building, the snow pile was low enough I could throw it without too much effort. I started with the driver's side earlier but after 2 feet in of nearly 2 foot high, dense snow, and trying to throw it above my shoulders up and over the existing berm, I ended up going the opposite direction, shoveling the snow towards the back of the car, and then shovel-full at a time, carrying it along the passenger side to throw it over the lower berm.
Probably more work than was needed but I really didn't want to risk tweaking out my back again.
I also took 2 Tylenol the second I got back inside, just in case. Although my back feels OK, sore, to be expected, but not the ever-tightening, clenching "Uh oh this isn't good" feeling from last time.
I managed to get back inside in enough time to shower and change and get ready for a zoom meeting for MOP but then saw a bunch of texts saying "eeeeh let's just move to next Monday", like 2 minutes before the start of the meeting. Welp, don't need to tell me twice! I'll take it.
Seems like we get these Whopper storms at least once every couple of years.
Oh, but climate change is a myth.
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Date: 2026-02-24 10:16 am (UTC)