I kinda hate winter
Jan. 19th, 2019 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickSnowmageddon report. We currently have about 5" of heavy, wet, packable snow. Forecast for the overnight through to the AM says "Rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet before 1am, then rain between 1am and 4am, then rain and sleet likely after 4am."
It's shifting to sleet right now because snow is quieter than this. Rain from 1 AM to 4 AM (the nat'l weather service does not have capitals b/c of partial shutdown, I guess) will make this into a heavier, wetter slopfest of a thing. Depending on rain amount between now and dawn, the snow may be too wet to throw off a decent snowplow, in which case I will break out the fifty-damn-year-old dozer (It's actually only 47, being a 1972 vintage) and scrape the slush off the road before heading in to do sidewalks for work which will probably also be too wet to snowthrow. There's always shoveling by hand
Joy joy.
Slush needs to be scraped off b/c it's going to be like 5 overnight Sunday night which will freeze everything including non-removed slush into a solid. I can't just wait for it to melt. It needs to be dealt with, and promptly.
It's shifting to sleet right now because snow is quieter than this. Rain from 1 AM to 4 AM (the nat'l weather service does not have capitals b/c of partial shutdown, I guess) will make this into a heavier, wetter slopfest of a thing. Depending on rain amount between now and dawn, the snow may be too wet to throw off a decent snowplow, in which case I will break out the fifty-damn-year-old dozer (It's actually only 47, being a 1972 vintage) and scrape the slush off the road before heading in to do sidewalks for work which will probably also be too wet to snowthrow. There's always shoveling by hand
Joy joy.
Slush needs to be scraped off b/c it's going to be like 5 overnight Sunday night which will freeze everything including non-removed slush into a solid. I can't just wait for it to melt. It needs to be dealt with, and promptly.
