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Carol 83 said:
I'm afraid it was. Great taste, less filling. Although @Dav4 has made some disparaging remarks about my choice in beer. :p
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Look, beer preference aside, you clearly know how to prepare for a winter storm, and I respect that!🍻❄️🍻
 
Carol 83 said:
Winter storm warning here starting tomorrow night until Monday. They're calling for 8 inches of snow with maybe sleet and ice first depending on where you are. I went to the grocery store after work because that's when I usually go and it was like the end of the world was coming. The shelves were ransacked and the poor workers looked beat up. I know they always say to make sure you have the staples of bread, milk and eggs, which were pretty much gone. I picked up coffee, beer and cigarettes. 🤷‍♀️
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Winter of 2013-14 I was stationed in Virginia, and they got their biggest snow storm in decades: up to 8 inches, 4 days a freezing temperatures, and on a weekend no less. The state actually borrowed extra snow plows from Maryland.

I stopped on the way home after getting off duty, and it was exactly like you described. But I think I made the cashier's day when I checked out with s'mores ingredients.
She looked at me surprised, asked, "really?"
I explained that we were from Colorado, where this is normal, and besides, if you don't have 3 days of food and water in your house at any given time you're asking for trouble anyway. So I thought it'd be fun to make s'mores with the kids on the fireplace.
She was smiling again when I left.

First real chance of snow in a month coming up Monday night. No measurements available yet. Kids are supposed to go back to school on Tuesday. How funny would it be to have a snow day?
 
The forecast has changed a bit. They're now saying 10-15 inches of snow north of us and lots of freezing rain and sleet then, snow to the south. We're right in the middle. As much as I don't want that much snow, the sleet and freezing rain are more dangerous. They're already warning about possible power outages.
 
Was going to get my studded snow tires on
after church tomorrow but when I went to
load them up the 1st wheel is so rusted that
it simply isn't safe to have under you.

Supposed to warm up a little next month.
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We've got this 👍
 
Gollum169 said:
If your house isn't too tall, invest in one of those 20' long roof takes and clear it from the ground. Not too expensive. Instead of being afraid of gravity standing on the roof you are using it to your advantage!

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Actually its a double wide. 10 ft would get me to the roof from foundation but to reach the back half where there's an addition on is impossible.
Just the addition was a bad move for structural integrity.
Hope your power syays on. Everybody hete is sold out of propane and my 100g tank leaked out since Fall.
 
Also, you don't stand directly under the edge of the roof. You aren't the vertical leg of the right triangle, you are the hypotenuse. 🤓
 
Japonicus said:
Update
TWC now showing us in the 8-12" range.
Problem with clearing my roof is the ice storm.
I don't want to climb anything with ice involved.
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As long as your roof is in good repair, a foot of snow shouldn't be too much for it. What's the angle like on it? That's a big factor, but again, only if your roof is weak to begin with. 90s and more recent, the roof angles tend to be steeper so they hold up better under weight.
 
Gollum169 said:
Also, you don't stand directly under the edge of the roof. You aren't the vertical leg of the right triangle, you are the hypotenuse. 🤓
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Exactly. Suddenly, 20 ft becomes less reaching.

ShadyStump said:
As long as your roof is in good repair, a foot of snow shouldn't be too much for it. What's the angle like on it? That's a big factor, but again, only if your roof is weak to begin with. 90s and more recent, the roof angles tend to be steeper so they hold up better under weight.
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It's not got much pitch really. Fabbed in '96.

My wife dads sunroom was added several yrs back.
Along the peak, about a 36 inch knee wall was erected, heavy duty pillars erected buried 2 ft in ground
about 10' out behind house. Then sunroom on top of pillars/floor joists, and tied into the back exterior wall.
Then from the knee wall to the exterior wall of sunroom 10 ft out back, rafters. Old shingles are now the floor of a storage area
in the space over the back half.Not supposed to tie into existing structure. Add ons are ok but tying in is not.
At least there are 2x2 trusses. Interior walls are 2x3's, exteriors are 2x4's. Have heard a couple pops, like in
the Summer when the Sun heats the place up, and then cools back down, popping as I beams expand and contract.
No sounds today.
Add 1/2" of ice sandwiched in there. Snow shovel full weighs ~20# as wet as it's been.
Now we're going for 0ºF Thurs night. Just Winter 10 days early. We usually get a good snow mid Jan. and ice storms mid-late Winter.

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Pretty strong ice to not break off in my hand.
I've shoveled her car out (and the railing) 3 times already in case we needed it, leaving some snow for traction.

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^ 2 flat ice chunks 1/2" thick. It's not that thick on our immediate local vegetation.
Hoping the wind stays at bay, but that's not the forecast.
 
That's the kind of temp we usually worry about. 😬 Stay warm where you can.

Got about 3 to 4 inches of snow by last night. Roads thawed almost completely during the day, which only makes it icier when the sun goes down. 2 days in a row of delayed starts at schools, and this coming right out of winter break. Kids are loving it!
Chance of more flurries tonight, and maybe something more again on Saturday.
 
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